Sentences with phrase «year voyage»

The expansion is titled «Dragon Quest X 5000 - Nen no Tabiji Harukanaru Furusato e Online,» which translates as «The 500 - year Voyage to a Far - away Hometown.»

His five - year voyage on H.M.S. Beagle, when he was in his twenties, changed his life.

School children particularly enjoy seeing the full ‑ scale recreation of the Beagle, where Darwin embarked on a five ‑ year voyage.

We track this Japanese master's 40 - year voyage of radical cinematic discovery and explain why his comeback, already scandalously fading from American theaters, is unmissable.

The Pluto debate may not be settled anytime soon, but minds may change when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft visits Pluto for the first time in 2015 after a nine - year voyage through space.

Darwin for Kids focuses foremost on the great naturalist's five - year voyage aboard the HMS Beagle and later on his intellectual odyssey.

In October 2018, a probe called BepiColombo will set off on an epic seven - year voyage to orbit the scorched world.

In October, a probe called BepiColombo will begin a seven - year voyage to Mercury with the aim of answering questions raised by previous visits to the scorched world

Moreover, the light sails that survive the 20 - year voyage would pass through the Centauri system in a flash, moving so fast they would have only seconds to capture high - quality close - up images and other data from Proxima b and any neighboring planets that may be there.

Even so, their proposed 150 - year voyage could not start tomorrow.

Charles Darwin famously derived his theory of evolution from observations he made of species and their geographic distributions during his five - year voyage around the world on the H.M.S. Beagle.

I saw it through the planning and construction process, watched in person as the spacecraft launched on October 15, 1997, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., endured its seven - year voyage to Saturn and had a front - row seat as it arrived at its final destination in 2004.

NASA's Dawn spacecraft spent the last four years voyaging to asteroid Vesta — and may have found a planet.

Not exact matches

Summit at Sea, for example, is bringing together AOL co-founder Steve Case, National Geographic Society explorer in residence Sylvia Earle and Univision host Jorge Ramos on this year's voyage.

He added that the voyage itself would take a year, and was fraught with potential risks.

And just as questions like these are fundamental to planning a physical voyage, understanding the business terrain is essential for entrepreneurs and executives to thoughtfully plan their progress in the coming year.

Built and having its maiden voyage, I'd say 15 to 20 years.

So far this year, over 2,500 refugees have died somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea in their desperate voyages to places like Athens.

And in recent years a significant publishing subindustry has arisen for the purpose of helping us in such a «voyage of discovery»: I refer to the many books, tapes, videos, and workbooks on the topic of journal writing, or, as the less scrupulous stylists in the movement would have it, «journaling.»

Sandro Magister suggests that this charter «marks a small step in the very direction hoped for by the Pope» as expressed «in the same year as the lecture in Regensburg and the voyage to Turkey».

Since last year, more than a million migrants and refugees have escaped violence, poverty and the spread of ISIS in parts of the Middle East and North Africa, by making the dangerous voyage to Europe.

For several years now, a chorus of voices (growing larger and louder as we approach the 500th anniversary of Columbus» voyage in 1992) has assaulted every certainty, except the date, about the Columbus story.

A committee appointed by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain gave the following reasons in 1490 for believing that a voyage such as the one proposed by Columbus would be an error: (1) A voyage to Asia would require three years.

Anyway, here are more booklists: The 11 - year - old Core texts: Voyages in English 7 The Old World and America All Creatures Great and Small: Life Science MCP Mathematics E, which we're finishing from last year followed by Saxon Algebra 1/2 Barron's Math Wizardry for Kids Amy Welborn's Prove It!

So as thousands of people made the purgatorial voyage to Rome for the Holy Year of 1500, Caterina was undergoing her own purgation: For one long silent year, Caterina withstood the desolation of Castel Sant» Angelo, uniting her pain to that of Christ, a crucifix the only ornament in her small cYear of 1500, Caterina was undergoing her own purgation: For one long silent year, Caterina withstood the desolation of Castel Sant» Angelo, uniting her pain to that of Christ, a crucifix the only ornament in her small cyear, Caterina withstood the desolation of Castel Sant» Angelo, uniting her pain to that of Christ, a crucifix the only ornament in her small cell.

[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.]

When the boat arrives in the late morning of the third day — the Fourth of July and almost 25 years to the day after the United States made its run — the official will hit his stopwatch, and the Fantastic Voyage of Dr. Magoon will be over.

Just as David Cameron has set off on a lengthy voyage towards an EU referendum in several years» time, he doesn't really have an emergency stop when sudden gusts come along.

Chris Migliaccio, 23 - year - old Republican from Queens, may not succeed in his maiden voyage into electoral politics (a long - shot bid for the State Assembly), but he has stumbled into his very first political mini-imbroglio.

It recognizes July 1, 2013 as 100 years since the wagon's maiden voyage.

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.

Shortly after 7:30 am Eastern time this morning, a seven - year space voyage at last reached its final destination: NASA's Dawn mission entered orbit around Ceres, a small, icy world orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

Skeletons recently unearthed from a medieval friary in the U.K. show unmistakable signs of the disease, researchers say, suggesting that England was hit by the scourge at least 50 years before Columbus's voyage.

A Voyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of theVoyage to the Moon — a satirical account of a space voyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of thevoyage, often cited as the first science fiction story — was written by the real Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649, just 40 years after Galileo's first telescopic observations of the moon.

The other came from a Victorian gentleman who spent five years as a naturalist on a voyage around the world, 20 years previously.

The sum total or added knowledge in the sixty years following Cook's voyages had led to a general belief that around the South Pole was a scattered archipelago and not a continental mass, a state of geographical information that was not materially changed until the discovery by Charles Wilkes that after all there is a great Antarctic land, even if it is smaller than the land of legend.

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.

It is undergoing tests at the European Space Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk, a seaside resort town in the Netherlands, and its maiden voyage is expected to take place next year.

Cost: $ 100 million It has been 35 years since human beings last visited our lunar neighbor as part of NASA's immense Apollo program, making the prospect of a private voyage to the moon seem ridiculous.

South American sweet potatoes became a staple crop in Polynesia at least 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

The oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E. — nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Yet an arguably more epochal event occurred the previous year, when the crew of Apollo 8 — astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders — embarked on the first voyage to lunar orbit.

Based on these voyages, researchers have confirmed that a giant lava dome was created after the caldera - forming supereruption 7300 years ago.

But during a recent study of the bat, Buden discovered that a German naturalist voyaging on a Russian expedition had observed and named the animal some 50 years earlier.

Regardless of the timing of that voyage, solid steps are under way this year.

Atlantis launched July 8 on the 135th and last voyage of NASA's 30 - year space shuttle program.

In the next few years Childress may be able to forgo some of these arduous voyages.

Comet Siding Spring — an Oort Cloud comet that may contain material from the formation of the solar system some 4.6 billion years ago — was making its first voyage through the inner solar system.

By the 2030s, he continued, it will be possible to send humans on a two - way voyage to Mars, a mission that would be akin to the Apollo 8 mission of 1968 that set the stage for Apollo 11 the following year.