On the western tip of Long Island protruded Brooklyn Heights.

On the other we have the flag-wavers and the national sentimentalists who have been willing to use any patriotic, `` frontier western '' or colonial material willy-nilly.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

On April 6, 1830, in western New York, Smith organized the religion's first legal church entity, the Church of Christ.

On the western portion of Lake Cadillac, where M-55 intersects M-115, is what is locally referred to as Cadillac West.

On 939 Æthelstan, the " pillar of the dignity of the western world " in the words of the Annals of Ulster, died at Malmesbury.

On the Western Front, no Allied army had penetrated the western German frontier, and on the Eastern Front, Germany had already won the war against Russia, concluded with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

On Diego Garcia, the main plantations were located at East Point, the main settlement on the eastern rim of the atoll ; Minni Minni, north of East Point ; and Pointe Marianne, on the western rim, all located on the lagoon side of the atoll rim.

On the oil front, the new government in Ecuador has reversed the earlier revenue-sharing arrangements with western oil companies and is now keen on striking new partnerships with state-owned ONGC Videsh of India.

On 30 August 2012 it was announced that British firm Nyota Minerals was about to become the first foreign company to receive a mining licence to extract gold from an estimated resource of 52 tonnes in western Ethiopia.

On his second visit early in the following year, he remained at Ephesus " three years ," for he found it was the key to the western provinces of Asia Minor.

On the left, the initial attempt to clear the western end of Ruweisat failed but at 08: 00 a renewed attack by the reserve battalion succeeded.

On the night of December 25, 1776, Washington staged a comeback with a surprise attack on a Hessian outpost in western New Jersey.

On the evening of 28 April, the BBC broadcast a Reuters news report about Himmler's attempted negotiations with the western Allies.

On the other hand the Galicia region in western Ukraine and southern Poland, economically and socially backward, but under the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy rule increasingly allowed limited autonomy, experienced gradual relaxation of authoritarian policies and even a Polish cultural revival.

On 5 November, Major Spyros Spyromilios led a revolt in the coastal area of Himarë and expelled the Ottoman garrison without facing significant resistance, while on 20 November Greek troops from western Macedonia entered Korçë.

On September 27, 2009, Ismail Khan survived a suicide blast that killed 4 of his bodyguards in Herat, in western Afghanistan.

On this goto, one would push down buttons above the metal strings like the western autoharp.

On the southwestern frontier, problems commenced early when c. 812, Louis the Pious crossed the western Pyrenees ' to settle matters ' in Pamplona.

On the western border are two spiral galaxies and the Wolf-Rayet planetary nebula IC 4406, containing some of the hottest stars in existence.

On the western side is a worthy bed, on the ground, a stone chimney, a wardrobe and a certain other small chamber ; at the eastern end is a pantry and a buttery.

On March 5, 1940, in what would later be known as the Katyn massacre, orders were signed to execute 25, 700 Polish POWs, labeled " nationalists and counterrevolutionaries ", kept at camps and prisons in occupied western Ukraine and Belarus.

On 23 August 1986, tens of thousands of demonstrators in 21 western cities including New York, London, Stockholm, Toronto, Seattle, and Perth participated in Black Ribbon Day Rallies to draw attention to the secret protocols.

On September 20, 1805, near the western end of the Lolo Trail, he found a small camp at the edge of the camas-digging ground that is now called Weippe Prairie.

On the western plain, looking south south west towards Charlestown.

On an instrument correctly adjusted for intonation, the actual length of each string from the nut to the bridge saddle is slightly but measurably longer than the scale length of the instrument.

On September 25, 1928 they started climbing from the saddle along the NE Ridge and at 15. 30 they reached the first top of Lenin Peak at an altitude of 7127 m ( 23 382, 55 ft .).

On the saddle between the city and Mindolluin was Rath Dínen ( The Silent Street ), where the tombs of the Kings of Gondor and their Stewards were built.

On July 10, 1859, Miller was caught stealing a horse gelding valued at $ 80, a saddle worth $ 15, and other items.

On his saddle blanket is the number 6, his post position at Churchill Downs on the day he won the Kentucky Derby.

On an English saddle, leathers are quite thin, only about one inch wide.

On a western saddle, they are very heavy, three to four inches wide on the side closest to the horse, and even wider, expanded into a decorative " fender " on the outside ( which also protects the rider's legs from the sweat of the horse ).

On 7 August the Greater Bairam ( a feast day celebrating the end of the Islamic year ) coincided with the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps at Romani being ordered to move out with supplies for the advancing troops, but 150 men, most of whom were past the end of their contracts and entitled to be discharged, refused orders to fill their water bottles, draw their rations and saddle up.

On June 25 they left camp I and camped in a saddle at 6, 706m on the SW ridge.

On December 5 the Argentines disembarked near the farm and, without finding any resistance, they took all the food, killed the cattle, and slit the throats of the saddle horses in the corrals.

On September 22, 1862, Allison enlisted in the 9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, where he served under the Confederate " wizard of the saddle ", General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

On 13 March 1884, Morant married Daisy May O ' Dwyer, who later became famous in Australia as the anthropologist Daisy Bates, but the couple separated soon after and never formally divorced ; Daisy reportedly threw him out after he failed to pay for the wedding and then stole some pigs and a saddle.

On the other hand, the more forward the rigging is set, especially when combined with a back cinch, the more the saddle will set down on the horse, placing the rider a bit behind the horse's center of balance, but creating greater security.

On one occasion a squadron of these horsemen charged British and Commonwealth troops throwing small hand grenades from the saddle.

On April 15, 1839, en route to Boone County, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Lyman Wight, Alexander McRae, and Caleb Baldwin were allowed to escape after the sheriff and three of their guards drank whiskey while the fourth guard helped them saddle their horses for the escape.

On a standard, steel-string, acoustic guitar, the scale length ( the distance from the nut or string guide to the saddle on the bridge ) is typically 24. 9 " to 25. 7 ", and the strings range in diameter from. 012 " to. 054 ".

On the new model: the front of the saddle tank is completely smooth ; the smokebox is smaller and raised on a saddle ; the buffer mounting plates, which were square, are now round ; and the whistle has been omitted ( however, it can still be heard ; the sound is shared with Mighty Mac ).

Then one stallion is then worked " On the Long Rein ", in which a fully trained Lipizzan performs all the movements it would be asked to do under saddle.

On the upscale XR model, the interior came with an option for saddle leather and paddle shifters, as well as an option for back seat radio controls.

On an English saddle, the stirrups are " run up.

On pack horses, saddle breeching alone is quite common.

On the south-eastern slopes of Kilmashogue, in the saddle between Two Rock Mountain, is a ruin known as Calbeck's Castle.