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trips and Venetian
From 1442 to 1448, Alvise undertook various trips on Venetian galleys to the Barbary Coast and Crete, as a commercial agent of his cousin, Andrea Barbarigo.

trips and explorer
The best remembered of the original members is Babs Lord, as a result of her marriage to the actor Robert Powell and her subsequent career as an amateur yachtswoman and world explorer, having made several trips to the Himalayas, the Sahara, both Poles and the jungle in Guyana.
1311 – 1350 ) – Chinese explorer who made two major trips by ship.
It was also mentioned among the folklore of this community that a Chinese explorer and geographer whose name could no longer be recalled, first landed on the shores of this peninsula in one of his trips to the island of Mai which is now known as Mindoro.
Arthur Philemon Coleman, a geologist and explorer who between 1884 and 1908 made eight trips of discovery to the Canadian Rockies, was named Honorary Vice-President.

trips and Marco
Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.
Marco Polo was accompanied in his trips by his father and uncle ( both of whom had been to China previously ), though neither of them published any known works about their journeys.

trips and throughout
In the late 1930s, Meher Baba invited a group of Western women to join him in India, where he arranged a series of trips throughout India and Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) that became known as the Blue Bus Tours.
Sheik Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain during the 1930s, was known for a pack of Salukis that accompanied him throughout the Arab world on hunting trips.
Each agency interconnects with each other, enabling transit trips throughout the county.
Annual activities the many clubs sponsor include JH Movie Nights, HS Homecoming and dances, as well as many class trips throughout the year.
It offers cultural programs including an annual juried fine arts show, a holiday arts and crafts show, a student art show, year-round exhibitions in the adjacent Washington Civic Center gallery, a series of free public concerts, an annual art camp for youth, workshops, lectures, and organized trips to attend cultural events throughout the region.
The students live on campus and enjoy trips around Israel and activities throughout the year.
His monthly travels throughout the country and his meetings with ordinary citizens ( the so-called maakuntamatkat or " provincial trips ") nonetheless greatly enhanced his political popularity.
As part of the CLC, members volunteer on weekends throughout the school year in their home city, build trails, restore river and lakefront environments, conserve habitats, learn about the environment through field trips, go on weekend camping excursions, and give back to the community through service projects.
The largest student group on campus is the Outing Club, which leads canoeing, kayaking, rafting, camping and backpacking trips throughout Maine.
During these trips which occurred throughout the 1960s and 1970s Mackay developed a love of salmon fishing, beachcombing and hillwalking.
Schools and youth groups are taken on annual hiking trips throughout the country, raising children with an affinity for hiking and other outdoor activities.
Peng participated in a number of foreign trips throughout the communist world after becoming Defense Minister, the first time that he had traveled outside of China and North Korea.
He worked especially on the Cambrian layer in locations throughout the United States, making numerous field trips and linking the fossils he collected to the sequence of rocks in a way that made important contributions to stratigraphy.
Student officers organize events throughout the year, including field trips, panel discussions, and community service projects.
Aarhus Student House organises social and cultural activities throughout the year, ranging from parties to road trips, to language classes, to weekly international nights ( a popular dinner club ).
The festival consists of numerous events throughout the town and the local area, such as museum trips, a barn dance, car treasure hunt, clairvoyance evening, cricket match, comedy sketches, family quiz night, mystery tour, open gardens, history talks, and several music events, some of which feature local bands.
The newly mandatory student-led program offers multi-day thematic trips throughout California.
Their surroundings and personal encounters were described with great detail, educating readers as to the customs of various cultures throughout history, and – on trips to the future – often pushing present day hot-button issues.
He continued to pursue his interest in the natural history of Iceland, and to work on Fjölnir throughout his life, dividing his time between Denmark and research trips to Iceland.
Research Managers and Editors work part-time throughout the spring semester to prepare and train Researcher-Writers for their trips.
Its mobile broadcasting unit, the roadcaster, made regular trips nationwide, with 2FM organising live events throughout Ireland, such as the " Beat on the Street " with M. C electric eddie, Doug Murray, introducing the stations DJ's to the vast crowds which gathered at events throughout Ireland and " Lark in the Park ".
The program sponsors trips throughout Europe.
Both the Essex County Chapter of the Sierra Club and the New Jersey Audubon Society lead trips throughout the swamp all year long.
The bus transportation system has a wider range of short, medium and long distance connections and destinations offering lots of overnight trips from Bahía Blanca to Buenos Aires, to hundreds of cities and towns throughout the country and also to neighbouring countries such as Chile.

