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Sardinia has Aegean sites, e.g.

The Internet is full of sites that offer good to humanity and yield no profit for the people working on them.

I must have guessed incorrectly as I saw only empty camp sites beyond.

The collection of well-defined sites was tastefully arranged around a circular loop with about thirty camp sites on both the inside and outside of the narrow roadway.

I take it we've not heard from the central or west coast sites this week?

I believe your regular launch sites have been well covered by the enemy.

The favourite haunts of the wild cat are mountain forests where masses or rocks or cliffs are interspersed with trees, the crevices in these rocks or the hollow trunks of trees affording sites for the wild cat's lair, where its young are produced and reared.

The sites of several of these towns are doubtful.

The Open Directory Project—where fifty thousand editors try to organize the web into a directory of sites for no reward at all—comes instantly to mind.

After the War, the government created seven protected sites around the world with only one person at the site knowing what was there and security measures that were beyond anything the Peak had.

The country was thickly studded with towns, the sites of which are still represented by mounds, though the identification of most of them is still doubtful.

Julie maintained no Face Book or Twitter account, nor could Betsy locate her on any other social network sites.

Dan's going to move you somewhere safe today to one of our permanent sites.

The oppression of Antiochus led to a revolt of the Jews under the leadership of the Maccabees, and Judas Maccabaeus succeeded in capturing Jerusalem after severe fighting, but could not get The sites shown on the plan are tentative, and cannot be regarded as certain; see Nehemiah ii.

Between `Ana and Hit there were anciently at least four island cities or fortresses, and at the present time three such towns, insignificant relics of former greatness, Haditha, Alus or el-`Uzz and Jibba still occupy the old sites.

Actual figures of a monster with a bull's head and man's body occurred on seals of Minoan fabric found on this and other Cretan sites.

Cretan enterprise in the days of the New Egyptian empire is illustrated by repeated finds of Late Minoan pottery on Egyptian sites.

It will be convenient here to give a general view of the more important Minoan remains recently excavated on various Cretan sites.

It is evident that accurate knowledge of the character and structure of the rock-formations in petroliferous territories is of the greatest importance in enabling the expert to select favourable sites for drilling operations; hence on well-conducted petroleumproperties it is now customary to note the character and thickness of the strata perforated by the drill, so that a complete section may be prepared from the recorded data.

It has been suggested that these spurs represent the sites of vents or fissures of eruption.

To his time may be referred many of the buildings around the Agora (probably rebuilt on the former sites) and elsewhere, and the passage, or 8p4uos, from the Agora to the Dipylon flanked by long porticos.

And small finds of it on other sites have shown that it was usual all over Mesopotamia, and connects on the one side with the early pot fabrics of Asia Minor and on the other with the pottery of Anau and the kurgans of Turkistan, found by Pumpelly.

From the end of the 4th to the first half of the 5th century, the fossores had the privilege of selling sites, which frequently led to grave abuses.

The confidence with which the great cities of Og were identified with the extensive remains of ancient sites in the Leja and Hauran has also been shown to be without justification.

Toutain, Esperandieu, Gauckler, Merlin, Homo and many others, to say nothing of German scholars, such as Willmans and Schulten, and especially of a great number of enthusiastic officers of the army of occupation, who explored all the ancient sites, and in many cases excavated with great success (for their results see the works quoted above).

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Besides the forum Stukeley suggested the sites of seven other buildings - the Arx Palatina guarding the south-eastern angle of the city where the Tower now stands, the grove and temple of Diana on the site of St Paul's, &c. No traces of any of these buildings have been found, and they are therefore purely conjectural.

The Benedictine monks preferred secluded sites; the Augustinians did not cultivate seclusion so strictly; but the friars chose the interior of towns by preference.

These last four places seem to lie on a main road leading from Cappadocia to Marash and the Syrian sites.

Outlying Sites.

If so, the continuation of Hittite history will have to be sought among the remains at Jerablus and other middle Euphratean sites, rather than in those at Boghaz Keui.

Both parties visited many sites where Himyaritic remains and inscriptions were found, but the hostile attitude of the natives, more particularly of the Seyyids, the religious hierarchy of Hadramut, prevented any adequate examination, and much of archaeological interest undoubtedly remains for future travellers to discover.

The wild olive, the wild cherry, two species of wild plums, the myrtle, the ivy, arbutus, and two species of holly are found in the mountains of Khmiria, at various sites at high elevation near Tunis and Bizerta, and along the mountainous belt of the south-west which forms the frontier region between Tunisia and Algeria.

The intervening ground upon which the railway lines and buildings stood was sold for building sites, the sum obtained being more than sufficient to cover the cost of the majestic central terminus (the third largest in the world), which, in addition to spacious and handsome halls for passenger accommodation, has three glass-covered spans of 180 ft.

The growth of Kure and Sasebo is attributable to the fact that they have become the sites of large ship-building yards, the property of the state.

It has been the custom to rebuild them every twentieth year, alternately on each of two sites set apart for the purpose, the features of the old edifice being reproduced in the new with scrupulous accuracy.

