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These are used where the vessel is permanently or semi-permanently sited, for example in the case of lightvessels or channel marker buoys.
The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.
Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.
The point-of-view of most chroniclers is highly localised, to the extent that many anonymous chroniclers can be sited in individual abbeys.
Dan Bahat, the former city archaeologist of Jerusalem, regards them as unsatisfactory, as there is no known Temple of Aphrodite matching Corbo's design, and no archaeological evidence for Corbo's suggestion that the Temple Building was on a platform raised high enough to avoid including anything sited where the Aedicule is now ; indeed Bahat notes that many temples to Aphrodite have a rotunda-like design, and argues that there is no archaeological reason to assume that the present rotunda wasn't based on a rotunda in the temple previously on the site.
If the western city wall was originally to the east of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, then the western hill, on which it is sited, would have been advantageous to an enemy.
It is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill within the Blackmore Vale, overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour.
* Marsaxlokk Harbour is sited at Marsaxlokk on the south-eastern side of Malta, and is the location of the Malta Freeport, the islands ' main cargo terminal.
Nichiren's original tomb is sited, as per his request, at Kuonji on Mt.
In English law, real property is not confined to the ownership of property and the buildings sited thereonoften referred to as " land.
Venice (, Venetian: Venexia ; () is a city in northeast Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.
* Claudius begins construction of Portus, the harbour bears a lighthouse and is sited on the right bank of the Tiber.
A 20 PFlop / s ( petaflops, or quadrillions of calculations per second ) system named Sequoia is scheduled to be sited in the TSF machine room in late 2011 and be fully operational in 2012.
It is easily confused with the historical empire governed by the Oba of Benin from the 14th century until 1897, from a seat of power sited at Benin City in present-day Nigeria.
The Wadi Musa or " Wadi of Moses " is the Arab name for the narrow valley at the head of which Petra is sited.
The most iconic building of the town is the imponent Castello Estense: sited in the very centre of the town, it's a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four massive bastions.
The town centre itself is sited on a low-lying spur between the floodplains of the Wye and Monnow, and has frequently suffered from severe flooding.
The river is lined with various pieces of sculpture, but John Kaufman's sculpture The Diver: Regeneration is sited in the Thames near Rainham.
Most of the County is drained by the Tygart Valley River which traverses it from south to north and on which its three largest settlements — Philippi, Belington, and Junior — are sited.
The stand encompasses four large flowering trees, the largest of which is about tall, sited among hundreds of smaller trees that have not begun to flower, located in and around a sandstone quarry.

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I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
It is nothing you can put your fingers on but the air suddenly fills with a high charge of electricity.
And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.
`` Jed's homestead is on the south bank ''.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.
Here, on the hottest day, it is cool beneath the stone and fresh from the water flowing in the sluices at the bottom of the vaults.
Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
Each mode is believed to have a specific attribute -- one inducing pleasure, another generosity, another love, and so on, to include all of the emotions.
He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.
The dancer who never loosens her hold on a parasol, begins to feel that it is part of herself.
The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

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