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Africa Hinterland

The drivers, at that time from London from Amsterdam, opened an office in Johannesburg and ran trips with South African passengers paying for excursions to the Okavango and returning via Bulawayo, where the truck was loaded up with weapons.

Almanzo W. Litchard

He also visited Mount Vernon, the U.S. Treasury, and the Smithsonian Institution during his excursions into town.

Anne Chamberlain

She would accompany him on his outdoor excursions (though not always the whole way, for he was a prodigious walker), and learned much from his collections and studies of Lepidoptera, plants and birds.

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples

Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples is a non-fiction book by V. S. Naipaul published by Vintage Books in 1998.

Brent Community Transport

They also provide an excursions service tailored to suit and meet our local community demands and have now included long-distance journeys by doing regular trips to theme parks, museums, castles and shopping centres like Lakeside and Bluewater.

Candida Lycett Green

There were also excursions by train from London to Bristol and, through “Metro-land”, to Quainton Road; Lycett Green unveiled a commemorative plaque at Marylebone station to mark Betjeman's fond association with the railways.

Chesapeake and Ohio 614

It was then used for a series of popular excursions between Hoboken, New Jersey and Port Jervis, New York in conjunction with New Jersey Transit (NJT) between 1996 and 1999.

Cinque Torri

During summer it is possible to do excursions in the woods and on paths, among which it is worth to mention Alta Via 1 of the Dolomites, the "Muraglia di Giau" (along the border between comuni of Cortina and San Vito di Cadore, itineraries towards Nuvolau e il Passo Giau and the historical path in the trenches of the World War I.

Daniel the Traveller

He learned much of the regions from his three major excursions to the Dead Sea and Lower Jordan (which he compares to the Snov River), Bethlehem and Hebron, and Damascus.

Drobytsky Yar

Excursions to the ravine had already been held before, but the official opening was on January 27, the anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp's 1945 liberation (later designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day).

Encephalartos woodii

Despite numerous excursions in the Ongoye-Mtunzini area, no other specimens of Encephalartos woodii have ever been found.

English cricket team in North America in 1859

In addition to the exhibition matches they also had two excursions to view the Niagara Falls.

Eureka Locomotive

In 1997, Eureka was transported to Chama, New Mexico, for a series of operational excursions over the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railway in late June.

Faurea saligna

Faure had accompanied Harvey on numerous botanising excursions, and had left the Cape for India in 1844 having received a commission in the East India Company's military service.

Felix Kopstein

From 1921 onward, he was assigned as a physician in the Dutch East Indies, being based on the island of Amboina, from where he made several zoological excursions to New Guinea and throughout the Moluccas.

Florence May Harding

In this role she was adept as organiser, researcher, librarian, and speaker at Club meetings, as well as leading numerous field excursions, both within the district and further, such as the Flinders Ranges.

Fort Laramie, Wyoming

The town is named after historic Fort Laramie, an important stop on the Oregon, California and Mormon trails as well as a staging point for various military excursions.

Gitte Mose

Winther, Per and Lothe, Jakob and Skei, Hans H. (ed.) The Art of Brevity: Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis, Columbia: U of South Carolina P (2004).

GWR 4900 Class 4936 Kinlet Hall

The fitting of OTMR has allowed it to provide motive power for various mainline excursions, including Vintage Trains' Shakespeare Express and the Three Choirs Express excursion, double-heading with 5029 'Nunney Castle'.

GWR 4900 Class 4965 Rood Ashton Hall

The engine operates in its Great Western Railway green livery, and performs regularly on the Shakespeare Express, operated by Vintage Trains, between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as various excursions.

Hanne Marie

Sailing trips start from the museum port in Greifswald and the excursions generally take place in the southern and western Baltic Sea.

Harvest excursion

Thus in 1890 harvest excursions were organized by the Canadian Pacific Railway in which special trains would transport workers from Eastern Canada to the prairie centres.

Il castello di Kenilworth

This opera was the first of Donizetti's excursions into the Tudor period of English history, and it was followed in 1830 by Anna Bolena, (which was based on the life of Ann Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII), then by Maria Stuarda (named for Mary, Queen of Scots) which appeared in different forms in 1834 and 1835.

Isla Damas

Boat and kayak tours through the island's estuaries are popular excursions with tourists staying in Quepos, Manuel Antonio National Park, or Jacó.