Many of these have been demolished and government offices erected on their sites; others have given place to new streets and houses.

Other educational establishments are Queen's University, replacing the old Queen's College (1849) under the Irish Universities Act 1908; the Presbyterian and the Methodist Colleges, occupying neighbouring sites close to the extensive botanical gardens, the Royal Academical Institution, and the Municipal Technical Institute.

Since the British occupation it was disputed whether the military authorities had the right to alienate for the benefit of the imperial exchequer fortress sites no longer required for defence.

It remained for the more robust faith of a Schliemann to show that such scepticism was all too faint-hearted, by proving that at such sites as Tiryns, Mycenae and Hissarlik evidences of a very early period of Greek civilization awaited the spade of the excavator.

Beyond these ranges the country is further diversified by isolated hills rising abruptly from a common level, and presenting from their steep and nearly inaccessible scarps eligible sites for castles and strongholds, whence the mountaineers of Bundelkhand have frequently set at defiance the most powerful of the native states of India.

The valley now widens out into the rich district of Hamah (Hamath-Epiphaneia), below which lie the broad meadow-lands of Ghab, containing the sites of ancient Apamea and Larissa.

Here and there in the Arctic province remains of old village sites have been examined, and collections brought away by whalers and exploring expeditions.

Throughout eastern United States shell-heaps, quarries, workshops and camp sites are in abundance.

In North America the sites have been examined by the Peabody Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and others, with the result that only the Trenton gravels have any standing.

As for the second, the elements of savage voracity and wastefulness, of uncertainty as to cubical contents on uneven surface, and of the number of mouths to fill, make it hazardous to construct a chronological table on a shell-heap. Hudson's village sites in Patagonia contain pottery, and that brings them all into the territory of Indian archaeology.

At all the more interesting sites he took up his abode for a time; he examined, he inquired, he made measurements, he accumulated materials.

The high-lying moorland of the surrounding district is diversified by picturesque, dales; and Harrogate is not far from many towns and sites of great interest, such as Ripon, Knaresborough and Fountains Abbey.

Many smaller lakes, however, contain them, and they are also found in peat moors on the sites of ancient lakes now drained or silted up, as at Laibach in Carniola.

Even the temples of Dodona and of Jupiter Capitolinus stood on the sites of older tree-worship.

In many cases the span is fixed by local conditions, such as the convenient sites for piers, or the requirements of waterway or navigation.

While the ruins of Calah were remarkably rich in monumental material, enamelled bricks, bronze and ivory objects and the like, they yielded few of the inscribed clay tablets found in such great numbers at Nineveh and various Babylonian sites.

A further interest in Greek archaeology has been awakened in all civilized lands by the excavations of Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, Epidaurus, Sparta, Olympia, Dodona, Delphi, Delos and of important sites in Crete.

It allied itself with the Gauls in 361 B.C., and in the war which followed the towns of Empulum and Saxula were destroyed (their sites are unknown) and triumphs over Tibur were celebrated in 360 and 354 B.C., and again in 338, when its forces were defeated, with those of Praeneste.

This whole class seems to cling to sites of Phoenician trade, and to keep clear of Greece and the north -- perhaps a Phoenician form of the 129 system, avoiding the sexagesimal multiples.

On the 30th of May 1847, immediately after his return from the House of Commons, where he had given evidence as to the refusal of sites for Free Churches by Scottish landowners, he was found dead in bed.

The sites of Caesar's colonies were selected for their commercial value, and that the citizens of Rome should cease to be rulers of the Mediterranean basin could never have entered into Caesar's mind.

The two chief sites to be cleared were the temples of Apollo and of Aphrodite, in both of which successive buildings of various date were found.

A great deal of it was local ware, but there were also imported vases from various Greek sites.

The development of towns of the municipal type on the sites where legions occupied permanent quarters can be traced in several of the western provinces; and it cannot be doubted that this development became the rule wherever a body of Roman subjects settled down together for any purpose and permanently occupied a region.

The open valleys between the spaced ranges offer many tempting sites for settlement, but in the south irrigation is needed for cultivation.

The sites of deposition varied as the period progressed, for the warping and faulting of the surface, the igneous extrusions, and the deposition of sediments obliterated old basins and brought new ones into existence.

The same spirit manifested itself in the choice of the sites of their monasteries.

Many shallow lakes have been completely filled with alluvium and their sites are now occupied by fertile plains; this process may be seen in operation almost anywhere; a good illustration is the delta of the Rhone in Lake Geneva.

Beside the grotto of the Nativity other traditional sites are shown within the church, such as the Altar of the Magi, the Tomb of Eusebius, the cave wherein Jerome made his translation of the Bible, &c.

Landowners refused sites, and in the Isle of Wight the people worshipped for many months in a quarry.

Particular sites, rivers, springs, hills, meadows, caves, rocks, trees or groves, are holy and from time immemorial have been so, as the natural homes or haunts of gods or spirits.

Such sites in the Old Testament were Hebron with its tree, Sinai with its burning bush, Bethel, Shechem, Beersheba, Mount Gerizim.

