On average, the walls only survive to a few metres.

On April 25 in a house speech that biographer William Nisbet Chambers called “ long, passionate, historical, polemical ,” Benton attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which he “ had stood upon ... above thirty years, and intended to stand upon it to the end -- solitary and alone, if need be ; but preferring company .” The speech was distributed afterwards as a pamphlet when opposition to the act moved outside the walls of congress.

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On a ship, the walls separating compartments are termed " bulkheads ", whilst the thinner walls separating cabins are termed " partitions ".

On 4 September 1804, Somers assumed command of fire ship Intrepid which had been fitted out as a " floating volcano " to be sailed into Tripoli harbor and blown up in the midst of the corsair fleet close under the walls of the city.

Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (" On the Life of the Caesars "), was so shaken by the news that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:

Sayer's show used his hit " The Show Must Go On ": he changed the lyrics in the second verse slightly, from " I wish I could tear down the walls of this theatre " to " I wish I could tear down the walls of this Muppet theatre ".

On March 25, Palm Sunday, he commanded his monks to process through the monastery's vineyard, holding up icons so that they could be seen over the walls by the neighbors.

On land he has complete mastery of throwing knives and carries a grappling hook which he is able to use to climb buildings, walls and trees.

On 24 June the army appeared before the walls of Leiden.

On various occasions the popes found asylum from the tumults of Rome within its walls, and it was the meeting-place of five conclaves ( Perugia Papacy ), including those that elected Honorius III ( 1216 ), Clement IV ( 1285 ), Celestine V ( 1294 ), and Clement V ( 1305 ); the papal presence was characterised by a pacificatory rule between the internal rivalries.

Quotations from two key situationist books, Debord's The Society of the Spectacle ( 1967 ) and Khayati's On the Poverty of Student Life ( 1966 ), were written on the walls of Paris and several provincial cities.

On the afternoon of November 22, 1800, tremors from the 6. 5-magnitude San Diego Earthquake cracked the walls of the rising edifice, necessitating that repair work be performed.

On October 21, 1868 a 7. 0 magnitude earthquake on the Hayward fault which runs through the grounds of the Mission shattered the walls of the Mission church and broke open the roof.

On top of their power, these new trebuchets were much more accurate than the old ones, and were the only artillery powerful enough to break the strong walls of Xiangyang.

On nearly every side, the walls of the plateaus rise abruptly from the plains, constituting outer mountain chains.

On its lateral walls are the pharyngeal ostia of the auditory tube, somewhat triangular in shape, and bounded behind by a firm prominence, the torus tubarius or cushion, caused by the medial end of the cartilage of the tube that elevates the mucous membrane.

On the southern and eastern sides the walls are visible almost to their full height.

On the walls of the Dome of the Rock is an inscription in a mosaic frieze that includes the following words from Quran ( 19: 33 – 35 ), which are considered blasphemy to Christianity:

On December the 11th of that year, he commanded his troops to the city during the night, and they surrounded the city walls at 2: 00 AM.

On one side of the controversy are those who maintain the plausibility or validity of the biblical account of a conquest by troops under King David who, as described in the Bible, capture the city not only by breaching the walls, but also by climbing upwards through the ancient water system at the Gihon Spring.

On land, the workmen also built walls and watchtowers, a Greek – style theatre and a temple to Ares — the Greek god of war.

On 8 September, just two days after the rising began, a party of around 100 Jacobite Highlanders, led by Lord Drummond, attempted to scale the walls with the assistance of members of the garrison.

However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

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.

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On lighter to medium skin tones, solar lentigenes emerge as small-to medium-sized brown patches of freckling that can grow and accumulate over time on areas of the body that receive the most unprotected sun exposure, such as the back of the hands, forearms, chest, and face.

On learning that Vivekananda lacked credential to speak at the Chicago Parliament, Wright is quoted as having said, " To ask for your credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine in the heavens.

On the broadest scale, the rate at which energy is received from the sun and the rate at which it is lost to space determine the equilibrium temperature and climate of Earth.

On August 13, there was another solar eclipse, in which the sun appeared bluish-green ( possibly from debris deposited in the atmosphere by an eruption of Mount Saint Helens ).

On Durin's Day, when the setting sun and the last moon of autumn were in the sky together, the day's last sunlight would fall on the door and expose its keyhole so that it could be unlocked.

* 2011: On March 25 2011, at approximately 5: 30 PM ( GMT + 3 ) a dust storm swept through Kuwait turning the setting evening sun to immediate darkness reaching minimal visibility in mere minutes.

On a journey into space, Superman found that the explosion of Krypton pushed the planet from its orbit away from its sun, making the planet gradually become colder.

On the opposite sides of the same chain the exposure to the sun or to warm winds may cause a wide difference in the level of permanent snow, though the increased fall of snow on the side exposed to moist winds may more than compensate for the sun's rays.

On January 1, 1801, the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres and was able to track its path for 40 days before it was lost in the glare of the sun.

On the path of the sun, in or by the water, often on an island or rock in middle of the seas, is the Austras koks ( tree of dawn ) thought to represent world tree or axis mundi, it is usually described as a tree, but can also be variety of other plants or even objects.

On the other hand, it has been asserted that it is impossible to guarantee the effect on a particular calendar day, because the angle at which the sun rises on a given date varies slightly with the cycle of leap years.

On the second tier were the spirit-thrones for the sun and the moon.

Imbued with the idea of regeneration, and seeking in nature for that thrift of power which he, as an inventor, had always aimed at, Siemens suggested a hypothesis on which the sun conserves its heat by a circulation of its fuel in space, afterwards reprinting the controversy in a volume, On the Conservation of Solar Energy.

On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with the Infinite Corridor and shines along its entire length.

On the cruise ship, Lestat manages to regain his body with David's help, but the sun is rising as he performs the switch and he must immediately flee to a safe place in which to spend the day.

* On farmland, highly reflective aluminized PET film ribbons are tied to the plants to create shimmers from the sun for an effect similar to a scarecrow.

Herodotus confirms the possibility that the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis were fought shortly after the Olympic Games of that year, and only a few months after these events: " On approach of spring, the sun suddenly quit his seat in the heavens, and disappeared " when Xerxes left Sardis, a few weeks or months before crossing over to Greece.

On all other days, depending on the time of year, the sun rises either north or south of true east ( and sets north or south of true west ).

On its obverse is embossed a replica of the sun, 1. 6 cm in diameter, below which the words Bharat Ratna " are embossed in Devanagari script.

On the third day, a metal cow emerged, with golden horns and the sun and the stars on its brow.

On the sun, magnetic reconnection may happen on solar arcades — a series of closely occurring loops of magnetic lines of force.

On June 9, the group emerged at the edge of the prairie and with the sun shining for the first time in days, carved the words " Sun Prairie " into a tree.