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Pennine Journey is a 247-mile (398 km) circular trail that starts and ends in Settle, North Yorkshire, England. The route is based on a walk taken by Alfred Wainwright in 1938 and described by him in a book published in 1986. From Settle, the route heads north through North Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland to Hadrian's Wall, then ...
Geography of the. Odyssey. Map of Homeric Greece based on the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad ( right-click on map to enlarge ). The locations mentioned in the narratives of Odysseus 's adventures have long been debated. Events in the main sequence of the Odyssey take place in the Peloponnese and in what are now called the Ionian Islands ...
The first voyage of James Cook was a combined Royal Navy and Royal Society expedition to the south Pacific Ocean aboard HMS Endeavour, from 1768 to 1771. It was the first of three Pacific voyages of which James Cook was the commander. The aims of this first expedition were to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun (3–4 June that ...
June 18, 2024 at 6:59 AM. Michael Tullberg/Getty Images. Fisker, a US electric vehicle startup, said Tuesday it had filed for bankruptcy. The company had already warned it was in trouble. When it ...
William Daniels shared photos of an impromptu Boy Meets World cast reunion on Saturday, June 1. The actor, better known by many as his BMW character Mr. Feeny, shared shots of an apparent party ...
Java, New York. The hamlet of Java Center along Route 78 and Route 98. / 42.65556°N 78.37694°W / 42.65556; -78.37694. Java ( / ˈdʒeɪvə /) is an incorporated town in Wyoming County, New York. The population was 2,057 at the 2010 census. The Town of Java is on the western border of Wyoming County.
Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images. The PGA Tour announced on Tuesday it had created a special exemption for Tiger Woods alone, allowing for qualification to certain events on its schedule. The ...
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. When rediscovered in 1929, the remaining fragment garnered international attention as it includes a partial copy of an otherwise lost map by Christopher Columbus. The ...