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The city of Djibouti, which had a harbor with good access that attracted trade caravans crossing East Africa, became the new administrative capital.
The goal of therapy thus became ' la traversee du fantasme, the crossing over, traversal, or traversing of the fundamental fantasy '.
After the initial opening of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, Potsdamer Platz became one of the earliest locations where the Wall was " breached " to create a new border crossing between East and West Berlin.
Because the trainyard of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen became obsolete, the area along a big part of the railway crossing the city, the Spoorzone, became an urban renewal project.
The Germans fiercely defended the area for two reasons: it served as a staging area for the Ardennes Offensive ( what became the Battle of the Bulge ) that was already in preparation, and the mountains commanded access to the Schwammenauel Dam at the head of the Rur Lake ( Rurstausee ) which, if opened, would flood low-lying areas downstream and deny any crossing of the river.
The knowledge of wind patterns and currents, the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Atlantic, and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic to the latitude of the Azores, using the permanent favorable winds and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere because of atmospheric circulation and the effect of Coriolis, facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese venturing increasingly farther from shore, the maneuver that became known as the " volta do mar " ().
As the north shore of the Yangtze gradually silted up to create the sandbank island of Guazhou, it became necessary for boats crossing to and from the Jiangnan Canal to sail the long way around the eastern edge of that island.
On 2 June 1910, he became the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane, taking 95 minutes – faster than Blériot.
Douglas Corrigan became of the early transatlantic aviators, and was given the nickname " Wrong Way " for claiming to have mistakenly made the ocean crossing after being refused permission to make the flight.
Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.
The infiltration by Palestinians was initially unarmed groups crossing to regain possessions, harvest their crops or visit relatives ; later infiltrations became armed individuals and then progressing into small retaliatory raids.
Under this act, the A282 Trunk Road ( Dartford-Thurrock Crossing charging scheme ) Order 2002 allowed the continuation of the crossing fee, which officially became a charge and not a toll on 1 April 2003.
After crossing into Anatolia, Amadeus, who was leading the vanguard, became separated from Louis near Laodicea, and Louis ' forces were almost entirely destroyed.
She married this man of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and became immortal by crossing over into the land of the síde to be his wife.
The route, which was subsidized by a contribution from Farmville, required an expensive crossing of the Appomattox River slightly downstream which became known as the High Bridge.
When this crossing was closed Penge Lane was renamed and Old Penge Lane became the present day Penge Lane.
It became a common adage in the 19th century that one could travel virtually " nowhere " in the United States without crossing over this location, once called Graysville near the city of Guthrie, Kentucky.
The ferry became the key river crossing in the area.
Included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the vicinity became a stopping and crossing point along the Arkansas River.
During the early 19th century, the area became a shopping center when covered wagons, crossing the mountains en route to Athens, stopped at this tanyard to sell or exchange their goods for leather to be made into various articles.
The town was the northern terminus of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad for two years and also was the crossing point for the east to west running Toledo, Saginaw and Muskegon Railway, which became the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, which was built through the town in 1888.
Since border crossing traffic became free and checks are only made inward at a certain distance from the actual border, the border has been ' perforated ' by numerous ( mostly bicycle ) roads.
During the Prohibition era, Grosse Ile became a crossing point for bootleggers illegally importing alcoholic beverages from Canada.

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Follow this by crossing from one corner of the room to the other on all fours, kicking as high as possible.
It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.
This was possible because of a greatly increased vocal range in music – in the Middle Ages, the narrow range made necessary frequent crossing of parts, thus requiring a greater contrast between them.
Knuth proposed a looser structural constraint: It should be possible to draw a program's flow chart with all forward branches on the left, all backward branches on the right, and no branches crossing each other.
One disadvantage of AC, the fact that the arc must be re-ignited after every zero crossing, has been addressed with the invention of special power units that produce a square wave pattern instead of the normal sine wave, making rapid zero crossings possible and minimizing the effects of the problem.
On his second voyage he circumnavigated the globe at a very high southern latitude, at some places even crossing the south polar circle, showing that any possible southern continent must lie well within the cold polar areas.
There were only a few places where the Snake River was not buried deep in a canyon, and few spots where the river slowed down enough to make a crossing possible.
Another possible crossing was a few miles upstream of Salmon Falls where some intrepid travelers floated their wagons and swam their stock across to join the north side trail.
This is the smallest possible crossing number except for the unknot and trefoil knot.
Because of this information, the South had been able meet the Union Army at a place where they could ambush Sturgis and make retreat as difficult as possible ( Tishomingo Creek was in their rear with only a single bridge as a crossing point.
This is in contrast to non-cryptic crossword clues which often have several possible answers and force the solver to use the crossing letters to distinguish which was intended.
We are now camped in Mississippi swamp from the river, and there is no possible chance of crossing the river for the numerous quantity of ice that comes floating down the river every day.
The latter is a port close to Kavala International Airport, and has the shortest possible crossing to the island.
This is the earliest possible date for construction of the bridge, but the surviving county road docket on the construction does not mention either bridges or fords for crossing the creek.
On September 24, 1776, Kościuszko was ordered to fortify the banks of the Delaware River against a possible British crossing.
The river crossing and flats at Redstone creek, the earliest point and shortest distance the choices a wagon road descent could follow ( later in the war, fortified as Fort Burd, now Brownsville ) was one of several possible destinations.
Two alternate means of crossing the mountains seemed possible.
Had he completed his crossing this far north, it is possible he could have found Lake Tahoe and the Humboldt River in Nevada, the vital route across the Great Basin later used by California immigrants.
During the Second Punic War, for example, Hannibal diverted his army to conquer cities simply to gather supplies ; his strategy in crossing the Alps necessitated traveling with as few provisions as possible, expecting the Roman stores to sustain them when they had breached the border.
In contrast, match racers will only concentrate on crossing the line before their opponent: this sometimes means taking a route that's not the fastest possible, for example in order to slow down their opponent.
The hazardous crossing in adverse weather made it possible for Washington to lead the main body of the Continental Army against Hessian soldiers garrisoned at Trenton.
The crossing of the Semmering was not believed possible, but as early as 1844 he submitted a plan for the crossing of the Semmering, with locomotives without an extra rail for gear wheels.
Watercross consists of crossing water while riding a snowmobile, which is possible because snowmobiles have wide tracks for traction and flotation in the snow.

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