In the early spring of 1326, after a journey of over, Ibn Battuta arrived at the port of Alexandria, then part of the Bahri Mamluk empire.

In the spring of 1620, however, stubborn Gustavus Adolphus arrived in Berlin.

The first crusaders usually arrived to fight during the spring and returned to their homes in the autumn.

The rest of the " muscle hijackers " arrived in the spring and early summer of 2001, just months before the September 11 attacks.

When the proto-Greeks ( peoples whose language would evolve into Greek proper ) first arrived in the Aegean and on the mainland of modern-day Greece early in the 2nd millennium BCE, they found localized nymphs and divinities already connected with every important feature of the landscape: mountain, cave, grove and spring all had their own locally venerated deity.

Also during spring training Williams was nicknamed " The Kid " by Red Sox equipment manager Johnny Orlando, who after Williams arrived to Sarasota for the first time, said, " The Kid ' has arrived ".

In spring 474, the ports were re-opened and Julius Nepos, the pretender to the Western throne, crossed the Adriatic Sea and arrived in Italy to depose Glycerius.

Minuit and his company arrived on the Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel at Swedes ' Landing ( now Wilmington, Delaware ), in the spring of 1638.

An invitation for a screen test soon arrived, which happened that spring, leading to his acting career.

The following spring he set out from Trier and arrived at Carnuntum, which was deserted.

In the spring of 1776, 10, 000 British and German troops arrived in Quebec, and General Guy Carleton, the provincial governor, drove the Continental Army out of Quebec and back to Fort Ticonderoga.

The first settlers in the Lower Oak Creek area were Captain Andrew Jackson, a retired Confederate officer from Virginia, and his wife, Margaret, who arrived in the spring of 1876.

They arrived the next spring at the Quascacunquen River, now the Parker River.

When spring arrived, construction began on the ore dock at a cost of $ 50, 000.

The first settlers arrived in Long Lake in early spring, 1855.

A group of men from New York, who arrived in the spring of 1856, were the first settlers in Bennington Township.

The township was first settled in February 1855 and the following spring at least seven other settlers arrived.

The most successful early pioneer in the Valley was Jeremiah Borst, who arrived in the spring of 1858 on his way over the Cedar River trail from the eastern side of the mountains.

The slaves seeking refuge were taken into a home built around 1840 by Mr. Zimmerman, who arrived in Union City from Fairfield, Connecticut, in the spring of 1838.

But as the spring thaw arrived Kolchak's position degenerated – his armies had outrun their supply lines, they were exhausted, and the Red Army was pouring newly raised troops into the area.

He arrived in Hawaii in the spring of 1959 and the Honolulu Star Bulletin reported: " He has no money, he asks for nothing.

Albani arrived in London in the spring, and made her professional debut on 2 April 1872 as Amina in La sonnambula.

In the spring ( Northern Hemisphere ) of 1930, the Soviet buying committee, under the direction of Semyon Ginzburg, arrived in Great Britain to select tanks, tractors and cars for use in the Red Army.

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor's proposal of marriage between Władysław and Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria ( sister of future Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor ) arrived in Warsaw somewhere during spring 1636.

A Puritan minister named John Davenport led his flock from exile in the Netherlands back to England and finally to America in the spring of 1637.

James accidentally knocked one of the springs from a shelf, and watched as the spring " stepped " in a series of banana splits, to a stack of books, to a tabletop, to the floor, where it re-coiled itself and stood upright.

When set in motion on a stepped platform such as a stairway, a helical spring transfers energy along its length in a longitudinal wave.

In spring 1948 Law stepped down completely, and on May 1 Brownlee succeeded him as President and General Manager.

Kendall VanHook Bumpass ( November 6, 1809 – 1885 ) was an early hunter, who, in 1865, stepped into a boiling spring and lost a leg, in what is now Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Blue orchard and hornfaced bees are spring season pollinators and will only sting if squeezed or stepped on.

In spring 1981 the C & NW stepped away, and the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation ( Metra ) was formed to take over operations.

In the spring of 1987, guitarist Dave Wynn left the band and after a few guitarists came and went, Robbie Koebler stepped in to record Beast On My Back ( coincidentally the acronym " B. O. M. B.

In spring of 2000, the band stepped into the studio for the first time recording an 8 song LP named, appropriately, " The Factor Seven LP " ( this name was not decided on by the band, but apparently was the default name and was referred to as such thereafter ).

I figger it's probl'y a sixty-five-mile walk, and I c'n maybe get this spring patched up in a couple of hours ''.

`` Come spring, you'll be kicking up your heels and feeling coltish again too, gal ''.

A few months ago it was a fairly typical landlord who in the dead of night lugged me up a mountainside to drink from a spring famous in the neighborhood for its clarity and flavor.

On spring and summer evenings people leave their shops and houses and walk up through the lanes of the city to the bridge.

Some brilliant rookies nailed them down, so that this spring just two spots, left and right field, are really up for grabs.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

But companies continued to spring up.

Springing like a cat, he leaped back, swooped up the spring gun and, whirling, pointed it toward the cabin.

Just like the balloon would go up and you could sit all day and wish it would spring a leak or blow to hell up and burn and nothing like that would happen.

Although they are often considered to be weeds in gardens, this viewpoint is not always necessary, as most of them die when the soil temperature warms up again in early to late spring when other plants are still dormant and have not yet leafed out.

Pytheas says that the Gutones, a people of Germany, inhabit the shores of an estuary of the Ocean called Mentonomon, their territory extending a distance of six thousand stadia ; that, at one day's sail from this territory, is the Isle of Abalus, upon the shores of which, amber is thrown up by the waves in spring, it being an excretion of the sea in a concrete form ; as, also, that the inhabitants use this amber by way of fuel, and sell it to their neighbors, the Teutones.

Rotating the driving member the other way makes the spring wrap itself tightly around the driving surface and the clutch locks up.

The clutch-brake locked up when rotated backwards, but also had some spring action.

Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

Clement describes the Stromata as a work on various subjects, which spring up in the text like flowers in a meadow.

On his return to Hollywood in the spring of 1946, MGM had nothing lined up and used him in yet another B-movie: Living in a Big Way.

In the 1990s, organizations began to spring up in non-western countries, such as Progay Philippines, which was founded in 1993 and organized the first Gay Pride march in Asia on June 26, 1994.

* The dark color of humus ( usually black or dark brown ) helps to warm up cold soils in the spring.

The top cymbal is connected to the rod with a clutch, and can be lowered by operating the pedal against a spring which holds it up in the " open " position, while the bottom cymbal remains stationary.

A 17th-century legend has it that Hedwig, while on a pilgrimage to Rome, stopped at Bad Zell in Austria, where she had healing waters spring up at a source which today still bears her name.

Since the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is most likely that the holiday would be celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the winter solstice and vernal equinox, or when the primroses, dandelions, or other spring flowers rise up through the snow, or when the sun aligned with the passage tombs in the pre-Celtic megaliths.

Rivers in karst areas may disappear underground a number of times and spring up again in different places, usually under a different name ( like Ljubljanica, the river of seven names ).

Instead of a charger, single cartridges were inserted through the side opening, and were pushed up, around, and into the action by a spring follower.

In mild temperate zones, the stems of the plant die off at the start of the winter, but shoot up again in spring.