Although the spread of his cancer eventually forced him to end his quest after 143 days and, and ultimately cost him his life, his efforts resulted in a lasting, worldwide legacy.

Both actors played Spanish expedition leaders on a quest that resulted in the 1769 founding of San Diego, California.

Germany's quest for a semi-automatic infantry rifle resulted in two designs-the G41 ( M ) and G41 ( W ), from Mauser and Walther arms respectively.

In it she tells of a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs, alcohol, and her quest for a father figure which resulted in some harmful relationships with older men.

Being sent away from their parents was a psychological rejection, and resulted in a quest for love, acceptance, and self-worth for both Maya and Bailey.

Instead of having the 11th Army to help it on its quest to capture Stalingrad, the German 6th Army under Paulus would be without crucial support that ultimately resulted in its defeat.

According to some, the profit-driven quest for high numbers of viewers, rather than high quality for viewers, has resulted in a slide from serious news and analysis to entertainment, sometimes called infotainment:

Danlo's story continues as he explores the galaxy on a dual quest: first, to locate the home of the Architects of the Universal Cybernetic Church and persuade them to stop the Program of Increase that has resulted in the continual explosions of stars in the Vild ( or Wild ); and second, to find the cure for the engineered plague that killed his tribe ( the Devaki ) and will kill the rest of the primitive Alaloi back on Neverness.

The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.

The video game King of Dragon Pass was released by A Sharp, allowing the player to play an Orlanthi hero who seeks to unite the clans and tribes of Dragon Pass in a kingdom ; the game features exceptional depth of coverage of the area of Dragon Pass, and featured the first compelling public view of Stafford's ideas about the hero quest.

Nanda, these scriptures were Nehru's " first introduction to the religious and cultural heritage of .... provided Nehru the initial impulse for long intellectual quest which culminated ... in the Discovery of India.

Cai is the first knight to volunteer to assist Culhwch in his quest, promising to stand by his side until Olwen is found.

Upon arriving in New York, he spent most of his first weeks in town trying to get in contact with Charlie Parker, despite being advised against doing so by several people he met during his quest, including saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.

Finally, the PRC exploded its first atomic bomb in October 1964 and subsequently refused to give North Korea any nuclear weapons of its own, apparently fearing that Kim was too likely to use them in his quest to reunify the peninsula.

Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted " as a survival mechanism " that they were of Indian extraction.

It was the first time in the series that both Link & Zelda work together on the quest.

Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden at first won few admirers, but later critics have regarded it as a classic American work that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty as models for just social and cultural conditions.

This story is the first one since the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to send its hero on a quest through the land of Oz, a technique that allowed Baum to showcase the marvels of the land.

The talent quest was won by first heat entrants and wildcard winners Lil ' Banditz Krew.

Crane's first signed publication was an article on the explorer Henry M. Stanley's famous quest to find the English missionary David Livingstone in Africa.

Childish and Thomson have issued several manifestos, the first one being The Stuckists, consists of 20 points starting with " Stuckism is a quest for authenticity ".

The quest for national emancipation was first undertaken during the Serbian national revolution, in 1804 until 1815.

He insisted on taking for himself the quest to Imladris, though the dreams had come first to Faramir.

* The quest for the first version of Shadows

Desire swears ( by " my heart " and by " the first circle " and by " the other side of the sky " and by " the sword ") that it had nothing to do with Delirium's quest.

Gareth ’ s first quest comes in the form of the cantankerous Lynette, who begs Arthur for Lancelot ’ s help in freeing her sister Lyonors.

The Battalion are in quest of their first J. Ross Robertson Cup and first Memorial Cup.

Unlike many other portrayals of the legend of Sir Galahad, Tennyson has Sir Galahad speak in the first person, gives the reader his thoughts and feelings as he rides on his quest, rather than just the details of his battles, as in Malory.

He was an aviator of exceptional breadth of experience, from his quest to become the first person to achieve a solo balloon flight around the world ( finally succeeding on his sixth attempt, in 2002, becoming the first person to complete an uninterrupted and unrefueled solo circumnavigation of the world in any kind of aircraft ) to setting, with co-pilot Terry Delore, 10 of the 21 Glider Open records, including the first 2, 000 km Out-and-Return, the first 1, 500 km Triangle and the longest Straight Distance flights.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

Olson's 28-year-old daughter, Sophia Shorai, was a contestant in the 2011 season of the talent quest American Idol.

* November 30 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader who aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War ( b. 1746 )

* July 23 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War ( d. 1786 )

Hanford archaeologists have identified numerous Native American sites, including " pit house villages, open campsites, fishing sites, hunting / kill sites, game drive complexes, quarries, and spirit quest sites ", and two archaeological sites were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

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Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans living at the margins of contemporary American society.

* American writer Stephen King has written a seven-volume series of epic fantasy novels called The Dark Tower, concerning the thousand-year quest of Roland Deschain, of Eld, based in part on Browning's Childe Roland.

Although Coronado's exact route across the plains is uncertain and has been widely disputed, he and his men are thought to have camped near the present location of Lyons on their quest for Quivira, a Native American place which Indians to the southwest had told them was fabulously wealthy in gold.

Mike Judge would continue to slyly mock Winger in his next animated series King of the Hill, as the character of John Redcorn was a former roadie for the band until embarking on a Native American vision quest, where he discovered that " wrangling groupies for Winger was not my proper life path ".

Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( born June 6, 1952 ) is an American actor and playwright, noted for the distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the award-winning book to the musical La Cage aux Folles.

* Vision quest in some Native American cultures

But the Irishman won't give up his aspirations of luxury and the quest for the American dream.

Martin Luther King, Jr., in his " Letter from a Birmingham Jail " ( 1963 ) rooted the civil rights movement in the black quest for the American Dream:

Many counter-culture films of the 1960s and 1970s ridiculed the traditional quest for the American Dream.

Although Harold Tiltmann, the American envoy, bypassed Nogara and warned the Cardinal Secretary of State against the purchase of Sudameris, once the Vatican went ahead with the purchase in 1941 it " left no stone unturned " in its quest to get the company removed from the Allied blacklists, petitioning nearly every relevant government in the world.

Independence also created a new, self-consciously " Latin American " ruling class and intelligentsia which at times avoided Spanish and Portuguese models in their quest to reshape their societies.

Her front-page story quoted unnamed " American officials " and " American intelligence experts " who said the tubes were intended to be used to enrich nuclear material, and cited unnamed " Bush administration officials " who claimed that in recent months, Iraq " stepped up its quest for nuclear weapons and has embarked on a worldwide hunt for materials to make an atomic bomb ".

* 2007 — Eagles supported American Eagle & Literary Challenge in quest to name June 20 National Eagle Day, The Disaster Relief Fund was passed which will allow the Eagles to have " trailers " stocked with supplies to be a first response team.

A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures.

In many Native American groups the vision quest is a turning point in life taken before to find oneself and the intended spiritual and life direction.

" In a broad analysis, McConnell associate the American western movies and romance movies to the Arthurian mythology, adventure and action movies to the " epic world " mythologies of founding societies, and many romance movies where the hero is allegorically playing role of a knight, to " quest " mythologies like Sir Gawain and the Quest for the Holy Grail.