On the highway he relaxed and enjoyed the drive over Lake Pontchartrain and along the coast.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

: On the east coast of what would come to be called the United States, some tribes would grow maize ( corn ), beans, and squash intermingled together, a system which had originated in Mexico.

On 28 November Teach's two ships attacked a French merchant vessel off the coast of Saint Vincent.

On 5 December 1717 Teach stopped the merchant sloop Margaret off the coast of Crab Island, near Anguilla.

On 21 May, as Nelson's squadron approached Toulon, it was struck by a fierce gale and Nelson's flagship HMS Vanguard lost its topmasts and was almost wrecked on the Corsican coast.

On the Caribbean coast, however, December is by far the wettest month.

On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the northeastern province of Newfoundland & Labrador.

On Columbus second voyage in 1493 the colony of " La Española " was founded and administered from the new settlement of La Isabela which was established on the north coast.

On Jordanian side, three international franchises have opened seaside resort hotels near the King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center along the eastern coast of the Dead Sea.

On 12 July 1588, the Spanish Armada, a great fleet of ships, set sail for the channel, planning to ferry a Spanish invasion force under the Duke of Parma to the coast of southeast England from the Netherlands.

On the night 9 May / 10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 of the Dutch coast and Mountbatten subsequently commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.

On 8 February 1813 the British ship Isabella, a ship of 193 tons and a crew of fourteen, was wrecked off the coast of Eagle Island ( now known as Speedwell Island ).

On the average, winter lasts from early December to mid March in the archipelago and the southwestern coast and from early October to early May in Lapland.

On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.

On the seabed off the west coast of the island rests a block of rock 22 km long and 11 km wide, which appears to have slid off the island largely intact at some point in prehistory, similar to the predicted future collapse of Cumbre Vieja, a geological fault on the neighboring island, La Palma.

On 7 April, the 3, 000-strong Detachment Brandenstein overran the town of Loviisa on the south-eastern coast.

On 3 July 1844, the last two confirmed specimens were killed on Eldey, off the coast of Iceland, which also eliminated the last known breeding attempt.

On retirement from the British Colonial Service, Gardner moved to London but then before World War II moved to Highcliffe, east of Bournemouth on the south coast of England.

On 5 June 1668, both ships left port at Deptford, England, but the " Eaglet " was forced to turn back off the coast of Ireland.

On the west coast there are sand dunes.

On July 21, 1846, they sailed from New Orleans for the Texas coast.

On May 19, 1865, Davis was imprisoned in a casemate at Fortress Monroe, on the coast of Virginia.

On 12 September 1942,, carrying some 80 civilians, 268 British Army soldiers, about 1, 800 Italian prisoners of war, and 160 Polish soldiers ( on guard ), was struck and sunk by a torpedo from Kriegsmarine submarine off the coast of west Africa.

On the coast between several native ports of call and Madagascar a large surreptitious trade in slaves was carried on until 1877, supplying slaves for Arabia and the Ottomans.

On 1 July 1945, Slim was promoted to general and was informed that he was to succeed Leese as C-in-C ALFSEA.

On 26 October Leese issued orders for the 1st SA Division to " side-step " north in conjunction with a similar move by the 4th Indian Division and to extend their lines to occupy the area held by the New Zealand Division and the 9th Armoured Brigade.

On 4 August, Alexander met 8th Army commander Oliver Leese to find that Leese did not favour the plan.

On May 1, the Star purchased the M. A. Leese Radio Corporation and acquired Washington's oldest radio station, WMAL, in the process.

On his return to the UK Leese was ordered to form and train a large brigade group, 29th Infantry Brigade.

On 24 December 1943, however, Leese received a telegram ordering him to Italy to succeed Montgomery as Eighth Army commander as Montgomery was to return to the UK in January 1944 to prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On the way they tried to discover all they could about Burma, and they were disturbed to find that Michael Symes's book had not presented an altogether true picture.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

On arrival at headquarters he had, however -- in King Stanislas' words to Glayre -- `` found such favor with Pe Potemkin that he made him his aide-de-camp and up to now does not want him to go join Paul Jones.

On returning to New York he had a job for several weeks ; ;

On the morning of November 17th, Cornwallis and 2,000 men had left Philadelphia with the object of capturing Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey.

On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.

On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.

On such occasions he had not had the courage to look at the face above the hand, whatever face it might be.

On Christmas night, they had had a disagreement about it.

On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.

On Feb. 12, 1959, purified corticotropin ( ACTH Gel ), 20 units daily intramuscularly, was started but had to be discontinued 3 weeks later because of excessive fluid retention.

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 February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

On the right is the Brumidi Liberty group, as it looked after cleaning operations, which had not yet come around to the other end ; ;

On November 24th, they had made a raid on La Maddalena.

On previous voyages, it had been in precisely such dangerous situations that he had failed as a leader and captain.

On the second voyage, he had turned back at the frozen island of Novaya Zemlya and meekly given the crew a certificate stating that he did so of his own free will -- which was obviously not the case.

On the third voyage, a near-mutiny rising from a quarrel between Dutch and English crew members on the Half Moon had almost forced him to head the ship back to Amsterdam in Mid-Atlantic.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.

On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.