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At and sea
At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis becalmed the sea and stopped the journey until an oracle came and said they could win the goddess ' heart by sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.
At the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia the water is no longer salty and many fresh water species live in the sea.
At, the Channel Tunnel possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at and deeper at below sea level.
At the end of glacials with sea level rapidly rising, corals become major sinks for Carbon dioxide as the reefs grow up to the new sea level.
At right is displayed the web color light sea green.
At sea, warships and troop carriers were painted in dazzle patterns that were highly visible, but designed to confuse enemy gunners as to the target's speed, range, and heading.
At first, the danger to a battle fleet was considered only to exist when at anchor, but as faster and longer range torpedoes were developed, the threat extended to cruising at sea.
At its source, the river is at an elevation of above sea level.
At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.
At Cofete on the western side of Jandía a remote and imposing house-Villa Winter-looks out to sea across wide and generally empty beaches.
At the bottom of the sea, Godzilla recovers and roars over Mecha-King Ghidorah's body.
* At sea, it was usually ejected from siphons, although earthenware pots or grenades filled with it or similar substances were also used.
At low tide, the West Winner sandbank is visible, extending a mile out to sea.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastal vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea.
At age eleven he went to sea with his father.
At the northern end of the sea, more than 10, 000 square kilometres of land in Atyrau Province have been flooded.
At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort.
At the bottom of the trench, where the plates meet, the water column above exerts a pressure of, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed ( completed in 1997 ).
At his command a storm arose and covered the sea.
At its edge, sea, slush, and ice mix, surrounded by fog.
At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.
At standard temperature and pressure, radon forms a monatomic gas with a density of 9. 73 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >, about 8 times the density of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, 1. 217 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >.

At and naval
At the beginning of the First Punic War, Rome had virtually no experience in naval warfare, whereas Carthage had a great deal of experience on the seas thanks to its centuries of sea-based trade.
At the same time, with the aid of numerous merchant ships converted to auxiliary cruisers, a loose naval blockade on the Ottoman coasts from the Dardanelles to Suez was instituted, which disrupted the Ottomans ' flow of supplies ( only the Black Sea routes to Romania remained open ) and left some 250, 000 Ottoman troops immobilized in Asia.
After the war, Rear-Admiral Michael Musmanno, a U. S. naval officer and judge, published an account apparently based on eye-witness testimony: " At about 8: 15 pm, Goebbels arose from the table, put on his hat, coat and gloves and, taking his wife's arm, went upstairs to the garden.
At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with cameras and radar to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean.
At different times in the 20th century, the U. S. had about 25 military or naval installations in Puerto Rico, some very small ones, as well as large installations.
At the start of the first Punic War, Carthage was the dominant power of the Western Mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire, while Rome was a rapidly ascending power in Italy, but lacked the naval power of Carthage.
At this time, the last remaining vestiges of civilization are gone, and Ralph's demise is only prevented by the abrupt and unexpected arrival of a naval officer, who is disappointed by the savage nature of the British boys.
* February 21 – 26 – Seven Years ' War – At the Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland, a force of French troops under the command of privateer François Thurot captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring ; the force is defeated ( and Thurot killed ) in a naval action in the Irish Sea on February 28.
* 1283 – July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.
* July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.
At first, he was responsible for all military affairs, including naval affairs.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Cardinal Richelieu began to build a naval arsenal and dockyard at Toulon to serve as a base for a new French Mediterreanean fleet.
At the same time, it was becoming evident that much of the naval officers corps, especially the younger officers were falling under National Socialist influence, to which Raeder reacted cautiously.
At the same time, Raeder worked to promote National Socialist ideology as opposed to the NSDAP in the Navy, ordering in September 1936 that all officers read a tract by Kriegsmarine Commander Siegfried Sorge called Der Marineoffizier about what it took to be a good officer., Sorge had claimed that one could not be a good naval officer without believing in National Socialist values.
At his Nuremberg trial, reflecting the traditional anti-Semitic bias of the German middle class and naval officers of his generation, he argued that after the experience of 1917 and 1918, " International Jewry " had " gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs ", and " one could not be surprised that the National Socialist government tried to loosen and, as far as possible remove this large and oppressive influence.
At this time, some naval officers expressed the concern that the British were reading at least some of the naval codes as the Royal Navy seemed to have a suspicious ability to know where German ships were, but Raeder dismissed these concerns.
At this early stage the idea of a regular navy ( the Royal Navy, as distinct from the Merchant Navy ) was not present, so there is little to distinguish the activity of English privateers from regular naval warfare.
At first, the Russian naval forces remained inactive and did not engage the Japanese, who staged unopposed landings in Korea.
At the end of Palmerston Road where it joins the Ladies Mile a plaque on a house records that it was once the home of Fred Jane, the creator of the standard naval reference book Jane ’ s Fighting Ships.
At Oscarsborg Fortress they boarded the Norwegian naval ship " Heimdal ".
At first Ptolemy made a successful descent upon Asia Minor and on several of the islands of the Archipelago, but he was at length totally defeated by Demetrius at the naval Battle of Salamis.
At a time when industrialisation was reaping major advances in naval technology, one American strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, almost single-handedly brought the field of naval strategy up to date.

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