The son of the prison warden, he embarked on a career of redesigning and refining execution devices. |
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He then embarked on intensive study, first of the philosophy of Maimonides, then of the esoteric Kabbala, which was rather more to his taste. |
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I embarked on a flight to the United States donning the guise of a student. |
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We embarked on that road thousands of years ago when plants were first domesticated. |
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About 60 probationers sentenced to do community service under correctional supervision embarked on a campaign to clean the city yesterday. |
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To some extent, the U.S. has already embarked on this effort by declassifying thousands of pages of official documents. |
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He had now embarked on a career which was to be his profession until he took early retirement in recent times. |
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He had succeeded to the earldom in 1678 and embarked on an ambitious programme for refurbishing his Elizabethan ancestral home. |
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Only weeks after introducing the hotly disputed entrance charge, they have embarked on a cut-price promotion with a supermarket. |
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Taking up the cause of free love, she embarked on an affair with a playboy doctor. |
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As sales started to slip, the company embarked on heavy couponing promotions. |
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Hull is poised for major changes to its secondary school education, having already embarked on a series of primary school closures. |
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So she has embarked on three jobs involving working seven days a week and some evenings in order to find the cash. |
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An estranged husband was so fixated with his wife that he embarked on a two-year stalking campaign during which he followed her with a camcorder. |
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The clever woman identified herself as a Washington reporter seeking to interview me but then embarked on a filthy tirade. |
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But even that trio of conquests didn't satisfy his rampaging appetite. He also embarked on a much-publicised affair with an actress. |
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To combat an insurgent force of between 3,000 and 6,000, British forces embarked on a brutal war. |
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The colt, now aged four, has embarked on what is already a successful stud career. |
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In the meantime, my college friends have embarked on their careers, marriages and families at home. |
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Further impetus was provided by my teenage son who has embarked on his own photographic odyssey. |
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In response, he embarked on a huge programme of military rearmament, which included the deployment of Pershing nuclear missiles. |
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Bernard embarked on pell-mell international expansion, building strong operations across the rest of Europe, Asia and Latin America. |
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Year seven students embarked on the project, inspired by the Hindu festival of Holi, to learn more about the Hindu culture and its celebrations. |
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When we last see her, she has hesitantly embarked on a career in television. |
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For the past 50 years, the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people have embarked on a non-violent struggle to free Tibet from its oppressors. |
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Loren won a beauty contest at the age of 14, and she and Romilda, who was a handsome woman herself, embarked on careers as film extras. |
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The association has embarked on stakeholder discussions around the country to try and find resolute regulation to the timber industry. |
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Her compelling debut novel introduced readers to two fiercely independent soul sisters who embarked on a remarkable journey of self-discovery. |
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One rather unsuccessful idea which he embarked on quite late in his career was to apply invariant theory to chemical valences. |
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Some of the cities have embarked on programmes of urban renewal, with varying degrees of success. |
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However, in 1911 he gave up the idea of training for the priesthood and embarked on the study of philosophy, social science, and natural science. |
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The venture was not a success and the next year both parties embarked on a process of negotiation for the domains. |
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Our church group could be described as either having embarked on a cultural trip to Boulogne or booze cruise to Cite Europe. |
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He watched departures from harbours, joined drovers crossing fords and muleteers breasting hills, embarked on ferries for no purpose. |
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Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading. |
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We have embarked on a journey without any true sense of where we want to go. |
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His government embarked on a campaign of harassment and intimidation against those members of the press who questioned his misuse of power. |
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In 1592 and 1597 the Japanese shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi embarked on disastrous invasions of Korea. |
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Indian defence scientists have embarked on developing an indigenous 155 mm field gun. |
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At a conference a decade or so ago he hosted a bibulous dinner, after which he embarked on a funny speech. |
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He shouldn't have embarked on the expeditions for the search of sentient life forms with his team. |
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Both sides embarked on an escalating public relations battle and a frantic scramble for the moral high ground. |
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We have mapped the human genome and embarked on identifying and curing heretofore intractable genetic conditions. |
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In 1851, having already embarked on a successful career as man of letters, he paid his first visit to Europe in the company of his family. |
