* Spanish silver mines open in Latin America ; thus begins the great silver flow that links the New and Old Worlds.

Old pictures of the Stegmaier Building ( which is the oldest highrise in Wilkes-Barre and the last one on Downtown's eastern border ) show that everything east of Downtown was forests and coal mines.

It rapidly became an important town, due to the Old Salt Route, on which the salt produced in the salt mines of Lüneburg ( Lower-Saxony ) was shipped to the baltic harbour of Lübeck, and the Stecknitz Canal, which was a precursor of the today's Elbe-Lübeck Canal.

The mines immediately east of the town, in what has been called the Old Lead Belt, were at one time one of the largest sources of lead in the United States.

Though the railroads connecting the First Transcontinental Railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka have long been removed, the railroad to Ely is preserved as a heritage railway by the Nevada Northern Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely.

These mining operations generally focused on discovering either lead or silver ore ; the company appointed Philip Francois Renault as commander of the mines, and in 1723 Boisbriand ceded land to Renault in Washington County ( in an area now known as the Old Mines ) and in the Mine La Motte area.

At Beacon Hill south of Oakhill, it crossed the Roman road along the Mendip ridgeway from Old Sarum to the lead and silver mines at Charterhouse.

Old tales claim that during World War Two the National Gallery stored their treasures in one of the mines in the town in order to protect them from damage or destruction.

Between 1800 and 1850, Ludlows, Middle Pit, Old Pit, Smallcombe, Tynings, and Wellsway mines opened.

John Pratt was originally a lead miner from Old Gang mines in Gunnerside-a village in North Yorkshire, England.

The nearby slate mines on the North East flank of the Old Man, are known as " Old Man Quarries ", though sometimes given the individual names of: Brandy Crag, SaddleStone and Moss Head.

The routes were from Furnace Creek, California, to Mojave, California, and from the mines at Old Borate to Mojave.

The Old Mine Road, one of the earliest roads in the area, runs along the Delaware ; it was used for transporting copper and slate from nearby mines and quarries, and is believed to have originally been a Native American trail that saw use by fur traders and Dutch settlers.

Later, after 1956, BGML amalgamated the Champion and Mysore mines and started the Yeppamana and Old Baisanathan Mines.

The party's objective is to adventure through the mountain region near Verdigris, entering areas such as the ruins of Old Verdigris, the Well of Knowledge, the mines, the crevasses, and eventually to the Dreadlord's castle.

Old gold mines in this area are home to bat colonies.

Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; ;

The grounds for the Church's position are Scriptural ( Old Testament ), the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church, the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries, the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural law.

`` The scriptures, both Old and New Testament, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct ''.

Some adaptations of the Latin alphabet are augmented with ligatures, such as æ in Old English and Icelandic and Ȣ in Algonquian ; by borrowings from other alphabets, such as the thorn þ in Old English and Icelandic, which came from the Futhark runes ; and by modifying existing letters, such as the eth ð of Old English and Icelandic, which is a modified d. Other alphabets only use a subset of the Latin alphabet, such as Hawaiian, and Italian, which uses the letters j, k, x, y and w only in foreign words.

Members of the family are natives of temperate to tropical regions of the Old World, with 15 genera and 780 species.

Also shown are the churches in full communion with the Anglican Communion: the Nordic Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion ( Green ) and the Old Catholic Church | Old Catholic churches of the Utrecht Union ( Red ).

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

In England the grounds used are The Oval ( since 1880 ), Old Trafford ( 1884 ), Lord's ( 1884 ), Trent Bridge ( 1899 ), Headingley ( 1899 ) and Edgbaston ( 1902 ).

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

Old Norse askr literally means " ash tree " but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed.

Alemannic runic inscriptions such as those on the Pforzen buckle are among the earliest testimonies of Old High German.

Old people who have long desisted from their outdoor work are often found to be as white as western men.

