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 the rim of the mountains, on the plateaus and the plains the economy consists of manufacturing and service jobs whereas in the higher altitudes and in the mountains farming is still an essential to the economy.

On modern band and orchestral drums, the drumhead is placed over the opening of the drum, which in turn is held onto the shell by a " counterhoop " ( or " rim "), which is then held by means of a number of tuning screws called " tension rods " which screw into lugs placed evenly around the circumference.

On a geostationary view Alpha Centauri has a speed many times greater than c as the rim speed of an object moving in a circle is a product of the radius and angular speed.

On a 10 " gong, for example, the rim extends about a half an inch perpendicular to the gong surface.

On his last visit, in 1982, he noted that the desert winds and resultant movement of the dune system were covering the site: " instead of two thirds of the crater rim ( visible as before 1966, 16 years earlier ), less than a quarter of it showed.

* On October 29, 1963, two Aeronautical Chart and Information Center cartographers, James A. Greenacre and Edward Barr, at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, manually recorded very bright red, orange, and pink colour phenomena on the southwest side of Cobra Head ; a hill southeast of the lunar valley Vallis Schröteri ; and the southwest interior rim of the Aristarchus crater.

On a really clear day, the south rim of Crater Lake in Oregon is visible.

* On three legs but connected to them by means of a rim mount on the lower rim, the original floor tom rim mounting.

On a kayak, the spraydeck is secured to a rim surrounding the cockpit with a line or elastic string called a rand.

On modern neoprene spraydecks the rand is usually elastic cord attached directly to the spraydecks rim.

On November 11, 1817 the border was corrected and the eastern rim of the county was ceded to

On October 6, NASA released detailed pictures from the MRO of Victoria crater along with the Opportunity rover on the rim above it.

On its reef rim are many inhabited islands.

On the rim to the right and left of Jesus are pictures of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, followed by half-length images of the Saints George and Demetrius, and Cosmas and Damian.

On the other hand, in the western rim of Peros Banhos, the island north of Île Verte was only a small sandbank at the time of Commander Robert Moresby's Survey in 1837, but now it is a medium-sized island covered with vegetation.

On measured samples of cases, the rim ( R1 ) diameter was no more than 0. 18 mm ( 0. 007 in ) wider than the case wall ( P1 ) diameter ( in typical semi-rimmed cases the rim ( R1 ) diameter is roughly 0. 51 mm (. 020 in ) wider than the case wall ( P1 ) diameter ).

* On an auxiliary boom attached to the rim of a snare drum or timbales.

On June 20, 1943, a United States Army Air Force plane on a meteorological flight over the Ungava region of Quebec Province took a photograph which showed the wide crater rim rising up above the landscape.