The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland were terra incognita to almost all Englishmen, and most Lowland Scots. |
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We were setting out into terra incognita, marked only by blank spaces on the maps, drawn by the magnet of our ambition as explorers. |
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Giles was the last European to explore vast regions of unmapped desert in Central Australia, what the nineteenth century referred to as terra incognita. |
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My search for tramps has taken a side trip into terra incognita. |
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One of the major attractions associated with investing here is that it is not terra incognita. |
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She sees prospects for growth in the ties between the two countries, but at the same acknowledges that for many Dutch business people, Bulgaria is still terra incognita. |
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To set off for terra incognita with the hope of putting down roots in a new land. |
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By the early 17th century, terra incognita was shrinking and cartographers had to make room on their maps for new geographical information. |
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When humans went to space for the first time in history, a mission to the terra incognita of the human mind had a lift-off too. |
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Terra incognita appears as an empty territory waiting to be divided up and filled by the nations of Europe. |
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Focusing on developing countries, we have to confess that most of these developments are a terra incognita for today's academic social science. |
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Yasuni is terra incognita, one of the beastliest, lushest, most fecund, abundant but unknown places on earth. |
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A clear separation was observed between all species investigated, with the smallest distance between M. incognita and M. javanica. |
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Even though she had a high school diploma in economics she did not have much confidence about doing the job because it was terra incognita for her. |
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Early map-makers were happy to leave blanks for terra incognita or to stock those empty spaces with headless cannibals, giant monopeds, Amazons and dragons. |
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At this stage, however, we are still largely treading on terra incognita. |
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When Thomas Jefferson sent young Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery to survey the lands beyond the Mississippi, the West was terra incognita. |
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Here are five books that make the terra slightly less incognita. |
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The songs were terra incognita until Ms. Farnum explored them for this recital and for a recording she has made with the same excellent airy-toned and alacritous pianist, Margaret Kampmeier. |
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Through their ongoing dialogue, which they have kept for a long time, they stimulate our own reflection, precisely because they do not hesitate to venture into zones of terra incognita. |
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It seems clear that United Nations recruitment continues to be a terra incognita in which people are recruited into the organization in various vague ways. |
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Chelsea Through Sept. 3 The notion that self-taught art remains a terra incognita, constantly refreshed by hidden streams of creativity around the world, is reinforced by this vibrantly inharmonious show. |
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Kyrghyz literature is celebrated in the Western world as Chingiz Aitmatov's terra firma, but the time-honored tradition of Kyrghyz poetry is term incognita. |
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He represented this to the King of Spain as the Terra Australis incognita. |
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He was the main proponent of the theory that there existed a vast undiscovered continent in the South Pacific, Terra Australis Incognita. |
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