Sentences with phrase «galleon from»

This is your opportunity to search for the remains of a Spanish galleon from the 1600s.

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The other group, plundering gold from Spanish galleons, were pirates.
They detach her 200 - pound suit from its restraints and guide her down to a life - size replica of a portion of the International Space Station that hulks on the pool's floor like a sunken galleon.
From the many fights to an incredibly impressive exploding galleon at the end, they hold together the film and carry you happily through the story.
For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.
«There's plenty to discover and enjoy: read more exclusive writing from J K Rowling; view The Burrow for the first time, de-gnome the garden and collect your second - year shopping list, along with more Galleons, for another visit to Diagon Alley.»
Wrecks from Spanish treasure galleons to smuggler's yachts ran afoul on these reefs, and have since been joined by purpose - sunk wrecks.
Other noteworthy landmarks include Fort San Pedro — an old Spanish fort, now converted into a museum displaying the treasures retrieved from the sunken San Diego galleon.
This was a Spanish galleon apparently coming from the Old World to the New World as mentioned in the prior shipwreck section as «Nuestra Senora de los Milagros» and was carrying trade items to deliver to the New World.
In these large - scale and visually surprising compositions, the artist fuses a wealth of anachronistic elements into a unified whole, as in the World War I biplane and Spanish galleon that co-exist in Medieval Divided Self, or he evokes pivotal battles from vastly different epochs of British and American history, such as Agincourt and the Battle of the Alamo.
Her photos depict details from Jacopo de» Barbari's extraordinary woodblock Bird's Eye View of Venice (circa 1500), which features canals, streets, galleons among the waves — even zephyrs.
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