Sentence examples for expedition about from inspiring English sources

He finally mellowed in the second half of the program, with four songs from Dominick Argento's cycle "The Andrée Expedition," about an ill-fated 19th-century attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon.

The museum continues to sponsor expeditions, about 100 a year.

Everen T. Brown, a photographer from Salt Lake City, paid Quark Expeditions about $22,000 to be one of the 300 people it leads to the North Pole annually on icebreakers.

Mr. Chenoweth trains search and rescue teams on McKinley from the ranger station here in Talkeetna, which oversees the mountain and its expeditions about 60 miles from base camp.

After hiring local porters and guides, the entire expedition totaled about 400 people, about three-fourths of whom were servants.

Here is the place to find about how mercury laxatives were carried on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and about how the expedition's route could thus be tracked by the mapping of mercury-tinged latrines.

What the expedition learns about the history of the colony comes as a surprise to all.

In a dispatch dated May 24 , 1932 as the expedition was about to enter hostile Indian territory, the reporter wrote, "Rattin is anxious to get away.

In May 1778 Clark, with an expedition of about 175 men, took two Mississippi River settlements Kaskaskia and Cahokia, both in present-day Illinois.

Readers can quiz the expedition scientists about their work and experiences at sea in a live ship-to-land Q&A session on Tuesday 24 April.

James Robie Gilbert, the editor in chief of Showboats International magazine, said he first heard the term expedition yacht about Turmoil, which was built in 1996.