Sentences with phrase «take ocean crossings»

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I've yet to take a flight long enough to completely drain the Mini, even with continual video playing, but the Note Pro was running low by the time we'd crossed the ocean.

It took the christian god 1500 years to do something so simple as cross an ocean.

make alcohol before you leave and take it with you while you cross the ocean.

Maybe you could explain why it took the christian god 1500 years to reach the New World, only doing so after humans had developed vessels and navigational skills to allow them to cross oceans.

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.

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 next solar eclipse takes place on July 22, 2009, starting in India and crossing through Asia and Japan into the western Pacific Ocean.

Habib explains that it would have been able to cross broad stretches of ocean by taking advantage of thermals (rising columns of air created over warmer - than - normal patches of ocean) to gain altitude, then gliding until it reached the next thermal.

In June 2007, as part of the commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the NASA space shuttle Atlantis took that same lead tag into low - Earth orbit - whereupon it crossed the same vast ocean in a matter of minutes.

The Copernicus Sentinel - 3A satellite takes us over the Atlantic Ocean close to Spain and Portugal where the sky not only features clouds but also criss - cross tracks from maritime vessels.

After that, it took about two long weeks to wait for this beauty to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Germany.

Milton takes readers along with the explorers, especially Nathaniel Courthope, who crossed oceans and suffered hardships in search of advan ¬ tageous trade routes that would make it possible to control the spice market.

Here's the journey that takes us behind the walls of Jules Verne's Amiens estate, into the back alleys of Hong Kong, onto the grounds of a Ceylon tea plantation, through storm - tossed ocean crossings and mountains blocked by snowdrifts twenty feet deep, and to many more unexpected and exotic locales from London to Yokohama.

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.

«The publishers who take the time to really listen to their constituency, from distributors to readers, will survive the ocean crossing into the future (and there will be some rough seas ahead!)

The best bet is to find a mixed flight to Tel Aviv where Delta would cross the ocean, and another Flying Blue partner would take you the rest of the way to Tel Aviv.

You can cross small rivers, climb up into hilly green pastures with ocean views, or take a day trip to nearby Montezuma to hike to the stunning waterfall.

Or you can simply cross the road and take a dip in the ocean.

Join us on this very scenic tour that takes us over several mountain ranges and into the deep jungle providing us with amazing ocean & valley views, stream crossings, coffee & banana plantations.

Not only that, but at The Venetian you can take a gondola ride through the canals and pretend you are really in Venice without having to actually cross the ocean.

because we are crossing open ocean it is recommended any seasickness medications are taken in advance.

Whilst kangaroo, wallabies and even echidnas can be easy to spot in grassy clearings, or even trying to cross the Great Ocean Road, spotting a koala takes more of a keen eye.

«It took Sir Francis Drake six months to cross the Indian Ocean and, for a sailor of his stature, it should have taken more like thirty days,» says Richmond.

Crossing the Pacific Ocean takes approximately twenty - three days, during which time the artist will be considered «in residence» aboard the vessel.

A wall - sized aerial view of the Sahara desert has almost infinite detail due to the high resolution capacities of digital imaging, but it remains an enigmatic landscape; an image of women playing cards on an evening street in Hong Kong taken without flash would have been impossible without recent advances in photographic technology; a still life of aquatic plants and animals reveals what is otherwise hidden beneath the ocean surface; and images of border crossings depict territorial differences that are materially invisible.

According to a recent study, this species will be among dozens to take advantage of warming Arctic Ocean waters to cross over into the Pacific Ocean.

If we still used wind energy to cross oceans it would take weeks — months for a single Atlantic crossing.