On bare ground or roads during the winter, various species of snakes and lizards bask in the sun, but they are rarely seen during the summer months.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

On some islands, major rivers provide a key transportation link in the absence of good roads.

On 1 November 2005, the Irish government published the Transport 21 plan which includes € 18bn for improved roads and € 16bn for improved rail, including the Western Railway Corridor and the Dublin Metro.

On 21 March 1939, Hitler first went public with his demand that Danzig rejoin the Reich and for " extra-territorial " roads across the Polish Corridor.

On 26 March, in an extremely stormy meeting with the Polish Ambassador Józef Lipski, Ribbentrop accused the Poles of attempting to bully Germany by their partial mobilization and violently attacked them for only offering consideration of the German demand about the " extra-territorial " roads.

On roads where poor lighting and driving conditions prevail, night driving is difficult.

On 1 December 2009 Denby Transport were preparing to drive the Eco-Link on public roads, but this was cut short because the Police pulled the lorry over as it left the gates in order to test it for its legality " to investigate any ... offences which may be found ".

On the main east-west thoroughfares of Constitution and Independence Avenues, barricades are implanted in the roads that can be raised in the event of an emergency.

On roads with no sidewalks, pedestrians should always walk facing the oncoming traffic for their own and other people's safety.

On roads that have multiple lanes going in the same direction, drivers may usually shift amongst lanes as they please, but they must do so in a way that does not cause inconvenience to other drivers.

On tarmac roads it may seem that water or even oil has been spilled.

On 24 January, Chirikov departed with 26 of the 34-strong expedition along the well-travelled roads to Vologda, to the east.

On 29 August 1935, while the King and Queen were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lucerne, Leopold lost control of the car which plunged into the lake, killing Queen Astrid and her unborn fourth child.

On December 31, 1895 Monza had about 37, 500 permanent inhabitants, with " internal roads 31 " length of about 42 km.

On the Northern and Western Highways, bus service is more frequent than on smaller highways and other roads.

On January 24 through January 28, 2006, a snowstorm which also affected Eastern Europe brought heavy snowfalls with snow accumulating to heights ranging from, cutting off roads from the rest of Greece in the northern, eastern and southern parts of the island.

On June 8, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938, which called for a BPR report on the feasibility of a system of transcontinental toll roads.

On a hot Memorial Day weekend in 1934, Greek immigrant and ice cream salesman Tom Carvelas was selling ice cream from his truck around roads in Westchester, when he broke down with a flat tire along Central Avenue in Hartsdale.

On May 22, 1852, the first train ran between Toledo and Chicago, on two roads, the Michigan Southern and the Indiana Northern.

On November 18, 1862 and again on December 20, Union scouting met Confederate resistance at the then important cross roads of Rural Hill, which was the first town east of the Stones River past Stewart's Ferry.

On April 22, the Deepwater Railway was acquired, formalizing the marriage of the two roads.

On multilane roads carrying over 12, 000 vehicles per day, a marked crosswalk is likely to have worse safety performance than an otherwise similar unmarked location, unless safety features such as raised median refuges or pedestrian beacons are also installed.

On multilane roads carrying over 15, 000 vehicles per day, a marked crosswalk is likely to have worse safety performance than an unmarked location, even if raised median refuges are provided.

On the one hand, the major European nations had to maintain vis-a-vis each other an emphasis upon sovereignty, independence, formal equality -- thus insuring for themselves individually an optimal freedom of action to maintain the `` flexibility of alignment '' that the system required and to avoid anything approaching a repetition of the disastrous Napoleonic experience.

On the other hand, approaching along the imaginary axis,

On October 30, 2008, the Seattle-King County Association of Realtors honored Paul Allen for his “ unwavering commitment to nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest and lifetime giving approaching US $ 1 billion .”

" On approaching Yemen, tells ibn Ishaq, the rabbis demonstrated to the local people a miracle by coming out of a fire unscathed and the Yemenites accepted Judaism.

On 28 May 2005, in celebration of his approaching 65th birthday, Jones returned to his homeland to perform a concert in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd before a crowd of about 20, 000.

He turned south again and was stopped by ice in by 95 ° E and continued eastward nearly on the parallel of 60 ° S to 147 ° E. On 16 March, the approaching winter drove him northward for rest to New Zealand and the tropical islands of the Pacific.

On 13 March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometers.

On 25 March 1957 Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control, to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control in the country since 1948, and were approaching obsolescence.

On their way to the Trojan camp, Diomedes and Odysseus discovered Dolon approaching the Achaean camp.

On approaching Earth, the ship loses power and crashes into San Francisco Bay.

On 2 May the new Government Executive of the Reich fled to Flensburg before the approaching British troops.

On April 29, 1865, a messenger galloped in with news that General Benjamin H. Grierson, Commanding General of over 4, 000 Union cavalrymen, was approaching from Clayton, Alabama, to the west.

On April 10, 2010, a Tu-154 military jet carrying Polish president Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and many notable political and military figures crashed in a wooded area near Smolensk while approaching the local military airport.

On December 16, 1941, Frank spelt out to his senior officials the approaching annihilation of the Jews: " A great Jewish migration will begin in any case.

On April 9, 2009, the town was evacuated in advance of approaching wildfires.

The 2000 film ends with a quote from a Walt Whitman poem entitled " On The Beach at Night ", strikingly appropriate, describing how frightening an approaching cloud bank seemed at night to the poet's child, blotting the stars out one by one, as the father and child stood on the beach on Massachusetts ' North Shore.

* On 13 February 1955, the pilots of a SABENA flight from Brussels to Rome lost orientation when approaching Ciampino Airport, resulting in the aircraft involved, a Douglas DC-6 registered OO-SDB, crashing into the slope of Monte Terminillo at 18: 53 local time, killing the 21 passengers and eight crew on board.

On 9 June 1635, with Spanish troops approaching, Ludwig Philipp of Pfalz-Simmern-Kaiserslautern fled to Kaiserslautern with Frederick's body.

On occasions, the ticker will even provide a foreshadowing of an approaching disaster, for example, sometimes reading " Did you feel that big truck pass by?

On 14 May 1940, with the German army approaching, the Dutch government fled to London.

On Guam, with knowledge of the approaching atomic bomb decision, he was compelled to negotiate with Nimitz over what seemed petty Navy objections to the basing there of the headquarters of the strategic air forces.

On the night of October 7, 1857, " Wild Bill " Hickman set fire to Fort Bridger to keep it from falling into the hands of the approaching United States Army during the Utah War.

On October 17, following a ceremony in which Burgoyne gave his sword to Gates, only to have it returned, Burgoyne's army ( approaching 6, 000 strong ) marched out to surrender their arms while the American musicians played " Yankee Doodle ".

On realising it was approaching he panicked and tried to clamber into the Duke's carriage, but the door of the carriage swung open leaving him hanging directly in the path of the oncoming Rocket.