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 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 March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

On the lower and drier islands the vegetation before human colonization consisted of savanna or steppe vegetation, with the flattest inland portion supporting semi-desert plants.

On these vehicles, the hull deck comprises the main portion of the tread way while ramps extend from the front and rear of the vehicle to allow other vehicles to climb over the bridging vehicle and cross obstacles.

On the average, their workweek outside the home was several hours shorter than men's because a greater portion of them were employed only part-time or worked in the service sector, where hours were shorter than they were in manufacturing.

On the whole, therefore, the evidence seems to me to be clear that this passage is not a genuine portion of the inspired writings, and should not be appealed to in proof of the doctrine of the Trinity.

On November 27, 2004, those relics, along with those of John Chrysostom, were returned to Istanbul ( Constantinople ) by Pope John Paul II, with the Vatican retaining a small portion of both.

On 1 September 1939, the German invasion of its agreed upon portion of Poland started World War II.

On May 8, 2007, Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core code available under free software / open-source distribution terms, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did not hold the copyright.

On the fifth field trip, Lönnrot met Arhippa Perttunen who provided a large portion of the verses for The Kalevala.

On Saturday afternoons, Mondays, and Thursdays, the beginning of the following Saturday's portion is read.

On the southern wall of the sanctuary is the tomb and epitaph he erected for himself and his wives, detailing in a lengthy Latin inscription his ancestry and accomplishments, including his role as peacemaker between the Christian nations of Europe and a curiously altered portion detailing his curbing of heresy.

On December 10, 2006, the non-residential portion of the building was sold by San Francisco based Shorenstein Properties LLC for $ 385 million and was purchased by a joint venture of Chicago-based Golub & Company and the Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds.

On Monday and Wednesday of the Fourth Week, a Veneration of the Cross takes place at the First Hour ( repeating a portion of the service from the All-Night Vigil of the previous Sunday ).

On 14 March 1939, after the Munich Agreement, the Slovak Republic was formed from a portion of the dismembered Czechoslovakia.

On Gruffydd's death in 1137, therefore, Owain inherited a portion of a well-established kingdom, but had to share it with Cadwaladr.

On December 26, 2004, a large portion of the boundary between the Burma Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate slipped, causing the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

* On 1846-05-11, Allegany County lost to Livingston County, reducing the total to, and establishing the western portion of the current border with Livingston County.

On December 7, 1973, it was found that an 18½ minute portion of one recorded tape had been erased.

On 9 September 1878, a portion of the Northern Cheyenne, led by Little Wolf and Dull Knife started they're trek back to the north.

" On a road trip to Wrigley Field on June 6, 2001, Buck sang the seventh-inning stretch tune, " Take Me Out to the Ballgame " substituting " the Cardinals " for the " the Cubs / home team " portion of the song.

On 24 June 1949, the portion from Kanchanaburi to Nong Pladuk ( Thai หนองปลาด ุ ก ) was finished ; on 1 April 1952, the next section up to Wang Pho ( Wangpo ) was done.

On Mondays, Thursdays and Sabbaths, a weekly Torah portion was read publicly in the synagogues, following the tradition of public Torah readings instituted by Ezra.

On the earliest aircraft, such as the Wright Flyer, lateral control was effected by twisting the outboard portion of the wing so as to increase or decrease lift by changing the angle of attack.

On thee, the portion of our time depends,