• Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519.

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  • The convoy had set out from Baton Rouge, 85 miles away, before 4 a.m.

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  • Dave and Amy Freeman, of Grand Marais (muh-RAY') set out from Seattle in April 2010.

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  • "We set out from the start to dictate the game and we did that, " said Cahill.

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  • Like many boats before that have reached land safely, the wrecked vessel is thought to have set out from Indonesia.

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  • In August 1807 the North River Steamboat of Clermont set out from New York Harbor on its maiden voyage to Albany.

    FORBES: The Love Boat

  • In 2006 Heyerdahl's 29-year old grandson Olav set out from Callao, Peru, to retrace the journey of the Kon-Tiki in his own boat.

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  • Currently in Southern Illinois (he set out from Lewes, Delaware) and bound for Missouri via mostly rural roads, Damm starts each day at 7:00 AM.

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  • It's an avalanche-prone area that, for us, is deemed safe by DOC rangers only minutes before we set out from the hut in the morning.

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  • His defense lawyer said authorities set out from the beginning to link texting to the crash, a cause-and-effect relationship that he contends is not valid.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Ghana set out from the start to execute a well-organised game-plan of crowding out the Egyptians in midfield and defence, while looking to feed their front men quickly.

    BBC: Ghana 0-1 Egypt

  • They set out from Orchha on Friday and had pitched their tent in a forest near Jatia village when they were attacked by a group of men armed with wooden sticks.

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  • They set out from Orchha on Friday and pitched their tent in a forest near Jatia village when they were attacked by a group of men armed with wooden sticks, police said.

    WSJ: Indian Police Detain 20 Over Swiss Tourist's Rape

  • Master At Arms Dean Latham, 38, Petty Officer Russell Simpson, 34, Leading Chef Brad Morton, 25, Engineering Technician Steve Weaver, 27 and 29-year-old Able Rate David Grey set out from the ship which is in Invergordon in the Cromarty Firth at midday on Monday.

    BBC: Sailors race warship HMS Sutherland back to Plymouth

  • But the heart of the book is the story of how this full-blown late Romantic grew up in semi-detached suburbia by the River Thames during the second world war, and set out from there in search of a rainbow that turned out to be made of celluloid.

    ECONOMIST: Film autobiography

  • The real event occurs rarely, but every summer aficionados run the route by bike, motorcycle and even canoe and as we set out from the handsome medieval core of Sneek, our goal was to hew approximately to the route, while avoiding the cyclists that were following it in earnest.

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  • In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

    BBC: The haunted land of New England

  • The key change was that the constitution set out to replace all previous treaties, and set out the EU legal base from scratch.

    ECONOMIST: European politics

  • Its venture into mobile phones set out to be global from the start.

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  • On another morning, we set out at first light from the house in Shey for morning prayers at the 15th-century Tikse Monastery.

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  • Though the policy was developed by the Labour government, government officials said they had yet to set out how the revenue from the levy should be spent.

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  • Among them was Alan Towle, who set out on a journey from work that normally takes 45 minutes at 1500 GMT on Monday, only to arrive home nine hours later.

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  • The arrangement is so bad that some taxpayers hire a second set of advisers to help them get out from under the heels of the first set.

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  • Barry Ferguson - who had been impressive in midfield - should have done much better when set up by the industrious Darcheville, but the Ibrox captain blasted the ball well over from a good position, before Adam passed up a set-piece from 20 yards out.

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  • In policy making, lots of ideas are thrown out in order to set the good apart from the bad, and in order to stake out a position for compromise.

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  • The Tories and Liberal Democrats condemned the PPGs, which set out what families can expect from the education system.

    BBC: Children, Schools and Families Bill

  • It was also set out how he is suffering from ill health.

    BBC: Facebook

  • John Locke set out to release the individual from the tyranny of religious authorities by enunciating the doctrine of the separation of church and state.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Mr. Beckers, a 39-year-old physicist from France, graduated from Stanford University with a master's of business degree in 2011 and set out to build software that could decipher heart defects from MRI readings.

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  • Specifically, John and two colleagues from Carnegie Mellon set out to study a common contradictory attitude toward Internet privacy.

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