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During his expeditions into the Libyan Desert, Bagnold had been fascinated by the shapes of the sand dunes, and after returning to England he built a wind tunnel and conducted the experiments which are the basis of the book.
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During four years he did not participate in new expeditions, occupying his time in the administration of his belongings and those of Pizarro.
During the 1830s, Audubon continued making expeditions in North America.
During the Viking age their expeditions, frequently combined raiding and trading, penetrated most of the old Frankish empire, the British Isles, The Baltic, Russia and both Muslim and Christian Iberia.
During this time period warfare broke out again between the two states and Emperor Eskender invaded Dakkar where he was stopped by a large Adalite army who destroyed the Solomonic army to such an extent that no further expeditions were carried out for the remaining of Eskender's reign.
During the long and complicated campaign against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the " army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard, whose confidential adviser was a lunatic.
During his time at the Academy, Singer made many expeditions to Siberia, the Altai Mountains, and Karelia.
During several expeditions, they discovered two major fault lines, one lying north-south, the Kerna fault, and the other lying east-west, the Delphic fault, which parallels the shore of the Corinthian Gulf.
During this time, the hospital temporarily housed animals which were brought back from expeditions for the Smithsonian Institution, because of lack of housing for the animals at the yet to be built National Zoo.
During the Apollo program in the 1960s, the Clark Telescope was used to map the moon for the lunar expeditions, enabling the mission planners to choose a safe landing site for the lunar modules.
During the 1850s a number of artists found gainful employment as draftsmen attached to expeditions sent to map the Pacific coastline and the border between California and Mexico ( as well as plot practical railroad routes ); many of the drawings were reproduced as lithographs in the expedition reports.
During the following years, the Basques south of the Pyrenees don ´ t seem to have shown much resistance to the Moorish thrust, and Pamplona may even have flourished as a launching point and centre of assembly for their expeditions to Gascony.
During his expeditions in the Sierra Nevada, Frémont became the first American to see Lake Tahoe.
During 33 expeditions with the research vessel E. W. Scripps in the years 1938-1941 he produced a detailed oceanographic dataset off the coast of California.
During one of his hunting expeditions, the Raja was puzzled to hear the wails of a child on the banks of the river Pampa, and was surprised to find a resplendent infant there.
During his studies, the teenage Dantiscus became associated with the royal court of king John I Albert of Poland, and took part in military expeditions against the Turks and the Moldavians.
During these expeditions, often in circumstances of great difficulty, Layard despatched to England the splendid specimens which now form the greater part of the collection of Assyrian antiquities in the British Museum.
During the reign of Wikramawardhana, the series of Ming armada naval expeditions led by Zheng He, a Muslim Chinese admiral, arrived in Java for several times spanned the period from 1405 to 1433.
During his travels and hunting expeditions, he visited Madras, Delhi and Nepal.
During his ministry he developed the rapprochement of France with Russia — visiting Saint Petersburg with the president, Félix Faure — and sent expeditions to delimit the French colonies in Africa.
During 1606, each company organized expeditions to establish settlements within the area of their rights.
During the Sui dynasty ( 581 – 618 ), two military expeditions were launched against the area, and it was renamed Kunzhou in Chinese sources.
During their search, both rival expeditions lose all modern equipment, and by the time they find the helmet they must try to reach Labrador's coast traveling like the Vikings did.
During the course of his expeditions Beebe gradually developed an interest in marine biology, ultimately leading to his 1930s dives in the Bathysphere off the coast of Bermuda, along with the Bathysphere's inventor Otis Barton.
During the two Zaca expeditions Beebe was accompanied by his longtime assistant John Tee-Van as well as Jocelyn Crane, a young carcinologist who had first worked for Beebe at Nonsuch Island in 1932, and who would subsequently be among Beebe's most cherished associates for the rest of his life.
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During the period of this report, 37,470 new cases were entered into the various registries.
During the discharge the magnetic forces set up by the passage of current cause the edges of the foil to roll inward toward its center line, thus allowing light to pass into the camera.
During this time 4,122,354 new members were brought into the fellowship.
During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">
During these campaigns, Lysander attempted to manipulate Agesilaus into ceding his authority.
During the impeachment trial, Representative Benjamin Butler launched an investigation into suspicious and complex activities surrounding certain Senators, whose votes would either convict or acquit President Johnson.
During this time the queen dowager, Baldwin III's widow Theodora, eloped with her cousin Andronicus to Damascus, and Acre, which had been in her possession, reverted back into the royal domain of Jerusalem.
During the Helvetic Republic ( 1798 – 1803 ), the county of Baden, the Freie Ämter and the region known as the Kelleramt were combined into the Canton of Baden.
During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).
During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".
During the sojourn in the city ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá grew from a boy into a young man.
During the 7th century, Arab armies made their way into the region of Afghanistan from Khorasan with the new religion of Islam.
During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.
During the end of the 9th century, the Samanids extended its rule from Bukhara to as far south as the Indus River and west into most of Persia.
During Ash's panicked ride back, his evil copy rises from his grave and unites the Deadites into the Army of Darkness.
During World War II, Bonn acquired military significance because of its strategic location on the Rhine River, which formed a natural barrier to easy penetration into the German heartland from the west.
During his presidency, Clinton advocated for a wide variety of legislation and programs, much of which was enacted into law or was implemented by the executive branch.
During the series, he often comes into contact with the Queen, her obsequious Lord Chamberlain Lord Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) with whom he has a rivalry, and the Queen's demented former nanny Nursie ( Patsy Byrne ).
During Celebrity Big Brother 6, LaToya Jackson was first to enter and walked straight into the bedrooms-which are usually locked until everyone has arrived-and entered a private bedroom.
During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into " New B " and then C, with the preprocessor being added in 1972 and early 1973 at the urging of Alan Snyder.
During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.
During their aerobatic demonstration, the Blues fly six F / A-18 Hornet aircraft, split into the Diamond Formation ( Blue Angels 1 through 4 ) and the Lead and Opposing Solos ( Blue Angels 5 and 6 ).
During much of the 18th century, Ouaddai resisted reincorporation into Darfur.
During any shot, any disc that falls completely into the recessed central " 20 " hole ( aka the " Toad ") is removed from play, and counts as twenty points for the owner of the disc at the end of the round, assuming the shot is valid.
During this period, the harsh rule of the Spanish loyalists, who punished suspected rebels, drove more and more Chileans into the insurrectionary camp.
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