The Second Athenian Empire, a maritime self-defense league, was founded in 377 BC and was led by Athens ; but Athens would never recover the full extent of her power, and her enemies were now far stronger and more varied.

From the Pleistocene alternation of maritime and alluvial sediments occur as far west as Piacenza.

During the Song Dynasty, there was large scale maritime trade from China reaching as far as the Arabian peninsula and East Africa.

Although private maritime trade and official tribute missions from China had taken place in previous dynasties, the tributary fleet under the Muslim eunuch admiral Zheng He in the 15th century far surpassed all others in size.

By the middle of the 17th century the Dutch had built by far the largest mercantile fleet in Europe, with more ships than all the other states combined, and their economy, based mainly on maritime commerce, gave them a dominant position in European trade, especially in the North Sea and Baltic.

However, it can trace its origins back as far as 28 October 1664 when at the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company " the Duke of York and Albanys maritime regiment of foot " was first formed.

By 1918 the RNAS had made far more contributions to long-range maritime air operations than either the RFC or its successor the RAF.

The percentage reduction of the maritime component was far greater than non-maritime elements.

In the context of the entry of Germanic into the region, Einar Østmo emphasizes that the Atlantic and North Sea coastal regions of Scandinavia, and the circum-Baltic areas were united by a vigorous maritime economy, permitting a far wider geographical spread and a closer cultural unity than interior continental cultures could attain.

In addition, the Chinese Tang Dynasty had maritime trading, tributary, and diplomatic ties as far as modern-day Sri Lanka, India, Islamic Iran and Arabia, as well as Somalia in East Africa.

However, with the concurrent Age of Discovery, Europe had far surpassed the Ottoman Empire, and successfully bypassed their reliance on land-trade by discovering maritime routes around Africa and towards the Americas.

For instance the early experiments carried out by Comex S. A. ( Compagnie maritime d ' expertises ) using hydrox and also nitrogen trimix attained far greater depths than any recreational technical diving.

: I shall relate how the new settlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defended against foreign and domestic enemies ; how, under that settlement, the authority of law and the security of property were found to be compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individual action never before known ; how, from the auspicious union of order and freedom, sprang a prosperity of which the annals of human affairs had furnished no example ; how our country, from a state of ignominious vassalage, rapidly rose to the place of umpire among European powers ; how her opulence and her martial glory grew together ; how, by wise and resolute good faith, was gradually established a public credit fruitful of marvels which to the statesmen of any former age would have seemed incredible ; how a gigantic commerce gave birth to a maritime power, compared with which every other maritime power, ancient or modern, sinks into insignificance ; how Scotland, after ages of enmity, was at length united to England, not merely by legal bonds, but by indissoluble ties of interest and affection ; how, in America, the British colonies rapidly became far mightier and wealthier than the realms which Cortes and Pizarro had added to the dominions of Charles the Fifth ; how in Asia, British adventurers founded an empire not less splendid and more durable than that of Alexander.

So far the programme has included the cream of the folk song, maritime and shanty world in the United Kingdom.

:" Of all these ( British tribes ), by far the most civilised are they who dwell in Kent, which is entirely a maritime region, and who differ but little from the Gauls in their customs ".

The wrecking of the Wahine is one of the better known maritime disasters in New Zealand's history, although there have been worse with far greater loss of life.

The region has a semi-continental climate with no maritime influence that far inland.

Writing of the Britons generally in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico Caesar noted that: "... by far the most civilised are those who inhabit Cantium, the whole of which is a maritime region ; and their manners differ little from those of the Gauls ".

The calling of a general strike had an unexpected result: it gave the General Strike Committee, whose makeup was far less militant than the longshoremen's strike committee, effective control over the maritime strike itself.

The pace of maritime warfare increased with the use of smaller craft like torpedo boats, and the big guns would be far less likely to score a hit.

Historical and archaeological records attest to Swahilis being prolific maritime merchants and sailors who sailed the East African coastline to lands as far away as Arabia, Persia, Madagascar, India and even China.

The difficulty in utilizing this capability is that the object motion is far less in magnitude and usually less periodic than in the maritime case.

The Muscadet growing region lies at the far western reaches of the Loire Valley and is dominated by maritime influences of the nearby Atlantic Ocean.

It is generally conceded that the Formosan air force is the best by far in Asia, and the army the best trained.

From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

Alaska Airlines is by far the largest air carrier in the region, with Juneau's Juneau International Airport serving as the aerial hub for all of Southeast and Ketchikan's Ketchikan International Airport serving as a secondary hub for southern Southeast Alaska.

Concrete walls leak air far less than those made of wood-frames.

The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.

This is why a police whistle, a form of flute, is very wide for its pitch, and why a pipe organ can be far louder than a concert flute: a large organ pipe can contain several cubic feet of air, and its tone hole may be several inches wide, while a concert flute's air stream measures a fraction of an inch across.

* Nils Kjerulf-manager of Los Angeles International, now far from the major depot of mass transit of yesteryear due to the decrease in need for air transport

Bayonne Ham or Bayonne is an air dried salted ham that takes its name from the ancient port city of Bayonne in the far South West of France ( Le Pays Basque or Basque country ).

As far as the second room is concerned, the vibrating air in the doorway is the source of the sound.

Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

Manitoba is far removed from the moderating influences of both mountain ranges and large bodies of water, and because of the generally flat landscape, it is exposed to cold Arctic high-pressure air masses from the northwest during January and February.

The first brain image of an individual with psychosis was completed as far back as 1935 using a technique called pneumoencephalography ( a painful and now obsolete procedure where cerebrospinal fluid is drained from around the brain and replaced with air to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray picture ).

The Hale rocket removed the need for a rocket stick, travelled further due to reduced air resistance, and was far more accurate.

This allows the snow to be used through the summer for refrigeration and air conditioning, which requires far less electricity than traditional cooling methods.

It was propelled by a three-cylinder Brotherhood engine, using compressed air at around and driving two propellers, and was designed to self-regulate its course and depth as far as possible.

During the southwesterly summer monsoon, occurring from May to October, the heated air of the Gobi Desert rises, far to the north, inducing moist air to flow inland from the sea and deposit heavy rainfall.

Yemen recently placed an order for TOR air defence systems, which will be far more advanced than the current air defense systems in place.

Under the storm and closer to where most tornadoes are found, evidence of a supercell and likelihood of a tornado includes inflow bands ( particularly when curved ) such as a " beaver tail ", and other clues such as strength of inflow, warmth and moistness of inflow air, how outflow-or inflow-dominant a storm appears, and how far is the front flank precipitation core from the wall cloud.

Compressed air generated at Niagara Falls would drive far away generators of DC power.

In civil aviation, a data-link system ( known as Controller Pilot Data Link Communications ) is used to send information between aircraft and air traffic controllers when an aircraft is too far from the ATC to make voice radio communication and radar observations possible.