Sentences with phrase «long sea voyage»

On February 13, 1806, the brig Favorite left Boston harbor bound for the Caribbean island of Martinique, with a cargo that few imagined would survive the month - long sea voyage.

Chandra, as he was always known, had his big idea when he was only 19, on the long sea voyage from India to England, where he took up a research studentship at the University of Cambridge.

The Phoenicians invented a dried sausage to sustain them on long sea voyages, and they carried with them spices such as nutmeg, cumin, coriander, and cloves, which formed the basis of Middle Eastern spice blends such as baharat.

Lemon's high vitamin C content made it ideal for staving off scurvy on long sea voyages.

It's said that the little white dogs either accompanied ladies on long sea voyages or were used as ratters on ships.

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The team simulated 3600 voyages taken during the spring equinox, the presumed start of the open seas travel season, and the summer solstice, the longest day of the northern year.

The application of the technique to Danish material by Ashley Coutu at York, demonstrates that though there is no evidence of voyages across the North Sea at this early date, Norwegians do seem to have undertaken long - distance maritime journeys.

Historians and climatologists agree that as the cold spell continued, ice would have clogged the seas farther south and for longer each year, disrupting voyages.

I came across the new Senses of Cinema too recently to have sampled much beyond their «Special Dossier» on the cinematic history of Tasmania, but even that's provided several articles of interest, including Jeannette Delamoir's history of the now mostly - lost silent Jewelled Nights (whose star and chief creative force, Louise Lovely, claimed she here innovated the shortcut of using shots of ship's funnels and locomotive wheels to stand in for long voyages); director John Honey on the making of the state's first self - produced feature, 1980's Manganinnie; and two looks at the island's most famous son: Robert de Young on how Tasmania's wildlife and raging seas formed Errol Flynn, and Adrian Danks on the star's superb collaboration with Raoul Walsh.

It is an impressive work: a hand - carved, hand - painted 40 - foot - long voyaging canoe, just like the Haida vessels that plied the seas of the Pacific Northwest hundreds of years ago.

Like an ocean voyage long stalled by calm seas, the question of «agent - assisted publishing» for authors was all but dropped a couple of years ago, at least in many polite industry conversations.

When passengers begin stretching their sea legs onboard the 684 - guest Oceania Cruises» Insignia, departing from Miami on January 10, they'll be toasting two salty milestones: it's the company's first - ever round - the - world voyage and — at a porthole - popping 180 days — it's also one of the longest cruises on the market.

In a small adjacent room, a continuously - streaming video of a sea voyage completes Long's evocative oceanic experience.

For this reason, a number of researchers have suggested that it should be possible to estimate the long term Sea Surface Temperature trends for a given area by averaging together all the available measurements from different voyages that went through that area in a given month.

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.