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.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

The base faces the most northerly setting of Venus.

The former NATO military base Naval Air Station Keflavik is used as a setting for an important story line in Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising.

The manual transmission cars are set up with a near 50 / 50 torque split as a base setting, and it varied from there.

In the context of the UNFCCC, benchmarking is the setting of emission reduction commitments measured against a particular base year.

* In the popular computer strategy game, Age Of Empires III, Valletta and its surrounding areas are featured as the base of the main protagonist, Morgan Black, and is the setting for the first two levels of the game.

In this way, rivers are thought of as setting the base level for large scale landscape evolution in nonglacial environments.

He flies to the USSR without Adrian, setting up his training base in Krasnogourbinsk with only Duke and brother-in-law Paulie ( Burt Young ) to accompany him.

The submarine base became the setting for parts of the movie Das Boot ; the U-boat scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark were also shot in La Rochelle.

In 1946, Camp Haan became a part of March's real estate holding when operations at the base returned to a more normal setting.

Fort Dix was the setting home base in the 1988 C64 and Nintendo video game Rocket Ranger based on an alternate World War II scenario, where the Nazis discovered lunarium which would allow them to win the war and a young American scientist must stop it from happening.

However the game is mission orientated and involves setting up a futuristic base and carrying out missions which involve mining minerals, developing relationships, harvesting resources to prevent running out of oxygen and power, collecting food, and fighting back alien attacks.

Burke and Wills passed through the area in their famous 1860 – 61 expedition, setting up a base camp at nearby Menindee.

This setting was presumably modeled after Cincinnati, home base of sponsor Procter and Gamble, whose skyline served as the show's logo until 1980.

It was named after Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton ( 1860 – 1942 ), who had long advocated setting up a training base for the Marine Corps on the west coast.

In the following decades, largely due to his expanding legal practise, he became a part-time politician and estranged from the national movement, setting up his own personal Healyite organisation, called the " People's Rights Association ", with base as MP for north Louth ( which seat he held until the December 1910 election when defeated by Richard Hazleton ).

Loyn the remains of a richer culture of foederati and their successors, the poorer culture setting up farmsteads under the protection of a warrior aristocracy that expanded from a base in East Kent, the Isle of Thanet and Canterbury.

By the second century AD Dunhuang had a population of more than 76, 000 and was a key supply base for caravans that passed through the city: those setting out for the arduous trek across the desert loaded up with water and food supplies, and others arriving from the west gratefully looked upon the mirage-like sight of Dunhuang's walls, which signified safety and comfort.

After boarding boats from a dock at the base of the fort, riders are sent under an archway and out into the Blue Lagoon, passing by the dining area on the left side and a jungle setting on the right.

In 1962 he led the National League in assists for the first time with 332, setting the team record for assists at third base, breaking the mark of 323 set by Randy Jackson in 1951.

A number of reviewers also praised the attention paid to the game's premise and setting ; GameSpot's Greg Kasavin described getting " the impression that Doom 3 takes place in a fully realized world " while IGN noted that " the UAC base also has a very worn and lived-in feel that adds to the realism.

The Japanese occupied Tulagi on May 3, 1942, with the intention of setting up a seaplane base nearby ( see Japanese Tulagi landing ).

Formerly Tolkien-flavoured variant Tales of Middle Earth ( ToME ) was originally derived from the ZAngband code base, but was rewritten from scratch for version 4. 0. 0, and no longer uses a Tolkien setting as it now has its own original fantasy setting.