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In search for an alternate route to California through Santa Fe, New Mexico, Josiah Gregg ( 1840 ), and Caprain Randolph B. Marcy ( 1845 ) surveyed trails that crossed Hemphill County, following the south bank of the Canadian River.
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The guerrillas began a frantic search for pails in which to bring water from the spring.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.
This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights.
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
Solving astronomical problems requires, for Copernicus, not a random search of unrelated tables, but a regular employment of the rules defining the entire discipline.
`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.
The second timely part of this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary works and the ephemeral mass culture products of today.
I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
Woodruff said nothing, and Pike, frustrated, stormed throughout Little Rock in an unsuccessful search for `` Vale '', asking his friends to keep their ears open.
Impartiality to him meant an unwillingness to generalize and to search for a synthesis.
In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.
Speaking in terms of sociological stereotype, the `` private eye '' might appeal to the poet in search of a myth for many reasons.
In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.
National defense, like the continuing search for peace with freedom and justice for all, is `` everybody's business ''.
The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.
therefore, only with precise foreknowledge of the line frequencies is an astronomical search for the radio spectra of these molecules feasible.
The piano performance on this Trout is one that really demands a search for superlatives.
At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.
The action centers about a group of outspoken and offbeat students sitting around a table in a cafeteria and their collective and ultimately fruitless search for a cup of hot coffee.
Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.
Quasimodo defines his own art as `` the search for what is not there ''.
search and alternate
By that time, the college leadership had begun a search for alternate locations that were closer to urban areas.
A search for a shorter actor as an alternate resulted in Henry Winkler landing the role.
In response to the increasing American emphasis on radar-evading stealth designs, Russia turned to alternate sensors, with emphasis on infra-red search and track ( IRST ) sensors, first introduced on the American F-101 Voodoo and F-102 Delta Dagger fighters in the 1960s, for detection and tracking of airborne targets.
Often, great pains are taken to search out alternate material in film archives around the World.
The closing of the traditional trade routes in western Asia by the Ottoman Empire and rivalry with the Italian states sent Portugal in search of an alternate sea route to India.
* The appearance of a second Ravage figure may have had its roots in the search for a more conventional alternate mode for the original Generation 1 Ravage.
Black Bolt's search for a new site for the city of Attilan ( eventually the Himalayas ) is detailed in a back-up feature of the alternate universe title What If, is rated with other powerful Marvel characters by Spider-Man in an " out of universe " conversation with the reader and another back-up feature in the title What If?
Google X, alternate interface to Google search
OurColony is a search opera type alternate reality game and a viral marketing campaign for the marketing of a successor to the Microsoft Xbox.
( In the alternate storyline, he goes in search of his sister, Anna, in the fallen Kingdom of Raxis.
( In the alternate storyline, Anna goes with Vilherm to Saldo in search of the sword Azoz.
An in-house indexing system provides search capability, and is aware of biological and medical terminology, such as generic vs. proprietary drug names, and alternate names for organisms, diseases and anatomical parts.
search and route
Travellers through very remote areas should always inform a reliable person of their route and expected destination arrival time, and remember that a vehicle is much easier to locate in an aerial search, than a person, so in the event of a breakdown, they must not leave their vehicle.
Cabeza de Vaca tried to placate his enemies by launching an expedition into the Chaco in search of a route to Peru.
Structured P2P networks employ a globally consistent protocol to ensure that any node can efficiently route a search to some peer that has the desired file / resource, even if the resource is extremely rare.
He continued to search for a more practical route through the Sierras suitable for a railroad.
The return of the British force to Boston following the search operations at Concord was subject to constant skirmishing, using partisan forces gathered from communities all along the route, making maximum use of the terrain ( particularly trees and stone field walls ) to overcome the limitations of their weapons-muskets with an effective range of only about 50 – 70 metres.
King Henry VII commissioned John Cabot to lead a voyage to find a northern route to the Spice Islands of Asia ; this began the search for the North West Passage.
Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante were two Spanish priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.
The 2009 History Channel series, Expedition Africa, documents a group of explorers attempting to traverse the route of Stanley's expedition in search of Livingstone.
Portugal took an early lead charting the route around the southern tip of Africa, securing bases and outposts en route, even discovering the coast of Brazil in the search for favourable southerly currents.
In search of more permanent employment, Shackleton applied for a regular commission in the Royal Navy, via the back-door route of the Supplementary List, but despite the sponsorship of Markham and of the president of the Royal Society he was not successful.
As early as 1560 or 1561, Frobisher had formed a resolution to undertake a voyage in search of a Northwest Passage as a trade route to India and China ( referred to at that time as Cathay ).
In 1856, an expedition in search of a route across Vancouver Island was at the mouth of the Qualicum River when they observed a large fleet of Haida canoes approaching and hid in the forest.
John Pope was sent to scout out a railroad route, and in the succeeding year to search for artesian water supplies.
In 1687 the second expedition of Alonso De León in search of Fort St. Louis also followed the river route.
John Pope was sent to scout out a railroad route, and in the succeeding year to search for artesian water supplies.
Other important applications of computational geometry include robotics ( motion planning and visibility problems ), geographic information systems ( GIS ) ( geometrical location and search, route planning ), integrated circuit design ( IC geometry design and verification ), computer-aided engineering ( CAE ) ( mesh generation ), computer vision ( 3D reconstruction ).
The search for water for the Northam-Southern Cross route was initiated by O ' Connor.
* 1493-Spain and the New World: Queen Isabella I worries that Christoper Columbus, who set out eight months earlier in search of a westward sea route to China, has been swallowed by the sea and informs the player and Rock to search for Columbus.
* Jerzy Żuławski's classic trilogy of novels The Lunar Trilogy are set in the 27th Century in which a race of moon dwarves search for a route back to Earth through spiritual enlightenment.
Initially, a search returns few results, but one can set up " clusters " based on certain keywords, and over time, your client will learn the best route to obtain the information sought.
The monument features a depiction of Kit Carson and marks the end of the Smoky Hill Trail, a popular route to Colorado taken by frontiers in search of gold located near the Smoky Hill River.
Lewis and Clark Expedition | Lewis and Clark ascended the Jefferson River in 1805 in their search for a navigable water route to the Pacific.
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