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" From the steamboat, through a glass ( telescope ) Marlow can observe details of the station, and is surprised suddenly to see near the station house a row of posts with decapitated heads of natives mounted atop of each.
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From and steamboat
From there he went by steamboat to " Quaker City " ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York ; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.
From 1880 to 1885, as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad was under construction, active steamboat riverports like Wittsburg, Arkansas, at that time the county seat of Cross County, were deserted for the railroads.
From there, coal was carried by steamboat to towns throughout the Midwest.
From Buffalo they took passage over the lakes on board a steamboat named Wisconsin, the name possibly being the means of drawing them to that particular boat ; for that state was their " promised land.
From 1828 there was a steamboat service, operated by Thomas Grahame's boat Cupid.
From St. Louis they then boarded a steamboat for Galena, Illinois.
From St. Petersburg he went on a steamboat to London where he gave further concerts.
From the steamboat landing on the Missouri, the trail went north up the Cow Creek bottom for miles to Davidson Coulee, at which time the trail turned west and climbed up a long steep grade on Davidson Ridge to reach the plains north of the Missouri River Breaks.
From 1836 to 1855 Cass organized a steamboat line and a stagecoach line.
From there they sailed for ten days upriver to Louisville on the Martha Washington steamboat, arriving at Gethsemani on December 21, 1848.
From 1836 to about 1845, Brown made his home in Buffalo, New York, where he worked as a steamboat man on Lake Erie.
The group travel by train and then by steamboat, amazed at how wide America is (" From New York to Stillwater ").
From and through
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
From 1 July 1960 through 31 January 1961, six courses were conducted: Workshop in Resident Training in Pathology, Pathology of Diseases of Laboratory Animals, Application of Histochemistry of Pathology, Orthopedic Pathology, Forensic Sciences Symposium, and Forensic Pathology.
From all this we can now see that two streams of development run through the history of twentieth-century American folklore.
From the mid 1980s, Algerian cinema began to go through a long period of lethargy where major productions became rare.
From its beginnings in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, anthropology in the United States was influenced by the presence of Native American societies.
From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.
From the upper end of the lake the river issues through the Nidau-Büren channel and then runs east to Büren.
From there we see Jesus ' ministry move from Galilee ( chapters 4 – 9 ), through Samaria and Judea ( chs.
From the start of the war, Massoud's mujahideen proved to be a thorn in the side for the occupying Soviet forces by ambushing Soviet and Afghan communist convoys travelling through the Salang Pass, resulting in fuel shortages in Kabul .< ref name =" Iyer ">
From the 1960s through the 1980s, " by far the most significant developments in the design and construction of acoustic guitars " were made by the Ovation Guitar Company.
From time immemorial, they have acted as guides to caravans through the Nubian desert and up the Nile valley as far as Sennar.
From him it has descended continuously, through fifteen individuals, the title being increased to an Earldom in 1784 ; and in 1876 William Nevill 5th Earl ( b. 1826 ), ( d. 1915 ) an indefatigable and powerful supporter of the Tory Party, was created 1st Marquess of Abergavenny.
From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.
From Russian arrival in the Aleutian Islands in 1786 through the mid-19th century, the Russians invaded and enslaved the natives, and many of the Aleut customs disappeared.
From November 27, 2000 through December 27, 2000, Haznawi was in Saudi Arabia for Ramadan.
From 1946 through 1985, the army was divided into four numbered armies: the First Army was centered in Rio de Janeiro, the Second Army in São Paulo, the Third Army in Porto Alegre, and the Fourth Army in Recife.
From 1947 through 1956, each BBWAA voter used discretion as to who qualified as a rookie.
From these postulates stems the belief that God periodically reveals his will through divine messengers, whose purpose is to transform the character of humankind and develop, within those who respond, moral and spiritual qualities.
From May through September, the weather is warm and sunny.
From the northern shore of Manhattan, Broadway crosses Spuyten Duyvil Creek via the Broadway Bridge and continues through Marble Hill ( a discontinuous portion of the borough of Manhattan ) and the Bronx into Westchester County.
From the 2000s on, Central Europe has been going through a phase of " strategic awakening ", with initiatives like the CEI, Centrope or V4.
From its origins near the city of Sarh, the middle course of the Chari makes its way through swampy terrain ; the lower Chari is joined by the Logone River near N ' Djamena.
From independence through the period of the presidency of Félix Malloum ( 1975 – 79 ), the official national army was known as the Chadian Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Tchadiennes — FAT ).
From Kampong Cham the gradient slopes very gently, and inundation of areas along the river occurs at flood stage — June through November — through breaks in the natural levees that have built up along its course.
From and glass
From the curio cabinet on its south wall and the bureaus beneath, you abstracted seventeen ivory, metal, wood, and stone sculptures of Oriental and African origin, two snuffboxes, and a jade-handled magnifying glass.
From the 19th century, various types of fancy glass started to become significant branches of the decorative arts.
From the 20th century, some glass artists began to class themselves as in effect sculptors working in glass, and as part of the fine arts.
From the beginning of heraldry, coats of arms have been executed in a wide variety of media, including on paper, painted wood, embroidery, enamel, stonework and stained glass.
From a stained glass window in St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne.
From the 18th century the town culture was strongly influenced by the glass industry and the timber industry.
From the opposite side a thin, hollow glass micropipette is used to collect a single sperm, having immobilised it by cutting its tail with the point of the micropipette.
From 22 – 27 April 2010, the Salk Institute hosted glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly to celebrate 50 years of its inception.
From various documentary references glassmaking and glass trading seems to have been a speciality of the Jewish minority in several centres.
From the 12th century the industry in Persia and Mesopotamia appears to decline, and the main production of luxury glass shifts to Egypt and Syria, and decorative effects of colour on smooth surfaced glass.
From archeological evidence, which includes Roman, Chinese, and Indian goods excavated at the ancient mercantile center of Oc Eo Óc Eo, meaning " glass canal " in southern Vietnam, we know that Funan must have been a powerful trading state.
From the eleventh century the Tree of Jesse has been portrayed in religious illuminations, manuscripts, wall paintings, wood and stone carvings ( including a grave marker ), stained glass windows, floor tiles and embroidery.
From the Chinese they bought the porcelain pieces and glass beads which now form part of the Isneg ’ s priceless heirlooms.
From the early 1920s, a continuous ribbon of plate glass was passed through a lengthy series of inline grinders and polishers, reducing glass losses and cost.
From the Renaissance onwards, elaborate variations on the Green Man theme, often with animal heads rather than human faces, appear in many media other than carvings ( including manuscripts, metalwork, bookplates, and stained glass ).
From a spray can, lipstick, a diamond on glass to a stick in the sand, one can then clearly decide upon which alternative solution is most appropriate.
O ' Hara, the scientist performing the experiment said, " From the view point of the vitamin content of the two vegetables when they were ready for the plate of the consumer, there did not appear to be any marked advantages attributable to method of preservation, frozen storage, processed in a tin, or processed in glass.
From the encyclopedia, he learnt how to make glass, and then magnets, thermometers, cameras and telescopes.
From a stained glass in the Lady Chapel At Gloucester Cathedral.
From May 1975 overdrive and tinted glass were fitted as standard.
< http :// www. ecomii. com / ecopedia / cradle-to-cradle >.</ ref > From the recycling process originate new, identical products ( e. g., asphalt pavement from discarded asphalt pavement, glass bottles from collected glass bottles ), or different products ( e. g., glass wool insulation from collected glass bottles ).
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