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harbor and harbour
The harbour lies to the east of the foundation site at the original citadel on a hill overlooking a peninsula protecting the harbor on the south, where now are located the Quai de la Citadelle and the Jettée de la Citadelle.
File: Fishing boat, Basseterre harbor, St. Kitts. jpg | Fishing boat, Basseterre harbour
This harbour became silted up and needed to be supplemented later by a harbor built by Trajan finished in the year AD 113 ; it has a hexagonal form, in order to reduce the erosive forces of the waves.
The town's trade with the Anatolian coast and beyond the Levant sea was badly affected when in 1885, the then British government of the island began the Kyrenia harbour works that left the harbor wide open to the northern gales.
Tekirdağ is a Turkish commercial town centre with a harbour for agricultural products ; the harbor is being expanded to accommodate a new rail link to the main freight line through Thrace.
Although he accepted that Al-Andalus derived from Vandal, he believed that geographically it referred only to the harbor from which the Vandals departed Iberia for Africa — the location of which harbour was unknown.
( See Landsat Map below Zoomed – Lushun City surrounds the lake-like structure clearly visible near the peninsular tip — the lake-like feature is the inner natural harbour of the port, a very well-sheltered and fortifiable harbor to 19th century eyes.
* Harbor: A harbor or harbour, or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored.
The Royal Pakistan Navy secured two sloops, two frigates, four minesweepers, two naval trawlers, four harbor launches and some 358 personnel ( 180 officers and 34 ratings ) and was given a number of harbour defence motor launches.
For example, if the player is building a temple but decides to switch to a harbour, production on the harbor will start from scratch, but the temple will stay in the building queue and retain all previous progress, aside from some decay over time.
Cranes were used in harbors starting in the Middle Ages – see crane: harbor usage and list of historical harbour cranes.
Safe harbor or Safe harbour may refer to:
An inland harbor ( or inland harbour ) is a harbor that is quite far away from the ocean or sea, such as Berlin, Germany or Paris, France.
The Girona had anchored in Killybegs harbour, Donegal, for repairs to her rudder while two other ships had been lost on attempting to enter the harbor.
Ayala's subsequent report to the Viceroy gave a full account of the geography of the bay, and stressed its advantages as a harbour ( chiefly the absence of " those troublesome fogs which we had daily in Monterey, because the fogs here hardly reach the entrance of the port, and once inside the harbor, the weather is very clear ") and the friendliness of the local Native American people.
Ayas became an important harbour city of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in the second half of the 13th century, when with the fall of Acre and the silting up of the harbor of Tarsus, it became the center of trade between the West and the East, benefitting from its good roads east.

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Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.
Decimus Brutus — victor over the Veneti ( see 56 BC ) — is in charge of the fleet to blockade the harbor.
In addition to the difficult track inland, ( see Okhotsk Coast ) the harbor was poor and the short growing season and lack of plowland meant that food had to be imported.
The beach-style homes, the strip of land against the beach, and the beach itself ( see photo ), west of the harbor, are within the City of Los Angeles limits, but share the same zip code as Marina del Rey.
Historic SummerFare, which features the Antique Craft and Boat Show, brings thousands of boat enthusiasts and aficionados to the harbor to see wooden boats from another era.
The grammar lists naramba ( to see ) and kolamba ( ford or harbor ) as belonging to an indigenous source.
A week later, they see a passenger steamer in the harbor.
Two years later, Russia coerced a lease of the Liaodong from China and gained railroad right-of-way to join the Liaodong Peninsula to the Chinese Eastern Railway with a line running from Port Arthur and nearby Dalny ( Dalian ) to the Chinese city of Harbin ( see Kwantung Leased Territory ), and systematically began to fortify the town and harbor at Port Arthur.
Like most Apicomplexa, malaria parasites harbor a plastid similar to plant chloroplasts, which they probably acquired by engulfing ( or being invaded by ) a eukaryotic alga, and retaining the algal plastid as a distinctive organelle encased within four membranes ( see endosymbiotic theory ).
We then see an enormous bright light coming from the other side of the harbor.
Clay did not see actual combat but was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1942, the Distinguished Service Medal in 1944, and received the Bronze Star for his action in stabilizing the French harbor of Cherbourg, critical to the flow of war materiel.
Taking place in the front plaza, visitors would see how these harbor seals interact with their trainers.
In October 2005, the CIA updated the 2004 report to conclude that Saddam's regime " did not have a relationship, harbor, or even turn a blind eye toward Mr. Zarqawi and his associates ," according to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence ( see 2006 report below ).
* For the harbor on Manus Island see Seeadler Harbor
The front of the opera was originally meant to have a large glass surface, where you could see the shell of the auditorium from the harbor side.
After someone accuses her of plotting to " blow up the fleet " in San Francisco harbor, she declares " Bombs are not my way ", but she " would be happy to see the fleet sink to the bottom of the sea ... so that we, and our brothers and sisters in other countries, can live in peace.

