At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

*" Families Of 39 Lost At Sea Begin $ 20-Million Suit Here ", The New York Times, June 4, 1969.

*" Ship Missing In Bermuda Triangle Now Presumed To Be Lost At Sea ", The New York Times, October 19, 1976.

In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

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.

At about the 2nd century AD Goths migrated to the Black Sea, and in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, a semi-legendary Gothic kingdom of Oium existed in Southern Russia until it was overrun by Huns.

At age twelve, Moon joined his local Sea Cadet Corps band as a bugle player but traded his position to be a drummer.

At 9, 500 BP, Lake Onega, previously draining into the White Sea, started emptying into Ladoga via the River Svir.

At Standard Sea Level conditions ( corresponding to a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius ), the speed of sound is 340. 3 m / s ( 1225 km / h, or 761. 2 mph, or 661. 5 knots, or 1116 ft / s ) in the Earth's atmosphere.

* 1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.

At the close of the Permian, lycopod and equicete swamps reminiscent of Carboniferous flora were relegated to a series of equatorial islands in the Paleotethys Sea that later would become South China.

At its peak, the civilisation hosted a population of approximately 5 million in hundreds of settlements extending as far as the Arabian Sea, present-day southern and eastern Afghanistan, southeastern Iran and the Himalayas.

At Phnom Penh it merges with the Tonle Sap and divides into two branches-the Sông Hậu Giang ( Hau Giang river ) ( known as the Bassac River on the Cambodian side ) and the Sông Tiền Giang ( Tien Giang river )-and continues through Cambodia and the Mekong basin before draining into the South China Sea through nine mouths known as the Cửu Long ( nine dragons ).

* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).

* 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.

At the time, this was virtually monopolized by the Republic of Venice, who operated overland routes via Levantine and Egyptian ports, through the Red Sea across to the spice markets of India.

At the Sea Island Conference of the G8 in 2004, Carabinieri were given a mandate to establish a Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units to spearhead the development of training and doctrinal standards for civilian police units attached to international peacekeeping missions.

At the end of the 19th century, the western European market — and by extension their overseas empires — was dominated by French and Spanish brandies, and eastern Europe was dominated by brandies from the Black Sea region, including Bulgaria, the Crimea, and Georgia.

At the end of this campaign, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, his troops captured Savannah on December 21, 1864.

At Arles, the Rhône divides itself in two arms, forming the Camargue delta, with all branches flowing into the Mediterranean Sea.

At its southeastern reaches, the Andaman Sea narrows to form the Straits of Malacca, which separate the Malay Peninsula from the island of Sumatra.

At the end of the last ice age the North Sea was a great plain, and anthropological material, as well as the remains of animals such as mammoths are sometimes recovered by trawlers.

At the time, his son, Admiral Sir Caspar John was First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff.

At least at one point in his life, Baum stated that he considered The Patchwork Girl of Oz " one of the two best books of my career "— the other being The Sea Fairies.

At the same time, the most western island of the Juan Fernández Islands was renamed Alejandro Selkirk Island although Selkirk probably never saw that island ( 97 miles west ).

At 1, 660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife.

At the novels ' beginning, the majority of Westeros is united under the rule of a king in what is known as the Seven Kingdoms, with each of nine regions controlled by a different major house: the North, the Iron Islands, the Riverlands, the Vale of Arryn, the Westerlands, the Reach, the Stormlands, the Crownlands, and Dorne.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

At the Battle of Coronel, it inflicted the first major defeat on the Royal Navy in over one hundred years, although the German squadron of ships was subsequently defeated at the Battle of the Falkland Islands, only one ship escaping destruction.

At Universal's Islands of Adventure, at the Toon Lagoon section, Little Nemo can be seen falling out of his bed near a shop.

At this time, it was named after the largest of the British Channel Islands, Jersey, Carteret's birthplace.

At least 10 species live in the temperate zone ; one, the Galápagos Penguin, lives as far north as the Galápagos Islands, but this is only made possible by the cold, rich waters of the Antarctic Humboldt Current that flows around these islands.

At the national level, the U. S. Virgin Islands elect a delegate to Congress from their at-large.

At the territorial level, 15 senators – seven from the district of Saint Croix, seven from the district of Saint Thomas and Saint John, and one senator at-large who must be a resident of Saint John – are elected for two-year terms to the unicameral Virgin Islands Legislature.

At the height of the blackbirding, more than one-half the adult male population of several of the Islands worked abroad.

* May 8 / May 9 – WWII: At night, gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel.

* September 5 – At the invitation of the Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.

At the time the British took control of the territory, the following islands were considered part of the Virgin Islands.

At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financial services in the world, but the business fled subsequent the invasion, and the British Virgin Islands was one of the main beneficiaries.

At its height, Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere included Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, large parts of China, Malaysia, French Indochina, Dutch East Indies, The Philippines, Burma, some of India, and various Pacific Islands in the central Pacific.

At midnight on 28 February 1994 South Africa formally transferred sovereignty over Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands to Namibia.

At the fall of the Roman empire, the Aeolian Islands came under the sway of the Barbarian Visigoths, the Vandals and the Ostrogoths, followed by the harsh domination of the Byzantine empire.

The next southerly atoll is Ducie Island in the Pitcairn Islands Group, at 24 ° 40 ' S. Bermuda is sometimes claimed as the " northernmost atoll " at a latitude of 32 ° 24 ' N. At this latitude coral reefs would not develop without the warming waters of the Gulf Stream.

At the time of the European discovery of most of the islands of the Caribbean, three major Amerindian indigenous peoples lived on the islands: the Taíno in the Greater Antilles, The Bahamas and the Leeward Islands ; the Island Caribs and Galibi in the Windward Islands ; and the Ciboney in western Cuba.

At its peak, Silver City operated 222 daily ferry flights across the English Channel, as well as between Scotland and Ireland and to / from the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

At the beginning of World War I, Japan assumed control of the Marshall Islands.

At first, the Allied offensive was planned just for Tulagi and the Santa Cruz Islands, omitting Guadalcanal.