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Foray

In literature, forays were most famously portrayed in Adam Mickiewicz's Pan Tadeusz, as well as in The Trilogy (With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Fire in the Steppe) of Henryk Sienkiewicz.


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Adam Rex

His first foray into illustration of children's books, 2003's The Dirty Cowboy, written by Amy Timberlake, received positive reviews, including from The Capital Times, which described Rex's work as "gorgeous... This is his first book, but you wouldn't know it from looking. His artwork has real resonance".

Alan W. Lear

He was also the writer behind Audio Visuals' first foray into video production with the little seen drama Scarecrow City, starring Nicholas Briggs as Arthur Mowbray and Liz Knight as Penny dealing with unusual behaviour in the city of Pastonmouth.

Amit Khanna

In the 1980s he made a brief foray into writing and directing with Shesh, starring Alok Nath and Anitha Kumar, and Sheeshay Ka Ghar, starring Raj Babbar.

Anders Nilsen

Nilsen's comic book series, Big Questions (Drawn and Quarterly), originated in 1996; it was his first foray into comics.

Armando Colaco

Switching his base from Dempo to Churchill in the 90s, Armando had announced his arrival as a seasoned coach with three Goa Football League titles and an NFL runner-up trophy with Churchill Brothers and also a foray into the AFC Cup.

Bevan Congdon

His finest moments in Tests were in England in 1973 when he scored 176 at Trent Bridge and 175 at Lord's in successive Tests, and during the determined foray by the Kiwis to the West Indies in 1972, when he took over the captaincy from Graham Dowling.

Brown Shoe

In the 1940s and 50s the company made a brief foray into the comic book publishing industry, producing Buster Brown Comics, which featured the character on the cover, but contained different adventure features, such as Robin Hood.

Charleston, SC 1966

Jessica Phillips with Country Weekly compared it to his previous album Learn to Live, saying "Rucker created a successful blend of touching love ballads and positive up-tempo meditations on life with his 2008 foray into country music, Learn to Live, and he reprises that winning mix for his sophomore country solo release", and gave it four out of five stars.

Chin Injeti

Chin's foray into hip-hop came with great success in 2010, with Eminem's multi-platinum album "Recovery" winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.

Chris Gibbin

Chris Gibbin began his foray into film as an art department assistant on John Sayles’ 1987 film Matewan.

Crime Spree

Daniel Foray (Gérard Depardieu) is the leader of an unusual group of burglars in Paris.

Desmond Koh

He started his foray in banking in investment banking London in 1996 and is currently a director at Credit Suisse Private Bank.

Dimple Chopade

She made her foray in Tamil, with a film called Yaaruda Mahesh, which had Sundeep Kishan in the lead.

Edward A. Bacon

Bacon began his foray into public life in 1940 as the Republican National Committee representative from Wisconsin (a position he held until 1944).

Edwin Hawkins

The Edwin Hawkins Singers made a second foray into the charts exactly one year later, backing folk singer Melanie on "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)".

Family Channel

While the Halifax-based company already distributes and produces a large library of children's television series (particularly through its 2012 purchase of Cookie Jar Group, which gave it ownership of the program libraries of Cinar and DIC Entertainment), they will mark DHX's first foray into television channel ownership.

Foray 48B

Foray 48B in an insecticide manufactured by Valent BioSciences used in forestry to selectively kill the larval stage of insect in the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).

German submarine U-455

Her third foray was better; on 3 May 1942, she sank the British Workman off Cape Race, Newfoundland, followed by the Geo H. Jones on 11 June northeast of the Azores.

Googoosh

On 22 July 2009, Googoosh delivered an emotional speech in which she said the outcome of the 12 June presidential election, which the protesters accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of stealing, inspired her to make her first foray into politics.

Harlan Tarbell

His only foray into cinema was an early 1930s film short entitled "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century".

Helmut Yström

Yström's first foray into government work was his military service during World War I.

Henry Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland

After succeeding to the Dukedom on the death of his father, 11 October 1988, he was noted for planting many trees at Syon House, the Ducal residence at Brentford; for an unsuccessful foray into film-making involving the Duke in front of and behind the camera; for a relationship with Naomi Campbell's mother Valerie; and for excessive and adventurous drug taking.