trips and Empire
The British government knew of these trips and was not pleased that Canada had developed a foreign policy separate from the Empire.
Special trips are also arranged to popular festivals every year, including a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans, the Oregon Country Fair and Burning Man, where they also operate a shuttle bus from the event into nearby Gerlach and Empire, NV. International trips have included Mexico ( including the Yucatán peninsula and Baja ), Guatemala and Belize.
During the years 1875 – 1880, he made many trips to Europe, Turkey, the Indian Empire as well as Ceylon and Burma to visit missionary outposts.
For a number of years until 2004, the OMID ran fall foliage excursions in conjunction with the Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum, formerly Rochester NRHS chapter, which owns the former New York Central " Empire State Express " coach cars used for the trips.

trips and 13th
Then, in April of that year, he made his first of two trips to Puerto Rico that year, to fight challenger Andres Hernandez, who lasted until the 13th.
But just as he is about to score the 13th goal, a Grimforth player trips him and he falls over.

trips and century
However in the 19th century the river supported a substantial commercial trade using shallow-draft paddle steamers, the first trips being made by two boats from South Australia on the spring flood of 1853.
In general, the entire world seems to rely on much scarcer resources to get by – characters travel by foot, roller skates, bicycle or airship on trips that in 20th century terms could be done much faster by automobile and airplane.
They were a popular destination for bank holiday trips in the early 20th century, and now provide a valuable green space.
The town had a hotel, and even a steamboat that took people on trips on Lake Hebron in the late 19th century and early 20th century, but due to several causes, the hotel and many of the local businesses dealing with tourism in the early 20th century were diminished.
By the mid-20th century, trains were making longer, faster, and more comfortable trips at lower costs for passengers.
As the nineteenth century progressed, British working class day-trippers travelled on organized trips such as railway excursions, or by steamer, for which long piers were erected so that the ships bringing the trade could berth.
Evidence of continuing trips includes the Maine Penny, a Norwegian coin from King Olaf Kyrre's reign ( 1067 – 1093 ) allegedly found in a Native American archaeological site in the U. S. state of Maine, suggesting an exchange between the Norse and the Native Americans late in or after the 11th century ; and an entry in the Icelandic Annals from 1347 which refers to a small Greenlandic vessel with a crew of eighteen that arrived in Iceland while attempting to return to Greenland from Markland with a load of timber.
But with their decline came an increase in sea trips for pleasure, and in the latter part of the 20th century ocean liners gave way to cruise ships as the predominant form of large passenger ship, with the main area of activity changing from the North Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea.
This design feature reflects the predominance of pedestrian movement for local trips at the turn of the 20th century, and presages the current planning priority for increased pedestrian accessibility.
During the late 19th century, Stourport became a popular summer destination for the industrial workers of the West Midlands conurbation, who came for its riverside pleasure parks, boat trips, and caravan parks.
Travel and Leisure names Kerala as " One of the 100 great trips for the 21st century ".
Throughout the 21st century, Metra has been the second busiest commuter rail system in the United States by average weekday passenger trips.
In the earlier part of the century a weekly postal service provided contact with the Mainland and fortnightly shopping trips to Deerness, allowing for weather.
Its origin is in the trips organized by Thomas Cook in the 19th century.
Recent Intraterm classes include " U. S. History through ' The Enemy ' in American Cinema ," a study of 20th century American history through depictions of enemies in American cinema, and " Art on the Run ," a field study of art and culture through trips to Bay Area museums and landmarks, such as the Gates of Hell at Stanford University and The Thinker at the Palace of the Legion of Honor.
The history of Islam in the Netherlands started in the 16th century when the first Dutch converts arrived from sailing trips abroad and Ottoman traders settled in cities such as Antwerp and Amsterdam.
Throughout his life he made periodic trips to Italy, not without controversy, for evidently neither the Pope nor the Inquisition fully approved of his spending time in England, which was in the late 16th century actively at war with Roman Catholic countries.
By the second half of the twentieth century, Mexico City had serious public transport problems, with congested main roads and highways, especially in the downtown zone, where 40 percent of the daily trips in the city were concentrated.
By the 14th century they were making " seasonal trips " to the English Channel and southern Ireland.
Since the introduction of aluminium-hulled long-boats in the 20th century, Pitcairners have made regular trips to Henderson to harvest the wood of miro and tou trees.
Senior nobles or kings would travel to Rome, which was a popular destination from the 7th century onwards ; sometimes these trips were a form of convenient political exile.
Since the advent of aluminium-hulled boats in the 20th century, Pitcairners have made regular trips to Henderson Island to harvest miro wood.
By the late 18th century, its ruins became, with other sites in the Wye valley, a " Picturesque " feature on the " Wye tour ", pleasure boat trips down the river from Ross-on-Wye via Monmouth.

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