Five modern cities, Colchester, Lincoln, York, Gloucester and St Albans, stand on the sites, and in some fragmentary fashion bear the names of five Roman municipalities, founded by the Roman government with special charters and constitutions.

On the whole it seems likely that the cultivation of the land was not generally interrupted for more than a very few years; hence the convenience of utilizing existing sites of villages would be obvious, even if the buildings themselves had been burnt.

Tradition represents the conversion of Great Armenia under Gregory and Tiridates as a sort of triumphant march, in which the temples of the demons and their records were destroyed wholesale, and their undefended sites instantly converted into Christian churches.

Sidon, Tyre and Aradus, though now connected with the mainland, were built originally upon islands; the Phoenicians preferred such sites, because they were convenient for shipping and easily defended against attack.

The remains or sites within the Altis may conveniently be classed in three main groups, viz.

Here, on the 3rd of August 1795, General Wayne, the year after his victory over the Indians at Fallen Timbers, concluded with them the treaty of Greenville, the Indians agreeing to a cessation of hostilities and ceding to the United States a considerable portion of Ohio and a number of small tracts in Indiana, Illinois and Michigan (including the sites of Sandusky, Toledo, Defiance, Fort Wayne, Detroit, Mackinac, Peoria and Chicago), and the United States agreeing to pay to the Indians $20,000 worth of goods immediately and an annuity of goods, valued at $9500, for ever.

Transplant from the nursery to their final sites annuals sown in autumn, with biennials and herbaceous plants.

The reliefs upon it are sometimes of considerable beauty, and large quantities of it, and the sites of several of the kilns, have been discovered in and near Arretium.

The low-lying spaces at the confluences of the rivers, being readily laid under water, have been not infrequently chosen as sites for fortresses.

The principal sites of interest round the lake may be enumerated from north to west and from south to east.

The eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee have been less fully explored than the western, and the sites are not so perfectly recovered.

After the rise of the kingdom, palaces were erected separate from the temples; the sites of those of Hadad-nirari I., Shalmaneser I., and Assur-nazir-pal have been discovered by the German excavators, and about a dozen more are referred to in the inscriptions.

He hastily qualified himself by study, and entered upon the practical duties of surveying farm lines, roads and town sites.

Besides a valuable account of the principal sacred sites of Judaea, Samaria and Galilee as they existed in the 7th century, he also gives important information as to Alexandria and Constantinople, briefly describes Damascus and Tyre, the Nile and the Lipari volcanoes, and refers to the caliph Moawiya I .

Both sites show signs of Roman occupation.

The old shore cliffs and gravel bars of these glacial lakes are still well-marked topographical features, and provide favourite sites for towns and cities.

But the form of the tombs always remains the same, a small low chamber hewn in the rock, with a rectangular opening about 2 by 22 ft., out of which open other chambers, each with its separate doorway; and inhumation is adopted without exception, whereas in a Greek necropolis a low percentage of cases of 1 Leontini, Megara, Naxos, Syracuse, Zancle are all recorded as sites where the Sicel gave way to the Greek (in regard to Syracuse [q.v.] this has recently been proved to be true), while many other towns remained Sicel longer, among them Abacaenum, Agyrium, Assorus, Centuripae, Cephaloedium, Engyum, Hadranum, Halaesa, Henna, Herbessus, Herbita, Hybla Galeatis, Inessa, Kale Akte, Menaenum, Morgantina.

The middle zone of the Cameroon mountain has, however, a temperate climate and affords excellent sites for sanatoria.

The subjects of its nine chapters are - (I) the Corinthian, Ionic and Doric orders; (2) the ornaments of capitals, ac.; (3) the Doric order; (4) proportions of the cella and pronaos; (5) sites of temples; (6) doorways of temples and their architraves; (7) the Etruscan or Tuscan order of temples; (8) circular temples; (9) altars.

C. t is on selection of sites; c. 2 on the planning of buildings to suit different sites; c. 3 on private houses, their construction and styles, the names of the different apartments; c. 4 on the aspects suited for the various rooms; c. 5 on buildings fitted for special positions; c. 6 on farms and country houses; c. 7 on Greek houses and the names of various parts; c. 8 on construction of houses in wood, stone, brick or concrete.

The bazaars of Aintab are a great centre for "Hittite" antiquities, found at various sites from Sakchegoizu on the west to Jerablus on the east.

Ancient Cities and Monuments.M any of the modern cities of Egypt are built on the sites of ancient cities, and they generally contain some monuments of the time of the Pharaohs, Greeks or Romans.

The sites of other ancient cities now in complete ruin may be indicated.

Norden (f 7081742), both travelling in 1737, and others later, planned, described or figured Egyptian ruins in a primitive way and identified many of the sites with cities named in classical authors.

Supported by the French interest, the established character of this work as a department of the Egyptian government (which also claims the ancient sites) has been fully recognized since the British occupation.

In the north of the Delta, however, there was a sinking of the land, in consequence of which the accumulations on some of the ancient sites there extend below the present sea-level.

At the first of these sites is the most perfect early town, of which hundreds of houses still remain.

