Combat operations resumed in the spring of 2003, with MPSRON TWO sortieing to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and bombing operations began again, this time against Iraq.

Kansas City is situated in " Tornado Alley ," a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collide with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms especially during the spring.

In the spring and fall, walruses congregate throughout the Bering Strait, reaching from the western coast of Alaska to the Gulf of Anadyr.

His successor, Motehcuzōma Xocoyotzin ( better known as Moctezuma II or Moctezuma, or Montezuma ), had been Hueyi Tlatoani for 17 years when the Spaniards, led by Hernándo Cortés, landed on the Gulf Coast in the spring of 1519.

From its origin / spring runs from the southern Iberian plain in a direction east to west, to near the town of Badajoz, where it begins to track south leading to the Gulf of Cádiz.

The mainly spring fed lakes drain into Cassadaga Creek, running south and connecting to the Conewango Creek, the Allegheny River, the Ohio River, and the Mississippi River flowing to the Gulf of Mexico, despite getting their start roughly 10 miles ( 15 km ) south and east of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, which drain via the Saint Lawrence River east to the Atlantic Ocean.

In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.

Warrior monks participated in at least four battles: at the Gulf of Hangzhou in spring 1553 and in the Huangpu River delta at Wengjiagang in July 1553, Majiabang in spring 1554, and Taozhai in autumn 1555.

In, an Arizona-based counterpart to the Gulf Coast League, the Arizona League, made its debut in minor league baseball, and it continues to operate as a Rookie-level league for MLB teams with spring training facilities based in that state.

Nine miles northwest of Mammoth Spring visitors can see a portion of the underground river that feeds the spring at a collapsed cave at a Missouri State Park called Grand Gulf State Park.

There is a ranch northwest of Eastend, Saskatchewan, called Dividing Springs Ranch ; the water from this spring goes both south to Gulf of Mexico and north to Hudson Bay.

* March 31 – In response to the North Vietnamese " Easter Offensive " against South Vietnam which began on March 30, the United States begins a series of deployments code-named " Constant Guard ," in which a large number of U. S. Air Force and U. S. Marine Corps squadrons return to bases in South Vietnam and Thailand and the U. S. Navy aircraft carrier presence at Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin increases from two on March 30 to six by late spring.

In fall months, tropical storms begin to enter the Gulf of Mexico and break up the dead zones, and the cycle repeats again in the spring.

Las Bocas, 30 miles south of Navojoa, is a small beach community on the Gulf of California that is frequently visited by the local residents of Navojoa during spring.

It reached No. 7 on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart when originally released in the spring of 1984, and was played at the 1984 Republican National Convention with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan in attendance, but the song gained greater prominence during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991, as a way of boosting morale.

In spring 2005 rival Gulf of Maine ferry operator Scotia Prince Cruises announced that it was cancelling its Portland, Maine-Yarmouth service offered by a conventional vessel, M / S Scotia Prince, as a result of toxic mould problems at its ferry terminal in Portland, the old Portland Marine Terminal.

LAC encephalitis cases occur primarily from late spring through early fall, but in subtropical areas where the mosquito is found ( e. g., the Gulf states ), rare cases can occur in winter.

Once spring training ends, Extended spring training ran from April through the beginning of the Gulf Coast League season.

In the western North Atlantic, much of the population spends the spring in the deep waters of the Nova Scotia continental shelf, and migrates north a distance of to spend late summer and fall in the shallow waters of the Newfoundland Grand Banks and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

In the spring of 2006, a 150 kilogram brown bear arrived on Ruhnu via an ice floe across the Gulf of Riga from the mainland of Latvia, some away.

The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, and the Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, Canada, melt every spring and are rebuilt each winter ; the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the Kemi snow castle ; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near Ylläs, Finland.

In the spring of 1941, Finland contributed a battalion of volunteers to the Waffen SS, which then fought on the Eastern Front.

In Finland, and later in Sweden, a large maritime strike in spring 1980 stopped ferry traffic completely.

In the spring of 1914 he moved to Oxford to study maritime law, but the outbreak of World War I forced him to return to Finland.

The bark of some trees is edible ; in Sweden and Finland, pine bread is made from rye to which the toasted and ground innermost layer of pine bark is added, the Sami people of far northern Europe used large sheets of Pinus sylvestris bark that were removed in the spring, prepared and stored for use as a staple food resource and the inner bark was eaten fresh, dried or roasted.

Magnus Eriksson ( spring 1316 – 1 December 1374 ) as Magnus IV was king of Sweden ( 1319 – 1364 ), including Finland, as Magnus VII King of Norway ( 1319 – 1343 ), including Iceland and Greenland, and also ruled Scania ( 1332 – 1360 ).

He was the Prime Minister of Finland 1987 – 1991, speaker of the UN General Assembly 2000 – 2001 and headed the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo from 2003-2004 ( leaving the position in the spring of the second year because of health issues ).

Enthusiasts in Finland have been reported burying newspaper inoculated with the fungus in the ground in autumn and returning the following spring to collect mushrooms.

