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Asia extends towards the Orient as far as the rising sun (" devers le souleil levant " levant, devers midi elle fine a la grant mer devers occident elle fine a notre mer, et devers septentrion elle fine aux paluz Meotides et au fleuve appellé Thanaus ; Laurent de Premierfait's expanded translation of Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ( 1409 ), quoted in Patricia M. Gathercole, " Laurent de Premierfait: The Translator of Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium " The French Review 27. 4 ( February 1954: 245-252 ) p. 249 .</ ref >

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

The presence of three Greek loanwords that only occur in Daniel chapter 3, have supporters of a late date say that Daniel had to have been written after Alexander the Great ’ s conquest of the Orient, from 330 BCE.

In 1908-1910, Harvard ’ s Committee on Exploration in the Orient conducted an expedition to excavate the site of Samaria-Sebaste.

Under Nelson ’ s command, Ball took part in the Battle of the Nile, and his ship, the Alexander, was the second British ship to fire on the French Admiral's flagship, L ’ Orient, which later blew up during the battle.

* Alex Otterlei ’ s “ Horror on the Orient Express ” is inspired by the Call of Cthulhu RPG.

Orient Thai Airlines was Asia ’ s first international charter operator.

Orient Thai Airlines and its now now-defunct wholly owned domestic carrier One-Two-GO Airlines are the only Thai airlines to bear a Royal Seal, made possible due to Udom ’ s close relationship with the King of Thailand based on Udom ’ s history of breaking traditional commercial barriers for Thailand.

Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ), a freelance Venetian explorer, was contracted by England ’ s Henry VII to find new lands, and a sea route to the Orient.

Neptune Orient Lines started in December 1968 as Singapore ’ s national shipping line.

Regarded as his greatest Sydney painting, ‘ Departure of the Orient – Circular Quay ’ was the culmination of Conder ’ s new mastery of form and brushwork.

* The Adventurer ’ s Express was renamed The Orient Express.

On October 4, 1883, the first voyage of the Orient Express departed from Gare de l ' Est in Paris, France, with farewell music from Mozart ’ s Turkish March.

His wife, Giselle Khoury, and a group of Kassir ’ s friends, students and colleagues from l ' Orient Express, including writer Elias Khoury, created the Samir Kassir Foundation.

" Reviewer Chris Searle defended accusations against Atzmon ’ s " crude anti-zionist rhetoric ,” writing “ No jazz musicians have done more to honour, publicise and spread solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinians than Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble .” John Mearsheimer has defended Atzmon, writing with regard to the charge that Atzmon is anti-semitic, " to be perfectly clear, he has no animus toward Judaism as a religion or with individuals who are Jewish by birth.

The Legion of Doom / Orient Express feud was extremely onesided due to the Legion of Doom ’ s massive size advantage.

* Malgoankar, Manohar ; Devil ’ s Wind, Orient Paperbacks, New Delhi, 1972

The Legion of Doom / Orient Express feud was extremely onesided due to the Legion of Doom ’ s massive size advantage.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

* Luc-Julien-Joseph Casabianca, a French Navy officer who was lost with his ship, L ' Orient rather than be captured at the Abukir.

One of the best known poems about the battle is Casabianca, which was written by Felicia Dorothea Hemans in 1826 and describes a fictional account of the death of Captain Casabianca's son on Orient.

In 1798, Casabianca captained the Orient, the flagship of the French fleet which carried Napoleon Bonaparte and his army to Egypt.

The French ships were spaced at intervals of and the whole line was long, with the flagship Orient at the centre and two large 80-gun ships anchored either side.

Nelson's plan, shaped through discussion with his senior captains during the return voyage to Alexandria, was to advance on the French and pass down the seaward side of the van and centre of the French line, so that each French ship would face two British ships and the massive Orient would be fighting against three.

The French suffered too: Admiral Brueys on Orient was severely wounded in the face and hand by flying debris during the opening exchange of fire with Bellerophon.

To the south, Bellerophon was in serious trouble as the huge broadside of Orient pounded the ship.

At 21: 00, a fire was observed on the lower decks of the Orient.

At 22: 00 the fire reached the magazines and the Orient was almost completely destroyed by a massive explosion.

It is likely that these were part of the treasure taken from Malta that was lost in the explosion aboard Orient.

During the Viking Age, Birka ( Birca in medieval sources ), on the island of Björkö ( literally: " Birch Island ") in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient.

Marco Polo was not the first Westerner to travel to the Orient and return with amazing stories of this different culture, but his accounts published in the late 13th and early 14th centuries were the first to be widely read throughout Europe.

His goal was to find reasons for the different development paths of the cultures of the Occident and the Orient, although without judging or valuing them, like some of the contemporary thinkers who followed the social Darwinist paradigm ; Weber wanted primarily to explain the distinctive elements of the Western civilisation.

Between 1948 – 1950, the headquarters of the United Nations Reliefs and Works Agency ( UNRWA ) was located there and two years later, its owner turned it into a luxury hotel called " The New Orient House ".

When Ehud Olmert was serving in his post as Mayor of Jerusalem, he led efforts to protest against the way Orient House was functioning, refusing to meet with Faisal Husseini and demanding that Orient House pay 300, 000 USD in municipal taxes.

Husseini refused the request, stating that Orient House, as a diplomatic institution, was exempt.

Two days after the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing, the Israeli cabinet voted to close the Orient House, and the building was raided by Israeli security forces.

Cabot was sailing to the Orient in 1526 when he heard of García's exploits.

Similar cults of resurrected gods appear in the Orient in the cults of Attis, Adonis and Osiris, In Minoan Crete, the " divine child " was related with the female vegetation divinity Ariadne who died every year.

However it was not produced outside of the Orient until 1709 in Germany.

Vostok 1 (, East 1 or Orient 1 ) was the first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history.

" His doctoral thesis argues against oriental immigration, summed up in the following comments from an earlier 1908 report King authored while he was Deputy-Minister of Labour: " That Canada should desire to restrict immigration from the Orient is regarded as natural, that Canada should remain a white man's country is believed to be not only desirable for economic and social reasons but highly necessary on political and national grounds.

In the Russian and Western literatures of the 19th century, the image of Queen Tamar reflected the European conceptions of the Orient – of which Georgia was perceived as a part – and the position and characteristics of women in it.