On the Nubiari sites his work may still be seen at Amfida, Ellesra, Ibrim, Semna and in Sinai at Serabit el KMdem.

In some cases they appear to lie where they were chipped on the sites of flint factories.

The receptive organs of the muscular sense and of the semicircular canals are to be regarded as the sites of origin of this reflex tonus of the skeletal muscles.

Usually the great barrows occupy conspicuous sites; but in general the external form is no index to the internal construction and gives no definite indication of the nature of the sepulchral usages.

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These had not yet been resumed by 1921, partly because of the increased cost of labour, partly because of the continued inaccessibility of sites.

Sites have also been explored in Phocis (Hagia Marina) and Boeotia, in AetoIia (Thermon) and the Ionian Islands, in Attica, at Argos, Mycenae and Tiryns, in the neighbourhood of Corinth, and in the islands of Aegina, Cythera, Euboea, Melos, Paros, and Rhodes.

This new and unexpected knowledge, and modern improvements in the science of excavation, have led to the reexploration of several old sites.

Fragments of painted wall and floor decoration have also been recovered on these sites.

Several sites of the Early Iron Age have also been excavated in Greece, but nothing has been found to prove the origin of the " Geometric " culture, though accumulating evidence still indicates a northern source.

Halos was added to the number of Early Iron Age sites in Thessaly in 1912 (Wace and Thompson).

Classical Period Recent excavations of classical sites in Greece proper have been of minor importance.

These are always the most numerous finds on classical Greek sites, and their importance is mainly historical.

The important excavations of the American School at prehistoric sites near Corinth have been mentioned.

Prehistoric sites were located on the characteristic mounds of the country, and some were superficially excavated; but most finds were accidental and unrecorded, and many were dispersed and lost.

The sites of the colonies in South Russia used to be a copious source of Greek antiquities of all periods, but the supply has ceased at the present time.

Prisoners of war have indeed done scientific service as labourers on certain sites.

In Sicily there has been continuous work on Greek sites at Camarina, Catania, Messina, and Syracuse; the most important results were obtained at Syracuse.

Most of the hills and crags in the Carboniferous area are volcanic, and many of them - such as the castle rocks of Edinburgh and Stirling, Binny Craig in Linlithgowshire, North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock - mark the sites of actual events of eruption.

The actual vents which were the sites of the small volcanoes still remain distinct, and the erupted lavas form high ground in the middle of Ayrshire.

Cicero had already compared the sites consecrated by the memory of some illustrious name with those hallowed by recollections of a loved one.

But the visitation of these sites was rendered impossible to the Christians by the destruction of Jerusalem and the erection of the town of Aelia Capitolina.

His authority was a Frankish bishop named Arculf, who resided for nine months as a pilgrim in Jerusalem, and visited the remaining holy sites of Palestine in addition to Alexandria and Constantinople.

It is only pious memory that draws the Protestant to the sites consecrated by ecclesiastical history.

No new motives for the pilgrimage emerged in the 19th century, unless the ever-increasing cultus of the Virgin Mary may be classed as such, all of the new devotional sites being dedicated to the Virgin.

It has been abandoned jungle since the 3rd century A.D., or perhaps earlier, so that the ruined sites, numerous through the whole district, have remained undisturbed, and further discoveries may be confidently expected.

Among several other sites and buildings of historical interest the Charterhouse west of Aldersgate Street, stands first, originally a Carthusian monastery, subsequently a hospital and a school out of which grew the famous public school at Godalming.

The diminutive cities of this cosmopolitan Palestine were ruled by kings, not necessarily of the native stock; some were appointed - and even anointed - by the Egyptian king, and the small extent of these city-states is obvious from the references to the kings of such near-lying sites as Jerusalem, Gezer, Ashkelon and Lachish.

There is no evidence that the earliest Christians were imbued with the archaeological spirit that interested itself in sites which the Risen Lord had vacated.

The growth and development of " holy sites " can best be illustrated, in an article like the present, by a few figures.

Certain sites have, however, always been held by the Oriental sects, and since 1808, when the Holy Sepulchre church was destroyed by fire, the number of these has greatly increased.

The process of manufacturing new sites, however, continues unchecked.

As to its chronological relation to the Cretan sites - Cnossus, Phaestus, &c., and the "Minoan" civilization as determined by Dr A.Evans, see the discussion under Crete.

In the Koh-Daman, north of Kabul, are the sites of several ancient cities, the greatest of which, called Beghram, has furnished coins in scores of thousands, and has been supposed to represent Alexander's Nicaea.

On the whole the probabilities of the two sites seem to balance, and it is practically impossible without further discoveries to decide between them.

The sites of the neighbouring cities of Bethsaida and Chorazin are probably to be sought respectively at El-Bateiha, a grassy plain in the north-east corner of the lake, and at Kerazeh, 2 m.

Its valley, the lower part of which divides the Taunus hills from the Westerwald, is often very narrow and picturesque; among the towns and sites of interest on its banks are Marburg and Giessen with their universities, Wetzlar with its cathedral, Runkel with its castle, Limburg with its cathedral, the castles of Schaumburg, Balduinstein, Laurenburg, Langenau, Burgstein and Nassau, and the well-known health resort of Ems. The Lahn is about 135 m.

