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CAMBRIDGE – In 1831, when Charles Darwin boarded The Beagle for its five-year voyage of exploration, ships navigated with the help of chronometers, which showed the precise time at a reference location.
But given the long-term impact of Darwin’s work on that voyage, the benefits vastly outweighed the unnecessary cost.
By the time you returned from a great five-year voyage, you were surprised to find that you were a rising star.
In the end, it cost to us of getting our washing machine to our front door was about eight times the cost of the machine’s voyage from the German factory to the warehouse where we purchased it.
He is what Allen Ginsberg said in describing his shock upon first hearing “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” in 1963, a song in which the accents and pacing, the abrupt changes in emphasis, the voyage to the very heart of words and the imagination all echo the best literature of the time – but with music as well!
Despite all that they had endured, one of them told me, upon landing on the Greek island of Lesbos, that they had panicked only once during that perilous voyage: when their mobile phone signal disappeared.
The voyage was the culmination of four centuries of failed attempts to navigate the Northwest Passage – a direct route from Europe to Asia across the Arctic Ocean – and remains one of the greatest tragedies in the history of polar exploration.
As home to the world’s first Minister of AI, as well as museums, academies, and foundations dedicated to studying the future, Dubai is on its own Hythloday-esque voyage.
How the US Drug War Victimizes Women in Latin AmericaNEW YORK – It has been two years since Cecilia’s son, Carlos, set sail from the coast of Ecuador on an ordinary day’s fishing voyage.
The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has grabbed headlines with her eloquent speeches, school strike movement, and voyage across the Atlantic on a zero-emissions yacht.
In twenty-six years Cunard ships have made 2,000 Atlantic crossings without so much as a voyage canceled, a delay recorded, a man, a craft, or even a letter lost.
Such a leak could not be patched, and with its paddle wheels half swamped, the Scotia had no choice but to continue its voyage.
So the frigate was equipped for a far-off voyage and armed with fearsome fishing gear, but nobody knew where to steer it.
CHAPTER 5 At Random!FOR SOME WHILE the voyage of the Abraham Lincoln was marked by no incident.
Our voyage was proceeding under the most favorable conditions.
You're going to voyage through a land of wonders.
"If you don't mind, professor," Captain Nemo told me, "we'll determine our exact position and fix the starting point of our voyage.
At noon on this day of November 8, we hereby begin our voyage of exploration under the waters."
In 1785 the Count de La Pérouse and his subordinate, Captain de Langle, were sent by King Louis XVI of France on a voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
The Hope and the Search passed right by Vanikoro without stopping there; and overall, this voyage was plagued by misfortune, ultimately costing the lives of Rear Admiral d'Entrecasteaux, two of his subordinate officers, and several seamen from his crew.
Is it a year that will bring our imprisonment to an end, or a year that will see this strange voyage continue?"
Under my eyes I had the excellent charts of the Torres Strait that had been surveyed and drawn up by the hydrographic engineer Vincendon Dumoulin and Sublieutenant (now Admiral) Coupvent-Desbois, who were part of Dumont d'Urville's general staff during his final voyage to circumnavigate the globe.
Our voyage is just beginning, and I've no desire to deprive myself so soon of the pleasure of your company."
During this phase of our voyage, Captain Nemo conducted interesting experiments on the different temperatures in various strata of the sea.
But that meant this strange voyage of mine would come to an end, and no such end was in sight.
Then he added:"There lies our peaceful cemetery, hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the waves!""At least, captain, your dead can sleep serenely there, out of the reach of sharks!""Yes, sir," Captain Nemo replied solemnly, "of sharks and men!"SECOND PARTCHAPTER 1 The Indian OceanNOW WE BEGIN the second part of this voyage under the seas.
On his voyage to Ceylon, the Englishman Percival made much of a Kaffir who stayed under five minutes without coming up to the surface, but I find that hard to believe.
Are you tired of this voyage under the seas?
Speaking for myself, I'll be extremely distressed to see the end of a voyage so few men will ever have a chance to make.""But don't you realize, Professor Aronnax," the Canadian replied, "that soon we'll have been imprisoned for three whole months aboard this Nautilus?"
Then, crossing his arms:"Honestly," he said, "I'm not sorry about this voyage under the seas.
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