After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

The salt mines surrounding the Altaussee area, where American troops found 75 kilos of gold coins stored in a single mine, were used to store looted art, jewels, and currency ; vast quantities of looted art were found and returned to the owners.

Nevertheless, the country's vast area, and its cultural diversity, have led to a local cuisine of various dishes.

The Outback is the vast, remote, arid area of Australia ; the term colloquially can refer to any lands outside the main urban areas.

Other than agriculture and tourism, the main economic activity in this vast and sparsely settled area is mining.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

The culture is characterised by a high degree of sophistication in the production of metal and ceramic artefacts, as well as of uniformity over a vast area.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

* Buffalo Commons, a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature reserve in the Great Plains area

San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

The Cook Islands contain 15 islands in the group spread over a vast area in the South Pacific.

The Chianti region covers a vast area of Tuscany and includes within its boundaries several overlapping Denominazione di origine controllata ( DOC ) and Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita ( DOCG ) regions.

These games, though, were different from the games at Olympia in that they were not of such vast importance to the city of Delphi as the games at Olympia were to the area surrounding Olympia.

The vast, low-lying central area is a basin-shaped plateau sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest and criss-crossed by rivers, a large area of this has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as the Central Congolian lowland forests ecoregion.

Sparsely populated in relation to its area, the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( DRC ) is home to a vast potential of natural resources and mineral wealth, its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of US $ 24 trillion, yet the economy of the DRC has declined drastically since the mid-1980s.

There are vast timber resources, and commercial development of the country ’ s 61 million hectares ( 150 million acres ) of exploitable wooded area is only beginning.

The Jama-Coaque culture inhabited areas between Cabo San Francisco in Esmeraldas, to Bahía de Caráquez, in Manabi, in an area of wooded hills and vast beaches of their immigrant who facilitated the gathering of resources of both the jungle and the ocean.

An ecosystem's area can vary greatly, from tiny to vast.

Originally much of the west shore of Upper New York Bay consisted of large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster banks, a major source of food for the Lenape population who lived in the area prior to the arrival of Dutch settlers.

Although the London County Council had been created as a London-wide authority covering the County of London in 1889, the county did not cover all the built-up area of London, particularly West Ham and East Ham ; and many of the LCC housing projects, including the vast Becontree Estate, were outside its boundaries.

London County Council proposed a vast new area for Greater London, with a proposed boundary somewhere between the Metropolitan Police District and the home counties.

A vast number of graph measures exist, and the production of useful ones for various domains remains an active area of research.

By the 3rd century, the Goths ruled a vast area north of the Black Sea from where they either through crossing the lower Danube or traveling by sea, raided the Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia as far as Cyprus.

Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.

The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.

The song is a lively mazurka with lyrics penned by Józef Wybicki in Reggio nell ' Emilia, Cisalpine Republic ( now in Italy ), around 16 July 1797, two years after the Third Partition of Poland erased the once vast country from the map.

Because of the vast expenses incurred by the Habsburg Monarchy during their 16 century wars against the Ottoman Empire, Gleiwitz was leased to Friedrich Zettritz for the meager amount of 14, 000 thalers.

Born in the capital of the vast Spanish empire, Madrid, and as the only surviving male heir of his father's two marriages ( the only brother of Charles to survive infancy was Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias, who died at the age of 16 in 1646 ), he was named the Principe de Asturias as his heir.

In November 1897, the Signacs moved to a new apartment in the Castel Béranger, built by Hector Guimard, and a little later, in December of the same year, acquired a house in Saint-Tropez called La Hune ; there the painter had a vast studio constructed, which he inaugurated on 16 August 1898.

Over 150 species names have been published, and although differing sources may cite different selections of accepted names, only 10 – 16 are generally cited as being accepted by the vast majority of botanical authorities.

* 16 Tons, Seth Wulsin's vast 2006 work includes the demolition of the raw material it works with, namely a former jail, Caseros Prison, located in the middle of Buenos Aires.

The vast majority of SNES and Mega Drive ( Genesis ) games were produced on 8 megabit cartridges, although other sizes such as 4, 12, 16, 24, 32, and 48 megabit cartridges appeared.

The pangalactic statisticians ( a neutral organization of observers ) have stated that 21 % of all cosmological manipulations are executed by cosmocrat-servants, 16 % are executed by chaos-servants and 63 % are executed by the vast uncontrollable life itself.

Unlike the vast majority of Conservative MPs, Body voted in favour of legalising gay sex at 16, and also supported the legalisation of cannabis.

Lewis makes a prediction that the abundant natural resources of the solar system, including effectively-limitless solar energy, could support a vast civilization of 10 < sup > 16 </ sup > people.

By 1964 the NVA and the PL had at least 16 anti-aircraft emplacements along with a vast underground arsenal.

Samuel Insull ( November 11, 1859 – July 16, 1938 ) was a British-born American business magnate whose vast Midwest holding company empire collapsed in the 1930s.

Pasargadae was place for two magnificent palaces surrounded by a majestic royal park and vast formal gardens ; among them was the four-quartered wall gardens of " Paradisia " with over 1000 meters of channels made out of carved limestone, designed to fill small basins at every 16 meters and water various types of wild and domestic flora.

Such vast land can, in theory, be used to create at least of residential floor space, which, at very modest rates ( Rs. 10000 / sq ft ), can be sold for USD 16 billion.

In honor of Merrill's vast influence on American vocal music, on February 16, 1981 he was awarded the prestigious University of Pennsylvania Glee Club Award of Merit.

In 2002, Serbia and Montenegro reported hosting 277, 000 internally displaced people ( the vast majority being Serbs and Roma from Kosovo ), which included 201, 641 persons displaced from Kosovo into Serbia proper, 29, 451 displaced from Kosovo into Montenegro, and about 46, 000 displaced within Kosovo itself, including 16, 000 returning refugees unable to inhabit their original homes.

The largest employer was the Atlas Terminal, a vast industrial park, consisting of 16 buildings ( factories ).

School through age 16 is mandatory by law, but the vast majority of the population does not receive a high school education.

Following the war the squadron was re-equipped with 16 Short Sunderland MR. 5s and based at Lauthala Bay in Fiji, tasked with " maritime surveillance " over the vast South Pacific Ocean, medical evacuation flights and communications flights for the colonial administrators ".

This is generally cited as his first large-scale work ; although Grove lists some 16 other orchestral works composed by Vaughan Williams before he completed A Sea Symphony, including two with chorus ; the vast majority of those are juvenilia or apprentice works that have never been published and are long since withdrawn from circulation.

Until May 16 2003 when Financial Times headlines revealed " A vast enterprise for looting community funds ".

8 or 16 kilobytes of RAM was common ; 64 kilobytes was considered a vast amount and was the entire address space of the 8-bit CPUs of the day.

This is incorrect ; the Japanese army had excellent engineers who surprised their enemies by completing the railway within 16 months, albeit at vast human cost, the Japanese having relied upon Allied prisoners as slave labourers.