• To be blown off course in the sailing ship era meant be to diverted by unexpected winds, getting lost possibly to shipwreck or to a new destination. In...
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    maintained it was a civilian (mainly meteorological) airship that had been blown off course. According to U.S. officials, the balloon carried antennas and other...
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    accounts recorded that the Vietnamese captured Chinese whose ships had blown off course and detained them. Young Chinese men were selected by the Vietnamese...
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    Wise. According to this saga, Leif discovered Vinland after being blown off course on his way from Norway to Greenland. Before this voyage, Leif had spent...
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    episode fourteen "Bitter Tears". During season six, episode eleven "Blown Off Course" he learned that his father, Keith Anderson, had gone missing and was...
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    accounts recorded that the Vietnamese captured Chinese whose ships had blown off course and detained them. Young Chinese men were selected by the Vietnamese...
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    accounts recorded that the Vietnamese captured Chinese whose ships had blown off course and detained them. Young Chinese men were selected by the Vietnamese...
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    Erikson as well as his discovery of Vinland after his longship was blown off course. The Viking conqueror of Dublin, Olaf the White was married to Aud...
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    example is the reference to two different men named Bjarni who are blown off course. A brief summary of the plots of the two sagas, given at the end of...
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  • which adventurers could reach by traveling west from Ireland, often blown off course by providential tempests while on an inspired mission. They typically...
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