Camped at Duns, his army's horses were alarmed at night by the rattles used by the inhabitants to scare birds from their crops.

Camped on the east bank of the Indus, Qasim sent emissaries and bargained with the river Jats and boatmen.

* October 25 to October 28 – Camped at the Rock Fort, and first met the Chinookan-speaking people of the lower Columbia.

Camped nearby are an Italian zoologist, Dr. Leonardo, and his American granddaughter Marisa, who is, fortunately, a medical student.

They were about a mile off ; ;

and about a mile to the west a cluster of at least fifty Militia were making their way in our direction.

We ran east for about half a mile before we turned back to the road, panting from the effort and soaked with sweat.

A scant half mile away Shelley and Mary were doubtless sitting on their diminutive terrace, the air about them scented with stock, and listening to the nightingale who had nested in the big lime tree at the foot of the garden.

The new interchange among the four Los Angeles freeways, including the grade-constructed accesses, occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land, one-eighth of a square mile, an area about the size of Rockefeller Center in New York.

They are wide and spacious and about a mile long ", and this became the basis for the plan of Adelaide.

It contained approximately 1 mile ( 1. 6 km ) of wire, 280 dual-triode vacuum tubes, 31 thyratrons, and was about the size of a desk.

Two miles northwest is Loch Chon, at 90m above the sea, long, and about half a mile broad.

Craigowan Lodge is a seven-bedroom stone house about a mile from the main castle in Balmoral.

* Porter Square, about a mile north on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square, is formed by the junction of Massachusetts and Somerville Avenues, and includes part of the city of Somerville.

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out, destroying an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, hundreds of religious documents dated between 150 BCE and 70 CE were found in caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran, about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea ( presently in the West Bank ).

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

The Babylonians are also known for the Babylonian mile, which was a measure of distance equal to about seven miles today.

Dartmouth College was established in 1769 beside the Common at a village called the Plain — an extensive and level tract of land a mile ( 1. 6 kilometers ) from the Connecticut River, and about 150 feet ( 46 meters ) above it.

mile ) coral island located in the South Pacific Ocean at, about halfway between Hawaii and the Cook Islands.

The tenth Umayyad caliph, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, built a palatial complex known as Khirbet al-Mafjar about one mile north of Tell as-Sultan in 743, and two mosques, a courtyard, mosaics, and other items from it can still be seen in situ today, despite its having been partially destroyed in an earthquake in 747.

After the bomb was discovered, all Los Angeles police were ordered to search under their cars, and another bomb was found in front of a police department about a mile away.

It is about in area and a mile ( 1. 6 km ) in circumference.

Malta is the most densely populated country in the EU and one of the most densely populated countries in the world, with about 1, 265 inhabitants per square kilometre ( 3, 000 per square mile ).

This compares with about 32 per square kilometre ( 85 per square mile ) for the United States.

The Babylonians are also known for the Babylonian mile, which was a measure of distance equal to about seven modern miles ( 11 km ).

The nautical mile ( symbol M, NM or nmi ) is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude measured along any meridian, or about one minute of arc of longitude at the equator.

The geographical mile is the length of one minute of longitude along the Equator, about 1855. 4 m on the International ( 1924 ) Spheroid or about 1855. 325 m on the WGS 84 ellipsoid.

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

Forty-nine hours after an atomic burst the radiation intensity is only about 1 percent of what it was an hour after the explosion.

Now when Henri has completed four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 1, the professor allows him about a five-minute rest period before starting him on four complete Push-Pull Super-Sets No. 2.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

The maximum angular diameter of any planetary disk as observed from the earth is about 1 minute of arc.

A satisfactory cloud was produced even though these nozzles were only about 5 per cent efficient in producing an initial cloud in the size range of 1 to 5 microns.

The gallbladder contained about 40 cc. of green-brown bile and 3 smooth, dark-green calculi measuring up to 1 cm. in diameter.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

The authors set about answering this fundamental question through a detailed investigation of the patient's ability, tactually, ( 1 ) to perceive figure and ( 2 ) to locate objects in space, with his eyes closed ( or turned away from the object concerned ).

Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

1 ) Every age rewrites the events of its history in terms of what should have been, creating legends about itself that rationalize contemporary beliefs and excuse contemporary actions.

Exports from producing countries in terms of equivalent oil were a little more than 1 million tons, about half of which was palm kernels or oil from them and about half was palm oil.

World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).

A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

The Confederates suffered about 1, 500 casualties with an estimated 12, 000 to 14, 000 taken prisoner.

They are upright perennial herbs ( to about 1. 50 m ), with distinctive leaves.

The iris family contains about 70 genera and over 1, 600 species with a worldwide distribution.

The incidence rate is about 8 per 1, 000, 000 people per year.

Economic analysts say that the project would cost at least $ 1 billion ( equivalent to about 40 percent of Armenia's 2008 state budget ).

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

The amount of precipitation is greatest along the coast ( 62 inches / 1, 574 mm ) and evenly distributed through the rest of the state ( about 52 inches / 1, 320 mm ).