The lower Colorado river was discovered in 1540, but the explorers did not penetrate California; in 1542-1543 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo explored at least the southern coast; in 1579 Sir Francis Drake repaired his ships in some Californian port (almost certainly not San Francisco Bay), and named the land New Albion; two Philippine ships visited the coast in 1584 and 1595, and in 1602 and 1603 Sebastian Vizcaino discovered the sites of San Diego and Monterey.

In this district are the sites of cities used as capitals of China in remote antiquity.

Besides the excavations of Athens, Delos, Epidaurus and Delphi, the results of which are most important for the 5th century B.C. and later, the exploration of the sites of Olympia, of the Heraeum near Argos, of Naucratis in Egypt, and of various Cretan towns (above all the ancient Gortyn), has revolutionized our knowledge of the archaic alphabets of Greece.

History And Archaeology Down To The Roman Occupation The Stone Age has left but few traces in Cyprus; no sites have been found and even single implements are very rare.

The principal publications respecting this and all sites and phases of culture mentioned in this section are collected in Myres and Ohnefalsch-Richter, Cyprus Museum Catalogue (Oxford, 18 99), pp. 1-35.

Objects of Cypriote manufacture are found but rarely on sites abroad; in the later Bronze Age, however, they occur in Egypt and South Palestine, and as far afield as Thera (Santorin), Athens and Troy (Hissarlik).

Brit., 11 General Louis P. di Cesnola (q.v.), American consul, was already exploring ancient sites, and opening tombs, in all parts of the island, though his results were not published till 1877.12 But though his vast collection, now 1 Dio Cass.

There is no staff, and no effective supervision of ancient sites or monuments.

In 1883 the Cyprus Museum was founded by private enterprise, and on its behalf Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, who had already made trial diggings for Sir Charles Newton and the British Museum, excavated sanctuaries at Voni and Kythrea (Chytri), and opened tombs on some other sites.

But there is reason to think both town and shrine had different sites in pre-Ionian times, and that both lay farther south among the foot-hills of Mt.

The pilgrim next entered on a circuit of the most famous sites of Buddhist and of ancient Indian history, such as Ajodhya, Prayaga (Allahabad), Kausambhi, Sravasti, Kapilavastu, the birth-place of Sakya, Kusinagara, his death-place, Pataliputra (Patna, the Palibothra of the Greeks), Gaya, Rajagriha and Nalanda, the most famous and learned monastery and college in India, adorned by the gifts of successive kings, of the splendour of which he gives a vivid description, and of which traces have recently been recovered.

The principle in such treatment by means of vaccines is to stimulate the general production of anti-substances throughout the body, so that these may be carried to the sites of bacterial growth, and aid the destruction of the organisms by means of the cells of the tissues.

Nowadays the little fishing villages on the shores of the lakes, notably the Wannsee, cater for the recreation of the Berliners, while palatial summer residences of wealthy merchants occupy the most prominent sites.

Salona under the early Roman emperors was one of the chief ports of the Adriatic, on one of the most central sites in the Roman world.

In 1909 a Board appointed to consider the several possible sites within this district reported in favour of Canberra, on the Molonglo river, near Queanbeyan, as the site for the new city, and the basins of the Molonglo, Queanbeyan and Cotter rivers were indicated as suitable to form the federal territory.

The historic castles, the sites of ancient battles, and the innumerable mansions of the wealthy, combine to give to central England a certain aesthetic interest which the more purely manufacturing districts of the west and north fail to inspire.

A few small elevations of gravel, or of underlying formations, rise above the level of 25 ft.; these were in former times islands, and now they form the sites of the infrequent villages.

The council may convert corporate land, with the approval of the Local Government Board, into sites for workmen's dwellings.

The sites of seven posts established against Rome may be traced along the hills bounding Flintshire and Denbighshire.

Plans were at once made to pull down all the worst slums, and as these lay between the centre of the town and the railway station, a wide street was constructed from the centre of the town to the eastward, and on each side of it wide strips of ground were cleared to afford building sites for shops and offices.

The attention of antiquarians to the charms against the Evil Eye used by the inhabitants of the Neapolitan provinces was first drawn in 1888, when it was shown that they were all derived from the survival of ancient classical legends which had sprung from various sources in connexion with classical sites in the neighbourhood.

He was buried in eastern Bagdad, where his tomb still exists, one of the few surviving sites from the time of al-Mansur, the founder.

Yet the hilly parts of the last-named country are rich in magnificent sites at sufficient altitudes for the supply of any parts by gravitation, and capable, if properly laid out, of affording a volume of water, throughout the driest seasons, far in excess of the probable demand for a long future.

Many of the great towns had already secured such sites within moderate distances, and had constructed reservoirs of considerable size, when, in 1879, 1880 and 1892 respectively, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham obtained statutory powers to draw water from relatively great distances, viz.

Several of the reservoir sites in Wales, shown by shaded lines in fig.

