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The river widens at this place and became farther a bay who discharges itself in the sea and is often nicknamed " Bas-du-Fleuve " ( Lower-River ).
Sunset Bay Volunteer Fire Company-Sunset Bay is an independent fire company in the Town that handles all calls both within Sunset Bay itself and outside the bay on NY 5 / US 20 from East of Hanford Road to the Western side of Seneca Road.
The inlet itself, which separates the barrier beaches of Hampton Bays with those of neighboring Southampton, was created in the New England Hurricane of 1938 when the forces of the hurricane washed over that area of barrier beach, connecting the waters of the Atlantic with the bay.
In addition, in its payload bay, Columbia again carried the DFI package, and OSS-l ( named for the NASA Office of Space Science and Applications ) which consisted of a number of instruments mounted on a Spacelab pallet, intended to obtain data on the near-Earth environment and the extent of contamination caused by the orbiter itself.
The bay itself covers 1, 523 km² and has a catchment area 14 times larger, covering 21, 220 km².
The bay itself contains around 360 islands in total.
The bay itself contains St Helena Island National Park and the Moreton Bay Marine Park with areas designated under the Marine Park Zoning Plan.
The Hawke's Bay region, which is distinct from the bay itself, lies on the coastal land around the bay and also in the hinterland to the south.
The bay itself is Hawke Bay, whereas the region which surrounds it bears the bay's former name, Hawke's Bay.
The bay itself has been disturbed by dredging, filling, and development, including the construction of John F. Kennedy International Airport and, earlier, the historic ( and now defunct ) Floyd Bennett Field.
This in itself created a new problem, disturbing the natural northward drift of sand up the bay, with a buildup on the southern side and reduction of sand on the northern.
It includes the Resplendent Quetzal, the national bird of Guatemala that symbolizes liberty ; a parchment scroll bearing the date of Central America's independence from Spain, 15 September 1821 ; crossed rifles, indicating Guatemala's willingness to defend itself by force if need be ; a bay laurel crown, the symbol for victory ; and crossed swords, representing honor.
The town itself was to house the people who would build and occupy the two Spanish forts ( El Real, and San Fernando de Omoa ) which would guard the bay.
The bay itself is an irregular 16 km-wide inlet in the north-eastern coast of the island.
The station itself has four platforms-two through platforms and two bay platforms.
The Hudson's Bay Company established itself throughout the bay in the 17th century.
The bay itself covers an area of 10, 000 km², with an average depth of 10 metres.
Several lighthouses were built to aid navigation in and around Lower New York Bay, located both on land and in the bay itself.
Reflecting this, the name Stornoway itself is derived from ' Stjórnavágr ', an Old Norse word for ' steering bay '.
Preparation of Atlantis itself for mission STS-74 began with the replacement of three thrusters in Atlantiss right-hand Orbital Maneuvering System pod in bay 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility on 25 August 1995.
As has been pointed out, the aisles had already in the early Christian churches been covered over with groined vaults, the only advance made in the later developments being the introduction of transverse ribs ' dividing the bays into square compartments ; but when in the 12th century the first attempts were made to vault over the naves, another difficulty presented itself, because the latter were twice the width of the aisles, so that it became necessary to include two bays of the aisles to form one square bay in the nave.
The bay itself has a heavily indented coastline, making it a bay of bays.
The bay itself hosted the sailing events for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

bay and was
The unabashed sexuality of so many of his paintings was not the only thing that kept the public at bay: his view of the world was one of almost unrelieved tragedy, and it was too much even for morbid-minded Vienna.
Below in the open bay facing Manhattan was Staten Island, gritty with clam shells and mud flats behind which nested farms, cattle barns, and berry thickets.
Very slowly he maneuvered his rawboned bay gelding, edging closer, watching for a chance to throw, but ready to spin and run, rope whining about his head, horse edging tensely under him, but the gelding was obedient and responded and was not paralyzed by the close proximity of the lion.
She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.
The bay laurel plant was used in expiatory sacrifices and in making the crown of victory at these games.
Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).
At a distance of from the Moon, the Scientific Instrument Module ( SIM ) bay cover was jettisoned.
Another explanation is that the name was related to swamp and originally meant " enclosed sea, bay " as opposed to open sea.
In 1798 the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals, which ran into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.
Zealous pursued, and was able to prevent the frigate Justice from boarding Bellerophon, which was anchored at the southern point of the bay undergoing hasty repairs.
The work was later taken over by Franck Goddio, who led a major project to explore the bay in 1998.
The area of Berkeley was at this period mostly a mix of open land, farms and ranches, with a small though busy wharf by the bay.
That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.
She was mission specialist in charge of deploying the Chandra X-ray Observatory and its Inertial Upper Stage out of the shuttle's cargo bay.
About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.
But while in a small boat in a lake or bay in the mid 60s, he leaned over the side, and his notebook fell out of his breast pocket into the water, where it was lost forever.
The waters formed in a narrow, crooked bay which was connected to the sea through what is now the Jezreel Valley.
The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

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