It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

It made only a tiny bump over the two men like a tire over a piece of gravel then moved on.

Gorton then moved to Providence and soon put the town in a turmoil.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

Rachel came close to the bed, bent as if she would kiss him, then moved away.

It moved in a silver arc toward his throat, then veered downward.

then his mind moved on to be confronted by something far more serious, and as the thought expanded, the implications jarred him.

`` It's like banging a shin '', he said, his eyes lingered on Nick's face, then moved back to Elaine.

Alusik then moved Cooke across with a line drive to left.

I touched it and the coolness, the ice-feeling, was gone, and even then it moved a little, perhaps a tiny spasm of the dead muscles, and I hoped that it was truly dead, so that I would not have to kill it.

And then it moved a little more, and I knew the snake was dying, and I would have to kill it there.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

While the engine installation crew works on the second car, the first car can be moved to the hood station and fitted with a hood, then to the wheels station and be fitted with wheels.

When the third car ’ s engine has been mounted, it then can be moved to the hood station ; meanwhile, subsequent cars ( if any ) can be moved to the engine installation station.

The LOC included Launch Complex 39, a Launch Control Center, and a 130 million cubic foot ( 3. 7 million cubic meter ) Vehicle Assembly Building in which the space vehicle ( launch vehicle and spacecraft ) would be assembled on a Mobile Launcher Platform and then moved by a transporter to one of several launch pads.

He then moved southward into Greece, where he sacked Piraeus ( the port of Athens ) and destroyed Corinth, Megara, Argos, and Sparta.

In 1787, he was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina.

They then moved into the region that later bore the name of Achaea.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

He first entered the monastery of Deerhurst, but then moved to Bath, where he became an anchorite.

Since then the corporate headquarters have moved to New York City at 1 Park Avenue in Manhattan.

Once these projects have been approved by the United States Air Force or other agencies such as the CIA, and are ready to be announced to the public, operations of the aircraft are then moved to a normal air force base.

Halonen together with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, then President of Brazil.

He received this honor from then singer and Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil in the presence of President Lula.

At the club, Sailor gets into a fight with a man who accosts Lula, and then leads the band in a rendition of Elvis Presley's " Love Me ".

Lucélia has always been a friend of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, since her parents ' house was located in front of the Santo André labor union headquarters, where then metallurgical Lula began his political career.

In 2002, the MST occupied the family business farm of then-president Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the state of Minas Gerais, in a move which was publicly condemned by then Left opposition leader Lula and other preeminent members of the PT Party.

Alckmin's party mate, José Serra, the PSDB's presidential standard-bearer who lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2002, then announced his candidacy to replace Alckmin in the 2006 state elections.

The player begins by stealing a spaceship, named " The Tit ", then begins searching for Lula, who is lost in space.

Since then, five presidential terms have elapsed, without rupture to the constitutional order: the first term corresponded to the Collor and Franco administrations ( Collor was impeached on charges of corruption in 1992 and resigned the presidency, being succeeded by Franco, his vice president ); the second and third terms corresponded to the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Administration ; and in the fourth and fifth presidential terms Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva served as President.

In settling the American west it was generally faster to navigate down River from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to the Ohio River confluence with the Mississippi and then pole up river against the current to St Louis than to travel overland on the rare primitive dirt roads for many decades after the American revolution.

Davis went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and then to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in 1821.

Davis had expected this but waited until he received official notification ; then on January 21, the day Davis called " the saddest day of my life ", he delivered a farewell address to the United States Senate, resigned and returned to Mississippi.

The French then established a chain of posts along the Mississippi from New Orleans to the Great Lakes.

They continued the exploration of the New World: René Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled in the area of the Great Lakes, then on the Mississippi River.

In the United States, the French double zero wheel made its way up the Mississippi from New Orleans, and then westward.

He told his Secretary of War, General Henry Dearborn ( Indian affairs were then under the War Department ): " if we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down until that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi.

President Lincoln put Grant in command of the newly formed Division of the Mississippi in October 1863 ; Grant was then effectively in charge of the entire western war front for the Union, except for Louisiana.

* June – The Grand Excursion takes prominent Eastern United States inhabitants from Chicago, Illinois to Rock Island, Illinois by railroad, then up the Mississippi River to St. Paul, Minnesota by steamboat.

When Lincoln called Grant east in the spring of 1864 to take command of all the Union armies, Grant appointed Sherman ( by then known to his soldiers as " Uncle Billy ") to succeed him as head of the Military Division of the Mississippi, which entailed command of Union troops in the Western Theater of the war.

The next available land for general settlement, Oregon, appeared to be free for the taking and had fertile lands, disease free climate ( yellow fever and malaria were prevalent in much of the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage then ), extensive uncut, unclaimed forests, big rivers, potential seaports, and only a few nominally British settlers.

Siouan language speakers may have originated in the lower Mississippi River region and then migrated to or originated in the Ohio Valley.

Many ended up west of the Mississippi River in what was then French-colonized Louisiana, including territory as far north as Dakota territory.

From 1540 – 1543, de Soto explored through present-day Florida and Georgia, and then down into the Alabama and Mississippi area.

The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi from 1972 to 1974 surpassing the then Bank of America Center.

He attended Jackson State University for two years, then applied to the University of Mississippi which, under the state's legally imposed racial segregation, had traditionally accepted only white students.

During the 1930s, an attempt by Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo to move The University of Mississippi to Jackson, was prevented by then Chancellor Alfred Hume by giving Mississippi legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding city of Oxford.

The territorial boundaries claimed as sovereign and controlled by the Native American nations living in what was then known as the Indian Territories — the portion of the early United States east of the Mississippi River not yet claimed or allotted to become Oklahoma -- were fixed and determined by national treaties with the United States Federal government under terms recognizing these entities as dependent but internally sovereign, or autonomous nations under the sole jurisdiction of the Federal government.

Channel 10 was originally often used for highway communications east of the Mississippi River, and channel 19 west of the Mississippi ; channel 19 then became the preferred highway channel in most areas, as it did not have adjacent-channel interference problems with channel 9.

Kirkwood, Missouri ( which claims to be the first planned suburb in St. Louis County and first suburb built west of the Mississippi River ) and Florissant, Missouri ( then in an area known as St. Ferdinand township ).

The waterway begins at Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, then flows southward through northeast Mississippi and west Alabama, finally connecting with the established Warrior-Tombigbee navigation system at Demopolis, Alabama.