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.

ICOMOS is part of the International Committee of the Blue Shield ( ICBS ), which works to protect the world's cultural heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters, and whose Director General is currently Mr Julien Anfruns from the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

They compete annually in the Australian domestic senior men's cricket season, which currently consists of the first-class Sheffield Shield, the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup, and formerly in the domestic Twenty20 competition known as the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash before it changed into a city-based competition.

Saarijärvi is the only currently accepted impact structure in Fennoscandian Shield formed in Archean granitoid basement complex.

He currently holds the record for the most runs in the history of the Sheffield Shield / Pura Cup with 12971, over 2000 more than the second highest run scorer, Jamie Cox.

She was a vocal opponent of the war with Iraq in early 2003, and is currently a leading opponent of the proposed American Missile Defense Shield.

Randwick currently competes in all grades of the New South Wales Rugby Shute Shield competition.

The school's pupils are currently split equally between 6 houses, which compete each year for the St. Levan's Shield, the houses are Campbell, Edison, Newton, Priestley, Smeaton and Winstanley.

They compete in the Australian first-class competition known as the Sheffield Shield, the Australian one-day competition currently known as the Ford Ranger One Day Cup and for the last several seasons in the newer shorter Australian Twenty20 Competition.

Fylde also currently hold the Legends Shield after winning the first competition in 2010.

As a result of their tenth place finish at the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifier, Uganda are currently competing in the 2009 – 10 ICC Intercontinental Shield.

He currently plays for the Point Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland Rugby League's Phelan Shield.

This Convention was the first international treaty aimed at protecting cultural heritage in the context of war, and which highlighted the concept of common heritage and led to the creation of the International Committee of the Blue Shield ( ICBS ), whose Director General is currently Mr Julien Anfruns from the International Council of Museums ( ICOM ).

It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

alt = Shield bearing many quarterings held between a black eagle and a lion and surmounted by a crowned helm

* In October 2010 the elite unit YAMAM of the Israeli Police won the " Urban Shield " SWAT competition held by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office setting a new record in the competition.

* In October 2011 the elite unit YAMAM of the Israeli Police won the " Urban Shield " SWAT competition held by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office again.

All have little involvement in EoSFA competitions: Hearts and Hibs contest the East of Scotland Shield ( although this competition is held irregularly ), while Berwick Rangers and Livingston participate in the East of Scotland ( City ) Cup.

* Rune of Beginning ( split into the Bright Shield Rune and Black Sword Rune, Suikoden II, held by the second Hero and Jowy )

The 2012 Community Shield will be held at Villa Park instead of Wembley due to Olympic Games at the stadium.

The Sydney Football Stadium usually hosts both NRL semi finals and one preliminary final, and also held the annual pre-season Charity Shield football match between South Sydney and St George Illawarra for a number of years.

* August – The inaugural Claxton Shield is held in Adelaide, South Australia.

Operation Nordic Shield II was held in the summer of 1992.

For example, since North Harbour, an Air New Zealand Cup ( now ITM Cup ) team, held the Shield at the end of the 2006 Cup season despite losing their home quarter-final to Otago, they were forced to defend the Shield against Heartland Championship teams during the 2007 pre-season.

The changes were not implemented, but did receive support from Auckland, which held the Shield when the NZRU released its report.

* Indonesian Community Shield, a pre-season football competition held the week before the season begins in Indonesia every year

The Ricky Walford Shield and the Neville Thorne Shield are both knockout Rugby League competitions held in August by the Primary School and the High School respectively.

Awarded The Shield of Beirut by the Governor of Beirut in a special ceremony held at Unesco Palace attended by 1500 people at the time her book “ nessyane. com ” was published in 2009.

The Charity Shield match and several full and junior internationals were held at the International Stadium from the 1980s and over the next two decades.

They reach the Top Tier, where a function is being held to celebrate the arrival of London at the Shield Wall, and Bevis hastily hugs Katherine and whispers " I love you ".

The Shield competition has not been held since 2005 due to restructuring of the European Challenge Cup.

He held senior positions at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Prudential Healthcare ( now part of Aetna ) and Emory University.

GEN Luck is a combat veteran of both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War and has held a variety of command and staff positions throughout his Army career, to include: Chief of Staff, 8th Infantry Division, U. S. Army, Europe ; Director, Force Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, HQ Department of the Army ; Assistant Division Commander, 101st Airborne Division ; Commanding General, 2nd Infantry Division, Korea ; Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command ( 1989 – 1990 ); Commanding General, U. S. Army Special Operations Command ; and Commanding General, XVIII Airborne Corps during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm ( 1990 – 1993 ).

It became champion in the Ashis-Jabbar Shield Tournament held in Durgapur of West Bengal in 1982.