Sentence examples for columbian from inspiring English sources
noun
An inhabitant of any place called .
Fitted with two cameras for stereo vision, a drone called AeroHawk can map the dimensions and contours of a road at a resolution of about 2cm, says Scott McTavish, boss of a British Columbian firm called Accuas that surveys infrastructure.
But lessons from history should encourage China to nurture its agricultural relationship with Latin America.A 1972 book by Alfred Crosby, "The Columbian Exchange", explained how after the discovery of the Americas sweet potatoes, corn, peanuts, tobacco and chili peppers travelled across the Pacific to China for the first time.
Some, like the Columbian ground squirrel, spend up to nine months of each year in their alcoves.
Stockwell Day, of the Canadian Alliance, won a British Columbian seat with 70% of the votes; Joe Clark, of the Progressive Conservatives, won easily, too, in Nova Scotia.That sets the stage for what is already promising to be a long winter of unofficial campaigning.
According to the report, before 2008 the average British Columbian used as much fuel as other Canadians did.
And the "Columbian exchange" of foodstuffs between the Old and New Worlds was second in importance in food history only to the adoption of agriculture.Several themes emerge from the resulting historical casserole.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbian ruin of an Islamic structure has ever been found.
In recent decades, however, archaeologists have recognized that pre-Columbian Amazonia supported a prospering population of Indians who built towns and large-scale farming and fishing operations.
This dovetails nicely with the observation that most of the evidence for tuberculosis in the pre-Columbian Americas seems, like these three skeletons, to come from the coasts of Peru and northern Chile, where seals are abundant and were hunted by the locals.Where the seals themselves picked up tuberculosis remains to be determined.
Like the earlier exhibition, it reflects a changing view about the people who, from the second to the tenth centuries AD, created the most highly developed civilisation of pre-Columbian America.For much of the 20th century, students of the Mayan people considered them to be peaceful horticulturalists, governed by priests and ritual, without kings, cities, politics, violence or war.
At a spot in America called Pope's Creek, on the shores of the Potomac river, oyster shells discarded by the pre-Columbian inhabitants cover an area of 30 acres (12 hectares) to an average depth of ten feet.
