The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

Then, he said, `` Unfortunately, only one lamechian linguist exists, and he is too old for this expedition.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.

The purpose of this expedition is debated, though Asser claims that it was for the sake of plunder.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

A famous example is the ill-fated Westward expedition of the Donner Party, and more recently the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, after which some survivors ate the bodies of dead passengers.

Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition is another example of cannibalism out of desperation.

* Checking that there is no danger of flooding during the expedition.

This appeared to be confirmed by the exploration of the deep sea beds conducted by the Challenger expedition, 1872-6, which showed that contrary to expectation, land debris brought down by rivers to the ocean is deposited comparatively close to the shore in what is now known as the continental shelf.

The Gundestrup Cauldron, which was deposited in a bog in Himmerland in the 2nd or 1st century BC, shows that there was some sort of contact with southeastern Europe, but it is uncertain if this contact can be associated with the Cimbrian expedition.

In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

The depression is named after the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger, whose expedition of 1872 – 1876 made the first recordings of its depth.

Murray was one of the expedition, a San Francisco based marine technology company established in 1992, that is developing a vehicle, Deepsearch ( and Ocean Explorer HOV Unlimited ), with some support from Google's Eric Schmidt with which a crew of two or three will take 90 minutes to reach the seabed, as the program Deep Search.

Of this expedition it is only known that Almagro served as a witness to the lists of natives which Espinosa ordered to be carried.

It is unclear whether this first expedition was the expedition by Jacques l ' Hermite to the coast of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, set up by Stadthouder Maurice with the support of the States General and the VOC.

However, it is unlikely that they were sighted by Ferdinand Magellan or Estêvão Gomes of the San Antonio, one of the captains in the expedition of Magellan.

Though definite proof is lacking, there is evidence that the islands were first discovered by an unrecorded Portuguese expedition before Magellan set sail.

It is not unusual that no written record of their expedition survives ; voyages of discovery in those days were often national or commercial secrets, and unless a journal survived, they are completely unknown today.

When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

In 1819 under royal command he undertook a very successful geological expedition to Bornholm, one of the Danish islands, being one of three scientists in the expedition.

It was with the assistance of one of the members of this expedition, Lauritz Esmarch, that Oersted succeeded in producing light by creating an electric discharge in mercury vapor through which an electric current was made to flow.

The first Europeans to reach the Bandas, the expedition remained in Banda for about one month, purchasing and filling their ships with Banda's nutmeg and mace, and with cloves in which Banda had a thriving entrepôt trade.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

He proposed making an expedition to the North Pole hole, thanks to efforts of one of his followers, James McBride.

While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank.

The expedition moved south into the Mojave Desert, enduring attacks by Natives, who killed one man.

Rines undertook one last expedition to look for remains of the monster, using sonar and underwater camera in an attempt to find a carcass.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

A secret British Mars expedition crashes on Mars leaving one survivor who struggles to provide his basic needs from a hostile planet and is eventually discovered by intelligent natives.

The story they revealed is one of assorted rivalries: between British and American diplomats in China, between Harvard's Fogg Museum and the British Museum, and finally, between the two Harvard sponsors of the expedition.

This may have been a reference to a report from the British Ambassador in Paris, who had believed that when La Pérouse ’ s expedition set out from Brest in August 1785 it had as one of its objectives the establishment of a settlement in New Zealand to forestall the British.

He was with Leo IX in his expedition against the Normans and at one time had to take refuge from Emperor Henry II in Monte Cassino.

Hanssen and Wisting, along with two others, embarked on an expedition by dog sled to Nome, Alaska, despite its being over one thousand kilometres away.

The expedition was divided into two: one part was to survive the winter to get ready for an attempt to fly over the pole.

The discovery was reported in Courrier de l ' Égypte, the official newspaper of the French expedition, in September: the anonymous reporter expressed a hope that the stone might one day be the key to deciphering hieroglyphs.

General Jacques-François Menou, who had been one of the first to see the stone in 1799, was now in command of the French expedition.

During the third and final lunar excursion of the mission, astronauts Young and Duke were to explore North Ray Crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited.

The largest was called Royal Island, another St. Joseph ( after the patron saint of the expedition ), and the smallest of the islands, surrounded by strong currents, Île du Diable ( the infamous " Devil's Island ").

This was the largest British expedition to the colonies, and was intended to expel the French from the Ohio Country.

Zula was the place where the British expedition of 1867 – 1868 against Tewodros disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchorage for the largest ocean-going vessels.

Having lost their largest and richest colony, the French decided to send a large expedition to Guiana, commanded by Choiseul.

The " largest and most expensive ' trophy '" in college football is a replica of a cannon " that accompanied Captain John C. Frémont on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843 – 44 ".

The largest island in the Solomons, it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568.

Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition, is one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States.

The fourth culminating expedition, Operation Highjump, is the largest Antarctic expedition to date.

At the age of nearly seventy years he was made commander in 1514 by Ferdinand of the largest Spanish expedition.

It was on 7th-May-1961 ( Sunday ), the 7th Assam Rifles expedition team led by Late Major Sumer Singh entered the Moloshidi valley and reached the largest village in the valley, Shidi ( now called Gandhigram ).

* " Motor Yacht Luna "-Delivered to Roman Abramovich, the world's largest expedition yacht

The expedition was the largest and best-equipped to go to Africa ; a 28-foot steel boat named the Advance was designed to be divided into 12 sections for carrying over land, and Hiram Maxim presented the expedition with one of his recently invented Maxim guns, which was the first to be brought to Africa.

His expedition to the Indus area was one of the largest and it started in late November 1871 and continued until the end of February 1872.

Among the many famous ships made by the companies were the world's first steel ship, the Ma Roberts, built in 1858 for Dr. Livingstone's Zambezi expedition, CSS Alabama that was built in 1862 for the Confederate States of America, HMS Caroline ( 1914 ) that holds the record fastest build time of any significant warship ( nine months from her keel being laid till her launch ), the first all-welded ship, the Fullagar built in 1920, Cunard's second Mauretania of 1939, the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ( 1937 ) and the largest vessel to have been built for the Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal ( 1950 ).

It was the largest expedition the Spanish had ever sent to the Americas.

At the age of nearly seventy years he was made commander in 1514 by king Ferdinand II of Aragon of the largest Spanish expedition ( 19 vessels and 1, 500 men ) hitherto sent to America.

The Great Rock stela of Ramesses IV at Wadi Hammamat records that the largest expedition — dated to his Year 3, third month of Shemu day 27 — consisted of 8, 368 men alone including 5, 000 soldiers, 2, 000 personnel of the Amun temples, 800 Apiru and 130 stonemasons and quarrymen under the personal command of the High Priest of Amun, Ramessesnakht.

In 2000 he directed the IMAX film Kilimanjaro: To the Roof of Africa for the National Geographic Society, a film that documented the climbing of the world's largest freestanding mountain in Tanzania, Africa, an expedition undertaken by seven climbers.

It is currently the world's 13th largest superyacht, the fifth largest superyacht not owned by a head of state, and the largest expedition yacht.