Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

My guess would be that interest rates will decline moderately into the spring of 1961 and during the second half of the year will turn up gradually to recover the ground lost during the downturn.

In England, the Dominican Province began at the second general chapter of the Dominican Order in Bologna during the spring of 1221.

However, due to bureaucratic fears of foreigners doing secret research, the money was not actually issued until Szilárd implored Einstein to send a second letter to the president in the spring of 1940.

On March 13, 1954, Milwaukee Braves left fielder Bobby Thomson fractured his ankle while sliding into second base during a spring training game.

In the spring of 839, Louis the German invaded Swabia, Pepin II and his Gascon subjects fought all the way to the Loire, and the Danes returned to ravage the Frisian coast ( sacking Dorstad for a second time ).

According to Environment Canada, Manitoba ranked first for clearest skies year round, and ranked second for clearest skies in the summer and for sunniest province in the winter and spring.

Max Headroom was canceled part-way into its second season ; leftover episodes aired in spring 1988.

The second source was the spring of Ayn Zubayda.

It became the second most important oracle in ancient Greece, which later was dedicated to Zeus and to Heracles during the classical period of Greece. At Dodona Zeus was worshipped as Zeus Naios or Naos ( god of springs Naiads, from a spring which existed under the oak ), and Zeus Bouleos ( cancellor ).

In Washington, D. C., the Controls played their first gig in spring 1977, but the city's second wave really broke the following year with acts such as Urban Verbs, Half Japanese, D ' Chumps, Rudements and Shirkers.

This period ’ s starting point is uncertain ; it may have begun in Spain in the spring of 1901, or in Paris in the second half of the year.

The spring causes the dial to return to its home position and the governor regulates the dialing pulses at its design rate, usually approximately 10 per second, and sometimes as many as 20 pulses per second.

In the second week of spring training in, Williams broke a bone in his right ankle, limiting him to pinch hitting for the first two weeks of the season.

This law is currently in preparation in the Armenian parliament that adopted its first draft in December 2007 and should do the same in the second draft in spring of 2008.

In spring 15 CE, Legatus Caecina Severus invaded the Marsi a second time with about 25, 000 – 30, 000 men, causing great havoc.

In a second departure attempt in the spring of 1608, arrangements were made with a Dutch merchant to pick up church members along the Humber estuary at Immingham near Grimsby, Lincolnshire.

The second band was formed in the spring of 1958 and included Al McKibbon ( bass ), Mongo Santamaría ( congas and bongos ) and Willie Bobo ( drums and timbales ).

In spring 1762 Spanish troops invaded Portugal from the north as far as the Douro, while a second column captured Almeida and threatened to advance on Lisbon.

The next spring, the second field was planted with other crops such as peas, lentils, or beans and the third field was left fallow.

Crassus was rising steadily up the cursus honorum, the sequence of offices held by Roman citizens seeking political power, when ordinary Roman politics were interrupted by two events – first, the Third Mithridatic War, and second, the Third Servile War, which was the organized two-year rebellion of Roman slaves under the leadership of Spartacus ( from summer 73 BC to spring 71 BC ).

During a spring training game against the Chicago White Sox in 1963, the Reds ' regular second baseman, Don Blasingame, pulled a groin muscle ; Rose got his chance and made the most of it.

For second generation pressure cookers with selectable pressure and ( often hidden ) spring valve operation, a common safety feature is the gasket, which expands and releases excess pressure downward between the lid and the pot.

It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.

This was just Richard's way of saying that last year the Birds opened spring training with a lot of jobs wide open.

The Publications Board receives applications for the positions of editor and business manager and makes the appointments in the spring previous to the year of publication.

Though creeks in the Santa Cruz mountains flow brimful the year round and it is forever spring, the apples that grow there have a wintry crackle.

It seems likely, moreover, that with an increase in the rate of saving in mortgage lending institutions, interest rates on residential mortgages may move somewhat lower through the spring of next year, although the increased ease in residential mortgage lending may occur primarily in other terms than interest rate, e.g., easier downpayment and amortization terms.

In the spring and early summer of that year she met a wealthy foreign tycoon who took her to France, where she later met a very wealthy man and toured all Europe with him.

Over 100, 000 American teenagers and young adults travel to resort areas and balnearios throughout Mexico over spring break each year.

On the third Wednesday in March each year ( near the spring equinox ), three quarters of Dutch schoolchildren aged 10 / 11 and Dutch celebrities plant trees.

It would be his last game ; during spring training the following year he developed glaucoma, which ended his career.

Each year the university presents an opera in the spring semester and Shakespearean plays in both the fall and spring semesters.

In the spring of the following year, Ward's health gave way and he died of tuberculosis at Southampton on March 6, 1867.

Although these calls are made throughout the year, they are most common during the spring mating season and in the fall when the pups leave their families to establish new territories.

Cheerleading is quickly becoming a year-round sport, starting with tryouts during the spring of the preceding school year, organized camp as a team, practices, attendance at various sporting events and ending with National competition season, typically from winter through spring.

The following year, Young coached at Mercer University during the spring.

Eastern chipmunks mate in early spring and again in early summer, producing litters of four or five young twice each year.

Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

All undergraduates are required to be in residence for the fall, winter, and spring terms of their freshman and senior years, as well as the summer term of their sophomore year.

In spring 1936, Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara ( b. 1913 ), a 22 year old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent.

The pollutants were so high after the spring thaw that thousands of migrating birds were killed by oil slicks and contaminated water every year.

One year, while covering spring training in Texas, he met Pancho Villa in a bar in Texas and later accompanied the unsuccessful American expedition into Mexico searching for Villa.

Those who place first lunar month of the year in twelfth zodiacal sign before the spring equinox and fix the Paschal fourteenth day accordingly, make a great and indeed an extraordinary mistake