Sentences with phrase «of sea voyages»

If Erlandson and his colleagues are right, it was a series of sea voyages and river crossings that brought our ancestors to alien lands, launching the greatest biological invasion of all time.

When Raleigh rhapsodizes about the joy of sighting land at the end of a sea voyage, he's accompanied by a soaring musical theme.

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

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The three - day camping trips and sea voyages have raised millions of dollars for various business and philanthropic ventures.

This past spring, she was invited to sail on various legs of the voyage as a corporate technology mentor on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator program.

The Rortyan vision of heaven on earth, in which people merely tell enlightening tales and abjure the search for truth, sounds like a gathering of tipsy old sea dogs swapping dimly remembered stories of past voyages of discovery.

Between his two parallel sequences of feeding, voyage, controversy with Pharisees, and healing (cf. p. 36) Mark inserts the departure of Jesus to the borders of Tyre and Sidon (7:24), and his return «through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis» (7:31).

It is a hastily planned sea voyage, a metaphoric exchange of solid ground for the unsteady, highly volatile seas of philosophical and aesthetic speculation and, as such, an apt metaphor for German Romanticism's precarious explorations as a whole.

When spices first came into wide use in food preparation, the difficulty of obtaining them along lengthy land routes or dangerous sea voyages made them exotic and rare.

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.

[The following excerpt is from the 1816 journal of Matthew Lewis, author of The Monk, who died at sea, on the voyage homewards from the West Indies, in the year 1818.]

Add to this extreme heat, exhaustion, rough seas, poor ventilation and millions of litres of untreated waste, and a typical live export voyage quickly becomes the perfect storm for death and suffering.

The story of a seven - month voyage at sea, Windjammer, the only feature film ever made in Cinemiracle (a wide - screen process), opened at the Roxy in New York City on a movie screen measuring 100 feet wide by 40 feet high.

At 4 months old, the pups are weaned and begin a voyage from the Pribilof Islands of Alaska through the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean that can last for 20 months before they return to the islands.

Join New Scientist for an exhilarating whale watching voyage to spot grey, blue, fin, sperm and humpback whales with Art Taylor, who has been sailing the seas of Baja for thirty years.

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.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

The scenes carved into a wall of the ancient Egyptian temple at Deir el - Bahri tell of a remarkable sea voyage.

Four hundred miles south of modern Cairo, Qena was the closest point on the Nile to the Red Sea and probably the starting point for voyages to Punt.

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.

Writers of all eras have imagined fantastic voyages to kingdoms in the clouds, at the bottom of the sea and at the roots of mountains.

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 next stage of the experiment will take place next summer when the Viking voyage research operation will travel back to Denmark from Ireland, allowing some hardy salts another chance to relive the grueling days of the Vikings on the open sea.

From there we voyage northwest to a small cluster of islands that have no human inhabitants but are home to sea lions, Humboldt penguins and hundreds of thousands of seabirds, including pelicans, cormorants, Inca terns and Peruvian boobies.

Fathomable Pharmaceuticals: Will Cameron's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Yield Breakthrough Drugs?

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

When juvenile Spheniscus demersus penguins off the Western Cape of South Africa leave the nest for their maiden voyage at sea, they head for prime penguin hunting grounds.

The animal that biologist Steven Haddock calls «the unofficial mascot of the deep» hangs like a blue - eyed, elephant - eared umbrella, a most appropriate escort for our photo voyage to the bottom of the sea.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

The Base Camp Baja expeditions depart from the Baja California Sur city La Paz on January 1, 4, 7, and 10 for three - or four - night voyages aboard the 30 - cabin National Geographic Sea Bird, which will serve as a «floating base camp» to explore the pristine Sea of Cortez coastline.

I often tell clients to think of earthly life like an old - fashioned sea voyage.

Among the oddest work that Hudson — or any other actor — ever did, were his two performances in the series Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea.

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In terms of special features, «Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea» delivers.

I've been keeping myself occupied by playing all manner of co-op games, as I continue to plug away at Vermintide 2's pretty great four player rat and chaos horde battling action, set sail for my first few voyages since Sea of Thieves released, and laughed and joked my way through A Way Out.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader brings back all four of the Pevensie siblings, and Reepicheep, for an epic voyage across the high seas of NVoyage of the Dawn Treader brings back all four of the Pevensie siblings, and Reepicheep, for an epic voyage across the high seas of Nvoyage across the high seas of Narnia.

While in other Hollywood - produced films about perversions of authority on the high seas, such as the various versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935; Lewis Milestone, 1962) or Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov, 1962), a comparatively ordinary voyage is complicated by the disastrously warped personality of a deranged (thus, socially maladjusted) captain (Charles Laughton, Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov), in Botany Bay the obscure and torturous solipsism of the captain colours every aspect of the voyage: he does not stand out as exemplary, but instead characterizes the «transportation» process itself.

Other Stuff We Watched Snowden La La Land Salt and Fire Into the Inferno Voyage of Time: Life's Journey My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea Colossal The Bad Batch The Handmaiden Loving A Monster Calls Arrival Fire at Sea Nocturama The Girl with All the Gifts Safari The B - Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography Moonlight Rats

Visual Effects Arundi Asregadoo — «The Legend of Tarzan,» «The Revenant» Steve Begg — «Spectre,» «Casino Royale» Félix Bergés — «A Monster Calls,» «The Impossible» Angus Bickerton — «Victor Frankenstein,» «Dark Shadows» Jason Billington — «Deepwater Horizon,» «Avatar» Nafees Bin Zafar — «Kung Fu Panda 3,» «How to Train Your Dragon 2» Rod Bogart — «John Carter,» «Brave» Cosmas Paul Bolger, Jr. — «Frozen,» «The Day the Earth Stood Still» Pierre Buffin — «The Divergent Series: Allegiant,» «Life of Pi» Sonja Burchard — «Rise of the Guardians,» «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Mark Byers — «Hidden Figures,» «The Sea of Trees» Mike Chambers — «Alice through the Looking Glass,» «Inception» Vincent Cirelli — «Doctor Strange,» «Captain America: Civil War» Brian Cox — «The Wolverine,» «The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader» Joyce Cox * — «The Jungle Book,» «Avatar» Jan Philip Cramer — «Independence Day: Resurgence,» «Deadpool» Janelle Croshaw — «Tron: Legacy,» «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Denise Davis — «Pixels,» «X-Men: FirstClass» Brennan Doyle — «Marvel's The Avengers,» «Transformers: Dark of the Moon» Pauline Duvall — «Deadpool,» «Star Trek Beyond» Christopher D. Edwards * — «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Blu - ray extras include audio commentary by author Tim Colliver (Seaview: The Making of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea); the featurette Science Fiction: Fantasy to Reality; and an interview with Eden.

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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.

To be fair, and despite the absence of personality, the first half of Fantastic Four isn't a bad science adventure in the gee - whiz mode of Fantastic Voyage, with an apparently genuine curiosity about interdimensional travel and the odd, welcome corny touch — like Reed's passion for Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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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.

The interactive «A Race of Discovery» tool allows you to discover how the likes of Christopher Columbus and Amelia Earhart made their way across land and sea, and how their famous voyages translate into the transportation of today.

She chose to make a case for traveling to the Challenger Deep, for instance, partly because the reading passage about the submarine voyage contained a lot of details about different sea creatures the travelers would see.

Lord of the Silent With son Ramses, his wife, Nefret, and a few unwelcome additions in tow, the elder Peabody - Emersons embark on a dangerous sea voyage to Alexandria, ultimately ending up in Cairo for their annual excavations.