This will change in the case of Finland, however, as symbolic calculators will be allowed from spring 2012 onwards.

Noumena was founded in Ähtäri, Finland in the spring of 1998.

In spring 2005 Sotajumala played in Estonia and also did a three show mini-tour in Finland with Grave.

They performed farewell gigs during the spring and summer and ended with a final show on October 1, 2005 in their hometown Oulu, Finland.

In some countries ( e. g., Russia, Latvia, Estonia or Finland ) it is common to collect the early spring sap of birch trees ( so called " birch juice ") for human consumption ; the sap can be used fresh or fermented and contains xylitol.

The Ynglinga saga relates how Vanlandi the ruler of Sweden visited Snow in Finland and married his daughter Drífa, but left in the spring and did not return.

The Allied Control Commission and the Communist Party of Finland raised the issue of the trials repeatedly during the spring and summer of 1945.

On August 17, 2009, it was announced that Salatut elämät will be on the air until the spring 2015 making the series the second longest-lasting drama series of all time in Finland, only behind YLE TV1's Kotikatu.

In the spring of 2009 ProKarelia organized a series of agitation events with local member organisations of the National Defence Training Association of Finland.

In the spring of 1917, Kilbom was sent to Finland on behalf of the Swedish Left-Socialist to persuade the Finnish Social Democrats to turn left too, but he soon realized that the Finnish socialists were already further to the left than himself, and in less than a year Finland would experience its own workers revolution.

The video was filmed in Helsinki, Finland and in Henningsvær, Norway during spring 1998.

The Russian Tsar Peter I had begun his offensive in Finland in the spring of 1713.

Young aardwolves generally achieve sexual maturity after two years The breeding season varies depending on their location, but normally takes place during the autumn or spring.

If the weight is suspended off the seabed it acts as a spring or shock absorber to dampen the sudden actions that are normally transmitted to the anchor and can cause it to dislodge and drag.

While it is normally accessible only by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust's boat, at low spring tides it is possible for the journey to be made by foot across the rocky sea floor.

Many valves have a spring for spring-loading, to normally shift the disc into some position by default but allow control to reposition the disc.

If blood is taken from a hibernating squirrel in the winter and injected into another squirrel in the spring, the normally active squirrel will be more prone to hibernation when placed in cold dark conditions.

This is in large part due to the fact that, as throughout California, the prevailing weather systems and wind come normally from the Pacific Ocean, blowing in from the west and southwest so that places closer to the ocean and on the windward side of higher elevations tend to receive more rain from autumn through spring and more summer wind and fog.

The leaves and blossoms of the walnut tree normally appear in spring.

Lesser Crested Terns normally nest on islands off the coast of Libya and migrate to West Africa for the winter ; it is thought that " Elsie " took a wrong " tern " at the Straits of Gibraltar on spring migration.

The monito del monte normally reproduces in the spring and can have a litter size varying anywhere from one to four young.

It normally sprouts in sandy soils under coniferous trees in spring and early summer.

In normally snowless areas " spring " may begin as early as February ( Northern Hemisphere ) heralded by the blooming of deciduous magnolias, cherries, and quince, or August ( Southern Hemisphere ) in the same way.

The weight of the movable mercury drop provided some hysteresis by moving the bimetal spring slightly beyond the point it would normally assume, thereby holding the thermostat off slightly longer before flipping to the on state and then holding the thermostat on slightly longer before flipping back to the off state.

Dry leaves are used as winter mulches to protect plants from freezing and thawing in areas with cold winters, they are normally removed during spring.

In spring, they normally pass through the Midwest and only rarely vagrating to the East Coast, but in fall, larger numbers of migrating birds move through the East Coast.

It is normally only seen in spring before there is foliage in the trees.

The river ’ s flow is normally low in winter, with flows increasing in spring when the snow cloaking the Southern Alps begins to melt, with flows throughout the summer being rainfall dependent and then declining in the autumn as the colder weather begins to freeze the smaller streams and streams which feed the catchment.

On Tulasankramana day ( the first day of Tula Masa month, according to the Hindu calendar, which normally falls in mid October ) thousands of pilgrims flock to the river's birthplace to witness the rise of the fountainhead, when water gushes up from the spring at a predetermined moment.

The cylinders were normally made of metal and powered by a spring.

They are normally turned out only for a limited period in the spring and summer, when they gather several groups of mares and youngstock into larger herds and defend them against other stallions.

The surrounding mountains are normally filled with fresh spring water from March to June.

Coilovers come adjustable or a fixed length and normally bolt straight to a car instead of using tools ( spring compressors ) to fit a shock absorber and a spring to.

Flowering is normally in spring and early summer ( October – December ), but conditions may cause flowering at other times of the year.

Individuals normally spend their entire lives in fresh water, but some — colloquially called " salters " or " sea-run "— may spend up to three months at sea in the spring, not straying more than a few kilometres from the river mouth.