Very careful provision is made for the preparation of the sites of great assemblies, and the preservation of peace and order at them is sanctioned by the severest penalties of the law.

There are several public parks and gardens on well-chosen elevated sites, the principal being the Botanical Garden, from which the city and port are well seen.

Dr Stein also investigated sites in the neighbourhood of Kara-shahr and others to the north-east of the great desert.

In connexion with this chapel it is related that, when the temple was in course of erection, Terminus, the god of boundaries, and Juventas refused to quit the sites they had already appropriated as sacred to themselves, which accordingly became part of the new sanctuary.

After travels in Greece, Tunisia, India, China and Japan, and writing a short sketch of the last two countries, he took his large fortune to Greece in 1868, and proceeded to visit Homeric sites.

Kefr Kenna, now a flourishing Christian village at the foot of the Nazareth hills, south of the Buttauf, is one of the sites identified with Cana of Galilee, and the ruin Kana, on the north side of the same plain, represents the site pointed out to the pilgrims of the 12th and 13th centuries.

The town hall, with a medieval tower and a 15th-century portico, contains some Etruscan sarcophagi from sites in the neighbourhood, and a few good paintings.

Men could walk over their sites, Demosthenes said seven years afterwards, without knowing that such cities had existed.

The whole traffic of these stations is to be directed into a vast central station (the largest in the world), lying on the sites of the Dresden, Magdeburg and Thuringian stations.

These valleys are favourite village sites.

Another noteworthy feature is the interest taken in sacred sites.

The association of the ancestors of Israel with certain sites is a feature which finds analogies even in modern Palestine.

There are few remains of medieval castles, although the sites of a considerable number are traceable.

Primitive Inhabitants.The origin and character of the early inhabitants of the Peninsula are unknown; recent conjectures on the subject, which have been many, are more bold than probable, and we must await the result of further excavations of prehistoric sites and further inquiries into the native inscriptions before we can hope for much certainty.

Dr Wallis Budge visited several of the far southern sites and made some tentative excavations, but no extensive explorations were undertaken until an unexpected event produced a sudden outburst of activity.

As a result of this measure all sites bordering the river.

But the exploration of sites in the southern half of Lower Nubia has revealed the existence of a wholly unsuspected independent civilization which grew up during the first six centuries after Christ.

The sites on which it has been observed range from Dakka to Halfa, that is to say within the precise limits which late Latin and Greek writers assign to the Blemyes, and there is good reason to identify the people that evolved it with this hitherto almost unknown barbarian nation.

It may be mentioned here that on the first of these sites a cuneiform tablet belonging to the Amarna series was discovered; at Gezer, a deed of sale; at Tell-el-Hasy the remains of a Babylonian stele, three seals, and three cylinders with Babylonian mythological representations; at Tell-el-Mutasellim, a seal bearing a Babylonian legend, and at Taannek, twelve tablets and fragments of tablets were found near the fragments of the terracotta box in which they were stored.

But much beside tablets has been found on these sites; primitive sanctuaries, for instance.

A special characteristic of the Yemen highlands is that fields and inhabited sites are found at the highest elevations, the mountain-tops forming extensive plateaux, often scarped on every side and only accessible by difficult paths cut in the cliffs which encircle them like the escarpments of a natural fortress; a remarkable example of this is Jebel Jihaf on the Aden border, 8000 ft.

When, in 146, his public life closed, he completed his preparation of himself for his great work by laborious investigations of archives and monuments, and by a careful personal examination of historical sites and scenes.

That's why they visit birthplaces, places of monumental happenings like battlefields or sites of great tragedies— to absorb a tiny bit of what happened there.

Too many sites rely on visitors' burning curiosity to explore and figure it out.

He managed diligence investigations at Federal sites.

There was a predilection for certain sites, the molecular basis of which remains obscure.

This is rather rare, with many other sites providing online services being extremely reticent about who they are really.

Some sites may rotate multiple banner ads into the cover page.

The first system is the study of protein modules which mediate transient associations at sites of focal adhesion.

Our website may provide links and banner advertisements to third party sites.

There is a news section and also links to many UK clubs, overseas dojos and other aikido related sites.

A helicopter airlifted 200 tons of stone to different sites where work was to be undertaken.

However, some hydrocolloids now contain an alginate, for example Comfeel Plus, making these more appropriate for small donor sites.

These astronomical alignments were an integral part of the design of many sites.

This meant that civic amenity and bring sites made up a smaller proportion of 66% instead of 69% in 2001/2002.

The carbohydrate-binding sites of these lectins consist of two conserved amino acids on beta pleated sheets.

The sum of ammonia and particulate ammonium (total inorganic ammonium, TIA) is also to be measured daily at these sites.

The leaflet offers some practical help and guidance for sites, such as quarries, that use ammonium nitrate for blasting.

There are articles, images, and illustrations on primate anatomy and physiology collected from a variety of Web sites.

The level of price increases on BW's mooring sites has been somewhat anecdotal.

For a more advanced and interactive online presence, our design team can use animated Flash technology to create high impact web sites.

