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During the Halloween weekend of 1961, Zacherley appeared for an episode exploring haunted houses.

Across the Pathways of Space

Exploring, he finds a cage containing two bird-men from Deneb.

Alan Macfarlane

His approach here, exploring the emotions, fears and relationships of an individual to attempt a historical study of private life in seventeenth century England, was reminiscent of the Annales School.

Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve

Father Bernard R. Hubbard was a Jesuit priest and professor of geology at Santa Clara University in California, who had been exploring Alaska's volcanoes and glaciers every summer season since 1927 and writing about them in best-selling books and in publications such as National Geographic and the Saturday Evening Post.

Aroon Tikekar

His Ph.D. thesis The Kincaids, Two Generation of a British Family in the Indian Civil Service was published as a book, exploring the lives of the civil servants and authors Charles Augustus Kincaid and his son Dennis Kincaid.

Bashment

Bashment, Play by British playwright, Rikki Beadle-Blair, exploring the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics.

Burlesk King

Other films exploring the same theme are Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer (1988) and Brillante Mendoza's Masahista (The Masseur, 2005).

Cadwalader Ringgold

Nathaniel Philbrick, in his book Sea of Glory about the U.S. Exploring Expedition, writes that in the later expedition Ringgold "began to act strangely" once in China, keeping his ships in port "ceaselessly repairing his vessels".

Cesare Wright

In 2007, Wright directed "Goals", a film exploring issues of immigration and assimilation vicariously through sports, which premiered on The Documentary Channel and NYC TV.

Charles Frederick Hartt

Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.

Circus Devils

Beginning with the release of their first album, Ringworm Interiors, Circus Devils dismissed the styles of Pollard's other musical endeavors for a more experimental approach, taking an ominous and nightmarish tone, exploring the themes of good and evil.

Dérive

For the situationists, the dérive is the primary technique for exploring an urban landscape's psychogeography and engaging in new experiences.

Dromantine House

In partnership of the Mater Dei Institute of Education(DCU) in Dublin, the Society of African Missions at Dromantine and Methodist Edgehill Theological College in Belfast ran a three year Exploring Theology Certificate course accredited by Dublin City University, in Dromantine.

Edward Henry Palmer

He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake.

Fox sisters

"Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity", Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Hadley, Nevada

Legal questions regarding the land at the Round Mountain townsite precluded expansion at that location; the company began exploring other feasible options and within the next two years had acquired the ICT Ranch in Smoky Valley from one Ingvard Christianson and began platting and construction at the new town's site.

Hajdúböszörmény

One more recent cause of unemployment was the downsizing of the General Electric Tungsram plant (due to new economic options the company was exploring in China).

Haridas Chaudhuri

Bahman Shirazi of the California Institute of Integral Studies has defined Integral Psychology as "a psychological system concerned with exploring and understanding the totality of the human phenomenon....(which) at its breadth, covers the entire body-mind-psyche-spirit spectrum, while at its depth...encompasses the previously explored unconscious and the conscious dimensions of the psyche, as well as the supra-conscious dimension traditionally excluded from psychological inquiry".

Hawaii–Tahiti relations

The French admiral Dupetit Thouars, that had invaded Tahiti, landed in Hawaii a decade before in 1837 aboard the French frigate La Venus and had demanded the Premier Kaʻahumanu II and the young King Kamehameha III to stop persecuting the French Catholic missionaries; at that time Dupetit Thouars was only a captain of an exploring expedition and didn't have the power or men to put any pressure on the Hawaiians.

Henry Mzili Mujunga

He has been exploring intuitive ways of reviving African art through an art movement called indigenous expressionism.

Human Universal Load Carrier

Lockheed Martin is also exploring exoskeleton designs to support industrial and medical applications.

Jake Shields

Their activities included mountain biking, wild caving, snowboarding, clearing brush, bucking firewood, climbing mountains, exploring the high country, and wrestling.

James C. Dobbin

He ordered U.S. Navy Lieutenant Isaac Strain to command a U.S. Darién Exploring Expedition to map and survey the Darién Gap for a Panama Canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Japanese Antarctic Expedition

During the following season a third attempt was made to reach an Antarctic landfall, with the specific objective of exploring King Edward VII Land.

Johannes Itten

Itten's works exploring the use and composition of color resemble the square op art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Max Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.

Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island

The expedition was sponsored by the Joint Services Expedition Trust with the aim of climbing, exploring and carrying out a preliminary scientific survey of islands in the Elephant group for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys.

