In 1729, Konščak left for Cádiz in Spain, then went to North America, where he was active as a missionary on New Spain's Baja California peninsula ( today part of Mexico ), from 1732 to the end of his life.

Jesuit missionary-explorers in Baja California who attempted to lay the issue finally to rest included Juan de Ugarte ( 1721 ), Ferdinand Konščak ( 1746 ), and Wenceslaus Linck ( 1766 ).

On the basis of the data obtained, Konščak made a precise map of Baja California ( 1748 ) and a map of the Gulf of California ( around 1750 ).

Ferdinand Konščak ( variously also Fernando Consag, Konsag, Konschak, etc.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

The newly discovered structure within atoms tempted many to imagine how the atom's constituent parts might interact with each other.

The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

In particular many of the basic spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques were discovered in the early 20th century and refined in the late 20th century.

Forgotten for many years, the grave was discovered in 1897 and the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes, had it restored.

Cuyp ” insignia, many paintings were left unsigned ( not to mention undated ) after being painted, and so a similar signature was added later on, presumably by collectors who inherited / discovered the works.

There may be many novel cures for diseases provided by plants, waiting to be discovered.

Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

In 2004, the government discovered that many of the soldiers it was paying did not exist and that there were only about 19, 000 soldiers in the army, as opposed to the 24, 000 that had been previously believed.

After gold was discovered and became a precious metal, many people were interested to find a method that could convert other substances into gold.

Alchemists discovered many chemical processes that led to the development of modern chemistry.

One of Claudius's investigators discovered that many old Roman citizens based in the modern city of Trento were not in fact citizens.

Cox's Cave, discovered in 1837, is smaller but contains many intricate formations.

Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids ; he also called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects.

Since then, many other drugs have been developed to treat cancer, and drug development has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry, although the principles and limitations of chemotherapy discovered by the early researchers still apply.

The inadvertent destruction of many of these eggs by a human mining colony led the mother Horta to respond by killing the colonists and sabotaging their equipment ; it was only through a Vulcan mind meld that the race's benevolence and intelligence were discovered and peaceful relations established.

However, many readers recognized Barks ' work and drawing style, and began to call him the Good Duck Artist, a label which stuck even after his true identity was discovered by fans in the late 1950s.

As many early cable car operators discovered the hard way, if the grip is not applied properly, it can damage the cable, or even worse, become entangled in the cable.

Although this space was discovered recently, and contains no identifying marks, many Christians believe it to be the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea in which the Syriac Orthodox celebrate their Liturgy on Sundays.

Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.

With the heavy use and resulting scrutiny of its open-source code, as well as increasingly more sophisticated attack methods, many security flaws were discovered in BIND.

Since the great majority of people who first attempted to transcribe Chinese were not linguists ( and even if they were, the principles of modern phonemics were not discovered for another two centuries ), their endeavour was marred by a lack of systematic approach and many contemporary European misconceptions about language.

In the 1840s Ludwig Leichhardt discovered many Diprotodon bones eroding from the banks of creeks in the Darling Downs of Queensland and when reporting the find to Owen commented that the remains were so well preserved he expected to find living examples in the then unexplored central regions of Australia.

Music commented that Jones's death " hit so many people so hard " because " Monkees nostalgia cuts across generations: from the people who discovered the band during their original 1960s run ; to the kids who came of age watching 1970s reruns ; to the twenty-and thirtysomethings who discovered the Monkees when MTV ( a network that owes much to the Monkees ' influence ) began airing old episodes in 1986.

An additional line of reasoning in support of particle theory ( and by extension atomic theory ) began in 1827 when botanist Robert Brown used a microscope to look at dust grains floating in water and discovered that they moved about erratically — a phenomenon that became known as " Brownian motion ".

In 1895, Vincenzo Tiberio, physician of the University of Naples discovered that a mold ( Penicillium ) in a water well has an antibacterial action.

Lavoisier discovered that Henry Cavendish's " inflammable air ," which Lavoisier had termed hydrogen ( Greek for " water-former "), combined with oxygen to produce a dew which, as Joseph Priestley had reported, appeared to be water.

Concrete additives have been used since Roman and Egyptian times, when it was discovered that adding volcanic ash to the mix allowed it to set under water.

In another episode, " Home Soil ", intelligent crystals that formed a " microbrain " were discovered during a terraforming mission, and they described the humans they encountered as " ugly bags of mostly water.

That water could be decomposed by the current from a voltaic pile was discovered by Nicholson and Carlisle in 1800, a process now known as electrolysis.

) It was also discovered that if the paste was rolled into balls before drying the resulting gunpowder absorbed less water from the air during storage and traveled better.

Researchers discovered in the 18th century that plants absorb essential mineral nutrients as inorganic ions in water.

On 19 March 2009, several buildings in Shoreditch, East London, were evacuated after water company workers discovered a replica of the Holy Hand Grenade under a fire hydrant cover.

Two interesting experiments were devised by Newton to demonstrate how these forces could be discovered, thereby revealing to an observer that they were not in an inertial frame: the example of the tension in the cord linking two spheres rotating about their center of gravity, and the example of the curvature of the surface of water in a rotating bucket.

For example, semantic externalists maintain that the word " water " referred to the substance whose chemical composition is H < sub > 2 </ sub > O even before scientists had discovered that chemical composition.

In 1759, Lind discovered that the steam of heated salt water was fresh.

I thought my horse was about to die, and would have sprung from his back had a minute more elapsed ; but as that instant all the shrubs and trees began to move from their very roots, the ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled water of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas, as I too plainly discovered, that all this awful commotion was the result of an earthquake.

* Offshore: A third population of killer whales in the northeast Pacific was discovered in 1988, when a humpback whale researcher observed them in open water.

When he looked into a pool of water he also discovered that he now had a very handsome face.

In 1972 a team of zoologists from Yorkshire's Flamingo Park Zoo had gone out in search of the legendary monster and soon discovered a large body floating in the water.

The Latin leaders accompanied Tarquin to Turnus ' lodging and, the swords then being discovered, Turnus ' guilt was then speedily inferred, and he was condemned and was thrown into a pool of water in the grove, and a wooden frame (" cratis ") placed over his head, into which stones were thrown, thereby drowning him.

He apparently lost a fight to Superman so that water could be transported to the desert planet, as he had reactivated digging machines but discovered he could not find water.

An elaborate system of eighteen canals brought water from the hills to Nineveh, and several sections of a magnificently constructed aqueduct erected by Sennacherib were discovered at Jerwan, about distant.

Pipes with running water and water closets found at Akrotiri are the oldest such utilities discovered.

* William Henry, a pioneer in the scientific chemical industry, discovered Henry's Law of solubility of gas in water

They also discovered that Cambodia's draft water law was much more complex than it needed to be.

In 1955 using an aqualung and swimming with fins, Bob Davies reached the bottom of Chamber 11 at depth in clear water and discovered the 12th and 13th Chambers.