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It stretched from modern-day Delaware to western Connecticut and Long Island and included parts of eastern Pennsylvania all of present day New Jersey, and the southern counties of New York State, including Rockland, Orange, Westchester, and Putnam Counties, Nassau County, and the five boroughs of New York City.
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The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
Or, clad from head to toe in fabric stretched over a series of hoops, the performer may well lose his sense of self in being a `` finial ''.
Try to push back to the stand position from the stretched position without any intermediate pushes from the hands.
The wearying trek stretched into the afternoon -- from newspaper plant to insurance office to her house and back to the newspaper, where he found her at five o'clock.
What did it matter to him that the park at the foot of Ash Road stretched beneath elevated trains that roared from the stucco station into the city's center at half-hour intervals??
However, the various preconditions for the development at Ford stretched far back into the 19th century, from the gradual realization of the dream of interchangeability, to the concept of reinventing workflow and job descriptions using analytical methods ( the most famous example being scientific management ).
His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
The spread of Akkadian stretched from Syria to Elam, and even the Elamite language was temporarily written in Mesopotamian cuneiform.
* Coastel Offshore Cellular — Operated an AMPS network in the Gulf of Mexico that stretched from south of Corpus Christi, TX to south of Gulf Shores, AL.
By the time of his death, Mahmud ruled a vast empire that stretched from Kurdistan to the entire Hindu Kush region as far east as the Punjab as well as territories far north of the Amu Darya.
The line then stretched southeast with the centre bowed seawards away from the shoal.
The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.
The trade from sub-Saharan Africa was controlled by the Islamic Empire which stretched along Africa's northern coast.
After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.
During winter the auk molted and lost this eye patch, which was replaced with a wide white band and a gray line of feathers which stretched from the eye to the ear.
Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.
The stalemate lasted from 1914 until early 1918, with ferocious battles that moved forces a few hundred yards at best along a line that stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss border.
Today, most hearses are made from converted sedans on stretched wheelbases.
At its peak during the reign of Mursili II, the Hittite empire stretched from Arzawa in the west to Mitanni in the east, many of the Kaskian territories to the north including Hayasa-Azzi in the far north-east, and on south into Canaan approximately as far as the southern border of Lebanon, incorporating all of these territories within its domain.
For instance, according to Ernst Herzfeld, it was a powerful empire, which stretched from north Mesopotamia to Bactria and India.
His empire stretched from Assam and Utkala in the east, and modern day Afghanistan in the north-west and Deccan in the south.
It stretched from the Drilon River in modern Albania to Istria ( Croatia ) in the west and to the Sava River ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) in the north.
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The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.
The Moors ' rule stretched at times as far as modern-day Mauritania, West African countries, and the Senegal River.
This empire stretched beyond the borders of modern-day Mongolia.
The empire at its peak stretched from Tamil Nadu in the south, to Peshawar ( modern-day Pakistan ) on the Afghanistan border in the north and led Expeditions to Bengal in the east.
The area where Rhaeto-Romance languages ( also called Ladin languages, not to be confused with Judaeo-Spanish ) were spoken during the Middle Ages stretched from Switzerland to the Julian Alps ( in modern-day western Slovenia ).
The ancient sea stretched from the Gulf of Mexico and through the middle of the modern-day countries of the United States and Canada, meeting with the Arctic Ocean to the north.
A chain and boom were stretched across the river from Fort Montgomery on the West Bank, at the lower entrance to the Highlands just north of the modern-day Bear Mountain Bridge, to Anthony's Nose on the East Bank.
Around 1820, a mestizo rancher named Augustine Machado began grazing his cattle on the Ballona wetlands and claimed a fourteen-thousand acre Mexican land grant that stretched from modern-day Culver City to Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica.
The Siskiyou Trail stretched from California's Central Valley to Oregon's Willamette Valley ; modern-day Interstate 5 follows this pioneer path.
Thesprotis stretched between the Ambracian Gulf in the south to the River Thyamis ( modern-day Kalamas ) in the north, and between the Pindus mountains and the Ionian Sea.
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Chester served as the county seat for Chester County, which then stretched from the Delaware River to the Susquehanna River.
The Morris Canal stretched from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River at its western end to Jersey City on the Hudson River at its eastern end.
Branches stretched into southern New Jersey to Delaware Bay.
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The Almoravids ( Imṛabḍen, Al-Murābiṭūn ) were a Berber dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th-century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus.
By then a string of dynastic states, including the earliest Hausa states, stretched across western and central Sudan.
Its original borders stretched from western Colorado to the southern California coast.
At the beginning of the 1820s, the United States stretched from the Atlantic Ocean through to ( roughly ) the western edge of the Mississippi basin, though Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and all present-day states fully west of the Mississippi had yet to be granted statehood.
This period was marked with a vigorous imperial policy and an attempt to stabilize the western provinces as far as the stretched resources of the empire could manage.
By that time western Allied forces were on a front which stretched from the Baltic east of Denmark, southwards along the river Elbe, through the German / Czechoslovakia border into Austria and North Italy.
When the county was originally formed, it stretched for inland ( twice its current size ), but the western half was split off to form Lenawee County in 1826.
In 1950 Riverview only stretched as far west as the western end of Trenton's two northern boundaries.
Keegan interprets this description to fit the Acklins / Crooked Islands group, with a ship in the west side being able to see the western shore of Acklins Island across the very shallow waters of the Bight of Acklins, where there was a village that stretched about six km along the shore.
The Yazoo lands were the sparsely-populated central and western areas of the U. S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi River.
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, or Maas-Argonne Offensive, also called the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire western front.
This air mass movement was propelled by an unusually intense low level southerly jet that stretched from Louisiana to western Wisconsin.
Oranmiyan later went on to found the Oyo empire that stretched at its height from the western banks of the river Niger to the Eastern banks of the river Volta.
The first known peoples to occupy the western coast of Iberia were the Ostrimni, who stretched their territory from Galicia ( in northwestern Spain ) to the Algarve ( southern area of Portugal and Spain ).
Thus Muhammad II incorporated nearly the whole of Transoxania and what is now Afghanistan into his empire, which after further conquests in western Persia ( by 1217 ) stretched from the Syr Darya to the Zagros Mountains, and from the Indus Valley to the Caspian Sea.
The one that caused the water of the Clark Fork and other smaller streams to back up into Glacial Lake Missoula, which stretched over two hundred miles southwest across western Montana, containing some of water, was over high.
In 1998 the Total SA company was fined € 375, 000 for an oil spill that stretched 400 kilometers from La Rochelle to the western tip of Brittany.
The former kingdom of Northumbria stretched from the Humber and Mersey estuaries, northward to the Firth of Forth, where, passing the western Kingdom of Strathclyde, it met the Kingdom of Alba ( Scotland ).
Back then, the town is consisted of 22 barrios covering an area of 670 square kilometers which stretched out to more than 402 kilometers span towards its western border ( Samar Province ).
When Idris II died in 828, the Idrisid state stretched from western Algeria to the Sous in southern Morocco and had become the leading state of Morocco, ahead of the principalities of Sijilmasa, Barghawata and Nekor.
The Legion ’ s barricade was between four and five feet high ( 1. 5 m ) and stretched from the Amsterdam Road on the far western wing to the Laconia Road on the far eastern wing and straddled the Mauckport Road in the center.
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