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Francis Drake (English); expedition against the Spanish Main 1577–1580; westward from England; in Golden Hind; discovered the Drake Passage but entered the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan; first English circumnavigation and the second carried out in a single expedition. Drake was the first to complete a circumnavigation as captain while ...
Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia ...
The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all of its original components replaced over time, typically one after the other.
Before An-sky's expedition, Engel was an advisor for Saul Ginsburg and Pesach Marek, who published a "grounbreaking" book on Jewish tunes, Jewish Folksongs in Russia, in 1901. [18] The expedition began on July 1, 1912, when An-sky, Yudovin, and Engel departed on a train from Kiev to a station near Ruzhin. [20]
Here they meet three companions of Heracles stranded after his expedition against the Amazons In a digression, the poet tells the story of Sinope, the nymph settled here by Zeus. Thermodon River: The harbour of the Amazons. Argonauts depart before the women can assemble for battle Ares Island Island sacred to Amazons, infested with hostile birds
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In 1917, Bartlett rescued the members of Donald Baxter MacMillan's ill-fated Crocker Land Expedition, who had been stuck on the ice for four years. [ 6 ] From 1925 to 1945, at the command of his own schooner, Effie M. Morrissey , Bartlett led many important scientific expeditions to the Arctic sponsored by American museums, the Explorers Club ...
The Francisco Hernández expedition (Spanish: Comisión de Francisco Hernández a Nueva España) is considered to be the first scientific expedition to the New World, led by Francisco Hernández de Toledo, a naturalist and physician of the Court of King Philip II, who was highly regarded in Spain because of his works on herbal medicine.