Sentences with phrase «on an expedition into»

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

The first Muslim invasion of India took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Walid (87 - 97; A.D. 705 - 15) who sent Muhammad Ibn Qasim on an expedition into Sind, the area which then included most of what is now the Punjab.

Congratulations on your expedition into motherhood.

Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Tuva Novotny play women on an expedition into a mysterious and dangerous place known as «the shimmer.»

A dynamite Natalie Portman, radiating ferocity and feeling, stars as Lena, an ex-Army biologist on an expedition into the «Shimmer,» an overgrown, undulating forest located in Florida (but shot in the U.K.) that seems to be infecting everything it spreads its spores on.

When a biologist's (Natalie Portman) husband disappears, she goes on an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not anticipate what she finds there.

Embarking on my expedition into the world of daily poetry, The Writer's Almanac has provided me with more poems by contemporary, living poets than any other resource in this post.

In the winter of 1885, Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester sets out with his men on an expedition into the newly acquired territory of Alaska.

The Spanish explorer Hernan Cortez landed on the island of Cozumel in 1519, but soon departed on an expedition into central Mexico and the heart of Aztec country after learning about the vast riches of gold held by Moctezuma II.

Name: Caveblazers Developer: Rupeck Games Publisher: The Yogscast Release Date: 24th May 2017 Caveblazers is a fun and engaging Spelunky - like adventure game, which sends your intrepid explorer on expeditions into a vast network of ancient caves and ruins.

Caveblazers is a fun and engaging Spelunky - like adventure game, which sends your intrepid explorer on expeditions into a vast network of ancient caves and ruins.

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I remember hearing once long ago that herons were considered good luck: when the aboriginals would head out on a fishing expedition, the sighting of a heron meant they were headed into success because they embodied patience and wisdom.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

Chile peppers made their way into the area through trade with Mexican tribes, maybe as early as 1582 on a Mexican expedition lead by Antonio Espejo.

The expedition that found this one significant medal was sponsored by a Fort Worth oilman, F. Kirk Johnson Jr., who, though a novice on the Banner Reef scene, has a certified curiosity — in 1957 he led an expedition into the Himalayas to search for the Abominable Snowman.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

Find out why on a once - in - a-lifetime expedition into the breathtaking Indian Himalayas with New Scientist.

He found his way to University College Dublin, and from there, to a series of expeditions into the Sahara, focusing on Morocco's southeastern corner, near the border with Algeria.

Three Expedition 54 crew members are going into the weekend packing up and preparing to return to Earth on Tuesday.

Similar to the slegdes used by Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert on his expeditions, our sledges allow expedition members to carry a considerable weight in equipment and supplies when heading into the Antarctic wildnerness on foot.

On this expedition I headed to Mackay Glacier, an outlet of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that feeds into the Ross Sea.

Going on the Love Map expedition together, sitting without defenses, vulnerable and truthful, will give you the insight into each other's inner worlds which enables you to really get to know each other.

I can now hardly run into anybody that doesn't have an online dating story to tell about their own experience or a friends expeditions in dating on the internet.

There is footage in the film — of gunfights, of meth cooks, of night expeditions into the hills along the U.S. - Mexico border — that would not be possible with the cumbersome cameras and crews of the past, with Heineman essentially going on ride - alongs as heavily armed vigilantes go about their business.

The following morning it is time for Eve to leave the expedition and return home to England, the boys continue on their journey crossing the border into Botswana.

Pretty soon Lena is on an expedition — the same expedition, she has learned, that her husband was on — into «the shimmer,» a slowly expanding, seemingly unsurveyable zone expanding through the swampland of Florida.

Office Premise: A routine scientific expedition to the North Pole turns into a race to save all mankind when a radiation belt in space causes a fiery inferno on Earth.

Lonely and distraught, she volunteers for a top - secret expedition of her own: a research trip into a quarantined area on the American coast, where an asteroid crash has resulted in bizarre, biological mutations.