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Joseph DesBarre's chart of New York harbor in the 1779 work Atlantic Neptune, and John Eddy's map of 1811, both use the modern spelling.
* USS Wannalancet ( YTB-385 ), later YTM-385, a United States Navy harbor tug in commission from 1944 to 1946 which used a variant spelling of his name

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Abydos ( Greek: Άβυδος ), an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia Minor, situated at Nara Burnu or Nagara Point on the best harbor on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont.
The world's southmost harbor, located at Antarctica's Winter Quarters Bay ( 77 ° 50 ′ South ), is potentially ice-free, depending on the summertime pack ice conditions.
A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.
The term tsunami comes from the Japanese 津波, composed of the two kanji 津 ( tsu ) meaning " harbor " and( nami ), meaning " wave ".
There is a 1934 article about " Les Trois Sports " ( the three sports ) in the city of La Rochelle, a race with: ( 1 ) a channel crossing ( c. 200 m ), ( 2 ) a bike competition ( 10 km ) around the harbor of La Rochelle and the parc Laleu, and ( 3 ) a run ( 1200 m ) in the stadium André-Barbeau.
He conquers Hispania and the harbor city of Marseille ( Southern Gaul ), adding them to the existing Visigothic Kingdom.
In 1696 Henry Every ( or Avery ), using the assumed name Henry Bridgeman, brought his ship Fancy, loaded with pirate's loot, into Nassau harbor.
Until the Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), Finland's territory also reached to the Barents Sea, with the harbor at Petsamo being Finland's only ice-free winter harbor.
The most notable examples of these were HMS Pickle, which raced back to England with news of the British victory and the death of Admiral Lord Nelson at the end of the Battle of Trafalgar, and HMS Whiting ( 79 tons and four guns ), which lowered anchor in the harbor of Hampton Roads on 8 July 1812, carrying dispatches.
The coastline is deeply indented ; two prominent features are the natural harbor at Antsiranana ( Diégo Suarez ), just south of the Cap d ' Ambre ( Tanjon ' i Bobaomby ), and the large island of Nosy-Be to the West limits the potential of a port at Antsiranana by impeding the flow of traffic from other parts of the island.
Despite the constant shelling and the sinking of the Spanish fleet small ( mostly by himself Lezo, to block the harbor entrance ), the defenders managed to avoid landing the rest of the British troops, who were forced to remain in the boats for a month without sufficient reserves.
When compared to terrestrial mammals ( cattle, sheep, pigs, humans ), California sea lions ( Zalophus californianus ), northern elephant seals ( Mirounga angusturistris ), ringed seals ( Phoca hispida ), and harbor seals ( Phoca vitulina ) have lower levels of anionic surfactant phospholipids ( PG ) and phosphatidylinositol ( PI ).
Rabbits may also harbor diseases ( such as the respiratory infections Bordetella and Pasteurella ), to which guinea pigs are susceptible.
These two cities share the Duluth – Superior harbor and together are the Great Lakes ' largest port transporting coal, iron ore ( taconite ), and grain.
* Yokohama harbor, Marine survey chart ( published 1874 ), Digital Gallery, National Archives of Japan
On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned Captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan ( today known as Fort Moultrie ), in Charleston harbor.
It must be remembered that at a relatively short distance, there was also the harbor of Civitavecchia ( Centum Cellae ), and Rome was starting to have a significant number of harbours, the most important remained Portus.
Point Hope residents successfully opposed Operation Chariot ( 1958 ), which would have involved buried thermonuclear detonations some 30 miles from the village to create a deep-water artificial harbor, which would only have been usable about three months out of the year.
The stockade, named Redoubt Saint Dionysius ( Редутъ Санктъ Дионѵсіусъ ), was founded at the location of present-day Wrangell and stood near the end of the small peninsula that forms the northeastern side of the mouth of the harbor.

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