He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

Spectators in white crush textures dip toe and heel in smooth black, navy and taffy tan.

He had gone into the Japanese navy, had been trained as an officer, had participated in one or two battles -- he never went into detail regarding his military experience -- and at the age of twenty-five, quite as a bolt out of the blue, he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian.

Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

At the same time, after initial setbacks, Grant laid siege to Vicksburg and the Union navy attained some success in Charleston harbor.

* Much of this article originated from the public domain site http :// oceanographer. navy. mil / atlantic. html

There are talks with the German government to deliver some 12 navy fast speed vessels for sea border protection.

Most of the craft detailed are from the 1980s or earlier, but the navy acquired new boats from Spain and France in the 1990s.

* 1786 – John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1847 )

* 1776 – Thomas Bladen Capel English navy admiral ( d. 1853 )

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Unfortunately for Constantinople, Alexios III's misgovernment had left the Byzantine navy with only 20 worm-eaten hulks by the time the Crusaders arrived.

* 1741 – Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, French navy officer and explorer ( d. 1788 )

But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.

Later, in 1320, he tried to resurrect the navy by constructing 20 galleys, but failed.

The defection of the commander of the Byzantine navy, megas doux Andronikos Kontostephanos, and the general Andronikos Angelos, played a key role in allowing the rebellious forces to enter Constantinople.

The common people were numerically dominant in the navy, which they used to pursue their own interests in the form of work as rowers and in the hundreds of overseas administrative positions.

* 1943 – German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy ; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

Shortly after its inception, Athens began to use the League's navy for its own purposes.

Xerxes then personally led a second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, taking an enormous ( although oft-exaggerated ) army and navy to Greece.

The Danish and German geographical mile ( geografisk mil and geographische Meile or geographische Landmeile, respectively ) is 4 minutes of arc, and was defined as approximately 7421. 5 metres by the astronomer Ole Rømer of Denmark.

In spoken English, the abbreviation " mL " ( for millilitre ) is often pronounced as " mil ", homophonous with the colloquial term " mil ", which is intended to mean " one thousandth of a metre ", or in the United States, a thousandth of an inch.

Even today, both Swedes and Norwegians use the 10, 000 metre mile (" mil ") to refer to travel distances in everyday language.

Sainteté dynastique, sainteté royale et sainteté féminine autour de l ' an mil.

In engineering it is common to use the micron as a replacement for the traditional thou or mil, each of which represent a thousandth of an inch.

1 mil = 25. 4 microns.

So a trash bag may be originally specified as 0. 35 mil thick, but stated as 8. 89 microns.

* The Potsdam Conference, July – August 1945 on navy. mil

In these countries this unit is called mil.

* 25. 4 µm — 1 / 1000 inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U. S. and 1 thou in the UK

* http :// www. dtic. mil / doctrine / jel / cjcsd / cjcsi / 6511_01. pdf

Thomas enjoyed considerable status in Kentucky — where he sat on juries, appraised estates, served on country slave patrols, and guarded prisoners.

After arriving in New Orleans — and witnessing slavery firsthand — he walked back home.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

" The Rail Candidate "— Lincoln's 1860 candidacy is depicted as held up by the slavery issue — a slave on the left and party organization on the right.

" Running the ' Machine ' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration — featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William H. Seward | William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.

Lincoln authorized Grant to target the Confederate infrastructure — such as plantations, railroads, and bridges — hoping to destroy the South's morale and weaken its economic ability to continue fighting.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

* — Manner of Buoying Vessels — A.

One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics, Volume 1: Books Alpha — Delta, Parmenides Publishing, ISBN 978-1-930972-21-6.

It is important to note that, while research supports the idea that altruistic acts bring about happiness, it has also been found to work in the opposite direction — that happier people are also kinder.

However, he thinks we should love God more than ourselves and our neighbours, and more than our bodily life — since the ultimate purpose of loving our neighbour is to share in eternal beatitude: a more desirable thing than bodily well being.

Others, such as Julian Steward and Leslie White, focused on how societies evolve and fit their ecological niche — an approach popularized by Marvin Harris.