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Bosses embarked on a programme of cost-cutting to reduce fees charged to airlines and entice new carriers, especially no-frills operators. |
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He therefore embarked on a series of arrangements for String Orchestra in an attempt to present the String Quartet medium to a wider audience. |
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When I first embarked on the research I was armed with only a very vague strategy and a lot of high hopes. |
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To raise these funds the band has embarked on a public appeal for financial assistance. |
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Perhaps as a result of the success of the wild turkeys, Shenandoah embarked on a more ambitious project later that year. |
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After doctors warned last May that the two-year-old might not live to see his 10th birthday, they quickly embarked on their own mercy mission. |
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She recovered, insofar as it was possible to recover, renewed her studies, graduated from her first degree and embarked on a further degree. |
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Turnover has doubled in the past two years as the company embarked on an ambitious expansion programme. |
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A school is having to fork out to buy security cameras after yobs broke in and embarked on a spree of vandalism. |
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Her achievements are even more remarkable for the fact that she only embarked on a university education in her fifties. |
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A Westcliff security company has embarked on a campaign to reform working practices in the security business. |
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In 1939, therefore, the British and French embarked on an attempt to build an alliance with the Soviet Union. |
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He has since embarked on a winning streak courtesy of his grit, tenacity and persistent style. |
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Beijing banned the logging which had stripped the upper reaches of China's major rivers bare and embarked on a huge reafforestation campaign. |
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For example, on one occasion he embarked on the story of his first marriage and ended up telling me how he likes to whistle tunes in the street. |
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They embarked on a life that was both romantically adventurous and cozily domestic. |
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Jubilant jumped-up managers all over the country embarked on a new aggression against the people who do the work. |
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When the team embarked on a trek through Texas, parts of its game were rough and ragged. |
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The editor of the Sunday Star-Times has embarked on one of the most transparently unprofessional jack-ups in New Zealand's journalistic history. |
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Desperate to get work and be accepted in fashion circles, Marie-Jose embarked on a three-month period of self-imposed starvation and self-deprivation. |
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A century ago today, archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary embarked on his fatal journey to Sarajevo. |
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Greenspan may even believe this, and has thus embarked on yet another round of extreme accommodation to lessen the economic impact collapsing tech stocks. |
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She said she feared for her life when a man who was testing her car, with her as passenger, embarked on a crazed high-speed joyride and refused to stop. |
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Robert Smithson and John Lloyd Stephens were both New Jersey-born residents of Manhattan, wherefrom each embarked on a well-publicized excursion to the Yucatan Peninsula. |
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The mills embarked on a modernisation programme that included the building of a new hydro-electric scheme, widening of the lade, and a modern power plant. |
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Afterwards the players embarked on a lap of honour to salute the fans who had turned out in numbers to ensure the occasion had been something special. |
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Blessed in the knowledge that republican dissidents present no realistic alternative, Sinn Fein has embarked on a series of meetings to counsel its traumatised membership. |
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In the late 1970s, Merritt had embarked on a string of criminal activity that would continue regularly for a decade. |
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Recently, historians have embarked on a quest to find the remains of the woman with the famous smile. |
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They embarked on an anti-piracy drive that looked a lot like what the Recording Industry Association of America is currently doing with pirated music. |
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It has been a singularly rude awakening for France and the country has embarked on a deep, soul-searching, introspection on how things could have gone so horribly wrong. |
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The pair met in 2001 and embarked on a romance of glitz and glamour that lasted over a decade. |
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Gassendi, for example, embarked on a wholehearted revival and modification of Epicurean atomism, which had a considerable impact on natural philosophy. |
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Fed up with using half of a store-bought container of ricotta cheese, Petrit Husenaj embarked on making his own. |
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There, in the South, in the shadows of pine forests, meadows, arable fields, and rich pastures, his paternal grandparents embarked on their quest for freedom. |
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After struggling with anorexia and drug use in her 20s, mandi Babkes embarked on an all-raw, vegan diet. |
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Russia, having annexed the Crimea, had embarked on a titanic struggle with the Ottoman Empire which was absorbing stupendous quantities of manpower and treasure. |
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Labourers in the sugar fields embarked on a series of strikes to raise their wages, shorten their hours, and withdraw women and children from field work. |
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The United States, the leaders appeared to say, was not embarked on a wild, unilateral ride into new conflict that left Europe unconsulted and vulnerable. |
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He broke with tradition when he embarked on a theatrical career. |
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Instead, I embarked on a vinous calling to seek out and taste the great wines of Burgundy and the sublime but tantalising magic of the Pinot Noir grape. |