Klezmer fiddle

Merkmale, Str*Fiddler on the Move : Exploring the Klezmer World by Mark Slobin

Ladbroke Grove rail crash

On 19 September 2011, National Geographic Channel aired an episode of Seconds From Disaster exploring the chain of events that had led up to the collision.

Leo J. Enright

In 2008 he shared in a Thea Award for his work as science advisor on "Cosmos at the Castle", an interactive exhibition at Blackrock Castle Observatory exploring extreme life on earth and in space.

Luis de Velasco, marqués de Salinas

He received in 1610 the embassy of Luis Sotelo and Tanaka Shōsuke, which had sailed from Japan on the Japanese sailship San Buena Ventura, and agreed to send an ambassador to Japan in the person of the famous explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno, with the added mission of exploring the "gold and silver islands" which were thought to be east of the Japanese isles.

Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire.

Neo-Hasidism

While the movement spanned a broad spectrum of spiritual proclivities, some Jews in the founding circles, like Arthur Waskow, Arthur Green, and Michael Lerner, under the combined influence of Heschel and Schachter-Shalomi, took up the project of further exploring Hasidism and recasting it in an American idiom.

Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance

The Omora Sub-Antarctic Research Alliance (OSARA) is a U.S.-based non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to "exploring the biocultural wonders of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago".

Ørjan Hartveit

He trained with Omar Ebrahim at Trinity College of Music, London, and has also participated in masterclasses exploring Lieder and melodies with Elly Ameling, Graham Johnson, and Malcolm Martineau.

Personal air vehicle

The European Union is funding a 3-leg 4.2m programme (under the Seventh Framework Programme) to study technologies and impacts for PAVs in a Personal Air Transport System; Human-aircraft interaction, Automation of aerial systems in cluttered environments, and Exploring the socio-technological environment.

Perversion

Clinically exploring 'a richly diversified collection of erotic endowments and inclinations: hermaphroditism, pedophilia, sodomy, fetishism, exhibitionism, sadism, masochism, coprophilia, necrophilia' among them, Freud concluded that 'all humans are innately perverse'.

Piers Wardle

Wardle was perhaps the first British painter to experiment artistically with the ideas of Benoit Mandelbrot and other 'chaos' mathematicians, exploring in his work how 'the complexity associated with natural and organic forms can be generated, in appearance at least, by simple rules' (from Piers Wardle's catalogue for an exhibition held at the Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in April 1989).

Robert Graeme Galbraith

He lived with the people and as well as exploring the country he did some voluntary work for the art gallery at the National Museum of Ghana in Accra, and some part-time teaching at one of the state primary schools.

Robert Logan Jack

An early piece of work was an examination of the coal resources of the Cooktown district, and in August 1879 he began an exploring expedition to the most northerly part of Queensland in the hope that payable goldfields might be found.

Rocketship X-M

The next morning the scientists, clad in aviation oxygen masks due to the low atmospheric pressure, begin exploring the desolate surface of Mars, eventually coming across physical evidence of a now dead advanced civilization: a partially buried-in-the-sand, stylized, Art Deco- or Tiki culture-like metal face sculpture, and in the distance Moderne architecture-like ruins.

Saleem Kidwai

With Ruth Vanita, he is co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (New York: Palgrave; New Delhi: Macmillan, 2000), a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia.

Sandgrouse

Foraging techniques vary between species that coexist which reduces competition; in Namibia, Double-banded Sandgrouse feed slowly and methodically whilst Namaqua Sandgrouse feed rapidly, exploring loose soil with their beaks and flicking it away sideways.

Seth Tanner

Tanner also helped with the Hole-In-The-Rock expedition; he joined the expedition as a guide for the initial exploring party, guiding them up to the Bluff area after they had reached Moenkopi in the Navajo country.

Space Harp

The Space Harp, also known as a Frankiphone, is an electrified lamellophone invented by Phil Cohran as part of a musicological experiment exploring his African roots.

The Flying Saucer

A wealthy American playboy, Mike Trent (Mikel Conrad), who was raised in that remote region, is recruited to assist a Secret Service agent in exploring that area to determine what the Soviets have found.

The Sunless City

The Sunless City had been read by Thomas Creighton, a prospector who had been exploring in the area of what would become the town of Flin Flon.

Tony Bellotto

After exploring Jimi Hendrix's first albums, he composed his first songs on the guitar, while he explored other notable guitarists, like Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton.

University of British Columbia Graduate School of Journalism

The school also collaborated with The New York Times in 2012 to produce two web documentaries exploring development pressures and land disputes in Brazil.

Winchester, Oregon

Winchester was laid out in 1850 by surveyor Addison R. Flint, who was part of an Umpqua exploring expedition from San Francisco.


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