* From 1415 to 1488, Portuguese navigators sailed along the Western African coast, reaching the Cape of Good Hope.

From 1444 to 1446, as many as forty vessels sailed from Lagos on Henry's behalf, and the first private mercantile expeditions began.

From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.

From the 8th to the 11th century, the Vikings and Varangians traded as they sailed from and to Scandinavia.

From Artemisium, the Allied fleet sailed to the island of Salamis, where the Athenian ships helped with the final evacuation of Athens.

From Cape Verde they sailed southwest across the Atlantic.

From there he sailed up to Brittany, where he led his successful attack on the royal fleet in Blavet, although he could not take the fort after a three-week siege.

From there, they sailed to the Kamchatka peninsula, preparing new ships there and sailing north ( repeating a little documented journey of Semyon Dezhnyov eighty years previously ).

From there, in 1492, a merchant fleet laden with grain and carrying ambassadors of Ivan III of Russia sailed to Denmark, marking the establishment of the first international seaport in Russia.

From the 12th century Blakeney had a reputation for acts of piracy: between 1328 and 1350 it is recorded that men of Blakeney boarded two vessels from Flanders and sailed them back to Blakeney haven, where they were stripped of their cargoes.

From February to September 1917, the boat Monegan regularly sailed to the Palestinian shore near Atlit.

From there he sailed to Wellington and resumed command of the Forest Rangers who meantime had mutinied and were refusing to embark and sail for the East Cape War.

From the Axumite Kingdom in modern-day Ethiopia, the Arab traveller Sa'd ibn Abi-Waqqas sailed from there to Tang China during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.

From Britain, he sailed to France, where he was briefly reunited with his father.

From the age of discovery onwards, European ships with pintle-and-gudgeon rudders sailed successfully on all seven seas.

From Naupactus, Sulpicius sailed east to Corinth and Sicyon, conducting raids there.

From Calicut the expedition sailed to the Kingdom of Cochin, another Indian city-state, where Cabral befriended its ruler and loaded his ships with coveted spices before returning to Europe.

From mediæval times, Chepstow was the largest port in Wales ; its ships sailed as far as Iceland and Turkey, as well as to France and Portugal, and the town was known for its imports of wine.

From Agrigento the party headed for Licata, where they sailed for Malta and Valletta returning on 2 June, to Syracuse, Sicily.

From Bruttium Mago sailed to Carthage, leaving Hanno the Elder in command of the Carthaginian garrison.

From Güiria in the Paria Peninsula he sailed west to Caracas and the port of La Guaira and returned eastward by an inland route, in order to study the conditions in the interior of the country.

From there he sailed back to Europe in 1537.

From the Cape of Good Hope the Jardiniere sailed across the Indian Ocean to the coast of New Holland ( Australia ) but two consecutive cyclones prevented the expedition from doing any work there and forced Baudin to take the ship to Bombay for repairs.

From 1596 to 1597, Davis seems to have sailed with Raleigh as master of Sir Walter's own ship to Cádiz and the Azores ; from 1598 to 1600, he accompanied a Dutch expedition to the East Indies as pilot, sailing from Flushing and returning to Middleburg, while carefully charting and recording geographical details.

From there, after having replenished the water supply on 5 August, they sailed east and soon came near the mainland at the Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska.

The music video for the single " From a Distance " off of the Bicycles & Tricycles album by ambient house act, The Orb revolves around Doraemon.

Eppig, Fincher, and Thornhill ( 2009 ) argue that " From an energetics standpoint, a developing human will have difficulty building a brain and fighting off infectious diseases at the same time, as both are very metabolically costly tasks " and that " the Flynn effect may be caused in part by the decrease in the intensity of infectious diseases as nations develop.

From Allsopp Point the road followed the existing road towards Bartica and branched off from Bartica going to Teperu in the lower reaches on the Mazaruni River.

From about 1790 textiles became the most important industry in the west of Scotland, especially the spinning and weaving of cotton, which flourished until in 1861 the American Civil War cut off the supplies of raw cotton.

From the south his magister peditum Barbatio was to come from Milan and amass forces at Augst ( near the Rhine bend ), then set off north with 25, 000 soldiers ; Julian with 13, 000 troops would move east from Durocortorum ( Reims ).

His theatre career took off in January 1965, playing Rodolfo in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge in an Off-Broadway revival.

From this time his scientific studies dropped off, but he was a profound influence on the American branches of his two fields, teaching decades worth of future prominent scientists, including Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Joel Asaph Allen, Joseph Le Conte, Ernest Ingersoll, William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Alpheus Packard, and his son Alexander Agassiz, among others.

From Nkhotakota, the slaves were transported in caravans of no less than 500 slaves to the small island of Kilwa Kisiwani off the coast of modern day Tanzania.

From 8: 57 to 9: 00 pm, every neon sign and every lightbulb was turned off and all traffic was halted between 42nd Street and 53rd Street, and between 8th Ave and the Avenue of the Americas.

From the upper rim of the receptacle are given off the five sepals, the five petals, and the very numerous stamens.

From off stage would come the sound of a gunshot.

From this point on, Wagner finished each act and sent it off for engraving before he started on the next-a remarkable feat given the unprecedented length and complexity of the score.

From there, a combination of the unhealthy Italian summer and the effects of his year long absence from Germany meant he was forced to put off his planned campaign against the Normans of Sicily.

" From then on, whenever he started off to school or began homework, he fainted.

From all accounts, the invading forces were caught entirely off guard to find a large force, well disposed and prepared for battle, with high ground, directly opposing their attack on Tours.

From August until October Psyche performed in 5 different cities in Australia, followed by Auckland, New Zealand, their original home country of Canada, a one off concert at The Knitting Factory in New York, and finally two festivals in South Africa.

From various " jumping off points " in Missouri, Iowa or Nebraska Territory, the routes converged along the lower Platte River Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebraska Territory and led to rich farmlands west of the Rocky Mountains.

From May 27 to July 25, 1933, he got at least one hit in a PCL-record 61 consecutive games: " Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak.

* discoveryisland. ca-Discovery Island a small island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off of Victoria BC Canada with a rich history From first nations to early settlers to present times.

From February 29 – May 18, 2008, many Looney Tunes artifacts, including original animation cells & concept drawings, were on display at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, just off the campus of Youngstown State University.

From a legal standpoint Nasser had the right to nationalize the canal as long as he paid off its shareholders.

From 1948 until 2004, Oldsmobile used a variety of logos employing a rocket theme that played off its Rocket line of V-8 engines.

Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa ( 1896 ) reported that " if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever ".

From the mid-1980s onward, some Awá moved to government-established settlements, but for the most part they were able to maintain their traditional way of life, living entirely off their forests, in nomadic groups of a few dozen people, with little or no contact with the outside world.

From the perspective of groundwater, fumaroles could be described as a hot spring that boils off all its water before the water reaches the surface.