" While filming in Ireland for the Discovery Channel in 2004, Lawless told Ireland on Sunday that her father's family originated in Quilty, County Clare, and her great grandfather arrived in New Zealand as a convict.

Noted Eccles, " Francis Parkman's epic work La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West ( Boston, 1869 ) is doubtless a great literary work, but, as history, it is, to say the least of dubious merit.

During the Age of Discovery, 1450 – 1700, European Catholic rulers took a great interest in the missionary evangelization of indigenous peoples encountered in newly discovered lands.

The zoo is divided into five animal zones: the River's Edge, which includes elephants, cheetahs, and hyenas ; The Wild, which includes penguins, bears, and great apes ; Discovery Zone, which includes a petting zoo ; Red Rocks, which features lions, tigers, and other big cats ; and the oldest part of the zoo, Historic Hill, which features the 1904 Flight Cage, a herpetarium, and primate house.

As a stable owner his first major acquisition was Discovery, one of the great handicap horses of the age who became his foundation sire.

In a CNN interview and also in a Discovery Channel documentary called Discovering Hip Korea, however, he recalled being repeatedly rejected because of his looks: " In fact, I was told after one audition that my singing and dancing was great but I did not make it because I did not have double eyelids.

First Discovery of Gold in California, January 19th, 1848. James Marshall's discovery of gold in the South Fork of the American River at Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848, started the California Gold Rush | great rush of Argonauts to California.

The Practical School of Agriculture, the Palace of Government was inaugurated with a great exposition in commemoration of the Fourth Centenary of the America ’ s Discovery ; the building of the Public Jail was finished, also the building of the Caridad Hospital and the Mercantile Bank was created.

His subjects have included The Elizabethan Discovery of England, Faking the Classics and The Poetry of History, in which poems about great events are compared to historical accounts.

Bancroft, having trained in the leading German universities, was an accomplished scholar, whose magisterial History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent covered the new nation in depth down to 1789.

Discovery Channel chose HDV handhelds for shooting Deadliest Catch despite their reduced light sensitivity and a large depth of focus, because smaller cameras were better for crew safety and they destroy several dozen of cameras per series.

2010: The Graphic Action Game is a puzzle / maze game with elements from 2010: Odyssey Two where the player must save the Discovery from crashing onto the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

" Daily Telegraph columnist Jasper Rees, likening the changes in explorers ' reputations to climatic variations, suggests that " in the current Antarctic weather report, Scott is enjoying his first spell in the sun for twenty-five years ". The New York Times Book Review was more critical, pointing out Crane's support for Scott's discredited claims regarding the circumstances of the freeing of the Discovery from the pack ice, and concluded " For all the many attractions of his book, David Crane offers no answers that convincingly exonerate Scott from a significant share of responsibility for his own demise.

The upgrade also involved replacing many of the white LRSI tiles on the upper surfaces with Advanced Flexible Reusable Surface Insulation ( AFRSI ) blankets ( also known as Fibrous Insulation Blankets, or FIB's ) after their successful use on shuttle Discovery and Atlantis.

* Discovery Island: An island in Bay Lake which was home to many species of animals and birds.

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.

Discovery UK also operates many additional channels: Discovery HD, Discovery Knowledge, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Science, Animal Planet, DMAX, Discovery Real Time, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Travel & Leisure and Discovery Shed.

Throughout the year, the Art Discovery Series presents plays, concerts, and musicals, and in the summer, there are regular band concerts at Veterans ' Park, as well as many activities at the Sierra Vista Public Library such as a film series, lectures, readings, and other programs for children and adults.

The event is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza in many countries in Latin America, as Discovery Day in the Bahamas, as Día de la Hispanidad, Fiesta Nacional in Spain, Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural ( Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity ) in Argentina and as Día de las Américas ( Day of the Americas ) in Uruguay.

Cáceres flourished during the Reconquista and the Discovery of America, as influential Spanish families and nobles built homes and small palaces there, and many members of families from Extremadura participated in voyages to America where they made their fortunes.

Joplin also has many private schools, such as College Heights Christian School, Martin Luther School, Christ's Community Discovery School, and more.

The 2009 publication of Robertson ( Discovery of Hypnosis ) contains all of Braid's major works and many letters and articles by him, including " On Hypnotism ".

In many ways the fair pavilions more resembled a modern-day government-sponsored science fair exhibit or a Discovery Channel program than they would resemble modern corporate advertising and sales promotions.

