When my great, great, great, great, grandfather arrived in New York City after a voyage that began there, the St.
What was once a voyage of under 20km across the Strait of Gibraltar can now be more than 1, 000km from ports in Senegal.
It was a fitting thing to do at the climax of a voyage which had been started by a grand scientific idea about our origins.
The collection "embarks on a voyage to the future, marrying modern, spacesuit-like construction details and a new sophisticated grunge attitude, " Minkoff wrote in her notes.
The Longest Journey is a voyage well worth taking, just make sure you've got enough vacation time left - that title is more appropriate than you'd think.
He saw cultural and genetic links between South Americans and Polynesians, and set out to show that such a voyage between the two territories would have been possible in ancient times.
In 1761, a British carpenter named John Harrison built the first marine chronometer, capable of keeping time on board a rolling boat and providing ship captains with a way to determine their longitude during a voyage.
Because this new Islanders boat is setting sail from Nassau County to Brooklyn on a voyage that could be a real game changer for the team, as well as a nice supplemental addition to its new host facility and community.
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April will also see a raft of Titanic cruises, including an excursion from New York to the site of the catastrophe, and a voyage retracing the ship's route from Southampton (though the plan is for the vessel to make it all the way to New York this time).
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What started out as perhaps more out of a spirit of defiance demonstration has evolved into a widespread celebratory mood, embraced by a diverse range of artists, both emerging and established, who recall a more innocent time when the Saturday morning visit to the record store was a voyage of discovery.
While it will probably take at least another 20 years before Zubrin -- or anyone else for that matter -- makes it to the Martian surface, NASA and other space agencies are already drawing up plans for a voyage that will present astronauts not only with physical but also psychological challenges never faced by humans before.
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Health care entrepreneur Randall Pittman quickly discovered his 140-foot cruiser, Whirlaway, was better suited for a voyage to the Galapagos than for quick maneuvering. (He has a 90-foot racing boat, Genuine Risk, to console himself.) A 66-footer collided with New York real estate owner Harry Macklowe's 111-foot Unfurled and limped off with a hole in its side.
He, too, however, has a long to-do list before the motor embarks on a maiden voyage: His current motor has a tether attached for power.
's ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage: a British voyage that set out to establish a sailing route through the Arctic and ended with the untimely, mysterious deaths of its two ship crews.
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That Raines should find himself on the front lines at this moment is also the culmination of a personal voyage in which he managed to take a Democrat's life story and turn it into a Republican's resume.
In 1528, on a return voyage to America, Verrazzano went ashore on a Caribbean island that appeared deserted.
James II agreed to sponsor a second voyage, this time providing the frigate Assistance and a force of 200 men to protect the divers and their booty.
Constantin Delivanis has taken a fascinating voyage from his birthplace of Alexandria, Egypt to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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The Met's Islamic galleries offer a grand voyage to faraway times and places, and an eye-opening display of art.
Sometimes a trip home can be a trippy voyage down memory lane.
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Essentially, almost anything up to and including containers in some cases, in our view, qualifies as project cargo because a combination of cargos is necessary to make a successful voyage.
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When they turn together and head out the door to a waiting plane, we see their faces, smiling and hopeful, as if they were embarking on a great voyage of discovery.
When H4 was taken on a testing voyage across the Atlantic in 1764, it established the longitude of Barbados to within 9.8 nautical miles (18.1 km) of what we know it to be today.
Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.
Through artistic performance involving music, sculpture and dance, supported by pyrotechnics, the audience was invited to a worldwide voyage to India with an Indian dance workshop and to Europe with masterfully interpretations of Verdi, Rossini and Mozart, played by a duet Ali and Stephanie Balthazard Lachaise.
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Guests on the current voyage will receive a refund equivalent to three days of the voyage and 50 percent off a future cruise.
From those figures, scientists calculated a spacefarer's radiation exposure for a quicker six-month voyage in a similarly shielded spacecraft.
However, during recovery from the space voyage a letter appeared announcing his intention to leave the game publisher.
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