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Sir Georg Solti embarked on his 22-year reign with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at an age when lesser mortals were queuing for their free bus passes. |
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He has embarked on yet another comeback and is apparently off the booze. |
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Later, he embarked on a revised edition of this epochal work with a masterful correlation of stethoscopic sounds and diseases of the chest documented by postmortem findings. |
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When Ryan Simonetti and two of his colleagues embarked on an Uber trip in Washington, D.C., they got more than they bargained for. |
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This article reviews varied types of relationships that were formed when a kindergarten class embarked on a study of the Native Alaskan art of carving. |
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For those who embarked on a literary career, the only recourse was to draw their subsistence from the value of their writing when they signed their contract with a bookseller. |
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In the wake of his triumphs on Super Tuesday, which effectively confirmed him as the Democratic nominee, he embarked on a 20-city fundraising tour. |
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Then, encumbered with cameras, equipment and chemicals for processing, he embarked on a challenging expedition to Russia to photograph a suspension bridge under construction. |
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Ms Musonda said her organisation had embarked on a programme to encourage farmers plant cassava, millet, and sweet potatoes as these were drought resistant crops. |
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After the trial commenced, but before a jury was empanelled, counsel embarked on a series of applications relating primarily to the admissibility of evidence. |
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Drawing on his experience raising tilapia on fish farms in South America years ago, Warner embarked on an effort to farm the breed in big indoor tanks. |
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He states that anthrax vaccine is not being produced, but the Pentagon has embarked on a massive effort to produce this vaccine and to inoculate all US troops on active duty. |
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By the beginning of the 1630s, however, Descartes embarked on a more ambitious plan to construct a systematic theory of knowledge, including physics. |
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As the Marxist creed dissolved, the other two religions have embarked on a process of mass conversion sending missionaries out to the four corners of the globe. |
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The administration is embarked on a course of action that will, once the lies and fearmongering are exploded by events, produce political convulsions at home and abroad. |
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He also asserted the crown's power with an iron will, though, particularly when he embarked on the great adventure of separating the English church from that of Rome. |
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We then embarked on a three-hour conversation about the fabric of reality and the way we have deceived ourselves about the true nature of the world. |
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Most recently a group of rank-and-file flight attendants have embarked on a campaign to decertify the Teamsters and establish an independent union. |
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Three truly was company for the Paulson children as they embarked on the adventure of siblinghood. |
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In December 1904 Joseph Jenkins embarked on three months of preaching and professing in areas of North Wales. |
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In May 2003, Radiohead embarked on a world tour and headlined Glastonbury Festival for the second time. |
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Radiohead embarked on a world tour, visiting North America, Europe and Japan. |
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After the album's release, the band embarked on its first world tour in 10 years. |
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Since its successful flotation PHS has embarked on a strategy of steadily acquiring businesses in its core market sector. |
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During the summer of 1979, the Bee Gees embarked on their largest concert tour covering the US and Canada. |
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He rented a farmhouse near Strathpeffer and embarked on his most productive period as a novelist and essayist. |
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After sleeping with one eye open we embarked on a dawn trek through the jungle and onto a piranha filled lake in dugout canoes. |
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Mansour, heading a high-ranking delegation, embarked on a visit to Iran in a bid to strengthen mutual cooperation between Tehran and Beirut. |
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The 'Ten Pound Poms' as they were known in Australia, embarked on to ships such as RMS Mooltan and set off for a new life. |
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Following that speech, Blair embarked on two months of diplomacy rallying international support for military action. |
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While suffering from the condition hypomania, Frankie embarked on a booze and cocaine binge that saw him arrested 30 times in just four months. |
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Richard and his mother embarked on a tour of Aquitaine in 1171 in an attempt to pacify the locals. |
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Claudius embarked on many public works throughout his reign, both in the capital and in the provinces. |
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Among those who embarked on these four vessels was Francisco Pizarro, the future conqueror of Peru. |
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The Noriega regime promptly annulled the election and embarked on a new round of repression. |
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After suppressing numerous rebellions with considerable bloodshed, Peter embarked on a tour of Western Europe incognito. |
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They embarked on what appears to have been a happy and successful marriage, though money was often short. |
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At the same time, the NCB embarked on an extensive programmes of boring to prove the reserves of coal, and modernised existing collieries. |
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Iyad Abdal Rahim joined the group as CFO of Arabtec Construction last year and has since embarked on a restructuring. |
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Calderdale Council has embarked on a major restoration project of the district's war memorials. |
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From Aden, Ibn Battuta embarked on a ship heading for Zeila on the coast of Somalia. |
