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The wild garlic plants, Allium tricoccum, were described by LaSalle's comrade, naturalist-diarist Henri Joutel, in his journal of LaSalle's last expedition.
The Earth expedition is headed by an Israeli scientist while a leading role among the revolutionaries is played by the " Yunodins ", members of a dispersed and persecuted minority explicitly described as " The Jews of Mars ".
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado assembled an enormous expedition at Compostela in 1540 – 1542 to explore and find the mystical Seven Golden Cities of Cibola as described by Fray Marcos de Niza.
Current records at the Australian Museum show that Beazley ’ s wig, described as “ a cap composed of human hair from the headwaters of the U – at River, Central Mountains, Mandated Territory of NG ”, was lodged on 31 January 1930, presumably on his quick visit to Sydney after the first expedition.
However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.
The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.
Evidence supports that Alfred Canning had read both the Calvert and Carnegie expedition accounts to find out about the country ( which both had described as extremely difficult terrain ) and the use of Aboriginal people to find water, an example Canning followed during his own expedition.
After Cabeza de Vaca, a castaway who survived the ill-fated Narváez expedition returned to Spain, he described to the Court of Hernando de Soto that the New World was the " richest country in the world.
He was the explorer and naturalist who first described the horse in 1881, after having gone on an expedition to find it, based on rumors of its existence.
Although the sea cow had formerly been abundant throughout the North Pacific, by 1741, when it was first described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, chief naturalist on an expedition led by explorer Vitus Bering, its range had been limited to a single, isolated population surrounding the uninhabited Commander Islands.
On 19 March 1954, the Daily Mail printed an article which described expedition teams obtaining hair specimens from what was alleged to be a Yeti scalp found in Pangboche monastery.
Robert Brown described a subset of Terebintaceae called Cassuvlæ or Anacardeæ in 1818, using the herbarium that was collected by Christen Smith during a fated expedition headed by James Kingston Tuckey to explore the River Congo.
In 1980 a separate expedition led by Geoffrey Martin described and copied the reliefs from the Royal Tomb, later publishing its findings together with objects thought to have come from the tomb.
Leif approached Bjarni, purchased his ship, gathered a crew of thirty-five men, and mounted an expedition towards the land Bjarni had described.
Carl O. Sauer described Ponce de León's 1513 expedition in which he " discovered " Florida as simply " an extension of slave hunting beyond the empty islands.
Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium.
Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.
Another was described by the 2nd Zahid expedition and is 11 meters wide: this may be one of the other three originally described by Philby.
This expedition is described by Byrd in his autobiography Alone.
Although it was intended as an expedition for the zoo, Beebe described it as " our third honeymoon this year ".
Although the purpose of the expedition was to discover, identify and collect Mexico's birds, it has also been described as yet another honeymoon between him and Blair.
His six month expedition to Lapland in 1732 described about one hundred previously unknown plants.

described and sent
After the death of their mother in 1821, when Emily was three years old, the older sisters Maria, Elizabeth and Charlotte were sent to the Clergy Daughters ' School at Cowan Bridge, where they encountered abuse and privations later described by Charlotte in Jane Eyre.
In the " Journey to Brundisium ," in 37, Maecenas and Marcus Cocceius Nerva-great-grandfather of the future emperor Nerva-are described as having been sent on an important mission, and they were successful in patching up, by the Treaty of Tarentum, a reconciliation between the two claimants for supreme power.
The series depicted very little of the past described by Edison, though he did meet a female televangelist ( whom he once dated when his reporting put him at odds with the Vu Age Church that she now headed ) and a former colleague / rival who later died ( and whose death sent Edison off on close to a rampage to avenge that death ).
During the surrender negotiations, Chief Joseph sent a message, usually described as a speech, to the soldiers which is often considered one of the greatest American speeches: "... Hear me, my chiefs, I am tired.
Eri's origins are unclear, though he has been described as a " sky being " sent by Chukwu ( God ).
Frédéric Cuvier had received the specimen he described from his brother's stepson, Alfred Duvaucel, who had sent it " from the mountains north of India ".
The report described a fax sent by the Egyptian department of Foreign Affairs to the Egyptian Embassy in London, and described the existence of secret detention facilities ( black sites ) run by the CIA in Central and Eastern Europe.
Solomon is described as completing its construction, with the help of an architect, also named Hiram, and other materials, sent from King Hiram of Tyre.
A German message to Madrid sent two days later said " all reports received in the last week from German code-name undertaking < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > have been confirmed without exception and are to be described as exceptionally valuable.
Nonetheless, wild turtles continue to be caught and sent to market in large number ( as well as to turtle farms, to be used as breeding stock ), resulting in a situation described by conservationists as " the Asian turtle crisis ".
Black claimed it was a member of the Church of the SubGenius, John Hagen-Brenner, who sent him an " improvised explosive device consisting of an audio cassette holder wired with four cadmium-type batteries, four flashbulbs, and five firecrackers ", as described in the charging document filed in Federal District Court.
The fief was expected to have sent around two thousand warriors to Minas Tirith before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, but because of the threat of the Corsairs of Umbar a far smaller number arrived ; these are described in the text as " well-armed and bearing great battle-axes ".
Vanaheimr are described as having sent to Asgard their best men: Njörðr — described as wealthy — and his son Freyr in exchange for Asaland's Hœnir — described here as large, handsome, and thought of by the people of Vanaheimr well suited to be a chieftain.
The skin of the bird was sent to William Robert Ogilvie-Grant in London in 1896, who initially showed it off in a local restaurant and described the species a few weeks later.
One of the Italian correspondents, Indro Montanelli, sent home an article, in which he described the bravery and heroism of Polish soldiers, who charged German tanks with sabres and lances.
Nicot described its believed medicinal properties ( 1559 ) and sent it as a medicine to the French court.
Whatever the Constantinople relic was, it did fall into the hands of the Turks, and in 1492, under circumstances minutely described in Pastor's History of the Popes, the Sultan Bayezid II sent it to Pope Innocent VIII to encourage the pope to continue to keep his brother and rival Zizim ( Cem Sultan ) prisoner.
The Nihon Shoki described that Yamato was even strong enough to have sent an army against the powerful state of Goguryeo, which dominated the Korean Peninsula at the time.
Drummer, Chris Layton, described the ceremony as " spontaneous ", saying, " It wasn't like there was invitations sent out or a certain group of people attended — it was just whoever was there was hanging around.
In the summer of 1917 the CIGS General Robertson sent Haig a biting description of the members of the War Cabinet, who he said were all frightened of Lloyd George ; he described Curzon as " a gasbag ".
His mother died when he was five years old, and, described as a " sickly child ", he was sent to live at Cardington, Bedfordshire, some forty miles from London, where his father owned property.

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