Glass, part of a commercial fur expedition, escapes with others on a boat and sails into an adventure that takes him through a crucible of suffering — including a near - fatal grizzly attack — that evokes by turns classics of American literature and a «Perils of Pauline» - style silent - film serial.

Back in 2012, news outlets covered a special expedition by filmmaker James Cameron as he dove deep into the sea in his own Deepsea Challenger submersible on 13 dives into the New Britain Trench off Papua New Guinea and the Mariana Trench, where he explored the deepest part of the ocean.

The story, as it were, focuses on an all - female expedition into the depths of the unknown — it's The Descent, but instead of spelunking into hell we're just going to walk there, armed only with assault rifles and PhDs in various applicable fields of study.

I basically had to trick the game into letting my buddy join me on an expedition by firing an SOS flare (which any player can respond to) and then hoping my friend could find my flare on the quest board.

The film opens with an ingenious British Pathé - style archive documentary that airdrops us into deepest darkest Peru in the company of handlebar -» tached explorer Montgomery Clyde (Tim Downie), whose lost expedition succinctly establishes a young bear's motives for stowing away on a cargo ship bound for present - day London with little more than a literal hatful of marmalade sandwiches for sustenance.

Screenwriter Bill Wittliff draws us into the world of Gloucester, Mass., the centuries - old fishing port where the Andrea Gail, a 72 - foot swordfishing boat, is ready to embark on a monthlong expedition to the Grand Banks.

We know that Lena and the rest of her team aren't the first to trek into the Shimmer, for instance, but they're never explicitly referred to as the 12th expedition and the extent to which they turn on each other has nothing to do with the orders they received prior to their journey and everything to do with the fact that the Shimmer is too strong a force to endure.

Each and every prop, setting, and shot has purpose, with barely an ounce of fat on the 95 - minute expedition into armchair - wrestling terror.

It doesn't always appear first time, so you might have to jump into an Expedition, leave straight away, then look on the map again until you find him.

Annihilation centers on Lena (Portman), a biologist and expedition leader who ventures with a team into a secret environmental disaster area where events went sideways for her husband.

Instead of heading out on another solo expedition, I matchmade my way into a group of players who were also farming the Horizon quest.

Ex Machina «s Oscar Isaac reunites with Garland to star alongside Natalie Portman, who plays a grieving biologist who signs on for a secret expedition into alien territory.

An hour or so into the game you will be allowed to go on Expeditions.

Based on Jon Krakauer's book «Into Thin Air,» Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal star in the true story of two expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered as their attempt to reach the summit turns into a struggle for their liInto Thin Air,» Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal star in the true story of two expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered as their attempt to reach the summit turns into a struggle for their liinto a struggle for their lives.

The most expensive trip entered into the competition, and also probably the most challenging - both in terms of physical challenge whilst on expedition, and also in the difficulty in arranging in it, was Stamford Endowed School's 31 days in Chilean Patagonia.

Then arrange students into small groups and give each group five minutes to come up with a list of things they think Lewis and Clark might have gathered to take with them on the expedition.

Newsnight reporter Allegra Stratton has embarked on a research expedition into early years education to find out if we can learn a lesson from across the Channel.

To help prove that point, we accompanied a handful of journalists and off - road experts on a Land Rover - sponsored «teaching» expedition into the wilds of southwestern Colorado.

One of the last real body - on - frame SUVs, the Ford Expedition gets to last another generation without melting into a droopy CUV like the Explorer or Land Rover Discovery.

While the mammoth F -250-based Excursion subsequently put the Expedition into perspective, Expedition remained a top - heavy, unwieldy beast to pilot in even the best of conditions, let alone on slick roads where many a fair - weather ute driver discovered the unpleasant side of Ford's «no boundaries» experience.Much of that changes with the 2003 Expedition (and its sibling Lincoln Navigator), the second generation of Ford's full - sized utility.