expedition
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On Aug. 10, 1893, three men set out on a hunting expedition across the Ardlamont Estate, on the west coast of Scotland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"The shipwreck is a time capsule at the bottom of the sea," said Prof Hakan Öniz, from Akdeniz University in Turkey, who led the Mediterranean Archaeology Association expedition.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Egged on by demagogues, Thucydides narrates, Athens embarked on a war of choice—the Sicilian expedition, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Athens’s eventual defeat in the Peloponnesian War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
As part of his preparations for the series, Bartlett went on a photo-taking expedition through Seattle and Tacoma, collecting imagery of Pacific Northwest grunge to share with his artists: crumbling walls, fire escapes, water towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Despite how sick he was, Roosevelt always made a point of asking about the others on the expedition.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Ash Dykes, 35, from Old Colwyn, Conwy, holds five world records but his most recent quest was the first of six back-to-back expeditions he will take on in extreme environments.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Professor Molchanov, a ship that had been traversing Arctic waters on scientific expeditions for more than four decades, offered a workaround.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The expeditions explored seamounts near Isla del Coco and along Costa Rica's Pacific margin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
As I rushed to join my teammates, I looked down to see a queue of approximately fifty climbers from other expeditions moving up the ropes, too; the first of them were now immediately below me.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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