On the other hand, it is quite possible for this anchor to find such a good hook that, without a trip line from the crown, it is impossible to retrieve.

Originally designed as a lightweight anchor for seaplanes, this design consists of two plow-like blades mounted to a shank, with a folding stock crossing through the crown of the anchor.

From Castile, he orchestrated a series of attempts to usurp the crown for himself.

She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.

This gave Andronikos the opportunity to seize the crown for himself, leaving his retirement in 1182 and marching to Constantinople with an army that ( according to non-Byzantine sources ) included Muslim contingents.

There he repaired the evils of the Albigensian war and made a first attempt at administrative centralization, thus preparing the way for union with the crown.

Typical values of V range from around 20 for very dense flint glass, around 30 for polycarbonate plastics, and up to 65 for very light crown glass, and up to 85 for fluor-crown glass.

New Crowns for Old depicts Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria | Victoria an imperial crown in exchange for a royal one. Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

All the while, Wallace seeks the assistance of Robert the Bruce ( Macfadyen ), the son of nobleman Robert the Elder and a contender for the Scottish crown.

In the former, so weakened was the defeated King John of England that he soon needed to submit to his barons demands and sign the Magna Carta, limiting the power of the crown and establishing the basis for common law.

Trade restrictions and monopolies established by the Spanish crown are credited for having held back economic development for much of the colonial times.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

The Czech crown became fully convertible for most business purposes in late 1995.

Only in the time before Hugh Capet took the crown for himself and after the reign of Charles X is the term necessary to identify which.

And meditating on the crown chakra is important for consciousness projection, either to another world, or into another body.

This request, however, if turned down, would have been viewed as disloyalty to the crown, the perception of which carried much social stigma, making it difficult for Kidd to have done so.

They were for several hundred years frontier fortresses belonging to the French crown and most of what you will see there today in their well preserved remains dates from a post-Cathar era.

Then it took 3 to 6 millions of years for the crown group to differentiate in Mid Cretaceous.

Notwithstanding Dartmouth's connections with the crown and respectable society, it was a major base for privateering in medieval times.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.

Such problems are of extreme interest as well as importance and are so much like fighting in a rain forest or guerrilla warfare at night in tall grass that we might have to re-examine primitive conflicts for what they could teach.

For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill.

An open field was better than a building, that was for sure, so he dismounted, turned off the horse, and plunged through the grass.

This mountain was known as The Black Reef and it rose almost perpendicularly for about two hundred feet, honeycombed with caves, top covered with dense scrub and creepers and tall grass.

Pete Ward was sent in for House and, after failing in a bunt attempt, popped to Howser on the grass back of short.

It too features a sharp toe like the Bügel for penetrating weed and grass, sets quickly, and has a particularly large fluke area.

The Aleut term for grass basket is qiigam aygaaxsii.

From the land they could only meet a few needs, such as stone for weapons, tools, stoves or lamps and grass for their woven baskets.

In Indian cuisine, agar agar is known as " China grass " and is used for making desserts.

Another grass species, Brachypodium distachyon is also an experimental model for understanding genetic, cellular and molecular biology.

Track bicycles are used for track cycling in Velodromes, while cyclo-cross races are held on outdoor terrain, including pavement, grass, and mud.

Nearly all chimpanzee populations have been recorded using tools, modifying sticks, rocks, grass, and leaves and use them for acquiring honey, termites, ants, nuts, and water.

They will modify sticks, rocks, grass, and leaves and use them when foraging for honey, termites, ants, nuts, and water.

During this race, Earnhardt was briefly forced into the infield grass, but kept control of his car and returned to the track without giving up his lead — a maneuver now referred to as the " Pass in the Grass " even though Earnhardt actually didn't pass and couldn't have passed anyone for position as he was in the lead at the time.

The troops on horseback were able to operate in difficult terrain ( unsuited for motor vehicles ) and had the advantage of being able to control the area around them, with a clear view over the grass ( which foot troops didn't have ).

In most homes a dedicated coffee area is surrounded by fresh grass, with special furniture for the coffee maker.

As a result of this dumping the residents had symptoms of skin irritation, Lois Gibbs, a resident of the development, started a grass routes campaign for reparations.

Adonijah Welch, ISU ’ s first president, envisioned a picturesque campus with a winding road encircling the college ’ s majestic buildings, vast lawns of green grass, many varieties of trees sprinkled throughout to provide shade, and shrubbery and flowers for fragrance.

Its sparse bunch grass, prostrate vines and low-growing shrubs are primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife.

Many sectors were left in ruins and ancient monuments became fields of grass used as pastures for animals, thus the Roman Forum became the campo vaccinio: the field of cows.

:* Brachypodium distachyon is an emerging experimental model grass that has many attributes that make it an excellent model for temperate cereals.

Beazley was drilling test sites for oil with Matahower in the lower Sepik and he and McGregor recruited labour on the Sepik and explored grass country to Wee Wak.