Many felt that local law enforcement had not acted competently enough to observe and eventually arrest Dutroux and his accomplices before they kidnapped at least six girls ( Julie LeJeune & Melissa Russo, An Marchal & Eefje Lambrecks, Sabine Dardenne & Laetitia Delhez ) of which they murdered four ( Sabine & Laetitia being rescued just in time ) and most probably some gang members.

The Sabine River flows just south of Big Sandy.

Grand Saline is located in the Sabine River valley as the river flows just north of the city and then bends south flowing under U. S. Highway 80 east of Grand Saline.

According to Roman legend, chariot racing was used by Romulus just after he founded Rome in 753 BC as a way of distracting the Sabine men.

A strip of land known as the Sabine Free State just east of the Sabine River served as a neutral ground buffer area from about 1807 until 1819.

The only large bodies of water in Southeast Texas are Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake, but the large reservoirs of East Texas are just to the north.

The park is located on the Gulf of Mexico in southern Jefferson County, south of Port Arthur and just west of Sabine Pass.

The Rainbow Bridge is a cantilever bridge crossing the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake.

If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix-sco-has been noticed, and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those that preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization that befell them in the speech of the Samnites, The language of the inscription of Velitrae offers at first sight a difficulty from this point of view, in the conversion it shows of q to p, but the ethnicon of Velitrae is Veliternus, and the people are called on the inscription itself Velestrom ( genitive plural ); so nothing prevents assuming there was a settlement of Sabines among the Volscian hills, with their language, to some extent, ( e. g., in the diphthongs and palatals ) corrupted by the speech around them, just as was the case with the Sabine language of the Iguvini, whose very name became Iguvinates, the suffix-ti-being much more frequent among the-co-tribes than among the Sabines.

During the execution, just as Sabine is lowering her head for the executioner, Athos stops him and begs forgiveness from Sabine for his betrayal.

The most recent segment of the Buffalo Bayou trail system to be completed is the $ 15 million Buffalo Bayou Promenade, which extends from the historic Sabine Street bridge just west of the Central Business District to Bagby Street in the heart of the Arts and Entertainment District.

Approximately south of Orange, Texas, it meets the Neches River from the west to form the and Sabine Lake, which drains through Sabine Pass to the Gulf of Mexico.

The lower river south of Orange, Texas, to Sabine Lake forms part of the Intracoastal Waterway, carrying barge traffic.

* Sabine County ( south )

In April 1874 about south of the Sabine River in Rusk County was added to Gregg County.

About three miles ( 5 km ) south of Pendleton was the large and flourishing river port of Sabine Town.

* Sabine Parish ( south )

The District was bounded on the north by the Nacogdoches District, on the west by Austin ’ s Colony, on the east by the reserve lands on the Sabine River and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico.

To the northeast is the larger crater Arago, and to the south are Ritter and Sabine.

In 1753, Texas Governor Jacinto de Barrios y Juaregui determined that the French had encroached on Texas by occupying territory to the west of Arroyo Hondo ( Calcasieu River ), which runs south between the upper Sabine River to the west and the lower Red River to the north and east.

The Spaniards, who once ruled the region, defined its boundaries in the north as El Camino Real de los Tejas, a trail that ran from central Texas to Nacogdoches ; in the south as La Bahia Road or Atascosito Road, a trail that ran from southwest Louisiana into southeast Texas west of Galveston Bay ; to the west by the Brazos River ; and to the east by the Sabine River.

The Flower Garden Banks ( often simply the " Flower Gardens ") is a U. S. National Marine Sanctuary in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, located roughly 105 miles ( 170 km ) south of Sabine Pass, Texas.

In 1952, it was defined to consist of the part of the county of Renfrew lying south and west of and including the townships of Richards, Hagarty, Algoma South, Grattan, Admaston and Horton, the part of the village of Eganville lying within the township of Grattan, and, in the territorial district of Nipissing, the townships of Airy, Murchison, Dickens, Sabine, and Lyell.

The Sabine River (; Alibamu: Sabìina, Sabìnka ) is a river, long, in the U. S. states of Texas and Louisiana.

After the independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico in 1836, the boundary between the U. S. and Texas was firmly established at the Sabine in accordance with the Adams-Onís Treaty.

Sabine County is a county located in the U. S. state of Texas.

Sabine Parish ( French: Paroisse de la Sabine ) is a parish located in the U. S. state of Louisiana.

In addition to ceding Florida to the United States, the treaty settled a boundary dispute along the Sabine River in Texas and firmly established the boundary of U. S. territory and claims through the Rocky Mountains and west to the Pacific Ocean, in exchange for the U. S. paying residents ' claims against the Spanish government up to a total of $ 5, 000, 000 and relinquishing its own claims on parts of Texas west of the Sabine River and other Spanish areas under the terms of the Louisiana Purchase.

Eventually the U. S. conceded in their claim to only go as far west as the Sabine River but Spain insisted upon the Arroyo Hondo boundary creating a disputed region known as Neutral Ground.

The U. S. relinquished its own claims on parts of Texas west of the Sabine River and other Spanish areas.

During 2010, the Company sold three owned U. S. Flag vessels, the Overseas Philadelphia, Overseas Diligence and Overseas Galena Bay, and one chartered-in International Flag Aframax, the Sabine, a chartered-in lightering vessel.

He also has worked with 2006 U. S. Open champion Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchova, Jelena Janković, Nicole Vaidišová, Sabine Lisicki, Sara Errani, Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova, and Marcelo Ríos.

The more serious U. S. claim, however, was to the Sabine River, today's boundary between the U. S. states of Louisiana and Texas.

The Adams-Onís Treaty, signed in 1819 and ratified in 1821, recognized the U. S. claim, setting the border at the Sabine River.

Sabine Ulibarrí served his country in World War II with the U. S. Army Air Corps.

The lunar coordinates of Tranquility Base are 00 ° 41 ′ 15 ″ N, 23 ° 26 ′ 00 ″ E, in the south-western corner of the lunar plain called the Sea of Tranquility ( Mare Tranquillitatis ), near the craters Sabine and Ritter, and a rille unofficially called " U. S. Highway Number 1 ".

Snow Goose | Snow Geese at Sabine NWR ( photo by U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service-John and Karen Hollingsworth ).

Sabine NWR map ( U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service ; click for a larger view ).

* Sabine NWR @ the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

`` Sabine called a few minutes ago '', Eugene said.

The first such application was Sabine ’ s groundbreaking work in architectural acoustics, and many others followed.

Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.

Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin.

The alternation of o and au is characteristic of the Sabine dialect.

Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.

On 13 September 81 after barely two years in office, he unexpectedly died of fever during a trip to the Sabine territories.

After David's wife visited him in jail, he conceived the idea of telling the story of the Sabine Women.

The Sabine Women Enforcing Peace by Running between the Combatants, also called The Intervention of the Sabine Women is said to have been painted to honor his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict.

The other Sabine Women join in her exhortations.

Later, while explaining his developing " Grecian style " for paintings such as The Intervention of the Sabine Women, David further commented on a shift in attitude: " In all human activity the violent and transitory develops first ; repose and profundity appear last.

* Griffin and Sabine by artist Nick Bantock is a love story written as a series of hand painted postcards and letters.

* Nick Bantock's series of Griffin and Sabine works consist of a series of letters and postcards between the two main characters.

The symbol Au is from the, according to some sources meaning " shining dawn ", from Sabine ausum " glowing dawn " although according to definitions within Latin dictionaries the meaning of the word aurum extends only to the same as today's reference to the metal.

The maps and journals of the explorers helped to define the boundaries during the negotiations leading to the Adams – Onís Treaty, which set the western boundary as follows: north up the Sabine River from the Gulf of Mexico to its intersection with the 32nd parallel, due north to the Red River, up the Red River to the 100th meridian, north to the Arkansas River, up the Arkansas River to its headwaters, due north to the 42nd parallel and due west to its previous boundary.

This involved the leveling of the top of the Tarpeian Rock that overlooked the Forum and the removal of a number of its ancient Sabine shrines.

Besides the navigable waterways already named, there are the Sabine ( Sah-BEAN ), forming the western boundary ; and the Pearl, the eastern boundary ; the Calcasieu ( KAL-cah-shew ), the Mermentau, the Vermilion, Bayou Teche, the Atchafalaya ( a-CHAF-a-LI-a ), the Boeuf ( bEHf ), Bayou Lafourche, the Courtableau, Bayou D ' Arbonne, the Macon, the Tensas ( TEN-saw ), Amite River, the Tchefuncte ( CHA-Funk-ta ), the Tickfaw, the Natalbany, and a number of other smaller streams, constituting a natural system of navigable waterways, aggregating over long.

* 752 BC – Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.

* 1883 – Edward Sabine, Irish astronomer ( b. 1788 )

Maecenas gave him full financial support as well as an estate in the Sabine mountains.

File: Giambologna raptodasabina. jpg | Giambologna, Rape of the Sabine Women, 1583, Florence, Italy, 13 ' 6 " high, marble

By the time of Sabine Baring-Gould's A Book of Nursery Songs ( 1895 ), folklore was an academic study, full of comments and foot-notes.

After the ensuing war with the Sabines, Romulus shared the kingship with the Sabine king Titus Tatius.