Bastia (, ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse.

Located in the North-East of Corsica at the base of the Cap Corse, between the sea and the mountain, Bastia is the principal port of the island.

To try and boost Britain's position in the Meditarannean he pushed for an invasion of Corsica, then controlled by neutral Genoa, to use as a naval base or for a British attack on Ostend to drive the French out.

The base Corsica's door handles were colored silver, while the Corsica LT / LTZ had black-colored handles.

The 1987-1991 Pontiac Tempest came in two trim levels, base ( equivalent to the U. S. Corsica LT ) and LE ( equivalent to the U. S. Corsica LTZ ) The main differences that separates the Tempest from its L-Body twin are different grille, emblems and taillights ( the taillights were later adopted as the U. S. Corsica's taillights ).

Under German control, the base became a bomber airfield for anti-shipping operations over the Mediterranean against American Convoys, and later, attacking Allied forces on Corsica and Sardinia after their capture from Italian forces ( Regio Esercito ) during 1943.

There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

All that the English lady wanted to do was to walk up to the monument and lay a wreath at its base.

Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

Mold was used as pattern and clay cut by holding knife at about 45-degree angle, to form an undercut, making base smaller than the pattern top.

The myocardium of the posterior base of the left ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area.

A simpler method was to tie a thread tightly around the wart at its base and wear it this way.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

Jay Porter drew a base on balls to fill the bases but Don Wert's smash was knocked down by Rudolph for the putout.

Both have brilliant speed: Mantle was timed from home plate ( batting left-handed ) to first base in 3.1 seconds, faster than any other major leaguer ; ;

By the time the fielder got his hands on the ball Deegan was rounding third base and heading for home.

There were nine qualified scouts sitting around collecting base pay the day Helva was commissioned.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

This arithmetic tool was based on the vigesimal system ( base 20 ).

The absence of a tax base meant that there was no way to pay off state and national debts from the war years except by requesting money from the states, which seldom arrived.

The growth rate was high at 13. 4 %, but the relatively low base must be considered.

Other languages, such as Thai Sign Language, developed as a creole of ASL and indigenous sign ; a similar situation may have occurred with Malaysian Sign Language, which in turn was the base of Indonesian Sign Language.

Moroccan Sign Language was developed by the American Peace Corps on a base of ASL along with incorporating local signs.

Making Antioch his base, he marched at the head of his troops towards Ctesiphon, but a second army was destroyed by the Persians, and further losses were incurred by the retreating Romans in Armenia.

As a leading War Democrat and pro-Union southerner, Johnson was an ideal candidate for the Republicans in the national election of 1864, as they sought to enlarge their base to include War Democrats ; they even changed the party name to the National Union Party to reflect this expansion.

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

In baseball statistics, on-base percentage ( OBP ; sometimes referred to as on-base average / OBA, as the statistic is rarely presented as a true percentage ) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped / uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference ( the latter two are ignored as either times-on-base ( TOB ) or plate appearances in calculating OBP ).

Other verbs ( such as ' look at ', ' wash the dishes ', ' yell ', ' flirt ') are inflected into the unrealized inceptive aspect similarly: the hands used in the base sign move in an arc from in front of the trunk to the initial posture of the underlying verb sign while inhaling, dropping the jaw, and directing eye gaze toward the verb's object ( if any ), but subsequent movements and postures are dropped as the posture and breath are held.

Following Orta's single, the Cardinals dropped an easy popout and suffered a passed ball, before the Royals went on to win with a bloop base hit by seldom used pinch hitter Dane Iorg.

With the enemy airfields only 20 minutes away, the bombers would have dropped their bombs and be returning to base before the intercepting fighters could get to altitude.

The key was taken from the name of the design and test base: Huntsville, Alabama, giving HUNTSVILE, with duplicated letters dropped: H was used for 1, U for 2, ..., E for 9 and X for 0.

A batter is out if a fielder catches the ball cleanly ; the batter reaches a base that had been ' stumped ' by a fielder ; the bat is dropped whilst the batter is running ; the batter leaves the base before the bowler has bowled the ball ; the batter is ' run out ' by the next batter.

In December 2008, NS & I dropped significantly the interest rate ( and therefore the odds of investors winning a prize ) due to the corresponding significant drop in the Bank of England base rate during the " credit crunch ", leading to strong criticism from Members of Parliament, financial experts, and holders of premium bonds ; many claimed that Premium Bonds were now " worthless ", and somebody with the maximum £ 30, 000 invested who has " average luck " would win only 10 prizes per year compared to 15 in the previous year.

By the end of the siege, U. S Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy aircraft had dropped 39, 179 tons of ordnance in the defense of the base.

The trophy has been broken on four other occasions: in 1978, when it was dropped by celebrating Edmonton Eskimos players ; in 1987, when an Eskimos ' player sat on it ; in 1993, when Edmonton's Blake Dermott head-butted it ; and finally in 2006, when the trophy broke away from its base as the BC Lions celebrated their victory.

According to Donnelly, he picked it up, lost his balance and dropped it, causing major damage to the metal cup at the top and a crack to the wooden base.

Production of all 128s except that of the base 1100 cc powered model ceased in 1979 after the introduction of the Fiat Ritmo / Strada in 1978, whilst in 1980 a small three-door station wagon Panorama was dropped from the range.

The base 144 cid six engine was dropped and the 170 cid six became the new base engine.

The mid-sized base model was the Comet ( Mercury dropped the 202 suffix ) available only as a 2-door coupe.

For 1973 models, the base 170 cid six was dropped and the 200 cid six became the base engine.

The base engine for the 1973-74 models had dropped down to Chrysler's workaday 318 CID V8 ; however, dual exhaust ( which bumped the power up to 170 hp ) was still standard.

During World War II, many college football schools had dropped some conference opponents and instead played football against local military base teams.

The bottom line 500 series station wagon was dropped and the 700 became the base station wagon.

An SE sedan was once again available, and the base models were dropped and the convertible moved from LE to SE.

Thanks to slow sales the SE model was dropped after 1995 along with all of its optional equipment the base model also lost its optinal alloy wheels and rear wiper making the Aspire a true " stripper " of a car.

The base Cutlass line was dropped, with the Cutlass S nameplate now applied to the entry-level coupe and sedan this year-both of which featured an aerodynamic slanted front nose in contrast to the upright front ends of other Cutlass models including the Cutlass Supreme coupe, sedan and wagon, Vista Cruiser wagon, Cutlass Salon coupe and sedan, and the new Cutlass Supreme Brougham coupe.