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After spending about a month in Cairo, he embarked on the first of many detours within the relative safety of Mamluk territory. |
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After 718 Charles Martel embarked on a series of wars intended to strengthen the Franks' hegemony in western Europe. |
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The following year he embarked on the Grand Tour, which included a visit to Rome. |
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In the meantime, Authari embarked on a policy of internal reconciliation and tried to reorganize royal administration. |
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This was contradicted by President Salva Kiir, who announced South Sudan had officially embarked on the application process one month later. |
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In the second half of the 4th century, the Lombards left their homes, probably due to bad harvests, and embarked on their migration. |
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Lord Mayor Hazel Williams sent her condolences to the mayor of Copeland, the Lakeland borough where Bird embarked on his killing spree. |
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Vespasian immediately embarked on a series of efforts to stay in power and prevent future revolts. |
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On October 17, Rebecca More embarked on a cross-country tour of Britain. |
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Following the end of the war, in 1945 Southsea and the rest of Portsmouth embarked on a massive clearance and rebuilding scheme. |
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Jessica embarked on the tandem jump with Red Devil, Lance Corporal Nathan Connolly at Langar Airfield. |
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On 7 February 2008, a NASA team embarked on a mission to Lake Untersee, searching for extremophiles in its highly alkaline waters. |
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De Valera abolished the Oath of Allegiance and embarked on an economic war with Britain. |
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The Bath metal upstarts have embarked on one of the most vicious teenage rampages you're likely to hear on their sophomore set. |
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Jogaila embarked on gradual Christianization of Lithuania and established a personal union between Poland and Lithuania. |
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On 2 May 2010, they embarked on their headline tour starting in Newcastle and finishing in Exeter on 14 May. |
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In 1996 Great Britain embarked on a disastrous tour of the Southern Hemisphere under coach Phil Larder. |
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After hanging up his boots, McMahon embarked on a career in management with spells at Swindon, Blackpoll and then Perth Glory. |
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Living in Anatolia, she embarked on the crossing to Cyprus on a very crowded boat. |
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After 12 months back at Cardiff Central, DI Norman embarked on his second overseas secondment, to spearhead a taskforce in Kosovo. |
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But now, scientists have asserted that vents and seeps co-exist in the deep as they embarked on a submersible expedition off Costa Rica. |
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To promote I Created Disco, Harris embarked on a tour of the UK, supporting Faithless and Groove Armada. |
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In February 2016, the Rolling Stones embarked on their Latin American tour. |
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The park administration has embarked on a slew of tourist-luring projects. |
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Preston, embarked on several time travelling adventures in a telephone booth. |
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The band embarked on another sold out UK tour in 1994, after recording new material for their greatest hits compilation album, Our Town. |
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A self-proclaimed one termer, Polk embarked on a course to expand the United States. |
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Meanwhile, Toyota has already embarked on public trials of a quirky-looking three-wheeler. |
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In order to overcome this rejection, Agassiz embarked on geological fieldwork. |
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On Thursday night, Lisbon's children embarked on the traditional search for chametz. |
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In 1977, Led Zeppelin embarked on another major concert tour of North America. |
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Bruce now embarked on a campaign to restore Scottish independence, and this campaign took the English by surprise. |
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With the release of Horizontal, they also embarked on a Scandinavian tour with concerts in Copenhagen. |
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The role of the Parliament changed after 1541, when Henry VIII declared the Kingdom of Ireland and embarked on the Tudor conquest of Ireland. |
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In June of last year, we embarked on an effort with Streamside Ventures to scale our capabilities and our reach. |
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Yet the county commissioners responded as though Eugene was embarked on a Stalinist campaign of collectivization. |
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Clarabridge embarked on valuable relationships with companies, including Allegiance, Beyond the Arc, Connotate, Inc. |
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As non-striker, he embarked on a single but was sent back by Paul Coughlin and was easily run out by a throw from 12th man Aaron Thomason. |
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Britain embarked on global imperial expansion, particularly in Asia and Africa, which made the British Empire the largest empire in history. |
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But this time they settled on an Australian architect, Sam Marshall, a Sydneysider who had never embarked on a project of that scale before. |
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In 2008, he embarked on a weight loss program, and by 2010, he had lost 80 pounds. |
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To prove the point, this summer, North London's most famous and nuttiest pop institution embarked on the biggest tour of their career. |
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The Shelleys then embarked on a roving existence, never settling in any one place for long. |
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She embarked on a short North American tour in the same month, and 19 was released in the US in June. |
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Ray Oliver packed up his possessions and embarked on a round-the-world trip aboard his 36ft boat Cymar in 1996 after Patricia died from cancer. |
