There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

This crisis was addressed in 1992-93 by construction of a tunnel to divert water into the lake from the Arpa River.

The choice was unfortunate, for Theodahad fostered the disaffection of the Goths, and either by his orders or with his permission, Amalasuntha was imprisoned in the island of Martana in the Tuscan lake of Bolsena, where on 30 April in the spring of 534 / 535 she was murdered in her bath.

With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake.

Anāsāgar Lake, this historic man-made lake was built by Maharaja Anaji ( 1135-1150 AD ).

Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

However, for at least a century, some scholars have maintained that the description of Grendel ’ s lake in Beowulf was borrowed from St. Paul ’ s vision of Hell in Homily 16 of the Blickling homilies.

0 km-There are no railways in Cape Verde, although there was a short overhead conveyor system for salt from the open salt lake on Sal to the port at Pedro de Lume and a short stretch of rail track to the pier at Santa Maria used for a similar purpose.

Following the defeat of Gog, the last judgment begins: " The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

This was to be achieved by draining the Fucine lake, which would have the added benefit of making the nearby river navigable year-round.

A tunnel was dug through the lake bed, but the plan was a failure.

The draining of the lake was revisited many times in history, including by Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Middle Ages.

However, other sources suggest that the only time the entire lake froze over in the 20th century was in 1912.

Lake Voulismeni at the coast, at Aghios Nikolaos, was formerly a sweetwater lake but is now connected to the sea, in Lasithi.

But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.

Total production of marine, river, and lake fisheries in 2003 was estimated at 222, 965 tons, all but 5, 000 tons from inland waters.

The Arician wood sanctuary near the lake of Nemi was Latin confederal as testified by the dedicatory epigraph quoted by Cato.

The Dubhlinn was a small lake used to moor ships and was connected to the Liffey by the Poddle.

It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.

Prior to the flood, speculators had purchased the abandoned reservoir, made less than well-engineered repairs to the old dam, raised the lake level, built cottages and a clubhouse, and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club.

Large swaths of the city's residential areas away from the lake are characterized by brick bungalows built from the early 20th century through the end of World War II.

The Roman camps surrounding Masada were built by Jewish slaves receiving water from the towns around the lake.

The Teutonic Order built a castle and founded Elbing at the lake with a population mostly from Lübeck ; today the much smaller lake does not reach the city any more.

By 1900, he had acquired land and built a villa on the lake, now known as the " Villa Museo Puccini.

The lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator ( central of Coghinadordza ), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nuragici people.

The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).

Large vessels of the lake freighter fleet are built on the lakes and cannot travel downstream beyond the Welland Canal.

In the 1960s, the " Aluminum Company of America " ( Alcoa ) built a US $ 150-million dam for the production of hydroelectric energy at Afobaka ( the Brokopondo Reservoir south of Brokopondo ), which created a 1, 560 km² lake, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world.

A dam built in 1973 on the Euphrates created a reservoir named Lake Assad, the largest lake in Syria.

" Despite Toledo ’ s efforts, the final terminus was decided to be built in Manhattan a half mile to the north of Toledo because it was closer to the lake.

This is an architecture described as " an inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake ", built with an atmosphere of fog surrounding a lightweight tensegrity structure 300 feet long, by 200 feet wide, by 75 feet high.

The era of the villas had though begun a few years earlier, when Elia Heikel and Emil Lindstedt bought the area around lake Gallträsk and built the first villas.

Its primary purpose was as a cargo facility for lake freighters, and warehouses were built up and down the Pier.

The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

The French built the fort to control the south end of Lake Champlain and prevent the British from gaining military access to the lake.

He built the grandiose Domus Aurea on the site, in front of which he created an artificial lake surrounded by pavilions, gardens and porticoes.

In response, the State of Utah built the West Desert Pumping Project on the western side of the lake.

They built a home in Esculapia Hollow, Arkansas, on Beaver lake, where Spock and Morgan would row in olympic training rowing shells early in the morning.

The palace Khirbat al-Minya was built by the lake during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I ( 705 – 715 CE ).

Israel's National Water Carrier, built in 1964, transports water from the lake to the population centers of Israel, and is the source of much of the country's drinking water.

The castle seen today dates mostly from the 19th century and is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds.