Large ships could only cross the bar on an incoming or outgoing high tide and sailing ships sometimes had to wait for days for the wind to blow in the right direction.

Large sailing vessels which are not ship rigged may be more appropriately called boats.

Large vessels listed from north to south in order of sailing, or in which initially anchored

Large sailing wherries employed a quant pole at least 8 metres in length.

Large high-sided sailing ships had always been formidable obstacles for galleys.

Large, ocean-going junks played a key role in Asian trade until the 19th century.

Large Qing Dynasty forces under Chinese General Zuo Zongtang attacked Kashgaria in 1876.

Large scale Chinese immigration did not occur until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

Large Chinese cities antipodal to Argentina are Canton and Hong Kong ( with the northwest corner ), Amoy and Fuzhou ( near the border with Paraguay ), Shanghai ( near the border with Uruguay ), Hangzhou, the wartime capital of Nanjing ( not far from Rosario ), Changsha, Nanchang, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Jinan, Qingdao, and the capital Beijing ( inland from Viedma ).

Large Chinese communities at both Limehouse and Shadwell developed, established by the crews of merchantmen in the opium and tea trades, particularly Han Chinese.

* Large starter ( Chinese: 酒麴, 酒曲 ; pinyin: jiǔ qū, or 麥麴, 麦曲 ; pinyin: maì qū ): Rice that had been cultured predominantly by Aspergillus oryzae.

Large numbers of birds migrate along the Chinese coast with thousands passing through sites like Beidaihe during the autumn.

Large government losses in the election were followed by the race riots of 13 May 1969, in which hundreds of people were killed in clashes between Malays and Chinese.

Large mirrors, gilt sofas and armchairs, and Chinese bronze pedestals holding plant and flower arrangements decorate the Hall.

Large colonial, Chinese and Peranakan bungalows were built along Meyer Road and Mountbatten Road from Katong Park to Tanjong Katong ( which in English means " Road of the Turtle Mirage Promontory ").

In Chinese Medicine, metal governs the Lung and the Large intestine, nose and skin.

Large numbers of recent Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese immigrants have settled in the area.

Large numbers of Surinamese Chinese have migrated to the Netherlands after Suriname gained independence in 1975.

The men of B company ( including a young Lofty Large ) were able to drive off seven Chinese assaults on their position before they were also able to withdraw to Hill 235 the next morning.

* Engineering Research Center of Large Scale Reactor Engineering and Technology, Ministry of Education Chinese version 大型工业反应器工程教育部工程中心

Large quantities of Chinese ceramics were recovered on Bintan, some traced to the early Sung Dynasty ( 960 – 1127 ).

The Large Intestine ( Chinese: 大肠: pinyin: dà cháng ) is one of the fu organs stipulated by Traditional Chinese Medicine ( TCM ).

“ Large script ”, or “ big characters " ( 大字 ), as it was referred to in some Chinese sources, was established to keep the record of the new Khitan state.

Large numbers of Chinese Communist troops were crossing the Yalu into North Korea.

Large numbers of Chinese people were working on the Victorian goldfields and fewer on the smaller NSW fields in the mid 1850s, when major gold finds in NSW and the passing of more restrictive anti-Chinese legislation in Victoria resulted in thousands of miners moving across the border in 1859.

Large areas of Europe had previously been united by empires built on force, such as the Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Frankish Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, the First French Empire and Nazi Germany.

Large sections of East Anglia ( including parts of Lincolnshire ) consisted of marshland and bogs until the 17th century, despite the construction of early sea barriers by the Roman Empire.

Large landowners, who had become more self-sufficient, became less mindful of Rome ’ s central authority, particularly in the Western Empire, and were downright hostile towards its tax collectors.

Large parts of both countries were not included in the Confederation, because they had not been part of the former Holy Roman Empire, nor had the greater parts of their armed forces been incorporated in the federal army.

Large libraries were constructed, and scholars persecuted by the Byzantine Empire were welcomed.

