Sentence examples for world discoveries from inspiring English sources

By incorporating early New World discoveries, their map reached beyond the canonical descriptions of Old World geography handed down from Ptolemy in the second century.

Cases from £136, bbr.com/wine-club 5. Marks & Spencer Customers subscribe to one of the three M&S wine plans (contemporary selection, New World discoveries or Old World classics) and you can then opt for an all-white, all-red or mixed case of 12 bottles every three months, with guaranteed savings of at least 20 per cent.

At John Rivera Sedlar's ambitious Latin restaurant Rivera, in Los Angeles, where the tasting menu includes Atlantic Cod in the Spirit of New World Discoveries, the cocktail list features the Donaji, a fourteen-dollar drink named after a Zapotec princess, which is made with artisanal Oaxacan mescal and house-made grasshopper salt.

Joyce Appleby is an emeritus professor of history at UCLA and the author, most recently, of "Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination".

Several recent world discoveries in dangerous war zones and inhospitable terrain have been made using satellite maps from home offices.

The Tauck World Discovery tour company of Westport has moved into 43,000 square feet and Gibbs College, formerly on East Avenue in Norwalk, occupies 56,000 square feet.

Excursions to Indian country have become so popular in the past three to four years that Tauck World Discovery in Westport, Conn., now offers some 150 such tours in the Southwest alone.

And the Norwalk, Conn.,-based Tauck World Discovery (www.tauck.com) is offering significantly reduced prices — as much as 33percentt off — for singles on 54 different cruise and tour departures in the United States, Europe and Canada.

Tauck World Discovery (www.tauck.com) reduced the air fare on some European itineraries and took $250 off the price, per person, double occupancy, for certain cruises in the Mediterranean, New England and Canada.

Robin Tauck, head of Norwalk, Conn.-based Tauck World Discovery, said that very few of the 1,600 people scheduled to take the company's summer Spain tours have canceled; in fact, more than 60 new clients have signed up in recent weeks.

Tauck World Discovery (www.tauck.com), a high-end package tour operator, has luxury 10-day tours starting May 20 continuing through Oct. 2 that start in Las Vegas and take in five national parks, including Zion, Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon, and two days of houseboating on Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah.