After scouring around a bit in the open area, I came across what proved to be tar-soaked logs which crackled and burned brightly, giving off vast rolls of smoke into the ashen sky.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Areas should be large enough to include the attractions, have ample space for the use of facilities needed, and have room around the edges to protect the values of the area from encroachment by private developments.

Otherwise, special care must be taken to branch around them so that the program will not attempt to execute something in a data area as an instruction.

Surface forces have been used to provide defense zones around naval and merchant ship formations, air to furnish area surveillance, and mines for protection of limited areas.

Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.

In the genus Ensatinas, she has been observed to coil around them and press her throat area against them, effectively massaging them with a mucous secretion.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

Greenlip abalone have a minimum size of 145 mm, except for an area around Perkin's Bay in the north of the state where the minimum size is 132 mm.

The area around Abensberg is characterized by the narrow valley of the Danube, where the Weltenburg Abbey stands, the valley of the Altmühl in the north, a left tributary of the Danube, and the famous Hallertau hops-planting region in the south.

The area around Abensberg, the so-called sand belt between Siegburg, Neustadt an der Donau, Abensberg and Langquaid, is used for the intensive farming of asparagus, due to the optimal soil condition and climate.

( area around Haarlem and Amsterdam )

The area in Fatih around the Mosque is today called Sultanahmet.

He extended Roman territory to the sea, founding the port of Ostia, establishing salt-works around the port, and taking the Silva Maesia, an area of coastal forest north of the Tiber, from the Veientes.

The ACT retains a small area of territory on the coast on the Beecroft Peninsula, consisting of a strip of coastline around the northern headland of Jervis Bay ( not to be confused with the Jervis Bay Territory, which is on the southern headland of the Bay ).

The area known as the Parliamentary Triangle is formed by three of Burley Griffin's axes, stretching from Capital Hill along Commonwealth Avenue to the Civic Centre around City Hill, along Constitution Avenue to the Defence precinct on Russell Hill, and along Kings Avenue back to Capital Hill.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

The Saxons are placed around the lower Elbe, which area they could have reached merely by an extension of the Saxon alliance.

Unlike the typical idea of an arcology-clean, healthy, and safe for the environment, " hives " are portrayed as dirty, diseased, overcrowded and the area around them as highly polluted.

The area is part of the Nellis Military Operations Area, and the restricted airspace around the field is referred to as ( R-4808N ), known by the military pilots in the area as " The Box " or " the Container ".

The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7000 years, with the first tribes of hunter gatherers moving down gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC.

Consequent on this unsuccessful revolt, numbers of Hazaras fled to Quetta in Balochistan, to the area around Mashhed in northeastern Iran, Russia, Iraq, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, China and India.

Robert Roy MacGregor was born at the head of nearby Loch Katrine, and his well known cattle stealing exploits took him all around the area surrounding Aberfoyle.

Late September finds Quebec's color at its peak, especially in the Laurentian hills and in the area south of the St. Lawrence River.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

At the peak of the Cretaceous transgression, one-third of Earth's present land area was submerged.

With white sand beaches, a golf club, private jet and helicopter service, and hotels costing up to US $ 2000 – 3000 per night in the peak season, the area has drawn celebrities, business leaders and other affluent visitors.

However, the area in the centre of the course, where Bluebird was travelling at peak speed on her return run was calm, and not disturbed by the wash from the first run, which had not had time to be reflected back on the course.

) The construction of freeways and underpasses by the municipal government, the implementation of reversible lanes during peak rush hour traffic flows, as well as the establishment of the Department of Metropolitan Transit Police ( PMT ) has helped traffic flow in the city ; however, the Guatemalan metropolitan area still faces a growing transportation problem.

Centered around their capital at the Dnieper, the Goths ruled a vast area which at its peak under the Kings Ermanaric and Athanaric stretched from the Danube to the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea.

Cultivation area tripled from between 1960 and 1998 and reached a 10 million ha peak in 2008.

This area includes such famous peaks as K2 ( Mount Godwin Austen, at 8, 611 meters the second highest peak in the world ).

Comprehensive reforestation programs starting in the 1970s and continuing into the late 1990s aided in an acceleration of forest volume increase, and the forest cover reached a peak of 65 % of national land area in 1980 as opposed to a low of 35 % in 1955.

If the flux in the core is purely sinusoidal, the relationship for either winding between its rms voltage E < sub > rms </ sub > of the winding, and the supply frequency f, number of turns N, core cross-sectional area a and peak magnetic flux density B is given by the universal EMF equation:

First changed to " Negrohead Mountain ", a peak above Santa Monica, California was renamed on ( February 2010 ) to Ballard Mountain in honor of John Ballard, a black pioneer who settled the area in the 19th century.

For a small basin in the Italian Alps ( area = 1. 76 km² ) affected by a debris flow, Chiarle and Luino ( 1998 ) estimated a peak discharge of 750 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s for a section located in the middle stretch of the main channel.

From 1953 to 1983 the Jamaica Omnibus Service operated a service, which at its peak consisted of over 600 buses and served an area spanning Spanish Town, Border, Mt.

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak.

Because of the downward tilt of the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes, the area of peak field strength is a U-shaped region to the equatorial side of the nuclear detonation.

The peak intensity at an axial distance from the beam waist is calculated using L ' Hôpital's rule as the limit of the enclosed power within a circle of radius, divided by the area of the circle:

The peak intensity is thus exactly twice the average intensity, obtained by dividing the total power by the area within the radius.

* Harappan civilisation, at its peak, covered an area of around 480, 000 km² ( 298 258. 172 mi² ).

The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of a much larger prehistoric lake called Lake Bonneville which, at its peak surface area, was nearly as large as Lake Michigan.

Tatras occupy an area of 750 km² ( 290 mi² ), of which the greater part ( 600 km² / 232 mi² ) lies in Slovakia, with the highest peak Gerlach at 2, 655 m ( 8710 ft ), located north of Poprad.

At the peak of its development in 1832, the mission system controlled an area equal to approximately one-sixth of Alta California.

At its peak, Akademgorodok was home to 65, 000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in.