Burlington aviator John J. Burns suggested the parade ground southwest of Fort Ethan Allen, and soon a dozen hastily-summoned National Guard pilots were bringing their wide-winged `` Jenny '' and DeHaviland two-seaters to rest on the frozen sod of the military base.

Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.

A statue of Venus in a bikini was found in a cupboard in the southwest corner in Casa della Venere, others were found in the front hall.

The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

In 1920, the five neighbouring municipalities of Woensel ( to the north ), Tongelre ( northeast and east ), Stratum ( southeast ), Gestel en Blaarthem ( southwest ) and Strijp ( west ), which already bore the brunt of the housing needs and related problems, were incorporated into the new Groot-Eindhoven (" Greater Eindhoven ") municipality.

Under the plan, all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip ( and four in the West Bank ) and the joint Israeli-Palestinian Erez Industrial Zone were dismantled with the removal of all 9, 000 Israeli settlers ( most of them in the Gush Katif settlement area in the Strip's southwest ) and military bases.

Beneath him, he held a council whose powers were essentially unlimited except by agreement of the larger council and in cases of murder, which were tried before a council of 300 drawn from the twelve cantons and meeting at a holy place, twenty miles southwest of Ancyra, written in Greek as Drynemeton ( Gallic * daru-nemeton holy place of oak ).

The native peoples whom the Romans met at the time of their invasion in what is now known as Spain were the Iberians, inhabiting an area stretching from the southwest part of the Peninsula through the northeast part of it, and then the Celts, mostly inhabiting the north and northwest part of the Peninsula.

The future emperor Vespasian subdued the southwest, Cogidubnus was set up as a friendly king of several territories, and treaties were made with tribes outside the area under direct Roman control.

Its two main strongholds were southwest France and Normandy, but even in these districts the Catholics were a majority.

In the southwest, near Quick Step, is the district known as the " Land of Look Behind ," so named because Spanish horsemen venturing into this region of hostile runaway slaves were said to have ridden two to a mount, one rider facing to the rear to keep a precautionary watch.

In southwest England, in Wales, and in the border areas between Scotland and England, " some couples ... agreed to marry verbally, without exchanging legal contracts .... thers jumped over broomsticks placed across their thresholds to officialize their union and create new households ", indicating that contractless weddings and jumping the broomstick were different kinds of marriage.

By the beginning of 1429, nearly all of northern France and some parts of the southwest were under foreign control.

The Zaghawa were supposedly forced southwest towards the fertile lands around Lake Chad by political pressure and desiccation in their former range.

In the southwest, they grew beans that were self-supported, much like the way they are grown today.

The first non-indigenous settlers of the area around Roswell were a group of pioneers from Missouri, who attempted to start a settlement 15 miles southwest of what is now Roswell in 1865 but were forced to abandon the site because of a lack of water.

Until the 13th century, the village farming communities were mainly on the northern plains around Anuradhapura and then Polonnaruwa, but they later shifted to the southwest.

The summer training camps were initially held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, just southwest of Spokane.

Two years later, as the Imperial army pursued the defeated Swedes into southwest Germany, deaths from epidemics were high along the Rhine River.

Reports from southwest England indicated few troop sightings, when in reality many units were housed there.

Harold's sons were meanwhile raiding the southwest of England from a base in Ireland.

In May 1965, some of these major land transactions were recorded a few miles southwest of Orlando in Osceola County.

The Territory of the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

Gascon cuisine has also had great influence over the cuisine in the southwest of France.

As the name implies, it seems to have originated from the Spanish region of La Mancha, but it is also popular in other areas in the center and southwest of the country.

He also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.

Pei was also meticulous about the arrangement of items in the garden behind the hotel ; he even insisted on transporting of rocks from a location in southwest China to suit the natural aesthetic.

Niger also has short borders in its far southwest frontier ( Burkina Faso at 628 km and Benin at 266 km ) and to the northnortheast ( Libya at 354 km ).

Because of the seasonal overflow of the numerous westward-flowing streams, the lowland areas of the Paraneña region also experience poor drainage conditions, particularly in the Ñeembucú Plain in the southwest, where an almost impervious clay subsurface prevents the absorption of excess surface water into the aquifer.

There is also an area of subtropical moist forest at low elevations on the southwest slope.

The Pyrenees (; or,,,,, or ), also spelled Pyrénées, is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain.

It may also live in southwest Tibet and northern Arunachal Pradesh, but this has not been documented.

There is also low-level seismic activity, which is common in the southwest.

In the southwest, the lofty Mount Hermon ( Jabal ash Shaykh ), also on the border between Syria and Lebanon, descends to the Hawran Plateau — frequently referred to as the Hawran — that receives rain-bearing winds from the Mediterranean.

The Kopet Dag Range is a region characterized by foothills, dry and sandy slopes, mountain plateaus, and steep ravines ; Mount Şahşah ( 2, 912 m ), also known as Mount Rizeh, southwest of Ashgabat, is the highest elevation of the Kopet Dag Range in Turkmenistan.

Bordering Turkmenistan to the southwest, Kazakstan to the north, and Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan to the south and east, Uzbekistan is not only one of the larger Central Asian states but also the only Central Asian state to border all of the other four.

Zheng, born as Ma He ( 馬和 / 马和 ), was the second son of a Muslim family which also had four daughters, from Kunyang, present day Jinning, just south of Kunming near the southwest corner of Lake Dian in Yunnan.

Under Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, the company expanded along the river from Fort Christina, establishing Fort Nya Elfsborg on the east bank of the Delaware near present-day Salem, New Jersey and Fort Nya Gothenborg on Tinicum Island ( to the immediate southwest of today's Philadelphia ), where he also built his manor house, The Printzhof.

During this time the Germans turned the city and its environs into a major base for submarines ( DORA 1 ), and also contemplated a scheme to build a new city for 300, 000 inhabitants, Nordstern (" Northern Star "), centred 15 km ( 10 mi ) southwest of Trondheim, near the wetlands of Øysand in the outskirts of Melhus municipality.

Significant lowlands are to be found only near the coast, in the southwest near Arta and Preveza, in the Acheron plain between Paramythia and Fanari, between Igoumenitsa and Sagiada, and also near Saranda.

A large dam is also constructed to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal.

Monte Circeo, as it is sometimes also called in Italian, is located on the southwest coast of Italy, about south / southeast of Rome, near San Felice Circeo, on the coast between Anzio and Terracina.

The fair planners also sought two other properties near the southwest corner of the grounds.

It is separated from the mainland of British Columbia by Johnstone Strait, and Queen Charlotte Strait on the northeast, and by the Strait of Georgia on the southeast, which along with the Strait of Juan de Fuca along its southwest separate it from the United States ( the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca are now officially also part of the Salish Sea, which includes Puget Sound as well ).

In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d ' Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was hit by German machine gun fire in his upper right back and his right arm was also badly injured.

Cajun populations today are found also in the area southwest of New Orleans and scattered in areas adjacent to the French Louisiana region, such as to the north in Alexandria, Louisiana.

During the war, Tehran also received a great number of migrants from the west and the southwest of the country bordering Iraq.