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On and voyage
On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.
On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.
The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.
" On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825.
On Columbus second voyage in 1493 the colony of " La Española " was founded and administered from the new settlement of La Isabela which was established on the north coast.
On April 30, 1494, Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, arrived and spent the night.
On a second voyage, he probably proceeded past the present site of Yuma, Arizona.
On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.
On the insistence of senior officers, led by Rear Admiral Alan Gardner, in 1794 lemon juice was issued on board the Suffolk on a twenty-three week, non-stop voyage to India.
On the return voyage, the Ripley made a stop at St. George's, Newfoundland, and Audubon and his assistants documented 36 species of birds.
On their voyage around the Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, their canoe became stranded on a reef and tilted.
On the home voyage, after Solís ' death, one of the vessels was wrecked off Santa Catarina Island near the Brazilian coast.
* On 27 December 1831, set off from anchorage in the Barn Pool, under Mount Edgecumbe on the west side of Plymouth Sound, on her second survey voyage, captained by Robert FitzRoy with Charles Darwin on board.
On the sea voyage home in 1832, Morse encountered Charles Thomas Jackson of Boston, a man who was well schooled in electromagnetism.
* 303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
On 22 August 1770, James Cook discovered the eastern coast of Australia while on a scientific voyage to the South Pacific.
On his return, he meets and marries Gudrid, one of the survivors from a ship which has made land at Herjolfsnes after a difficult voyage from Iceland.
* July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
On the voyage to Africa, they became acquainted with an English woman named Ruth Bailey, who joined their safari a few weeks later.
On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.
* September 25 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
On 28 July he escaped from the island in a fishing-boat, and after an adventurous voyage he reached
On his second voyage, Vasco da Gama inflicted acts of cruelty upon competing traders and local inhabitants, which sealed his notoriety in India.
On this voyage, Bylot proved that Hudson Strait was not a shipping route to Asia.

On and underworld
On Pirithous ' behalf they travelled to the underworld, domain of Persephone and her husband, Hades.
On the left was the god of the underworld, Peckols – an old man with white beard and white scarf on his head.
On August 24, October 5 and November 8, it was opened with the official announcement " mundus patet " (" the mundus is open "), and offerings were made there to agricultural or underworld deities, including Ceres as goddess of the fruitful earth and guardian of its underworld portals.
On November 14, 1957, the heads of the American Mafia held the Apalachin Meeting at the home of Joseph Barbara, a conference of mobsters who had gathered to iron out various issues in the underworld.
On May 2, 1957, Vito Genovese ordered Gigante to murder Genovese family Boss Frank Costello, a close friend of Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky and one of the best-known underworld figures in the United States.
On the other hand, Bulgaria's post-transition political, business, military, academic and artistic elites, as well as Bulgaria's large and active organised crime underworld, comprised almost entirely the scions of Communist eminenti who rose to prominence during Zhivkov's long rule.
On the other hand, the places reserved for Veles, the god of underworld and cattle, were in lowlands near rivers or springs.
On the same night, however, Jarilo was stolen from his father and taken to the world of the dead, where he was adopted and raised by Veles, Perun's enemy, Slavic god of the underworld and cattle.
On the banks of the river of the underworld, she rakes up first Lemminkäinen's tunic and shoes, and then, his maimed and broken body.
On February 21, Armand Bois, the former interim leader, was expelled from the party for saying at the February 4 leadership convention that Yvon Dupuis ’ s entourage included members of the Montreal underworld.
On March 9, 2004, a special court asked Roy to look into a complaint against " encounter specialist " Daya Nayak for his alleged underworld links and decide whether to sanction prosecution under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act.
On television, the series Sons of Anarchy portrays a multiracial outlaw motorcycle club, founded mainly by Vietnam War veterans, which is involved in various crimes, its interactions within their community and with underworld gangs.
One critic noted “ On the surface, Cleopatra Jones is about a black distaff James Bond who drives a fancy car equipped with a submachine gun in the door, wears smart clothes, is a karate expert, and travels all over the world as a United States secret agent, destroying the poppy wherever it is found .” Another critic, Chris Norton, even suggested, “ Like Bond, Cleo is not a stealthy character who tries to infiltrate the underworld by losing her identity … Bond seldom tried to hide his identity, often using his real name during introductions, and all Bond films rely on his being recognized as 007 .” Likewise, Jones is rarely undercover, and is flashy and flamboyant on tbe job.

On and Odysseus
We possess two declamations under his name: On Sophists, directed against Isocrates and setting forth the superiority of extempore over written speeches ( a more recently discovered fragment of another speech against Isocrates is probably of later date ); Odysseus ( perhaps spurious ) in which Odysseus accuses Palamedes of treachery during the siege of Troy
On hearing of this, Odysseus died of grief.
On the next outflow of water, his raft was expelled, and Odysseus was able to recover it and paddle away to safety.
On the island of Thrinacia, Odysseus ' men ate the cattle sacred to the sun-god Helios.
On their way to the Trojan camp, Diomedes and Odysseus discovered Dolon approaching the Achaean camp.
On further questioning, Diomedes and Odysseus learnt that among the various allies, Thracians were the most vulnerable for they had come last and were sleeping apart from the others at the far end of the camp.
On being pushed to explain himself, Odysseus spins a distorted tale, misleading Eumaeus into believing that he is the son not of Laertes but of Castor.
On seeing the unkempt Odysseus in this state, the maids run away, but Nausikaa, encouraged by Athena, stands her ground and talks to him.
On his way to the palace, Odysseus meets Athena disguised as a little local girl.
The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris ( a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites ), and On the Malice of Herodotus ( which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise ), in which Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work ; along with more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs.
: Doctors On Call with Dr. Odysseus Argy, The Job Show, Adler Online with Charles Adler, Consider This with Ted O ' Brien and Delores Handy, and some children's programming on weekends ( Lil ' Iguana, The Story Shop, etc.
On November 4, 2011 Colombian forces successfully attacked a FARC base in the jungle of the Cacua Department during " Operation Odysseus " killing FARC leader Alfonso Cano.

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