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As well as its downstream interests, Mobil was active in the North Sea and operated an oil refinery in Coryton ( opened in 1953 ), on the Thames estuary.
M. K. Lawson in his Dictionary of National Biography article on Harthacnut states that it is unclear whether Harthacnut was to have England as well as Denmark, but it was probably a reflection of a formal arrangement that mints south of the Thames produced silver pennies in his name, while those to the north were almost all Harold's.
The conflict began well for the English, with the capture of New Amsterdam ( renamed New York in honour of Charles's brother James, Duke of York ) and a victory at the Battle of Lowestoft, but in 1667 the Dutch launched a surprise attack on the English ( the Raid on the Medway ) when they sailed up the River Thames to where a major part of the English fleet was docked.
Unlike the " pleasure punting " common on the Cherwell in Oxford and the Cam in Cambridge, punting on the Thames is competitive as well as recreational and uses narrower craft.
The 1947 Thames flood was worst overall 20th century flood of the River Thames, affecting much of the Thames Valley as well as elsewhere in England during the middle of March 1947 after a severe winter.
The 1928 Thames flood was a disastrous flood of the River Thames that affected much of riverside London on 7 January 1928, as well as places further downriver.
Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.
During the 1960s and ' 70s, he was involved in shows for the BBC and Thames Television ( as well as Frankie Howerd Reveals All for Yorkshire Television in 1980 ).
After a year in London, as counterpoint to his 1858 French set, in 1860, he produced another set of etchings called Thames Set, as well as some early impressionistic work, including The Thames in Ice.
The main defensive fort for New London, Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton, was well known by Arnold who sold its secrets to the British fleet so they could avoid its artillery fire.
Despite its name, it does not serve the northernmost stations on the network, although it does serve the southernmost station ( Morden tube station ) as well as 16 of the system's 29 stations south of the River Thames.
The namesake of the county, Colonel William Whitley, is famous locally for fighting many of these battles within the area, safeguarding the Wilderness Road, as well as for his service in the War of 1812, where he was killed at the Battle of the Thames.
He started by attacking Wallingford Castle which controlled the Thames corridor ; it was held by Brien FitzCount and Stephen found it too well defended.
At the end of the First World War, AC Cars started making motor vehicles again, designing and building many successful cars at Ferry Works, as well as expanding into an old balloon factory on Thames Ditton High Street.
It was assumed that the River Frome, to the west of the tunnel, the River Churn which flowed through Cirencester, and the River Coln, together with springs at Boxwell and a well near the source of the River Thames at Thames Head, would be sufficient.
The retrieved Monopoly board used by the robbers at their Leatherslade Farm hideout, as well as a genuine £ 5 note from the robbery, are on display at the Thames Valley Police museum in Sulhamstead, Berkshire.
The school owns a boathouse on the River Thames, the base for Dulwich College Boat Club as well as large grounds around Dulwich.
For much of the later part of his life, Eccles lived in Kingston upon Thames and wrote additional incidental music ( though not as frequently as he had for Lincoln's Inn Fields ) as well as the occasional court ode.

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He also received Best Supporting Actor Oscar nominations for The Heiress and Greystoke, as well as New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review Awards for " Best Actor " for The Sound Barrier and another NYFCC Award for " Best Supporting Actor " for Greystoke.
Wright was well known for her campaigning in support of the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and Fraser Island.
Popular Australian destinations include the coastal cities of Sydney and Melbourne, as well as other high profile destinations including regional Queensland, the Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest reef.
Barrier islands tend to form most dominantly along microtidal coasts, where they tend to be well developed and nearly continuous.
It contains numerous islands and reefs, as well as the world's largest reef system, the Great Barrier Reef ( GBR ), which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981.
This exhibit is designed to feature the life of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, and showcases the aquarium's whale sharks, as well as a 100 foot ( 30 m ) underwater tunnel and the world's second largest viewing window.
The DVDs also feature several special features including interviews / documentaries of the people behind the cartoons such as Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, musical conductor Carl Stalling, and voice-artist Mel Blanc, pencil tests, and audio commentaries by animation historians Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier, and Greg Ford, as well as current animators Paul Dini, Eric Goldberg, and John Kricfalusi.
517 ), the disappearances of Benjamin Bathurst ( Time Echo ) and the crew of the Mary Celeste ( Barrier 346 ), as well as the career of Charles Fort himself ( The X-Machine ).
Veitch mentions several species of birds as well as small reptiles which were likely affected by the cats, including the Little Barrier snipe ( Coenocorypha aucklandica barrierensis ), North Island saddleback ( Philesturnus carunculatus rufusater ), grey-faced petrel ( Pterodroma macroptera gouldi ), Cook's petrel ( Pterodroma cookii ) and and black petrel ( Proeellaria parkinsoni ).
Stone sources exploited for tool manufacture were largely the local greywacke found on Motutapu and nearby Motuihe, but included obsidians from Great Barrier and Northland, as well as Nelson argillites and basalts from Tahanga.
The New Caledonia Barrier reef surrounds Grande Terre, New Caledonia's largest island, as well as the Ile des Pins and several smaller islands, reaching a length of.
In Iftel, they were beset by a surviving army of Ma ' ar, and prayed to their god, Vykaendys, for protection-and the Sunlord granted the Barrier for whence Iftel is so well known.
It has a patrolled beach and is well known as a fishing venue with access to the Great Barrier Reef, the Boyne River and Lake Awoonga.
They are disrupted via Quantum Barrier technology ; if a Ghoul is eliminated or repulsed, its Specular image ceases to be a threat as well.
He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) and Hobson's Choice ( 1954 ), as well as Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the British Society of Cinematographers Award.
Many private yachts and catamarans are based at the marina, as well as a significant number of commercial tourism operators who provide tours to the Great Barrier Reef.

