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He returned to North Carolina with little material gain, but he had acquired considerable knowledge of the Kentucky and north-central Tennessee region in his explorations.

In Rome he acquired considerable knowledge of ancient art and of the scientific methods then beginning to be used in archaeology methods that formed the basis for his own later archaeological reconstructions.

Though Correia states that during this early period of his Indian service, Magellan acquired considerable knowledge of navigation, little is known of Magellan's first years in the East until he appears among those sailing in November 1506 with Nuno Vaz Pereira to Sofala on the Mozambique coast, where the Portuguese had established a fort.

Through his years of devotion to patristic and biblical studies he had also acquired considerable knowledge of recent scholastic theology.

Continuing his studies in Germany in the mid-1950s, he acquired considerable knowledge of music history, theory and piano technique, but soon pushed into avant-garde territory.

In many cases making these decisions required acquiring considerable medical knowledge and training.

From his general reading, Larkin had acquired a considerable knowledge of girls' school fiction, and had formed definite views on the authors of such works: "stupid women without a grain of humour in their minds", who lacked "erotic sensibility" and treated the lesbian perspective "too casually".

The family had traded with the Middle East for a long time, acquiring considerable wealth and prestige.

He is reported to have been ambitious and even to have acquired considerable wealth.

The governors of these provinces sometimes acquired considerable independence, particularly under the weaker monarchs after Adad-nirari III. Adad-nirari III

The region thus has acquired considerable strategic significance for the world's industrialized countries.