Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

* 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

The first funeral in the poem is of Scyld Scefing ( translated in some versions as " Shield Shiefson ") the king of the Danes.

The Great Britain team won the last MacRobertson International Croquet Shield tournament, which is the major international test tour trophy in association croquet.

** Psionic Shield: the ability to erect a shield that is used to protect one's mind.

However the Shield of Heracles is now known to be spurious and probably was written in the sixth century BC.

Of these works forming the extended Hesiodic corpus, only the Shield of Heracles (, Aspis Hērakleous ) is transmitted intact via a medieval manuscript tradition.

The expedition against Cycnus, in which Iolaus accompanied Heracles, is the ostensible theme of a short epic attributed to Hesiod, Shield of Heracles.

Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America.

* The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions, which comprises over half the land area of Ontario ; though this area mostly does not support agriculture it is rich in minerals and in part covered by the Central and Midwestern Canadian Shield forests, studded with lakes and rivers.

A more explicit expression of the same appears in the later The Shield of Time where a time-traveling young American woman from the 1990s pays a brief visit to a university campus of the 1960s and is not enthusiastic about what she sees there.

Instead of a world government, the above-mentioned " Shield " resolves the problem of an American-dominated world dictatorship in a truly libertarian manner: The protagonist, who is hunted by various power groups for the secret of a personal impregnable force field which he brought from Mars, finally decides to simply reveal it to the entire world, so that every individual could thumb his or her nose at each and every Authority.

In another time-travel tale, The Shield of Time, a " time policeman " from the Twentieth Century, equipped with information and technologies from much further in the future, is outwitted by a medieval knight and barely escapes with his life.

Most of the soil covering this substrate was scraped by glaciers during the Ice Ages of antiquity, especially in northern Scandinavia, where the Baltic Shield is closest to the surface of the land.

Although the Baltic Shield is mostly geologically stable and hence resistant to the influences of other neighboring tectonic formations, the weight of nearly four kilometers of ice during the Ice Ages caused all of the Scandinavian terrain to sink.

The Stasi motto was " Schild und Schwert der Partei " ( Shield and Sword of the Party ), that is the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED ).

The woodland mix varies according to geography and climate so for example the Eastern Canadian forests ecoregion of the higher elevations of the Laurentian Mountains and the northern Appalachian Mountains in Canada is dominated by balsam fir Abies balsamea, while further north the Eastern Canadian Shield taiga of northern Quebec and Labrador is notably black spruce Picea mariana and tamarack larch Larix laricina.

* It is most known for being used in the construction of Captain America's Shield, the vibranium was of an ultra-resilient vibranium-iron alloy created by Dr. Myron MacLain.

Later, one of their ships is salvaged by S. H. I. E. L. D and used to construct Captain America's Shield ( which also was constructed with adamantium though in the comics in the Ultimate Universe, his shield is only composed of adamantium ) and other items such as vibranium-tipped bullets and knives.

The Royal Shield reverse designs, introduced in 2008 (£ 2 coin is not shown ).

The regatta is held at the Grand Harbour and the teams taking part in it give it their best shot to win the much coveted aggregate Regatta Shield.

While the coastal areas are primarily in the Hudson Plains, the northeastern coast bordering Quebec is in the Taiga Shield ecozone.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

* A Shield of Roses ( 1984 ) about Sir Richard fitzGilbert de Clare and Lady Eve MacMurrough, the parents of Isabel de Clare

long has a general westward direction down to the confluence with the Atabapo and Guaviare rivers at San Fernando de Atabapo ; the second flows northward, for about, along the Venezuelan-Colombian border, flanked on both sides by the westernmost granitic upwellings of the Guiana Shield which impede the development of a flood plain, to the Atures rapids near the confluence with the Meta River at Puerto Carreño,

The oldest continental crustal rocks on Earth have ages in the range from about 3. 7 to 4. 28 billion years and have been found in the Narryer Gneiss Terrane in Western Australia, in the Acasta Gneiss in the Northwest Territories on the Canadian Shield, and on other cratonic regions such as those on the Fennoscandian Shield.

Peterborough lies in the St. Lawrence Lowlands ecoregion in Canada, just south of the Canadian Shield and about 35 kilometres north of Lake Ontario.

Eastern Georgian Bay is part of the southern edge of the Canadian Shield, granite bedrock exposed by the glaciers at the end of the last ice age, about 11, 000 years ago.

At its peak, about 2. 8 million women used the Dalkon Shield in the U. S. The aggressive marketing and defense of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device — despite the manufacturer's knowledge of safety problems — resulted in a huge scandal.

Carter Hall returns for the season 10 episode " Shield " where he gives Lois Lane some words of wisdom about her relationship with Clark Kent.

In the late 1990s, while working for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, he cooperated with the FBI to help investigate a fraud case, and asked them about the possibility of working for them as a career.

* The Shield ( 2002 – 2008 ), The Shield is about an experimental division of the Los Angeles Police Department set up in the fictional Farmington district (" the Farm ") of Los Angeles, using a converted church (" the Barn ") as their police station, and featuring a group of detectives called " The Strike Team ", who will do anything to bring justice to the streets.

An alien ( played by actor John Hoyt ) depicted on TV twelve days before the making of Hill's ' Grey ' hypnosis tapeIn his 1990 article Entirely Unpredisposed, Martin Kottmeyer suggested that Barney's memories revealed under hypnosis might have been influenced by an episode of the science fiction television show The Outer Limits titled " The Bellero Shield ", which was broadcast about two weeks before Barney's first hypnotic session.

The Paasselkä impact occurred about 229 million years ago ( Triassic ) and affected Paleoproterozoic crystalline rocks and some overlying sandstones of the Baltic Shield.

* In The Shield, the Strike Team pretend to be about to execute a member of the Russian mafia by attaching explosives to his body, in an effort to encourage his accomplices to give them information ; it is implied that their intention is not to actually carry it out, but merely to " look convincing ".

When Bane is about to unleash an attack on the last remaining Jedi, his opponent suspends a Force Shield around him.

In terms of topography, about two-thirds of the county in the north contain landscapes typical of the Canadian Shield, while the lower third is gentler valley terrain.

The Poor Soldier ( 1783 ), a comic opera with words and lyrics by O ' Keeffe and music by William Shield, was a musical farce about the lives of British soldiers returning home after the American War of Independence.

The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular " Insular Celtic " style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs decorated with intricate patterns of curves, spirals and trumpet-shapes.

The people of Nisichawayasihk are largely ancestral descendants of indigenous Cree peoples who have populated the Canadian Shield region of northern and central Canada since the retreat of the Glaciers about 10, 000 years ago.

Told Beet what he remembered about the fight with Beltorze and helped him sharpen his skills with the Crown Shield saiga.