A few of the smaller sites just have two directional antennas at the top of a pole or on a shared tower.

In the germline DNA, the V genes encoding the antigen combining sites need to combine with the C genes.

In general (with a few notable exceptions) Council web sites are quite appalling examples of web site design.

Blood samples can be taken from sites such as the forearm, the upper arm, the upper arm, thigh and the base of the thumb.

Many of the most attractive web sites are built by graphic artists.

A lot of the news sites are getting sporadic service atm.

Many visitor attractions within the locality include a variety of National Trust sites.

Two sites did contain images where the alt attribute has been used.

Many apparently authoritative sites do not mention this crucial information i.e. they were prepared before this knowledge was available and have not been up-dated.

I believe there are a couple people who have enabled user avatars on their sites (not counting the Gravatar system ).

All sites have 60 m towers as well as microwave backhaul links.

On the other side of the equation, there is a massive backlog of sites waiting to be reviewed.

It can also be used for off-site backups at remote storage sites.

There will be a dressing and an elasticated bandage over the operation sites, applying pressure to assist with healing.

The use of sewage treatment works as foraging sites by insectivorous bats.

Top Ten Sites Some Beehive networks keep a list of the top ten sites on the beehive networks keep a list of the top ten sites on the Beehive each month.

Mander, in contrast, had strong union ties and was quite belligerent to the other two sites.

Landfill Gas The potential to harvest biogas from landfill waste has been harnessed in sites around the world.

Freshwater Ecology (GCSE and A-Level) A number of stream sites are studied using biological, chemical and environmental sampling techniques.

One of the project sites is Goss Moor which is currently bisected by the A30 trunk road.

A vast array of birds including blackbirds, greenfinches, thrushes, yellowhammers, to name just a few will nest in these sites.

After The Invasion The official series and BBC sites continue the publicity blitz for The Christmas Invasion.

During the first two weeks in June the HSE carried out its largest ever inspection blitz, visiting 1,446 construction sites.

Here a local antiquarian bookseller may be able to advise or there are a number of sites on the internet.

Ranscombe Farm is one of British botany 's classic sites, and a favorite haunt of wild-plant enthusiasts for hundreds of years.

The Trust and Government wildlife advisors English Nature also plan to harvest bracken from sites in East Anglia.

This seminar will examine the many problems attached to bringing forward brownfield sites for development.

Because of the desirability of living near the center, there is extensive redevelopment of city brownfield sites.

Region does not have enough quality brownfield sites immediately available.

The montane calcicole bryophyte flora is also outstanding and includes a number of species not present on other selected sites.

Websites designed to suit all budgets - visit my site today to see examples of sites I've done for business like yours.

Textile mills, churches, schools, hospitals, farm buildings, railroad stations or Ministry of Defense sites are just a few examples.

Vega LED Beacons are factory sealed for life, and are ideal for use on floating buoys or at fixed sites.

Recommends allowing unrestricted growth, but states that pinching out will increase bushiness and an increased number of bud sites.

She notes " My parent's farm was one of the last sites in Lincolnshire for corn buttercup.

Class sets of graphical calculators are available on both sites.

The foot may develop callus over sites that are taking extra pressure, eg from ill fitting footwear.

The government is proposing to incinerate cattle carcasses at 22 sites, some of which are in populated areas.

A similar pairing of decorated caves and hilltop settlements has been observed at other sites of the same date.

The difference in proportions between human and non-human sites was observed to be greatest in medium and large cervids.

At these sites choirs of holy men maintained a constant liturgical chant which varied over the seasons and cycles.

We have just appointed a full-time ecumenical chaplain to oversee the work - on all five sites!

Both sites had new species including water chickweed, common toadflax, snapdragon, common hemp nettle, dwarf mallow and greater knapweed.

There are also civic amenity sites in Droylsden and Stalybridge where you can recycle a wide range of materials.

At some sites there will be acts of nonviolent civil disobedience.

In addition this is one of the few sites in the county where meadow clary grows.

Early WAP sites were slow, clunky and badly designed.

Since metals like zinc, copper cobalt have a tendency to bind to non-specific sites, imidazole chelation may become useful.

Most people buried in woodland sites are laid to rest in cardboard coffins or wicker baskets.

Columba livia, so called because it lives in caves and cliff sites.

Those whose sites get de-indexed anticipate a major comeback.

We also check sites regularly to ensure they remain compliant.

You can purchase sheet music from associated sites and search for classical music concerts in all areas of the UK.

Yet at more than 110 sites checked so far they have found nothing conclusive.

River channel confluences are ubiquitous features of all fluvial networks & represent sites of complex, three-dimensional flow & sediment dynamics.

In situ conservation measures involve designating specific areas as protected sites.

Skeptics such as James Young have challenged the innate conservatism of most sites of memory.

In the Great Stour catchment, 26 sites of waste disposal have been identified by the Environment Agency as potential groundwater contaminants.

Related sites Reflecting Britain campaign An challenge issued to the Lib Dem leadership contenders from the party's own equality taskforce.

Uncertainty of whether the current distribution of valley bottom sites represent discrete concentrations or windows on a broader continuum.

