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n. (plural of exploration English)
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Explorations is an album by jazz pianist Bill Evans that was originally released on Riverside label in 1961. The album won the Billboard Jazz Critics Best Piano LP poll for 1961.
Explorations, powered by Duracell is a documentary TV series that looks into the many aspects of the human life with science, technology and research.
Three series have been broadcast.
Series 1 - 6 x 1hr, Series 2 - 13 x 1/2hr, Series 3 - 13 x 1/2hr.
It is an example of "advertiser funded programming", where Duracell fund the cost of production of the series, produced by Broadcast Marketing Ltd, London. Executive Producers for Broadcast Marketing, Bill Orde and Peter Telford.
The second series mainly focuses on daily life, ranging from food to fear to love. It provides interesting information and fact that usually do not come to people's minds, such as :
- How food changes the chemistry of the brain, affecting one's mood and ability to achieve. (Mood Food)
- The factors that cause attraction - Body shape, symmetry of a person's face and movement of a person. (First Impressions)
- How short-term stress can save one's life, and how long-term stress can be a slow and potential killer. (Stressed)
- The origins of phobia, how people react when they confront their fears head-on. (Primal Fear)
The first and the second series were broadcast on September 2003 and September 2004, respectively. The documentary is broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in the United States, BBC World, and cable/terrestrial channels elsewhere around the world. It is produced jointly by BBC Worldwide Ltd and Broadcast Marketing Ltd, United Kingdom.
Category:2003 British television programme debuts Category:2004 British television programme endings Category:2000s British television series Category:British television documentaries Category:National Geographic Channel programs Category:English-language television programming
Explorations may refer to:
- The plural of exploration
- Explorations (TV series), a BBC documentary
- Explorations (Bill Evans album), 1961
- Explorations (Louis Bellson album), 1964
Explorations is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin and American drummer Louis Bellson recorded in 1964 and released on the Roulette label. It was the first album composed entirely by Schifrin and features themes that would later be used in the television detective series Mannix.
Usage examples of "explorations".
It was too late in the season to make further explorations where the two rivers invited to the west and northwest, so Cartier joined the companions who had been left near Quebec to build a fort and make ready for the winter.
Certainly his explorations took him into your bedroom and into direct confrontation with your chamber pot!
Only two or three daring spacemen had ever ventured on nebular explorations, into a smaller counter-space lying on the route to Proxima, and they had never emerged.