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west and wind
Off to the west a beautiful schooner slowly beat its way into the wind, headed on a tack toward San Clemente.
He gave hospitality for a month and provided for a west wind to carry them home.
The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.
The wind direction is from the sea towards the land, or from west towards east.
Bill Rose and Craig Chesner of Michigan Technological University have deduced that the total amount of erupted material was about — around of ignimbrite that flowed over the ground, and around that fell as ash, with the wind blowing most of it to the west.
The dry season is accompanied by a dust laden airmass from the Sahara Desert, locally known as Harmattan, or by its main name, The Tropical Continental ( CT ) airmass, while the rainy season is heavily influenced by an airmass originating from the south atlantic ocean, locally known as the south west wind, or by its main name, The Tropical Maritime ( MT ) airmass.
The Tropical continental airmass ( CT ) loses its strength as a major airmass in the region of west Africa and over Nigeria at this time ( around February in the southern part of Nigeria to June in northern Nigeria ) and begins to retreat coupled with the rising of air in form of convection within this airmass ( Tropical continental airmass ( CT )), further weakening the dominance of the wind over west Africa and Nigeria.
The Tropical Continental Airmass ( CT ) locally known as the harmattan, is a wind originating from North Africa which crosses the Sahara Desert into west Africa to Nigeria.
After their escape, they stayed with Aeolus, the master of the winds and he gave Odysseus a leather bag containing all the winds, except the west wind, a gift that should have ensured a safe return home.
The eldest brother of these two birds, which was 1, 300 years old, then declared it had been informed by its father that the door was on the west side, but that it had become hidden by sand drifted by the wind.
Even so, with the prevailing wind blowing from the west ( from land to sea ), the average January temperature is about.
Kon-Tiki demonstrated that it was possible for a primitive raft to sail the Pacific with relative ease and safety, especially to the west ( with the wind ).
It decreases from east to west because monsoon wind moves from east to west and drained clouds in eastern part takes less quantity of water vapours with them to western part.
Maximum temperatures sometimes reach + 35 ° C / + 40 ° C, especially when the wind blows from the south or the west ( föhn effect ).
The predominant wind direction is from the south west.
Myths had it that she was abducted by ( and later married ) Zephyrus, the god of the west wind ( which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Oreithyia ).
This is in large part due to the fact that, as throughout California, the prevailing weather systems and wind come normally from the Pacific Ocean, blowing in from the west and southwest so that places closer to the ocean and on the windward side of higher elevations tend to receive more rain from autumn through spring and more summer wind and fog.
Iris is married to Zephyrus, who is the god of the west wind.

west and provides
Having a surface at 780 meters above sea level, and being rimmed on the east, south and west by series of peaks reaching 2, 300 meters, the lake provides a scenic grandeur and pleasant temperature seldom equaled in the country.
The nearly landlocked Gulf of Pagasai provides a natural harbor at Volos for shipping the agricultural products from the plains just to the west and chromium from the mountains of Thessaly.
M-21 provides a link to Grand Rapids, approximately to the west, and Flint, about to the east.
The new residence hall provides one of the most impressive views, with a view of Mount Blanca ( one of the 14ers of Colorado ) to the east and overlooking the beautiful track and football field to the west.
Located west of Chile's mainland port of Caldera, just below the Tropic of Capricorn, Easter Island provides Chile a gateway to the Pacific.
In the west end of the city, the Waterloo Moraine provides over 300, 000 people in the region with drinking water.
* 25px U. S. Route 40-a portion of the famous National Road, it connects in the west with Washington County and provides access to the Pittsbugh edge suburb of Washington ; after forming part of a freeway bypass of Uniontown, it becomes a major two lane mountain highway heading toward Maryland
London Overground ( previously known variously as Silverlink Metro and the North London Line ) also operates out of Kensal Rise railway station and provides regular services to Richmond in the west and Stratford in the east.
To the west it provides an uninterrupted route as far as Montana and connects to the northern side of the Detroit Metro Airport.
A boat landing at the end of 10th street turning west off the George Parks Highway provides free boat landing on the Nenana River.
Interstate 80 is located about one-half mile to the west, and provides access to the community via its Solano and McBryde Avenue exits.
The closest commercial airport is Oxnard Airport located approximately to the west in nearby Oxnard, California ; however this airport provides service only to Los Angeles.
* US 27-Located a few miles west of town, US 27 provides access to I-4 going northward, and leads southward to Haines City and Lake Wales.
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Galesburg, operating the California Zephyr, Carl Sandburg, Illinois Zephyr, and Southwest Chief daily in both directions between Chicago and points west from Galesburg ( Amtrak station ).
The main artery for the area is Darnestown Road ( Designated as MD 28 west of its intersection with Key West Avenue ) which connects North Potomac with the other affluent communities nearby ( Potomac and Bethesda ) and provides access to Interstate 270 ( Exit-6 ).
The city Water Treatment Plant provides drinking water to the communities of the Lake Michigan Shoreline Water and Sewage Treatment Authority, which serves Lincoln Charter Township, Royalton Township, St. Joseph Charter Township, west of the St. Joseph River, and the villages of Shoreham and Stevensville.
A small hill on the west side provides the only resemblance of an elevation change in the entire town.
Circle lake provides a pair of public fishing docs on the west end of the lake: this is the arm that extends west from the north west side of the " circle ".
The famed Echo Trail ( Saint Louis County Road 116 ), is a former logging road that runs north and west out of Ely and provides the primary access to the lakes of the western Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness ( BWCAW ).
The location of Fredericktown at the border of the northeastern edge of the Ozark Mountains provides a sharp contrast in geography as one travels from east to west.
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides daily service to Shelby ( both east and west ), operating its Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
U. S. Route 322 is a two-lane arterial highway which traverses the Township east to west and provides access to the New Jersey Turnpike, north and south ( 30 minutes ), with access to the Commodore Barry Bridge and Delaware Memorial Bridge to Interstate 95 ( 40 minutes ).