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It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.
It appeared from the limited information available that the aerated lagoon might offer a satisfactory means of increasing the capacity of existing oxidation ponds as well as providing the same degree of treatment in a smaller volume.
Many of the smaller birds, such as the sunbirds, bee-eaters, the parrots and kingfishers, as well as the larger plantain-eaters, are noted for the brilliance of their plumage.
The arrival of solid-state electronics, the Global Positioning System, satellite communications, and increasingly small and powerful computers and LED displays, have dramatically changed the cockpits of airliners and, increasingly, of smaller aircraft as well.
However the loss of Culloden, the relative sizes of Orient and Leander and the participation in the action by two of the French frigates and several smaller vessels, as well as the theoretical strength of the French position, leads most historians to the conclusion that the French were marginally more powerful.
Because of this, it has a transportation system which includes more than of roads, 10 major international airports, 300 smaller airports, of functioning railway track, and more than 300 commercial ports and harbours that provide access to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans as well as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
During the early phases of the Big Bang, nucleosynthesis of hydrogen nuclei resulted in the production of hydrogen-1 ( protonium, < sup > 1 </ sup > H ) and helium-4 (< sup > 4 </ sup > He ), as well as a smaller amount of deuterium (< sup > 2 </ sup > H ) and very minuscule amounts ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) of lithium and beryllium.
Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.
Additionally, the growing severity of countrywide guerrilla attacks by the FARC and ELN, and smaller movements, as well as the growth of drug production, corruption and the spread of even more violent paramilitary groups such as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia ( AUC ) has made it difficult to solve the country's problems.
Impact craters produce melted rocks as well, but usually in smaller volumes with different characteristics.
The comet had apparently passed extremely close to Jupiter on July 7, 1992, just over above the planet's cloud topsa smaller distance than Jupiter's radius of, and well within the orbit of Jupiter's innermost moon Metis and the planet's Roche limit, inside which tidal forces are strong enough to disrupt a body held together only by gravity.
Planck employs both HEMT radiometers as well as bolometer technology and will measure the CMB on smaller scales than WMAP.
The compact nature of such instruction sets results in smaller program sizes and fewer ( slow ) main memory accesses, which at the time ( early 1960s and onwards ) resulted in a tremendous savings on the cost of computer memory and disc storage, as well as faster execution.
There is an increasing number of published compositions and arrangements for double bass ensembles, and the International Society of Bassists regularly features double bass ensembles ( both smaller ensembles as well as very large " mass bass " ensembles ) at its conferences, and sponsors the biennial David Walter Composition Competition, which includes a division for double bass ensemble works.
The game board consists of the main Settlers island as well as a few smaller islands, which award a special victory point to each player for their first settlements on them.
The 1996 census counted 57 percent of Egypt's population as rural, including those residing in agricultural areas in the Nile Valley and Delta, as well as the much smaller number of persons living in desert areas.
Edinburgh contains Scotland's five National Galleries as well as numerous smaller galleries.
Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.
Additional smaller preparations are included in this edition as well, leading to lighter preparations, and adding a third course to the meal.
Although forests are classified primarily by trees, the concept of a forest ecosystem includes additional species ( such as smaller plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals ) as well as physical and chemical processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling.
Precisely which species of felid are able to purr is a matter of debate, but the sound has been recorded in most of the smaller species, as well as the cheetah and cougar, and may also be found in the big cats.
There are smaller structures as well: spots of different sizes and colors.
Other European countries, such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy, pursued colonial empires as well ( mostly in Africa ), but they were comparatively smaller than those mentioned above.
The CUTH was formed in May 1992 by two principal labor federations, the Unitary Federation of Honduran Workers ( Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras — FUTH ) and the Independent Federation of Honduran Workers ( Federación Independiente de Trabajadores de Honduras — FITH ), as well as several smaller labor groups, all critical of the Callejas government's neoliberal economic reform program.
The city also supports many other industries, shipbuilding, including high-speed catamaran factories such as the world renowned Incat and ore refinement zinc smelters operated by Nyrstar, large breweries such as Cascade manufactures many different beers exported nationally with its premium and boutique beers being found in Europe, as well as smaller breweries around the city.

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