While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

While a hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain ( access via the Dead Sea Highway ) is considered part of the " Masada experience ," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion.

While air force jets provided suppressive fire on the mountain top with individual gun runs since Mako 30 was less than north of the peak and Chalk 1 with its downed MH-47 was less than 100 m south of the peak.

While its name, meaning " three-headed ", can describe its shape as seen from the Bohinj area, the mountain was most probably named after the Slavic god Triglav.

While the largest part of the Arctic is composed of permanent ice and tundra north of the tree line, it encompasses geological regions of varying types: the Innuitian Mountains, associated with the Arctic Cordillera mountain system, is geologically distinct from the Arctic Region ( which consists largely of lowlands ).

While white water rafting is the main attraction, one can also enjoy mountain biking, rock climbing, and other outdoor activities.

While Palmdale is still a part of Los Angeles County, the urbanized centers of Palmdale and Los Angeles are separated by the San Gabriel mountain range, which is about wide.

While the mountain streams of Southern Appalachia appear calm and serene on a typical day, torrential rains in the higher elevations can turn these streams into raging whitewater rapids.

While it is often presented that Isaac was a small child, verse 6 of Chapter 22 indicates that Isaac was at least grown enough to walk alongside Abraham up the mountain carrying the load of wood that his father had gathered ().

While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of surrounding and including the summit is occupied by Mount Washington State Park.

While different battalions may have different roles ( for example different battalions of the Frontier Force Regiment may be mechanized infantry, para infantry or mountain troops ) the regiment is considered to encompass all of them.

While in Eastern Tibet Alexandra and Yongden completed circumambulation of the holy mountain Amnye Machen.

While initially made for and marketed at downhillers, freeriders and jump / street riders, body armor has trickled into other areas of mountain biking as trails have become faster and more technical.

While the mountain is still mostly lush and green in the summer, many dead Fraser fir trunks can be seen due to these serious problems.

While dining with a friend, Chow relays a story about how in older times, when a person had a secret that could not be shared, he would instead go atop a mountain, make a hollow in a tree, whisper the secret into that hollow and cover it with mud.

While in professional mountain biking, Overend earned the nicknames " Deadly Nedly " and " The Lung ", because he was very difficult to beat and for his phenonomenal aerobic endurance at altitude ( especially so for a man of his age ), respectively.

While he was hammering a piton into the rock, a large section of the cliff sheared off from the mountain face, carrying him with it.

While clearly not a scientific definition, most mountain climbers consider Mt.

While they considered themselves independent they were, in fact, economically an arm of the big fur companies which held annual fairs for the mountain men to sell their wares known as Trapper's rendezvous.

While there were many free trappers, most mountain men were employed by major fur companies.

While on the mountain it's relatively mild, in the valleys around one can notice significant colder temperatures.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

" While the document itself is not in any way actual law, it is used by the town council, board of adjustment, and other committees to guide decision making as to what types of development are appropriate.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

While in the late Baroque a major composer would have the entire musical resources of a town to draw on, the forces available at a hunting lodge were smaller and more fixed in their level of ability.

While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.

While living in Busseto with Strepponi, Verdi bought an estate two miles from the town in 1848.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.

While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

While in Hollywood, he contacted Bernstein, who was in town conducting at the Hollywood Bowl.

While searching for " Tom ", LaFarge hears that the Spaulding family in town has miraculously found their lost daughter Lavinia.

While living there, he founded the town of Yaroslavl ( literally, " Yaroslav's ") on the Volga.

While strongly fortified against a naval assault, the town is lightly defended on the landward side.

While they were marching, a stone was thrown at Želivský from the window of the town hall.

While in town, Valentino met actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try a career in cinema, still in the silent film era.

While Lifford is the County Town, Letterkenny is by far the largest town in the county with a population of 19, 588.

While these walls protected the main town, it was not safe to live on the rest of the island until Mediterranean piracy was largely eradicated, which did not truly end until the 19th century.

While Bayreuth was previously ( 1199 ) referred to as a villa ( village ), the term civitas (" town ") appeared for the first time in a document published in 1231.

While some areas ambulances were staffed by advanced first-aid-level responders, in other areas, it was common for the local undertaker, having the only transport in town in which one could lie down, to operate both the local furniture store ( where he would make coffins as a sideline ) and the local ambulance service.

While the town proper is but one-half square mile in size, the Kensington Post Office services a much larger area and extends into North Bethesda, MD and the Wheaton Planning District.

While returning to Monterey, he located the original sites for Mission Santa Clara de Asis and the town of San José de Guadalupe ( modern day San Jose, California ), but again did not establish either settlement.

While cities certainly have a larger variety of markets and goods than rural areas, infrastructure congestion, monopolisation, high overhead costs, and inconvenience of cross town trips team up to make marketplace competition as often as not worse in cities than in rural areas.