west and relief
Yet the town could not be taken due to the arrival of a Swedish relief army, which secured the Pomeranian pocket before turning west to defeat an allied army in the Battle of Gadebusch.
The relief of Montargis, the first effective French action in years, emboldened sporadic uprisings in the thinly-garrisoned English-occupied region of Maine to the west, threatening to undo recent English gains.
The abacus is girded with a frieze of sculptures in high relief of an elephant ( of the east ), a horse ( of the south ), a bull ( of the west ), and a lion ( of the north ), separated by intervening wheels, over a lotus in full bloom, exemplifying the fountainhead of life and creative inspiration.
Bohemond was the first to get into position before Antioch ( October 1097 ), and he took a great part in the siege of the city, beating off the Muslim attempts at relief from the east, and connecting the besiegers on the west with the port of St Simeon and the Genoese ships which lay there.
A relief road located to the west of the town serves to filter N73 traffic towards Mallow and R513 traffic towards Limerick.
The construction of the relief road to the west and north, and its connection in 2009 to the M8 to the east of Mitchelstown means that the town has become the smallest in Ireland to have a full 360 degree ring road.
His last expeditions were made into the west for the relief of Taunton, and in these he had Cromwell as his lieutenant-general.
A funerary temple for Seti was constructed in what is now known as Qurna ( Mortuary Temple of Seti I ), on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes while a magnificent temple made of white marble at Abydos featuring exquisite relief scenes was started by Seti, and later completed by his son.
At around this time, the Siege of Gezer ( c. 733 BC ), 20 miles west of Jerusalem, is recorded on a stone relief at the Assyrian royal palace in Nimrud
Plans for a flood relief channel centred at first on the Bridgwater to Taunton Canal, which follows a slightly higher course to the west, and does not run through peat, but the estimated cost of £ 1. 7 million was prohibitive, and so a scheme to upgrade the river costing around one third of that was implemented.
The MWIU organized occasional strikes, attacked the inadequate relief provided for unemployed workers by the YMCA and other groups, and distributed the MWIU's newspapers. These programs attracted a number of sailors and longshoremen, including Harry Bridges, who subsequently led the west coast longshore strike of 1934.
In July 2006, a circuitous and oft-criticized single carriageway relief road for Mitchelstown was opened to traffic around the west of the town.
The west side of the base displays a sculpture, by Caius Gabriel Cibber, in alto and bas relief, of the destruction of the City ; with Charles II and his brother, James, the Duke of York ( later James II ), surrounded by liberty, architecture, and science, giving directions for its restoration.
It was built as relief road to ease congestion on Wilmslow Road to the west.
It became known as the Radical Road after it was paved in the aftermath of the Radical War of 1820, using the labour of unemployed weavers from the west of Scotland at the suggestion of Walter Scott as a form of work relief.
The exhibits also included a twelve-inch ( 305 mm ) Zeiss refracting telescope in the east dome, a triple-beam coelostat ( solar telescope ) in the west dome, and a thirty-eight foot relief model of the moon's north polar region.
However it is more notable for its large local relief above the nearby valleys to the south, east, and west.
Responding to reports from US Marines on Wake Island of Japanese bombardment and a subsequent invasion attempt in the first week after Pearl Harbor, Fletcher was sent west with the carrier Saratoga ( Task Force 11 ) to provide relief.
A ten-metre-long bronze relief, over the west door of the Sydney ANZAC War Memorial.
Entire landscape here has volcanic origins with plateau Putorana to the north of the river, the relief alters the flow of Nizhnyaya Tunguska to west direction.
A ten-metre-long bronze relief, over the west door by Rayner Hoff.
The Quakers are well recognised in Ireland because during the time of the Great Famine ( 1845 / 47 ) they raised a lot of money for famine relief, and came to the aid of famine victims setting up soup kitchens in some of the worst hit areas of the west.
20-year-old 2nd Lt. Caspar W. Collins of Company G 11th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, en route back to his company farther west from a remount detail at Fort Laramie, had arrived the afternoon before with the mail ambulance and was ordered by Anderson to lead the relief.
The province extends from the coast of the Adriatic Sea west to the Apennines, its relief becoming steadily higher and more mountainous.

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