The Old English versions of Orosius's Histories against the Pagans and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People are no longer accepted by scholars as Alfred's own translations because of lexical and stylistic differences.

* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.

This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.

Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

Green ( Old World ) archaeoastronomers rely heavily on statistics and are sometimes accused of missing the cultural context of what is a social practice.

The Amish, Hutterites, Mennonites, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites are direct descendants of the movement.

The Admiralty Extension ( which is also one of the two buildings which are sometimes referred to as the " Old Admiralty ") dates from the turn of the 20th century.

But if the Frisian names Akkrum, Akkeringa and Dutch name Akkerghem, are derived from the personal name Akker there may be a corresponding Old English name from which Accrington may be derived.

More often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain.

This is the position set out by the anti-democratic pamphlet known whose anonymous author is often called the Old Oligarch.

Old and disused church buildings can be seen as an interesting proposition for developers as the architecture and location often provide for attractive homes or city centre entertainment venues On the other hand, many newer Churches have decided to host meetings in public buildings such as schools, universities, cinemas < ref >

When transitioning from one date notation to another, people often write both Old Style and New Style dates.

In the Amharic Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ( an Oriental Orthodox Church ), those books of the Old Testament that are still counted as canonical, but not by all other Churches, are often set in a separate section titled " Deeyutrokanoneekal " ( ዲዩትሮካኖኒካል ), which is the same word.

Genres like high fantasy, Westerns and science fiction space opera often have specific settings, such as a pseudo-Medieval European setting, the Old West, or outer space.

Old walls, often built prior to World War II, will consist of brick.

The 19th century gave rise to a style of gin referred to as Old Tom Gin, which is a sweeter style of gin, often containing sugar.

In the south was the British ( Brythonic ) Kingdom of Strathclyde, descendants of the peoples of the Roman influenced kingdoms of " The Old North ", often named Alt Clut, the Brythonic name for their capital at Dumbarton Rock.

A kenning ( ; derived from Old Norse ) is a type of literary trope, specifically circumlocution, in the form of a compound ( usually two words, often hyphenated ) that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

Old English poets often place a series of synonyms in apposition, and these may include kennings ( loosely or strictly defined ) as well as the literal referent: Hrōðgar maþelode, helm Scyldinga [...] “ Hrothgar, helm (= protector, lord ) of the Scyldings, said [...]” ( Beowulf 456 ).

Furthermore, the province, especially its northeastern part, was often raided by the Lithuanians, Rusyns, Yotvingians, and Old Prussians.

For Christians, Moses — mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure — is often a symbol of God's law, as reinforced and expounded on in the teachings of Jesus.

The apologia of the Southern churches was largely based in Old Testament scriptures, which often represent slavery as a part of the natural order of things.

In the Middle Irish period the name is often spelled Mórrígan with a lengthening diacritic over the ' o ', seemingly intended to mean " Great Queen " ( Old Irish mór, ' great '; this would derive from a hypothetical Proto-Celtic * Māra Rīganī-s ).

" often mixed into the unique Badger libation, the " brandy Old Fashioned sweet.

These pitches are often used by Devonport High School for Boys and the Old Boys RFC.

The Vetus Latina (“ Old Latin ”) versions often contain readings with a Western type of text.

The continued spread of Christianity, and the foundation of national churches, led to the translation of the Bible — often beginning with books from the New Testament — into a variety of other languages at a relatively early date: Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Persian, Soghdian, and eventually Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Nubian.

These readings are most often part of an established lectionary ( i. e., selected texts to be read at church services on specific days ), and ( together with an Old Testament reading and a Psalm ) include a non-gospel reading from the New Testament and culminate with a Gospel reading.

Old Catholics often refer to the Church Father St. Vincent of Lerins and his saying: " We must hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all the Faithful.

The language is called “ Old Prussian ” to avoid confusion with the German dialects Low Prussian and High Prussian, and the adjective “ Prussian ”, which is also often used to relate to the later German state.