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Middelgrundsfortet is a sea fort located in the Øresund between Copenhagen and Malmö.
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Middelgrundsfortet and is
Middelgrundsfortet was the largest sea fortress in the world, and is still the largest man-made island without abutment, with an area, including wave breakers, of approximately 70 000 m² ; the buildings total approximately 15 000 m².
Middelgrundsfortet and Copenhagen
Ferries connect Middelgrundsfortet with Langelinie, Copenhagen.
Middelgrundsfortet and .
( The other two are Trekroner Fort ( the oldest ) and Middelgrundsfortet.
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The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.
He is thought either to have been killed by the Fascists as soon as he landed or to have killed himself by flying out to sea and crashing his plane.
In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.
Progress in predicting water conditions is encouraging, but little guidance is available to the man at sea on the use of such information.
I think you made a dam good chouise to turn off as nise a feler as Alf Dyer and let that orney thefin, drunkard, damed card playing sun of a bich com to sea you, the god damed theaf and lop yeard pigen tode helion, he is too orney for hel.
An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.
The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.
Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.
He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
" From sea to shining sea " is an American idiom meaning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ( or vice versa ).
A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.
As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.
That is true at sea level ; those limits increase with elevation above sea level although in mountainous regions, there is often no direct view of the true horizon.
A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.
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If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.
Today the fort has been recreated and is now a national monument.
Lisbalting / Lios Bealtaine (' fort or enclosure of Bealtaine ') is located in Kilcash Parish, County Tipperary.
Four other ships sit along the coastline, one on fire while a large ship and a small ship are grounded on a shoal which is surmounted by a burning fort.
The remains are both burial-sites and buildings, and in the south part of this area, there is also a hill fort called " Borgen " (" The Fortress ").
The word broch is derived from Lowland Scots ' brough ', meaning ( among other things ) fort.
This now is identified as Barbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort in Wiltshire, near Swindon.
The fort was built by Royalist occupation forces in c. 1643 to the south east of the town, with a similar fort at Mount Ridley on the opposite slopes of what is now Kingswear.
:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.
Others report that the same fort was attacked by the infidels and then was moved to the place where it is now situated, and the city gathered around it.
The original fort site is now adjacent to the present historic " Old Town " portion of the city.
In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.
There is a monument to Los Patricios in the fort of Churubusco.
* 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
Bala Hissar is a fort destroyed by the British in 1879, in retaliation for the death of their envoy, now restored as a military college.
The Romans built a military camp, which they called Lousanna, at the site of a Celtic settlement, near the lake where currently Vidy and Ouchy are situated ; on the hill above was a fort called ' Lausodunon ' or ' Lousodunon ' ( The ' y ' suffix is common to many place names of Roman origin in the region ( e. g. ) Prilly, Pully, Lutry, etc .).
* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
The mass burial place of the victims of the massacres carried out in the fort is a grass field, marked by a simple yet frankly worded memorial written in several languages.
The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".
* 1529 – The Spanish fort Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives.
* 1812 – War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Harrison begins when the fort is set on fire.
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Experience is not seen, as it is in classical rationalism, as presenting us initially with clear and distinct objects simply located in space and registering their character, movements, and changes on the tabula rasa of an uninvolved intellect.
The speed is controlled by pressing on the two brake buttons located where the index finger and thumb are placed when holding the motor.
The school is located at 9-1/2 Mile Road, Woodward Heights.
When suitable equipment is located by the SBA representative, the small business concern is contacted and advised on when, where, and how to bid on such property.
Eighteen voted for assessment by the town in which it is located and eleven preferred assessment by the town in which the owner resides.
This temporary Peace Corps is being established under existing authority in the Mutual Security Act and will be located in the Department of State.
That's because the good professor teaches only Weider methods at his famous Montreal Health Studio which is located at 1821 Mt. Royal East in Montreal.
As an engineer approaches the plant the position of the home signal is seen in advance when he passes the `` distant '' signal located beyond the limits of the interlocking plant.
Placement of these holes is not critical, but they should be located so that the centers are about 1/8'' '' from any edge.
In California is located one of the most popular of the national parks -- Yosemite.
If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.
The cooling coil is located in the furnace's outlet.
For example, the officials of Poughkeepsie town ( township ) where the project is located think highly of it because it simplifies their snow clearing problem.
In most states, trade and industrial training is provided in a minority of the high schools, usually located in the larger cities.
After being located for some years in the Village at the Equinox Pharmacy under the supervision of Mrs. Harry Mercier, it is presently located in the Hill and Dale Shop, Manchester Center.
It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.
One fin is located every 120-degrees around the inside diameter of the wheel.
and only rarely is he acutely concerned with the meaning of what he has located.
Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.
Action located where the evil is concentrated will prove most decisive and is most clearly legitimate.
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