Sentences with phrase «ocean crossing for»

The Quincentenary race marked the first ocean crossing for most of the crew members — certainly their first one on a sailing ship — and the voyage was filled with delightful surprises.

Not exact matches

Sales rep Chuck Magnus crossed nine provinces, five time zones and dipped his toes in two oceans in 18 days to raise funds for kids with cancer.
You keep making excuses for your god, but it's glaringly obvious: Your god couldn't cross oceans because your god only exists in the minds of those who believe in him.
saopaco If these Christians were like the flat - earthers you describe they'd be lobbying for laws to prevent our ships from crossing the ocean, and there would be opportunistic presidential candidates like Santorum right there to get their vote.
«If these Christians were like the flat - earthers you describe they'd be lobbying for laws to prevent our ships from crossing the ocean»
Over hundreds of years, St Nicholas myths mixed in with bits of the Norse god Odin and his flying horse and, before you know it, a Christian bishop known for generosity had crossed a continent, been stirred into other religions, and was ready to cross the ocean.
When Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Indian Ocean, and landed in India in 1498, he established the trade route for spices and other goods that the Portuguese controlled for more than a century.
It hadn't been held since 1938, for one thing, and European and South American teams had historically been reluctant to cross the oceans to one another's stadiums.
Some gamesome wights will tell you that they have to plant weeds there, they don't grow naturally; that they import Canada thistles; that they have to send beyond seas for a spile to stop a leak in an oil cask; that pieces of wood in Nantucket are carried about like bits of the true cross in Rome; that people there plant toadstools before their houses, to get under the shade in summertime; that one blade of grass makes an oasis, three blades in a day's walk a prairie; that they wear quicksand shoes, something like Laplander snowshoes; that they are so shut up, belted about, every way inclosed, surrounded, and made an utter island of by the ocean, that to their very chairs and tables small clams will sometimes be found adhering, as to the backs of sea turtles.
(All clear contenders for ocean crossing, clearly!
Each year, for 12 years, give or take, my family and I have been making a similar crossing, albeit of the ocean, to live in Italy for cultural exchanges, language learning, educational growth, and to show our children a different way of life than the one we lead in Massachusetts, USA.
Chaim Deutsch, founder of the Flatbush Shomrim, (Hebrew for «watchers») is hoping to succeed his boss Council Member Michael Nelson in the 48th CD, straddling Ocean Avenue and crossing Sheepshead Bay to encompass Brighton and Manhattan Beach.
We don't hear too much about natural dust, the kind that the winds loft from deserts and dry lakebeds into the air and carries for hundreds of kilometers, crossing oceans and continents, but we should.
The West Coast can rely on a steady stream of dust particles from Africa and Asia — it takes between seven and 10 days for the dust to cross the Pacific Ocean, Prather added, and dust can circumnavigate the globe in a matter of weeks — but what the western United States has been missing during this drought is the other main part of the equation: clouds that the dust can seed.
The ancestors of hobbits probably left the rift area of Africa (Ardi's home) for Southeast Asia on foot about 2 million years ago, ultimately crossing treacherous ocean waters to land on the narrow, 230 - mile - long Indonesian island of Flores.
More than 60 researchers from a cross section of disciplines and institutions, including the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have created the Ocean Health Index to do just that.
Ongoing disagreement among scientists over how to sustain high survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last year.
«There are still naysayers out there regarding Voyager 1 crossing through the heliopause — the edge of the heliosphere,» says astrophysicist Nathan Schwadron of the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and department of physics and lead author of the paper.
Bluefins in the Pacific, on the other hand, feed off California for a few years before crossing the ocean to their breeding grounds off Japan — where a single one can fetch $ 175,000 on the Tokyo market.
In around 1611, a boatload of European settlers crossed the Atlantic Ocean, headed for the four - year - old colony at Jamestown.
If that were true, these systems would have to cross the African continent before tracking across the Indian ocean, the Malay Archipelago, the Pacific — perhaps stopping off for a rest in Hawaii — before finally crossing the Yucatán peninsula and arriving in the Caribbean.
Several scientists are poring over data recorded by a robotic submarine that set a distance record for autonomous vehicles when it crossed the Pacific Ocean late last year.
For most of the last 2.6 million years, the cold temperatures and low nutrient levels of the Arctic have deterred fish species from crossing between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The protein buys you buy in the store are by necessity, chock full of chemicals — its the only way they can sit for months while crossing oceans and sitting in warehouses without spoiling!
After that, it took about two long weeks to wait for this beauty to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Germany.
Agree that it is foolish to cross oceans for less finer personal life.
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A Life was Frank Cole's first feature film; he would return to the Sahara for his 2000 feature Life Without Death, which chronicled Cole's attempt to cross the desert by himself, traveling from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red sea with nothing more than what his camel could carry.
Titanic (PG - 13 for nudity, sensuality, violence, peril and brief profanity) 3D rerelease of Oscar - sweeping disaster epic about the whirlwind romance of two star - crossed lovers (Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio) who meet aboard the RMS Titanic during the ill - fated ocean liner's maiden voyage.
And if we cross the oceans and seas we also read in India aboutthe Children's Parliament, or the College of Thonnakutta Alli that had no infrastructure of drinking water for its students.
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Barbara Morgan's exploration of space continues the great American adventure and quest for knowledge that led Lewis and Clark to cross the Rockies and row down the salmon filled Columbia River in 1804 to reach the Pacific Ocean at what is now the southern tip of Washington State.
It's an homage to American innovation, serving as a reminder that you don't have to cross an ocean for a car you're proud to have in your driveway.
He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...
The riches of the world were there for the taking in the sixteenth century, and there were vast tracts of ocean that had never been crossed.
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
After a failed suicide attempt, terminal cancer patient Mark Briggs embarks on a cross country trek with his three best friends in the hope of seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
Jon has been happily married for the past 17 years to the woman he crossed oceans for.
Sales rep Chuck Magnus crossed nine provinces, five time zones and dipped his toes in two oceans in 18 days to raise funds for kids with cancer.
It's yet another way for you to cross the Atlantic Ocean and redeem your miles.
For an easy crossing to mainland Fiji, Awesome Adventures Fiji offer a ferry route across the South Pacific Ocean from Botaira Beach Resort Port to Denarau Port.
So fingers crossed the ocean will provide enough swell for the RipCurl Padang Padang Cup Trials show down to run.
Expect to pay 180,000 miles for an itinerary that includes seven stopovers and one crossing each over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Guests wade knee - deep in the balmy ocean waters to board a waiting boat for a 20 - minute crossing to a warm island reception.
For those looking to unwind and relax, Windstar's Ocean Crossing is the perfect fit with voyages starting at $ 976 per person.
Her love of travel led her to embark on not one, but two ocean crossings on container ships, which in turn led to an impromptu job working for a shipping company writing guidebooks for passengers.
Why are travelers opting for vacations in Belize rather than crossing oceans to tour Paris, London, Rome and Berlin?
Heading north to Bangsal small hinterland for crossing to Gili Trawangan, famous with its sparkling pristine waters from Indian and Pacific ocean.
Six years ago Ryan crewed on a 46 - foot sailboat «Hokimai» for three months from Baja, Mexico crossing the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia.
A reverse herringbone business - class and spacious first - class suites provide some of the best award redemption opportunities for those crossing the Pacific Ocean.
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