During a voyage across the Barents Sea in search of the North East Passage in 1553, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north, and islands called Willoughby's Land were shown on maps published by Plancius and Mercator in the 1590s and they continued to appear on maps by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu into the 1640s.

During the Qing dynasty, aristocrat Manchu women wore a form of platform shoe with a separate high heel, a style that was later adopted in Europe during the 1590s.

During the 1590s he was patron of Pembroke's Men, a theatre company who were the first group to perform a number of plays including Henry VI, part 1 by William Shakespeare and The Isle of Dogs by Thomas Nashe and Ben Jonson.

During the 1590s he made frequent diplomatic trips to Rome, remaining active in the musical life there.

During the 1590s he was renowned as a teacher ; he and his brother established what is thought to be the first Italian-run public music school in Romeand many future composers studied with him and sang in his choirs, including Felice Anerio, Antonio Brunelli, Antonio Cifra and Gregorio Allegri ( composer of the famous Miserere ).

During the 1590s they went on the offensive, overwriting many decisions made by the Requests and preventing them imprisoning anyone.

During the 1920's the Abstractionists, the German Bauhaus group of industrial designers, and the new architects all had the dream of some well ordered utopia, or welfare state, in which their neat and logical constructions might find their proper place.

During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track, and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying, like leaves, in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga.

During that tournament alone, some 250,000 words winged their way out of Manchester.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

The details of the setting of `` Neutral Tones '' are not, strictly speaking, metaphorical, but they combine to create a mood which is appropriate both to a dismal winter day and to the end of love, and in this way love and weather, the emotions and the elements, symbolize each other in a way that is common to many of Hardy's best poems ( `` Weathers '', `` The Darkling Thrush '', and `` During Wind and Rain '', for example ) and to some moving passages in the novels as well ( Far From The Madding Crowd is full of scenes constructed in this way ).

During the past year, these ligands have yielded some unusual five-coordinate complexes of nickel ( 2 ) and some interesting binuclear phosphorus-bridged complexes of palladium ( 2 ) ( see figure ), as well as new compounds of the well-known type Af.

During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

) During these years, Armenia occupied some 20 % of Azerbaijan's territory, rendering possibility of supplies from Azerbaijan an impossibility.

During the Middle Ages the word artist already existed in some countries such as Italy, but the meaning was something resembling craftsman, while the word artesan was still unknown.

During the 4th century BC, there may well have been some 250, 000 – 300, 000 people in Attica.

During the period which intervened between commencing operations at Possagno and his decease, he executed or finished some of his most striking works.

During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.

During the first half of the 19th century, some of the songs African-Americans sang also began to appear in use for shipboard tasks, i. e. as shanties.

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, some of the units located in the British Mandate of Palestine were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.

During the Protestant Reformation, some of the municipalities converted to the new faith.

During its first two seasons, it was the number one program in the U. S. During its second season, it earned some of the highest ratings ever recorded for a half-hour sitcom.

During the Renaissance, it became a fad among some members of the privileged classes.

During the presidencies of Prieto and his two successors, Chile modernized through the construction of ports, railroads, and telegraph lines, some built by United States entrepreneur William Wheelwright.

During his tenure he experienced some criticism from within his own party for abandoning its traditional social democratic teachings and promoting a neoliberal economic model.

During the 19th century in the US, the length of canals grew from to over 4, 000, with a complex network making the Great Lakes navigable, in conjunction with Canada, although some canals were later drained and used as railroad rights-of-way.

During the depression years, rhinestones were even down-graded by some manufacturers to meet the cost of production.

During the period immediately after the death of Tiberius ' son, Drusus, Claudius was pushed by some quarters as a potential heir.

During the sixth century, some of the most significant names in the history of Irish Christianity studied at the Clonard monastery.

During the past year, great progress has been made by the weaving mills in creating new stretch and textured fabrics.

During the 20th century BC the Indo-European Hittites entered the region and gradually established a great empire which was destroyed by invaders in the 12th century.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

During that time he took a great part in the campaigns and negotiations which led to the Treaty of Paris in 1259, under which King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental territory to France ( including Normandy, Maine, Anjou, and Poitou ) in exchange for France withdrawing support from English rebels.

During his time in Vienna, Salieri acquired great prestige as a composer and conductor, particularly of opera, but also of chamber and sacred music.

During ancient times Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.

During the great fire, hotspots could be seen on satellite images and the haze thus created affected the surrounding countries of Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

During its 19-year run, Gwalarn tried to raise the language to the level of other great “ international ” languages by creating original works covering all genres and by proposing Breton translations of internationally-recognized foreign works.

Culture and the arts flourished, with grandiose artworks such as Along the River During the Qingming Festival and Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute, along with great Buddhist painters like the prolific Lin Tinggui.

During the Shang, fate could be manipulated by great deities, commonly translated as Gods.

During World War II and through the 1950s, high frequency (" short wave ") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication, and could be intercepted at great distances.

During the pre-Inca period, people lived in clans, which formed great tribes, some allied with each other to form powerful confederations, as the Confederation of Quito.

During the war, the Soviet Union's role was negligible, making Albania the only nation occupied during World War II whose independence was not determined by a great power.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

During a 16th-century peasant revolt in southern Norway, the rebels claimed, during their trial, that they expected the " Hun king Atle " to come from the north with a great host.

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

During the filibuster, Nehru moved swiftly and successfully to consolidate Indian power in Kashmir ( then under great unrest ).

During the band's recording sabbatical between 1975 and 1978, Moon put on a great deal of weight.

During the great bull market in gold of the 1970s, the gold Krugerrand quickly became the No. 1 choice for investors worldwide wanting to buy gold.

" During the French Revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, in his Manifesto of the Equals ( 1796 ), demanded " the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth " and looked forward to the disappearance of " the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed.

During the French Revolution, Sylvain Maréchal, in his Manifesto of the Equals ( 1796 ), demanded " the communal enjoyment of the fruits of the earth " and looked forward to the disappearance of " the revolting distinction of rich and poor, of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed.

During these disorders, the Council of State still assembled at the usual place and the " Lord President Bradshaw John Bradshaw ( judge ), who was present, though by long sickness very weak and much extenuated, yet animated by his ardent zeal and constant affection to the common cause, upon hearing Col Syndenham's justifications of the proceedings of the army in again disrupting parliament, stood up and interrupted him, declaring his abhorrence of that detestable action, and telling the council, that being now going to his God, he had not patience to sit there to hear his great name so openly blasphemed ; and thereupon departed to his lodgings, and withdrew himself from public employment.

During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

During many years of Livonian War ( 1558 – 1582 ), however, they suffered a decisive defeat by troops of Muscovite Russia in the Battle of Ergeme in 1560 and continued living under great threat.