Some web sites also offer online convertors and some jobs in textile programs allow you to convert MIDI into RTTTL.

There are many many sites dedicated to DIY conveyancing.

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The sites, all linked together, provide a veritable cornucopia of information on these topics.

Finally, sites at nodes in public transport corridors were identified.

The safest way is to use lifting plant such as a lorry-mounted crane, but many sites will not have suitable access.

There is an absence of notable archeological sites, apart from a few crannogs.

The spectacular reef walls, with some flat reef crests to explore at shallower levels, provide the majority of dive sites.

Instead, carved crosses were erected at convenient sites for itinerant monks or priests to preach to the inhabitants.

Authors and reviewers can use the in-built managed linking system to create many cross-links between pages, to file downloads and to external sites.

Case studies illustrate the text and hyperlinked cross-references help users to access related subjects and other sites such as the ASA.

We are hoping to show a diagram showing the typical sites where jaw cysts form in the syndrome.

The database is an annotated, searchable collection of HIV-1 cytotoxic and helper T-cell epitopes and antibody binding sites.

The shallower waters of the inshore dive sites are home to smaller tropical fish including the rare and endemic chromis damselfish.

In sites like Avebury the ditch is on the inside indicating the purpose was not primarily defensive.

In addition, chromosomal deletions of up to 2kb were detected at all 14 integrations sites examined.

We will change land use to reduce dependence on the car, for example by giving priority to developing brown field sites around stations.

The finished wood can also produce dermatitis at sites of contact.

There are detailed descriptions of about 20 dive sites.

They were hunted down and killed as animals, their sacred sites desecrated and their beliefs derided.

The site contains technical and scientific data and links to other desertification Web sites.

This has taken account of planning applications awaiting determination on a range of brownfield sites.

The sites are based within the East of Scotland and are mainly large volume housing developments.

With the development of the World Wide Web in the 1990's numerous sites can be found entirely devoted to wolves.

One of these sites is dedicated to the work of ' one of America's most prominent political dissidents ' - Noam Chomsky.

Daydream is within striking distance of some sites that are well worth visiting.

The majority of these sites are maintained by the Council; however, the survey also includes dual-use educational and some privately owned facilities.

To assist UK construction to improve economic, social and environmental performance through the increased use of enabling technology on construction sites.

I got the idea after viewing a couple of American websites belonging to other tonsil cancer patients and the sites seemed effective.

The molecules which bind to these sites are called effectors.

It is my sense that most resource sites do not provide a particularly efficacious service.

Are there books or sites that chronicle the " classic and timeless " that you are particularly enamored of?

These links do not represent endorsements or adoption of any content or opinion held in those sites.

Dermoid cyst is a loose term given to cysts are various sites lined by squamous epithelium.

In this experiment, bovine TSP has been purified in an attempt to isolate the erythrocytic binding sites of B.bovis -infected erythrocytes to TSP.

Himalayan balsam, a garden escapee has been found at a number of sites along the river.

Once docked on the sites they exert estrogen-like activity and can therefore initiate the required effect just as natural estrogen would have done.

The climate variable is based on three levels of potential evapotranspiration (ET ), which are represented by three sites in eastern Colorado.

You may wish to tell everybody about your own site, or some of your favorite Country Music sites.

In addition, small-scale excavation on some of the sites has identified important sites of Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age date.

The ratios greatly exceed findings around ' non-combustion ' urban sites.

Fair to say cost OK compared with other Luton sites and other airports but I consider all airport parking exorbitant.

The re-use of existing sites would be politically expedient.

It is considered expedient therefore to include these sites within the development opportunity area.

You can, for example, ban all sites that contain even the mildest expletives but allow ones with a bit of fighting.

See also external links for web sites of bodies associated with NEWI quality assurance.

There are a few disused mineral extraction sites adjacent to the railroad line.

All known sites where bombs landed have been charted and interviews with surviving eyewitnesses are included.

In developing RIVPACS, a wide range of different methods of classifying the reference sites and predicting the expected fauna were tested.

The school operates on two sites, separated by playing fields, along a quiet lane.

Biodegradable implants have been used in other sites particularly in the area of fracture fixation.

The peatland flora includes bog-rosemary Andromeda polifolia at one of its few Northern Ireland sites.

Of course you usually have to hunt through quite alot of marketing fluff that clogs many corporate sites to get to the good stuff.

But filters are n't foolproof - sites and users can get round them - so do stay involved.

Positioned in railroad stations, airports and hotels, all payphone sites have a high consumer footfall ensuring that Spectrum sees ongoing healthy traffic.

This compares to an average spend of £ 25.37 at cheaper supermarket forecourt sites.

Inchinnan " INCHINNAN, parish on the Clyde, north... of interest are the sites of Inchinnan Palace and North Barr baronial fortalice.

One of the most important sites in Roman Britain, Caerleon housed a legionary fortress, the base for the 2nd Augustan Legion.

The extensive coastal cliffs provide nest sites for a range of breeding seabirds including fulmars, guillemots, razorbills, puffins and kittiwakes.