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That's where Joshua descended and crossed the Jordan and led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan 3,000 years ago in this final leg of the journey from Africa.
While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.
That's not possible in Latin America where land is held onto by a tiny elite descended from the conquistadors.
It looked like the apocalypse had descended.
As we started down the path, we pushed aside the vines blocking the way, and after about an hour of walking in, found that the trail had become flooded by recent rains, so I hoisted the photo gear above my head as we descended into these waters up to my chest.
It was as if they couldn't see me anymore, as if an invisibility cloak had descended.
On July 21st, 1969, Buzz Aldrin climbed out of Apollo 11's lunar module and descended onto the Sea of Tranquility.
Let me start by saying human beings are not descended from apes, despite what you may have heard.
Today's photosynthesizers, their engines are descended from those ancient microbes, and they feed basically all of life on earth.
Some genealogy has an elitist strain, like people say, "Oh, I'm descended from Mary Queen of Scots and you're not, so you cannot join my country club."
Helped by Hermes and Athena, Hercules descended and met Hades himself.
The rest of the family immediately descended into sibling rivalry.
This skipping of an entire generation left lingering claims to the throne among their various offspring, particularly the Lancasters, descended from Edward's third son, and the Yorks, descended from his fourth son.
These examples show us that just as the various Romance languages descended from Latin, English, Swedish, German, and many other languages descended from their own common ancestor known as Proto-Germanic spoken around 500 B.C.E.
Proto-Indo-European itself descended from an even more ancient language, but unfortunately, this is as far back as historical and archeological evidence will allow us to go.
The modern chicken is descended primarily from the Red Junglefowl, and partially from three other closely related species, all native to India and Southeast Asia.
All of humanity, probably, is descended from a thousand people who left Africa roughly 70,000 years ago.
God himself descended into Jesus to be on our level.
I met people who had descended from all over the world, faces, races, genders, money-lenders.
At the start of the experiment, an army of researchers descended on the town.
Today, most house cats have descended from either the Near Eastern or the Egyptian lineage of F.s.lybica.
You’ve stealthily descended into the darkness of a vampire cave, setting a sequence of mirrors as you go.
This must be who I'm directly descended from."
It might be difficult to fathom how every Pomeranian, Chihuahua, and Poodle are descended from fierce wolves.
And then there were the invisible, psychological imprints my illness had left behind: the fears of relapse, the unprocessed grief, the demons of PTSD that descended upon me for days, sometimes weeks.
Though Chak Ek’ had risen first, K’in Ahaw outshone him, and the resentful Chak Ek’ descended back to the underworld to plot against his brother.
But construction halted at the fourth story for nearly a century as Pisa descended into prolonged warfare.
Hunger descended on humanity.
When baby humans are born today, their larynx is not descended yet.
A flock of relatives descended on her.
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