Kerr has also been involved in documentaries, providing the narration for No Survivor-The Mysterious Loss of HMAS Sydney Nine Network Australia ( 1995 ), Malice or Mutiny for the ABC Australia 2003 and Animal X Natural Mystery Unit series for Discovery in the US, TV2 Norway and many others.

, The Joy of Painting has been shown in many countries worldwide, such as Greek state broadcaster ERT3, Turkish state broadcaster TRT ( with the title Resim Sevinci ), BR-alpha in Germany, Discovery Real Time in the UK, NHK in Japan, EBS in South Korea and Once TV in Mexico, ATV and ICable TV in Hong Kong, IRIB in Iran and the Colombian state channel Canal Capital.

These regulations do not apply to cable networks ; for instance, Disney Channel currently features tie-ins for virtually all of its shows instead of commercials, while only going as far as promoting DVD and CD versions of those programs, while competitor network The Hub is a consortium between Discovery Communications and toymaker Hasbro, which airs many shows based on their properties on the network, an arrangement that would be impossible on broadcast television.

Discovery of techniques for killing bacteria using heat, and other microbiological studies by scientists such as Louis Pasteur, contributed to the modern sanitation standards that are ubiquitous in developed nations today.

A local subscription service, KTV carries satellite channels such as ESPN, Discovery CNN International and Turner Classic Movies ( from the United States ) and BBC World from the United Kingdom.

However HTTP can use unreliable protocols such as the User Datagram Protocol ( UDP ), for example in Simple Service Discovery Protocol ( SSDP ).

Beyond Tough, a 2002 documentary series, aired on Discovery Channel about the world's most dangerous and intense professions, such as alligator wrestlers and Indy 500 pit crews, was hosted by Marrow.

Also, some address ranges are considered special, such as link-local addresses for use on the local link only, Unique Local addresses ( ULA ) as described in RFC 4193, and solicited-node multicast addresses used in the Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

The first such program was begun in 2001 the Centre for Computational Drug Discovery at the University of Oxford in cooperation with the National Foundation for Cancer Research.

After lobbying in the 1960s and 70s for such a system to be built, Spitzer's vision ultimately materialized into the world's first space-based optical telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched on April 20, 1990 by the Space Shuttle Discovery ( STS-31 ).

Recent television shows, such as Urban Explorers on the Discovery Channel, MTV's Fear, and the Ghost Hunting exploits of The Atlantic Paranormal Society have packaged the hobby for a popular audience.

Television networks such as The History Channel and the Discovery Channel make extensive use of voice-overs.

Enfield has also narrated various TV documentaries such as the Discovery Wings channel " Classic British Aircraft ".

He has also composed music for television ; channels such as the History Channel, the Discovery Channel and NBC Sports include his music.

" Fisk says that the Discovery Channel did not show a repeat of the films, after initially showing them in full, due to a letter campaign launched by pro-Israel groups such as CAMERA.

( See The Logic of Scientific Discovery, and philosophers such as Imre Lakatos, Lindley Darden, William C. Wimsatt, and others.

The British explorer John Hanning Speke recorded one such account in his book Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile:

In the U. S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily focused on reality television themes, such as speculative investigation ( with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence ), automobiles, and occupations ( Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch ); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and younger audiences.

Safford is also home to Discovery Park, a unique public educational destination facility with features such as a Hall of Science, a small railway, and a restored Sonoran riparian water feature.

* Tony Laubach-Storm Chaser and Meteorologist who has been featured on the National Geographic Channel and as one of the featured Meteorologists with the TWISTEX team on Discovery Channel's " Storm Chasers "; his severe weather videos have been featured regularly on national television networks such as The Weather Channel, CNN, and ABC as well as local news stations across the country.

There are four middle / junior high schools: Inglewood Junior High, Beaver Lake Middle School, Pine Lake Middle School, and Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, as well as nearly a dozen elementary schools such as Discovery, Sunny Hills, Cascade Ridge, Challenger, Creekside, Margaret Mead, Samantha Smith, Rachel Carson, Christa McAuliffe, and Elizabeth Blackwell.

The term entered historical records during European colonialism and the Age of Discovery, but societies such as China and Japan also had restrictions on marrying with peoples they considered to be of a different race.

In recent years, experimental archaeology has been featured in several television productions, such as BBC's " Building the Impossible " and the Discovery Channel's Secrets of Lost Empires.

2001: A Space Odyssey, the landmark 1968 collaboration between filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and classic science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke featured groundbreaking special effects, such as the realization of the space ship Discovery One ( pictured here )