Saxon raiders had been harassing the eastern and southern shores of Britannia for centuries before, prompting the construction of a string of coastal forts called the Litora Saxonica or Saxon Shore, and many Saxons and other folk had been permitted to settle in these areas as farmers long before the end of Roman rule in Britannia.

It was one of a string of forts built along the route from Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia ) to Chester ( Deva ).

At the same time as the breakwater was being built in the 1850s, the island was fortified by a string of 13 forts, designed to protect the harbour of refuge.

In response, the United States built a string of forts along the Ocmulgee and Chattahoochee Rivers, including Fort Daniel on top of Hog Mountain near present-day Dacula, Georgia, and Fort Gilmer.

But, the coast was under regular attack of other pirates and corsairs, in addition to the Spanish who bombarded the Algarve during the Portuguese Restoration War ( 1640 – 1668 ), which led to the construction of a string of forts all along the coast.

To defend the state's western frontier, a request was sent to Congress asking for a string of forts to be constructed.

Both of the forts formed part of a string of fortifications along the upper Mississippi River that also included Fort Snelling near Saint Anthony Falls in Minnesota, and Fort Armstrong in Rock Island, Illinois.

Fort Crawford was also part of a string of forts built along the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway that included Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin and Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He could only withdraw to a thin string of forts along Route 4, a twisting road running through ravines and over high passes between the towns of Lang Son and Cao Bang.

It was also strategically located at the centre of a string of other forts such as Rajgad, Purandar and Torna.

A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.

The preparations were elaborate: flowers, candles, incense sticks, rice wine, dozens of delicacies, and pieces of white cotton string.

Another moment and they were out of sight, leaving behind only a string of bubbles as a clue to their whereabouts.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

Its dedicatee was Count Moritz von Fries, a patron to whom the fourth violin sonata, the string quintet of the same year, and the seventh symphony were also dedicated.

The piccolo, prima, and secunda balalaikas were originally strung with gut with the thinnest melody string made of stainless steel.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

Early clavichords frequently had many notes played on each string, even going so far as the keyed monochord — an instrument with only one string — though most clavichords were triple-or double-fretted.

The halves contained the same set of data and were identical, except the upper half had two holes for a string or twine to go through.

Many early bassists doubled on both the brass bass and string bass, as the instruments were then often referred to.

With the string section laid off, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time, although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album.

After a string of successful films, including the comedies The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ), The Titfield Thunderbolt ( 1953 ) and The Ladykillers ( 1955 ), as well as dramas like Dead of Night, Scott of the Antarctic and The Cruel Sea, Ealing Studios finally ceased production in 1958, and the studios were taken over by the BBC for television production.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

The original scores, which dated from 1804 when the composer was twelve, were found in the Library of Congress in Washington D. C. Often transcribed for string orchestra, these sonatas reveal the young composer's affinity for Haydn and Mozart, already showing signs of operatic tendencies, punctuated by frequent rhythmic changes and dominated by clear, songlike melodies.

By the 16th century, harpsichord makers in Italy were making lightweight instruments with low string tension.

A few new instructions were introduced with the 80186 ( referred to as the 8086-2 instruction set in some datasheets ): enter / leave ( replacing several instructions when handling stack frames ), pusha / popa ( push / pop all general registers ), bound ( check array index against bounds ), and ins / outs ( input / output of string ).

The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads.

A string of other Conservative MPs, including Alan Amos, Tim Yeo and Michael Brown, were involved in sexual scandals.

Tinkers were said to have a similar custom of marriage called " jumping the budget ", with the bride and groom jumping over a string or other symbolic obstacle.

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

To shorten the scale length, other strings were added with a different tension and pitch so one string took over where another left off.

Because the Netscape browser initially implemented many features not available in other browsers and quickly came to dominate the market, a number of web sites were designed to work, or work fully, only when they detected an appropriate version of < tt > Mozilla </ tt > in the user agent string.

Blythe's Tower, built 1812, is a four storey square tower, 15. 8 m ( 54 ft ) high, built of random rubble with ashlar string courses and a crenellated parapet.

The string of Welsh castles Edward I of England had built were an exception in that he focused much of the resources of his kingdom on their speedy construction.

* an input buffer, holding the input string ( built from the grammar )

Max Webster toured extensively and built a string of hits.

: If S is built up of several copies of the string T, and T cannot itself be broken down further into repeating strings, then the number of friends of S ( including S itself ) is equal to the length of T.

This string of homes, built on large parcels of elevated land along the widest point of the bay, is anchored by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art at its center.

Here a factory was built for canning blueberries, then string beans and finally freezing fish.

However, as the park grew it became a small amusement park where local people could enjoy rides, a large swimming pool built in the ' 30s, music ( including string bands in the ' 40s ) and as the hosting ground for many company picnics.

Under his direction, a string of reinforced concrete pillboxes was built along the beaches, or sometimes slightly inland, to house machine guns, antitank guns and light artillery.

Norton built up a string of steady wins, including some over fringe contenders like the giant Jack O ' Halloran.

Fort Breendonk and its twin sister Fort Liezele ( which now serves as a municipal recreational area ) were initially built by the Belgian military just before WWI, as part of a string of fortresses ( the Réduit national ) designed to protect the approaches to Antwerp.

In quick succession, the laboratory designed and built Chicago Pile 3, the world's first heavy-water moderated reactor, and the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, built in Idaho, which lit a string of four light bulbs to produce the world's first nuclear-generated electricity in 1951.

From there on, he built a string of wins that led him to challenge IBF Featherweight champion Calvin Grove in boxing's last 15 round world title fight.

Strings are usually not replaced until they break ; this results in the yumi flexing in the direction opposite to the way it is drawn, and is considered beneficial to the health of the yumi The nocking point on the string is built up through the application of hemp and glue to protect the string and to provide a thickness which helps hold the nock ( hazu ) of the arrow ( ya ) in place while drawing the yumi.

Most programmers today who are aware of the term macro have encountered them in C or C ++, where they are a static feature which are built in a small subset of the language, and are capable only of string substitutions on the text of the program.

For example, in the bosonic closed string case, the worldsheet scattering diagrams naturally take a Feynman diagram-like form, being built from two ingredients, a propagator,

Witten ( 2004 ) built on this insight to propose a way to do string theory in twistor space, whose dimensionality is necessarily the same as that of 3 + 1 Minkowski spacetime.

It was one of a string of trading posts built up and down the Pacific Coast to compete with American fur traders for the rich pelts available in the region.

The latter can have a large feature set — approaching that of Basic as found in computers — including character and string manipulation, advanced conditional and branching statements, sound, graphics, and more including, of course, the huge spectrum of mathematical, string, bit-manipulation, number base, I / O, and graphics functions built into the machine.