In historical terms, Hastings can claim fame through its connection with the Norman conquest of England ; and also because it became one of the medieval Cinque Ports.

Colleges, Strongholds, and Ports are local chapters ( like a shire ) that are associated with an institution, such as a school, military base, or even a military ship at sea.

Ports could deal more easily with convoys because they tended to arrive on schedule and so loading and unloading could be planned.

The announcement in summer 2005 that the port ’ s main facility, Aden Container Terminal, would for the next 30 or more years be run by Dubai Ports International brings with it the prospect of future expansion.

Compound nouns have their singular possessives formed with an apostrophe and an added s, in accordance with the rules given above: the Attorney-General's husband ; the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ' prerogative ; this Minister for Justice's intervention ; her father-in-law's new wife.

Duluth forms a metropolitan area with Superior, Wisconsin called the Twin Ports.

That led to its entry as a part of the Cinque Ports in the thirteenth century and with that the privilege of being a wealthy trading port.

The site comprises three separate tracts of land six rail miles from the Georgia Ports Authority, with planned access to the Savannah River Parkway, Norfolk Southern mainline rail and CSX mainline rail.

Ports with international traffic have customs facilities.

Nogales is home to four International Ports of Entry, including the Morley Pedestrian Port of Entry, Dennis Deconcini Pedestrian and Passenger Vehicle Port of Entry, Nogales International Airport, and the Mariposa Port of Entry with up to 20 inspection lanes when the $ 200 million upgrade is finished.

The Ports of Indiana are negotiating with a second biofuels company to develop a plant at the Port of Indiana-Mount Vernon.

There is a planned non-motorized trail, dubbed the Twin Cities-to-Twin Ports Trail, that has been awarded federal and state funding to begin to connect the Sunrise Prairie Trail, near North Branch, Minnesota with the Willard Munger State Trail, near Hinckley, Minnesota.

The mayor of Newport, Derryl Garner, has served since 1978 and is active with the North Carolina League of Municipalities, the Morehead City Ports Committee and numerous other civic and governmental organizations.

The North Charleston mayor announced his intent to file a lawsuit against the state Commerce Department on the grounds that their plan violated the city's agreement with the State Ports Authority that no rail be run through the north end of the former base.

While a few shippers have experimented with Ports produced from a single variety of grapes, all Ports commercially available are from a blend of different grapes.

According to a scholar, the opposition was led mainly by the Bunnags, a merchant-aristocrat family of Persian origins, successors of Ayutthaya's minister of Ports and Finance, or Phra Klang Coupled with the tax revenues that these activities provided — helped restore the kingdom's devastated economy.

The supporters-lions with the sterns of golden ships-are taken from the arms of the Cinque Ports.

King Edward I of England granted the citizens of the Cinque Ports special privileges, including the right to bring goods into the country without paying import duties ; in return the Ports would supply him with men and ships in time of war.

A Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports was appointed, and also held the title of Constable of Dover Castle, and whilst this office exists today, it is now a purely honorary title, with an official residence at Walmer Castle.

Other places associated with the Cinque Ports and sometimes described as " non corporate limbs " included Bekesbourne, Birchington, Brightlingsea, Fordwich, Pevensey, Reculver, Seaford, Stonor and Walmer.

Local Government reforms and Acts of Parliament passed during the 19th and 20th Centuries ( notably the Great Reform Act of 1832 ), have eroded the administrative and judicial powers of the Confederation of the Cinque Ports, when New Romney and Winchelsea were disenfranchised from Parliament, with representation provided through their Counties alone, while Hythe and Rye's representation was halved.

In October 1704, after the ships had parted ways because of a dispute between Stradling and Dampier, the Cinque Ports was brought by Stradling to an island that is today known as Robinson Crusoe Island in the uninhabited archipelago of Juan Fernández off the coast of Chile for a mid-expedition restocking of supplies and fresh water.

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Tide tables, which tabulate the time of high and low water, are generally only published for Standard Ports.

Following the establishment of the Irish Free State, three deep water Treaty Ports at Berehaven, Queenstown ( modern Cobh ) and Lough Swilly were retained by the United Kingdom in accordance with the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921.

In 1922, under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty that followed the Irish War of Independence, the British withdrew from most of Ireland but three deep water Treaty Ports, at Berehaven, Queenstown ( renamed Cobh ) and Lough Swilly, were retained as sovereign bases until 1938.

Ports are closed on Sundays and Christian holidays.

The Cygwin Ports project provides many additional packages that are not available in the Cygwin distribution itself.

Ports are managed by the various Indonesia Port Corporations, of which there are four, numbered I through IV.

Smaller branches within those kingdoms include Principalities, Regions, Baronies, and Provinces, and local chapters are known as Cantons, Ridings, Shires, Colleges, Strongholds, and Ports.

** The most important state owned companies are: Republica AFAP ( Pension Fund ), AFE ( Railways ), ANCAP ( Energy ), ANCO ( Mail ), Administracion Nacional de Puertos ( Ports ), ANTEL ( Telecommunications: Telephony, Mobiles ( ANCEL and Data ANTELDATA )), BHU ( Mortgage Bank ), BROU ( Bank ), BSE ( Insurance ), OSE ( Water & Sewage ), UTE ( Electricity ).

Ports through are dynamic ports that are not officially designated for any specific service, and can be used for any purpose.

Ports are passages that allow fluid to pass through the valve.

Ports are obstructed by the valve member or disc to control flow.

* Ports to common embedded chip sets are available.

Yemen also has some lighthouses that are maintained for sea navigation by the Yemen Ports Authority, an extension of the “ Port of Aden .” A list of the lighthouses, photographs and descriptions of their flashing can be seen at:.

Ports are typically used on patients requiring only occasional venous access over a long duration course of therapy.

Ports are often added to the expansion chambers, producing the long, multi-chambered recoil compensators often seen on IPSC raceguns.

Both tracts are within of the Georgia Ports Authority, and within of the Chatham County Mega-Site ( formerly known as the DaimlerChrysler site ) at the strategic intersection of Interstates 95 and 16.

The closest International Shipping Ports to Oakridge are the Port of Coos Bay, located to the west in Coos Bay, and the Port of Portland, located to the north in Portland.

Hundreds of Scouts from the U. S. and Canada are in attendance and the highways and Ports of Entry on both sides of the border are closed for several hours for the event.

The grapes grown in this zone are considered of higher quality, being used in bottlings of vintage and Late Bottled Vintage Ports.