SIR WALTER RALEGH shot to fame in the 1580s as a poet, wit, naval commander and puddle-coverer-in-chief to Queen Elizabeth I. His downfall, by contrast, was slow and inglorious.Though briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London for upsetting the queen, he wormed his way back into her good books, and in 1595 was put in command of a treasure-seeking expedition to South America.
A few years later, in a luckless expedition seeking the mouth of the Mississippi, he was murdered by his men.
As Democrats started drafting bills, Mr. Hickenlooper sent his staff on a research expedition, seeking data on mass shootings, crime statistics and gaps in mental health laws.
A $2.2m£1.4m4m) expedition seeking wreckage from aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight has failed to find the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping for.
From being marooned in Antarctica to interpreting for a shady expedition seeking a rare metal in Argentina's Ancasti Mountains to lugging a bloodied young black man through an Alabama forest at midnight, Franklin is buffeted from adventure to adventure and from woman to woman.
Often it seems as if the filmmakers, determined not to fetishize the usual anatomy -- the woman's breasts and legs, the man's chest -- are embarking on an expedition seeking new ways of looking at the body, without much idea of what they're after.
An army of killer robots were sent to the floating island on previous expedition, seeking to harness the Demon Crown as a weapon for wars on the surface world.
In this study we performed an analysis of the metagenomic dataset from the Global Ocean Survey (GOS) expedition, seeking eukaryotic ribosomal signatures.
In the present study we performed an in-depth analysis of the metagenomic dataset from the GOS expedition, seeking eukaryotic signatures through the presence of 18S rDNA genes.
Most take place on foot, though in the winter there are limousine expeditions seeking movie locations.
On average, every two weeks one of the world's recorded 7,000 languages becomes extinct, and the expedition was seeking to document and help preserve the endangered ones in these isolated villages.
