The continent's far expanses were so unknown to its white explorers that Thomas Jefferson, who commissioned the journey, thought that the men would come across woolly mammoths.
Through the National Organization of Ophthalmic Rehabilitation (NOOR) Eye Care Program, medical care is provided in the far expanses of Afghanistan where eye problems are common but doctors are not.
Scientists are undeniably more knowledgeable of the universe than at any other time in human history, and their inventions are giving us first glimpses of the far expanses of our galaxy.
This initial foray into abstraction led to light, open-form sculptures like "Early One Morning," an arrangement of red steel planes and lines along a horizontal axis, and culminated in works like "Prairie" (1967), whose low-to-the ground yellow-ocher pipes alluded to the far-reaching expanses of the Midwestern landscape, and "Orangerie" (1969), which suggested a Matisse cutout executed in steel.
That would seem to leave almost 90percentt of the forest still standing -- by far the largest expanse of intact rain forest anywhere in the world.
1. CAPITOL REEF, UTAH -- Red-rock expanses far from sizable human habitations.
We would be talking about hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and specialists, about a gigantic splash of energy from a new generation of Europeans onto huge, and thus far poorly developed, expanses, about joint work, about a new Europe — from the Atlantic all the way to the Pacific.
Ever since the origin of Earth's moon was explained, the biggest question in lunar science has been accounting for the moon's two-sided geology: a near side that's relatively low-lying, flat, and marked by expanses of dark lava that define the "Man in the Moon," and a bright far side with an expanse of high-standing, mountainous terrain.
The phrase has the burnish of a truism in this outpost amid the vast, high-desert expanse of far West Texas, about 50 miles north of Big Bend National Park.
A dozen blocks away, not far from a vast expanse of metal scrap yards and vacant warehouses, the sleek black-and-white cars glide past wooden skeletons for dozens of luxury town houses.