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After the album's release, the band embarked on a successful world tour that was once again filled with incidents. |
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It starred Kate Hackett, Chris O'Brien, Elise Cantu and Tony Noto and embarked on a LGBTQ plotline. |
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In 1572, he embarked on his first major independent enterprise. |
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In 1618, beginning with the Defenestration of Prague, Austria and the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, embarked on a campaign against the Protestant Union and Bohemia. |
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Soon, he embarked on another international tour that included more fights in the United States, several fights in Denmark, and one fight in Canada. |
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Chaplin then embarked on the Third Liberty Bond campaign, touring the United States for one month to raise money for the Allies of the First World War. |
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Over the next ten years, Tyndale revised his New Testament in the light of rapidly advancing biblical scholarship, and embarked on a translation of the Old Testament. |
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In April and May 2012, the band embarked on a European greatest hits tour. |
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Following his 11-year NFL career, Oater has embarked on a legal and real estate career, and was instrumental in securing Florham Park as a practice site for the New York Jets. |
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He embarked on an acting career while still in his late teens. |
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Of course, circumstances have changed unrecognizably since then, Libya's founding fathers embarked on a mission to dismantle the barriers created by foreign colonialists. |
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In 2008, lead singer Sharleen Spiteri embarked on a solo career. |
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In 1854 Bradford Corporation bought the Bradford Water Company and embarked on a huge engineering programme to bring supplies of soft water from Airedale and Wharfedale. |
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In 2000, he embarked on opening his own restaurant, La Broche. |
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He embarked on a program of building ships larger than heretofore. |
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While still with Baldry, Stewart embarked on a simultaneous solo career. |
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In August 1883, Janey would be introduced to the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, with whom she embarked on a second affair, which Morris might have been aware of. |
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From 1277, and particularly after 1283, Edward embarked on a policy of English colonisation and settlement of Wales, creating new towns like Flint, Aberystwyth, and Rhuddlan. |
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When Sir Walter Raleigh was released from imprisonment in 1616, he embarked on a hunt for gold in South America with strict instructions from James not to engage the Spanish. |
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In 1583 he embarked on a second attempt, on this occasion to the island of Newfoundland whose harbour he formally claimed for England, although no settlers were left behind. |
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She embarked on her first tour as a solo artist to promote the album. |
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In the 1790s Robert Burns embarked on an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national song contributing about a third of the songs of The Scots Musical Museum. |
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In August, 1454 at the age of 22, Alvise and his brother Antonio embarked on a Venetian merchant galley, captained by Marco Zen, destined for Flanders. |
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She and her husband undertook an extensive tour of the United Kingdom, while her children and grandchildren embarked on royal tours of other Commonwealth states on her behalf. |
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He also embarked on a major programme of naval reconstruction, enforcing ship money to finance the building of such prestige vessels as HMS Sovereign of the Seas. |
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In late 2004, Robin embarked on a solo tour of Germany, Russia and Asia. |
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Soon after the Shanghai Communique, China embarked on a historic journey that made Mao Zedong's mythicized Long March seem like a stroll in the park. |
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As Britain embarked on colonial expansion, large commercial organisations were much in need of sophisticated information about trading conditions in foreign lands. |
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In October 2016, Tyler embarked on her Greatest Hits Tour in Germany. |
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Convinced of the need to convert to a free-market economy, the CIS has opened its arms to foreign investment and embarked on an ambitious, radical privatization program. |
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Henry VIII had embarked on a grandiose programme of artistic patronage. |
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He also embarked on the translation of Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. |
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Manoeuvering our way through invisible lanes and past tuk-tuks, pedestrians, motorbikes, buses and the occasional sacred cow, I had embarked on the experience of a lifetime. |
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Sullivan embarked on his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour songs and other light pieces in a more commercial vein. |
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When I embarked on reading it, I was intimidated by how much of our popular culture Martha Bayles proposed to cover in detail by focusing on so many individual products. |
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On 3 July 1753 he formally gave up his practice as a barrister and instead embarked on a series of lectures on English law, the first of their kind. |
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In 1891, on the advice of his doctors, Kipling embarked on another sea voyage visiting South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and once again India. |
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He then embarked on his magnum opus, his Guide to the Lakes. |
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When they ceased publication in 2003, the rights were bought by Frances Lincoln who shortly afterwards embarked on a revised Second Edition of the guides. |
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The three embarked on a tour of England and Wales, visiting Birmingham, Warwick, Gloucester, Swansea, Monmouth and numerous other towns and villages. |
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