Large domes can be found on the buildings of the Mughal Empire of India, the Capitol in Washington, the Pantheon and Basilica di San Pietro in Rome.

Large donations were made by almost every tsar of the Second Bulgarian Empire up until the Ottoman Conquest, making the monastery a cultural and spiritual centre of Bulgarian national consciousness that reached its apogee from the 12th to the 14th century.

Large amounts of octiron make Agatean Empire home of sapient pear trees the wood of which is the material to build luggages.

Large numbers of rebels had flocked to Delhi, where they proclaimed the restoration of the Mughal Empire under Bahadur Shah II.

In 1596 Sir Walter Raleigh mentioned the arrow poison in his book Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana ( which relates to his travels in Trinidad and Guayana ), though it is possible that the poison he described was not curare.

The Armchair Empire gave the game 9. 2 / 10 points saying " Where Living Large and House Party were basically enhancements to the original, Hot Date completely revamps the gameplay by making it possible to focus more on social and romantic relationships and for the first time get away from the Sims house.

Large portions of the population began to travel to Senj in 1520 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the Balkan Peninsula with raids and destruction, bringing Senj natives together with those from the lands of Habsburg, other Croatians from Dalmatia and Dubrovnik, Albanians from southern Venetian territories, and Italians from the western shores of the Adriatic.

One of the things the newly arriving physician François Bernier noticed in Aurangzeb's capitol was the embroidered dressing of the Mughal Emperor's subjects he writes in his Travels in the Moghal Empire: " Large halls are seen in many places, called Karkanahs, or workshops for the artisans.

At a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Britain, a team from University of Queensland described 40 unknown " dwarf " galaxies in this constellation ; follow-up observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope revealed that ultra compact dwarfs are much smaller than previously known dwarf galaxies, about across.

Large collections of " library " software that could be described as being loosely related to engineering and scientific calculations, such as graphics libraries, have been written in C, and therefore access to them presented a portability problem.

* 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Other famous Arabic star catalogues include Alfraganus ' A compendium of the science of stars ( 850 ) which corrected Ptolemy's Almagest ; and Azophi's Book of Fixed Stars ( 964 ) which described observations of the stars, their positions, magnitudes, brightness and colour, drawings for each constellation, and the first descriptions of Andromeda Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Large chromosomal rearrangements leading to chimeric chromosomes have been described, as well as more punctual genetic modifications such as gene loss.

DuMerton described Large Group Awareness Training as " teaching simple, but often overlooked wisdom, which takes place over the period of a few days, in which individuals receive intense, emotionally-focused instruction.

The Handbook of Group Psychotherapy described Large Group Awareness Training as focusing on " philosophical, psychological and ethical issues ", as related to a desire to increase personal effectiveness in people's lives.

Two different versions of the Law of Large Numbers are described below ; they are called the Strong Law of Large Numbers, and the Weak Law of Large Numbers.

Large populations are recorded off the western coasts of South America, where they are targeted by whaling operations ; it is described as abundant in this region and off the coast of New Zealand.

After UMass Amherst devoted its time, energy, and funding to the Large Millimeter Telescope ( LMT ) from approximately 2005, FCRAO was described as being the then –" current platform ", with the LMT referred to as its " future platform ".

Large for his six years of age, and approximately a foot above his school peers, he is described as a typical boy with brown hair, freckles and a gap between his two front teeth.

Dubbed The Green Box, this ' explanatory work ' has been described as " No less ambiguously or freely interpretable than the Large Glass itself ..."

A " New Large Bullace ", probably synonymous with the Royal Bullace, was occasionally mentioned, described as very similar to the Shepherd's Bullace but with larger leaves, many of which were glandless, a much more vigorous habit, and lighter cropping.

: 1. Chen primes were first described by Yuan, W. On the Representation of Large Even Integers as a Sum of a Product of at Most 3 Primes and a Product of at Most 4 Primes, Scienca Sinica 16, 157-176, 1973.