Dropping through a partly cloudy sky, the commander, Steven W. Lindsey, and Col. Eric A. Boe of the Air Force guided Discovery through a sweeping left overhead turn, lined up on Runway 15 and floated to a picture-perfect touchdown at 11 57 a.m.
Sid Grauman first opened the Egyptian Theatre in 1922 at a time when an Egyptian craze was sweeping the nation after the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb.
And you can recreate Galileo's "discovery" of the Milky Way by sweeping a pair of binoculars along its length.
It will be harder, however, for Discovery, because like a mine detector sweeping a minefield it is taking more of the risk and will be the first one to encounter potential hazards.
He wrote sweeping historical sagas, intensely personal novels of self-discovery, and at least one scathing political parable.
The Egyptian armed forces, in a statement announcing the earlier discovery of aircraft parts, said "the searching, sweeping and retrieval process is underway".
Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors' skillful evocation of the region's sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers.
In the middle passage of the novel, the characters recede as Woolf depicts the cold touch of time sweeping across human life, bringing more pain than pleasure, more decay than discovery.
Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter-sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.
