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Chians and their
The Chians, together with a small number of ships from other cities, stubbornly remained and fought the Persians, but most of the Ionians fled to their cities.
The Chians fought valiantly, at one point breaking the Persian line and capturing many ships, but sustaining many losses of their own ; eventually the remaining Chian ships sailed away, thereby ending the battle.

Chians and at
The naval power of Chios during this period is demonstrated by the fact that the Chians had the largest fleet of all the Ionians at the Battle of Lade in 494 BC ( 100 ships ).
Crippled by the two defeats at sea, the Chians then acquiesced to Histiaeus's leadership.

Chians and .
At Lade the Chian fleet continued doggedly fighting the Persian fleet even after the defection of the Samians and others but ultimately the Chians were forced to retreat and were again subject to Persian domination.
Orion then decided to kill Oenopion, but the Chians had built the king an underground fortress, and Orion couldn't find him.
The Chians refused to receive him, so he attacked and destroyed the remnants of the Chian fleet.
* Chians: Citizens of the island state of Chios, they seem to have been recent victims of an Athenian law imposing a fine of 30 000 drachmas on any allied state in which an Athenian citizen happened to be killed.

however and closed
: The old tunnel, that used to lie there under ground, a passage of Acheron-like solemnity and darkness, now all closed and filled up, and soon to be utterly forgotten, with all its reminiscences ; however, there will, for a few years yet be many dear ones, to not a few Brooklynites, New Yorkers, and promiscuous crowds besides.
The specifics of the caste systems have varied in ethnically and culturally diverse Africa, however the following features are common-it has been a closed system of social stratification, the social status is inherited, the castes are hierarchical, certain castes are shunned while others are merely endogamous and exclusionary.
Starting in 1993, FASA released over 20 gaming supplements describing this universe ; however, it closed down production of Earthdawn in January 1999.
After the play closed, however, she went to Hollywood, but insisted on continuing her career and they divorced in 1937.
A composition of idempotent methods or subroutines, however, is not necessarily idempotent if a later method in the sequence changes a value that an earlier method depends on – idempotence is not closed under composition.
West Europeans may be loath to come, however, because excessive pollution has closed Jūrmala beaches to swimming since 1988.
A separate railway line exists in the east of the country between Choibalsan and the Trans-Siberian at Borzya ; however, that line is closed to passengers beyond the Mongolian town of Chuluunkhoroot.
In more recent years, however, many country pubs have either closed down, or have been converted to establishments intent on providing seating facilities for the consumption of food, rather than a venue for members of the local community meeting and convivially drinking.
In 1999, the aluminium smelter at Paranam was closed and mining at Onverdacht ceased ; however, alumina exports accounted for 72 % of Suriname's estimated export earnings of US $ 496. 6 million in 2001.
The motion to seat him passed by a tally of 162 – 1 ; however, at the time a quorum consisted of 165 votes, and when voting closed Democrats shouted " No quorum ," triggering a formal House quorum count.
The church closed, however, in 1801, when Napoleon concluded a concordat with the Vatican.
In recent years, however, the White House has been closed to visitors because of terrorism concerns.
Because his election came very late, however, Julius Nepos could not leave, as the ports were closed for the winter.
In 1828 – 29 he collaborated with a Genoese newspaper, L ' indicatore genovese, which was however soon closed by the Piedmontese authorities.
Postgraduate students, mature students and staff were previously able to join the Hetherington Research Club, however large debts led to the club being closed in February 2010.
The studios were operated by TVS in 1982 and home to ' Coast to Coast ', however they closed a year later when the company moved their operations to the newly complete Television Centre in Maidstone.
Like LSD, mescaline induces distortions of form and kaleidoscopic experiences but which manifest more clearly with eyes closed and under low lighting conditions ; however, all of these visual descriptions are purely subjective.
Every map that is injective, continuous and either open or closed is an embedding ; however there are also embeddings which are neither open nor closed.
In March 2012 the Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced that the Norwegian embassy in Damascus will be temporarily closed, mainly due to the deteriorating security situation in the country, however Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre also emphasized the closing being a political signal.
All schools are closed and most businesses treat it as a holiday for staff ; however, many retail stores now remain open.
Each ITV region originally had its own studios, however the rise of publisher-broadcasters like Carlton Television | Carlton and the takeover of regions caused several studios to be closed.
A SAX parser only needs to report each parsing event as it happens, and normally discards almost all of that information once reported ( it does, however, keep some things, for example a list of all elements that have not been closed yet, in order to catch later errors such as end-tags in the wrong order ).
Her nose was small and straight, and her mouth was well-formed ; however she kept it closed most of the time so as not to reveal her bad teeth.

however and their
Suddenly, however, their posture changed and the game ended.
But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
With the resumption of Soviet testing and their intransigence at the Geneva talks, however, the hope that this third choice would prove viable has been shaken.
To Voltaire's surprise, however, their host gives them fresh clothes to put on, opens his purse to lend them money and sits them down before a good dinner.
It is not clear, however, whether they are thinking of all movable property or only of boats, trailers, aircraft or certain other types of personal property whose assessment would be advantageous to their particular towns.
They can be effective, however, if their members set high standards for candidates and devote substantial time to the work.
This, however, will not exhaust their practical usefulness, as they rather clearly indicate what thorough phonologic investigation can contribute to orthography design.
In determining the extent to which any poem is formulaic it is idle, however, to inspect nothing besides lines repeated in their entirety, for a stock of line-fragments would be sufficient to permit the poet to extemporize with deftness if they provided for prosodic needs.
Interest remained, however, in the possibility that it would serve as a useful supplementary method for counteracting spoilage losses and for preserving some foods at lower over-all costs than freezing, or without employing heat or chemicals with their attendant taste alterations.
If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.
Authorities hesitate to quote exact figures, however, believing that any sum they come up with is only a surface manifestation -- turned up by their inevitably limited policing -- of the real loot of the medical racketeer.
Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.
My hotel rooms on the trip were arranged by Masu and the Japan Travel Bureau and were more elegant than I would have chosen, but it was fun for once to be elegant -- I did explain to the students, however, that this was not my usual style, for their salaries are very small, and it seemed out of place for me to be housed so well.
These qualities alone, however, would not account for their success, and it took me a while to discover the crowning virtue that completes this company's collective personality.
There is however no point in speculating about such a possibility: the fact of the matter is that our institutions of higher learning owe their existence to a spirit not unlike that which produces the `` family business ''.
In some parts of the country, however, a co-operative movement has begun to grow, under the wing of state governments, whereby, with the financial help of the state, libraries share their book resources on a county-wide or regional basis.
Mary did return in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time ; however, they both had second thoughts about their relationship.
Most amphibians, however, are able to exchange gases with the water or air via their skin.
Swift however, Landa argues, is not merely criticizing economic maxims but also addressing the fact that England was denying Irish citizens their natural rights and dehumanizing them by viewing them as a mere commodity.
Astatine is the least reactive of the halogens, being less reactive than iodine ; however, multiple compounds of astatine have been synthesized in microscopic amounts and studied as intensively as possible before their inevitable radioactive disintegration.
No one has lived in these houses since the time of the Famine, however the families that moved to Dooagh and their descendants, continued to use the village as a ' booley village '.
In spite of the very difficult batting conditions, however, Hobbs and Sutcliffe took their partnership to 172 before Hobbs was out for exactly 100.
Terracing, however, was only extensively employed after Incan imperial expansions to fuel their expanding realm.
Alcott, however, was still in debt and could not purchase the land needed for their planned community.

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