Kennington Road

With the growing popularity of Brighton as a resort in the later eighteenth century it became part of the route there, used by George IV on his excursions there and later for other London to Brighton events such as the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.

Kirk Smeaton railway station

Notes: After closure some excursions ran from the station to Hull Fair and Leeds football ground.

Lake Mungo

Two excursions have been recorded in sediments from Skjonghelleren on Valderøy, Norway with the Virtual Geomagnetic Pole (VGP) of one being synchronous with Lake Mungo suggests that the Lake Mungo event was global rather than a local event.

LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 4806

Some years were spent based in Accrington, with working excursions to a planned preserved line at Helmshore.

Mainline Steam

The organisation regularly operates excursions out of Auckland and Christchurch, the latter operating excursions primarily along the highly scenic Midland Line.

Nestor von Henko

On the occasion of the 165th anniversary of his birth and 100th anniversary of his death, 2004 was declared "year of Henko" in the Samara region , marked by an interregional scientific conference, edition of scientific material, establishment of memorial squares, excursions on "Henko forests".

Nilaihah Records

Null Device (albums: Sublimation, A Million Different Moments & Excursions, Suspending Belief)

Noadswood School

Several residential trips are organized at the school, including excursions to Bude, Cologne, Paris and to Ypres & the Somme.

Oregon Rail Heritage Foundation

In the summer of 2011, the SP 4449 hauled two excursions: one to Tacoma and Stampede Pass for the NRHS annual convention, and another up the Columbia River Gorge to Wishram to celebrate its 70th anniversary and help to raise funds for an upcoming 15-year boiler certification.

Paraf

The new musical orientation was presented to the wider audience on the second synth-laden studio album "Izleti" ("Excursions"), featuring songs "Pobuna bubuljica" ("Acne Uprising"), "Nestašni đački izleti" ("Naughty School Excursions"), "Javna kupatila" ("Public Bathrooms") and "Federico u bačvi" ("Federico in a Barrel"), the latter being inspired by the Federico Felini film Casanova.

Patrick Hape

He went on bowling excursions to bolster team chemistry while in Denver with then-Bronco teammates including Matt Lepsis, Tom Nalen, and Jeb Putzier.

Patrick Keiller

Both London and Robinson in Space are narrated by an unnamed character (voiced by Paul Scofield) who accompanies his friend and onetime lover, the unseen Robinson, in a series of excursions around London.

Pete Kircher

He has also shown himself to be a talented vocalist, though his excursions into singing on record were generally limited to backing vocals, notably with Honeybus, Colin Hare, Shanghai and Status Quo.

Reykjavik Excursions Kynnisferðir

Reykjavik Excursions operates a variety of day tours from Reykjavík guided by professional guides in English, German, French and Scandinavian all year around e.g.Blue Lagoon, the Golden Circle and the Northern Lights.

Saint John's School of Alberta

The school continued to have an outdoor education program with snowshoe training and races (now shortened from the original one-day, 16-hour races of 50 miles (80 km), canoe trips and other outdoor excursions.

Scanno, Abruzzo

Situated in the Sagittario Valley and encircled by the Majella mountains Scanno has been immortalised by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (1951) and Mario Giacomelli (1957-1959) and, according to Edward Lear, was host to Italy’s most beautiful women (Illustrated excursions in Italy by Lear, Edward, 1846).

Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet

For their Welsh excursions they rented Benarth, a house near Conwy, where they were visited by Uvedale Price among others.

St. Anne's High School, Bandra

In Fr Trevor's initiatives included vocational guidance and counselling, the Scouts and Guides, and other extra curricular activities like field sports, elocution, dramatics, music and competitions, excursions and camps.

Tennessee Valley Railroad 610

In 1978, it was donated to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, and following its 1991 restoration, it served as pulling power on the TVRM's excursions, and was also featured in country singer Josh Turner's music video for his hit song Long Black Train (song) in 2003.

The Shackled City Adventure Path

The adventures are designed to begin with first level characters and to end with characters at or near twentieth level, taking them through twelve distinct adventures that span basic dungeon crawls, urban adventures, political intrigue, and even extra-planar excursions.

Willi Graf

In 1938, he was arrested along with other members of the Grauer Orden and charged by a court in Mannheim with illegal youth league activities–the Bünde having been banned–in relation with his unlawful field trips, camping excursions and other meetings with the Grauer Orden.

William Stanley Haseltine

In late 1857 he settled in Rome, and in the following months made numerous excursions to draw the landscape around Rome and on Capri.


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