Their voyages were influenced by medieval European adventurers, who had journeyed overland to the Far East and contributed to geographical knowledge of parts of Asia upon their return.

Their atrocities at Ningpo and Macao, and their subsequent servility, had opened the eyes of the Chinese to their true character, and unfortunately for other European adventurers, they had come to the conclusion that all western nations were alike.

Besides these groups, who were more-or-less unwilling emigrants, a considerable variety of Muslim adventurers went forth from Futa Jalon.

By the 12th century, Tongans, and the Tongan kings, the Tu ' i Tonga, were known across the Pacific, from Niuē, Samoa to Tikopia they ruled these nations for over 400 years, sparking some historians to refer to a " Tongan Empire ," although it was more so a network of interacting navigators, chiefs, and adventurers.

They were judges and merchants, war veterans and revolutionary patriots, native-born and immigrant, establishment easterners and westward-looking adventurers.

These " tribes " were areas of land partitioned off to the " adventurers " ( investors ) of the Company – Devonshire, Hamilton, Paget, Pembroke, Sandys, Smith's, Southampton and Warwick ( thus far, this usage of the word " tribes " is unique to the Bermuda example ).

During the next five years she lavished wealth and titles upon her lover Fernando Peres, count of Trava, thus estranging her son, the archbishop of Braga and the nobles, most of whom were foreign knight adventurers.

At this time, however, the Almohads had triumphed in Africa and invaded the Peninsula, where they were able to check the Portuguese reconquest, although isolated bands of crusading adventurers succeeded in establishing themselves in various cities of Alentejo.

Until the mid-1980s, when he ceased to be one of France's biggest box-office stars, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes.

One analysis shows that the majority were, however, Hurrian ( a non Semitic group from Asia Minor who spoke a Language Isolate ), though there were a number of Semites and even some Kassite and Luwian adventurers amongst their number.

Cowboys were joined by a motley assortment of buffalo hunters, gunmen, adventurers, and crooks.

Created early in the war as a unit of adventurers and mercenaries under British command, they were well known for looting Boer property.

At that time steam engines were not simply sold to customers but operated, and maintained by the builders for groups or individuals known as ' adventurers ' ( shareholders ).

A shortage of soldiers and adventurers was also problematic since they were not interested in conquering what they were sure were extremely poor lands.

Many of the adventurers in Africa who have been described as mercenaries were in fact ideologically motivated to support particular governments, and would not fight " for the highest bidder ".

Chennault also was able to recruit some 300 American pilots and ground crew, posing as tourists, who were adventurers or mercenaries, not necessarily idealists out to save China.

These expeditions were formed by groups of navigators, merchants, adventurers and missionaries.

Unrest in the early 1600s resulted in most of the works being destroyed, but in 1632 a group of adventurers led by the Earl of Bedford were granted permission to drain Deeping Fen, South Fen and Croyland.

Both cuts were named after the Fourth Earl of Bedford who, along with some gentlemen adventurers ( venture capitalists ), funded the construction and were rewarded with large grants of the resulting farmland.

They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were referred to as " Strangers ".

The spelling of this name is sort of a choose-your-own adventure: rendered correctly from Arabic, it should be al-Mukha, but given the long history of European traders and adventurers in this region, it has over the last few hundred years been written as “ Mokha ,” “ Mocca ,” “ Mocha ,” and “ Moka .”

The authorization given by Venetian and Imperial authorities gave ideas to other adventurers.

Nodwick and the adventurers he works with were given statistics for 2nd edition Dungeons & Dragons rules as part of the Giants in the Earth article in Dragon # 270.

The game ends immediately upon Exodus ' defeat ; but unlike many games in the genre, Exodus cannot simply be killed in battle by a strong party of adventurers, but only through clever puzzle-solving and by paying attention to the many clues given throughout the game.

Elizabeth's reign is known as the Elizabethan era, famous above all for the flourishing of English drama, led by playwrights such as William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, and for the seafaring prowess of English adventurers such as Sir Francis Drake.

The search for such lost cities by European explorers and adventurers in the Americas, Africa and in Southeast Asia from the 15th century onwards eventually led to the development of archaeology.

Rockall has also been a point of interest for adventurers and amateur radio operators who variously in the past have landed on or occupied the islet for up to several months, although fewer than 20 individuals have ever been confirmed to have landed on Rockall.

Kipling had already used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892.

* Belize-English adventurers starting in 1638, used Belize as a source for logwood, a tree used to make a wool dye.

" In 1974, he hosted David Niven's World for London Weekend Television, which profiled contemporary adventurers such as hang gliders, motorcyclists and mountain climbers.

It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party.

For hundreds of years, the hill served as a landmark on the Ottawa River for First Nations and, later, European traders, adventurers, and industrialists, to mark their journey to the interior of the continent.

' Home of the Lehigh Gorge State Park, Carbon County is an ideal place for hikers, cyclists, history buffs and adventurers.

Explored in 1805 by Lewis and Clark and settled by fur traders, adventurers, farmers, and finally entrepreneurs, Sarpy County has served as the springboard for Nebraska's settlement and expansion.

From time immemorial the St. Marys River has been a busy thoroughfare for traders, trappers, and adventurers.

An account of the Guanche population may have been made around 1150 CE by the Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi in the Nuzhatul Mushtaq, a book he wrote for King Roger II of Sicily, in which al-Idrisi reports a journey in the Atlantic Ocean made by the Mugharrarin (" the adventurers "), a family of Andalusian seafarers from Lisbon, Portugal.

The term was commonly used in the 1840s for American adventurers who sought to seize power in Latin America.

The idea for the film began when Herzog borrowed a book on historical adventurers from a friend.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

During World War II, it was reputed to be a gathering spot for espionage agents, dispossessed royals, and wartime adventurers.

Not until recent years has New Guinea ’ s exploration been planned ; much of it has been the work of miners, labour recruiters, missionaries, adventurers, with different objects in mind.

He was joined in the project by thirteen other adventurers, who formed a corporation and obtained a charter to carry out the work in 1634.

Set in 1919 London and various other outlying locales throughout Britain, couple Tommy Beresford and Prudence " Tuppence " Cowley, out of work and money, form the " The Young Adventurers, Ltd ." planning to hiring themselves out as " adventurers … illing to do anything, go anywhere … o unreasonable offer refused.

: It was in the course of doing work for the five Rockefeller books that Nevins developed the interesting thesis that the American corporate adventurers to whom Matthew Josephson gave the enduring name of ‘ The Robber Barons ’ were in fact American heroes, builders of the American civilization and democracy.

In 1997 Frank Black began work on Eamon Deluxe, creating a MS-DOS based conversion of Eamon that was designed to be an enhanced, more user friendly platform for adventurers and creators alike as well as retaining the flavor of the original Apple game while adding many very nice enhancements.

The adventurers had been offered as the reward for their work, but this was thrown into confusion first by the riots which erupted against the enclosures ( and which would continue periodically into the 1650s ), and then by the king who had the granting of Bedford's contract reversed and himself declared as the chief undertaker taking and leaving the other parties with only.

Later on uranium was found here and adventurers moved to the area to work in the mines.

Instead, war walkers now stride across the battlefield of Europe, huge supertanks thunder over North Africa, rocket fighters duel high above the Pacific, adventurers and superspies battle the Nazi forces in the shadows and scientists work feverishly in their laboratories to perfect the next doomsday weapon for their masters.