Ian MacLachlan Arrol

Arrol's first foray into electoral politics was with a different party: he ran as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate in the 1948 Alberta general election in the electoral district of Medicine Hat.

John Box

He retired after this film, but returned in the mid-90s to work on an adaptation of Black Beauty, as well as First Knight, his first foray into computer assisted set design and his final film.

Judah Katz

Winning an ACTRA award (now called a Gemini Award) for his very first foray in front of a camera in 1983 as "best new actor in Canadian Television", he also received a Gemini for "best supporting actor" for his role as Alan Eagleson in the CBC mini-series Canada Russia '72.

Lotte Lehmann

She also made a foray into film acting, playing the mother of Danny Thomas in Big City (1948), which also starred Robert Preston, George Murphy, Margaret O'Brien and Betty Garrett.

Maria Sachs

In 1994, she took her first foray into politics but was unsuccess in her run to become the Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit court of Florida.

Mark C. Johns

His first foray into politics was a run against congresswoman Louise Slaughter for New York's 28th congressional district in 2000.

Miguel Migs

Migs was credited for his soul-driven vibes and hailed as one of the pioneers of the nascent house and chill-out revival scene alongside Dimitri from Paris and Bob Sinclar as a result of his early foray into Deep House in the late 1990s and early 2000s, releasing several highly sought after singles and remixes under the Petalpusher pseudonym.

MobLogic

Executive producers Adam Elend and Jeff Marks met fellow Executive Producer Lindsay Campbell when she auditioned for Elend and Marks' first foray into the web video world, Wallstrip.

Neha Oberoi

Her foray into films started with the Telugu blockbuster Balu ABCDEFG and was followed by a role in one of the short films in Dus Kahaniyaan.

Paul J. Schissler

Schissler first foray in to coaching in the NFL was with the Chicago Cardinals from 1933 to 1934.

Paul Sylbert

Sylbert's one foray into writing and directing for feature films was The Steagle (1971) starring Richard Benjamin.

Paul Y. Anderson

In October he took a foray into radio and denounced the conduct of Martin Dies, Chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Peter Herman Adler

He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

R. R. Venkat

The producer has also made his foray into Hollywood with the 2012 English movie Divorce Invitation starring Jonathan Bennett directed by veteran S. V. Krishna Reddy which is a remake of S. V. Krishna Reddy's Srikanth and Ramya Krishnan starrer Aahwanam.

Seymour Krim

His deepest foray into daily journalism began in 1965 when he joined the New York Herald Tribune′s staff which included Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe and Dick Schaap.

Smashbox Studios

In 2002, IMG's fashion division, which produces Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York, made its first foray west, with Mercedes-Benz Shows LA in downtown Los Angeles at The Standard hotel.

T. Lawrason Riggs

Graduating from Yale as a member of the class of 1910, Riggs embarked on graduate studies at Harvard University as an assistant to Barrett Wendell, which were interrupted by his foray into musical theatre.

Tejaswini Prakash

Tejaswini made her foray into mainstream commercial cinema in 2007 with Savi Savi Nenapu, where she played a heart transplant patient who has received the heart of the protagonist's dead wife.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Lauder's first foray into breast cancer awareness was through an initiative by herself and Alexandra Penney, former editor of SELF magazine, to make the pink ribbon an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.

The Magnetic Monster

The Magnetic Monster marked Carlson's initial foray into sci-fi and horror and he would follow it with several better known titles that would forever associate him with that genre: It Came from Outer Space (1953), The Maze (1953), Riders to the Stars (1954), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), and such TV series as Thriller and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

The O.D's

The group have been advised by legendary producer Nick Tauber who on first listen said "you'd have to be stupid not to like it" in the initial stages of their foray.

Thirrupathi Brothers

Thirrupathi Brothers produced Kumki (2012) with Prabhu Solomon which starred Vikram Prabhu in the lead and marked his foray in Tamil cinema.

Thomas T Adamson-Coumbousis

Though he started in print at Associated Press in Paris in 2003, Adamson's foray into TV began on French design programme Paris Modes, where he covered the catwalks at London Fashion Week.

Tony Camin

Camin made his first foray into performing as an on-air personality at the Bay Area college radio station KFJC.

White Heart

White Heart signed with a mainstream label, Curb Records, as Curb's first foray into the Christian Music contemporary rock market.


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