Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

a `` splash party '' at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour ; ;

The seemingly quiet ocean had crashed a wall of water from 10 to 100 feet high upon beaches crowded with bathers, drowning thousands of them and flattening villages along the shore.

The sanctuary of a Presbyterian church in Yachats, Oregon, has six windows with panes made of agates collected from the local beaches.

Perfumes can still be found with ambergris around the world, it is collected from remains found at sea and on beaches, although its precursor originates from the sperm whale, which is a vulnerable species.

The second theory is that the rules of the modern game of croquet arrived from Ireland during the 1850s, perhaps after being brought there from Brittany where a similar game was played on the beaches.

It is easily accessible from Athens within a day trip, and is often combined with the winter sports facilities available on Mount Parnassus, as well as the beaches and summer sports facilities of the nearby coast of Phocis.

It had no teeth in the front part of its jaws, which were probably used to remove shellfish and worms from cracks in rocks or / and the sandy, muddy beaches it inhabited.

Armoured beaches and submerged offshore sandbanks may also protect parts of a coastline from erosion.

Naked sun bathing and swimming are the norm on beaches away from inhabited areas.

The shoreline created during this stage can be easily recognized by the ( now dry ) beaches and wave-cut hills 10 to 25 miles ( 15 to 40 km ) from the present shoreline.

Its volcanic ash has created gray and black sand beaches in the north ( in particular between Anse Ceron and Anse des Gallets ), contrasting markedly from the white sands of Les Salines in the south.

The beaches from Pointe de Bout, through Diamant ( which features right off the coast of Roche de Diamant ), St. Luce, the department of St. Anne and down to Les Salines are popular.

* 1944 – Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps ' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.

In the British West Indies, especially Grenada, there have been a spate of large-scale thefts of tons of sand from beaches.

Many of these were close to the beaches running east from the downtown along the avenue known as the Rambla.

With its diverse habitat, ranging from rocky mountain tops to beaches and open sea, the Cape of Good Hope is home to at least 250 species of birds including one of the two mainland colonies of African penguins.

It was thought that the balloons must be coming from North American beaches, launched by landing parties from submarines.

The sand could not be coming from American beaches, nor from the mid-Pacific.

The geologists ultimately determined the precise beaches in Japan the sand had been taken from.

The topography of the island consists of dramatic rock formations in the north ( unlike the rest of Denmark which is very flat with few hills and no mountains ), sloping down towards “ pine and deciduous forests ” ( greatly damaged by storms in the 1950s ) and farmland in the middle and sandy beaches in the south.

Located just 100 kilometres off the coast of north Africa, it is the second biggest of the islands, after Tenerife, and has the longest beaches in the archipelago.

Sites of interest include Corralejo and El Jable to the north which are made up of fine sand dunes whilst the south is filled with long beaches and remote bays.

El Cotillo is a small fishing village in the north-west of the Island famous for a very long beach to the south of the village and few very calm beaches to the north.

PEI has the warmest beaches north of the Carolinas.

On the eastern side are beaches bordering margins of firm ground with mangroves and extensive areas of swampland to the north and east.

The north of the peninsula has fewer beaches, and is home to the cockle-beds of Penclawdd.

From Coolangatta, approximately forty kilometres of holiday resorts and surfing beaches stretch north to the suburb of Main Beach, and then further on Stradbroke Island.

The beach at Bossiney Haven is close by and Trebarwith Strand, just half an hour's walk south of Tintagel, is one of Cornwall's finer beaches, boasting clear seas, golden sands, and superb surf: there is a small beach at Tintagel Haven immediately north of the castle.

The Adriatic coastliine is characterized by long and sandy beaches to the north and pebbly beaches to the south.

The department is very geographically diverse, with beaches in the south, the Cévennes mountains in the north, and agricultural land in between.

The area is composed of sandy beaches and rocky headlands to the south with low granite hills extending to the north to join the jagged Russell Range that is primarily composd of pre-cambrian quartzite.

The region spans from the beaches of Bowen in the north and Laguna Whitsundays in the south.

The numerous petroglyphs found at Petroglyph Beach just north of Wrangell, as well as those scattered on the beaches of the many islands in the vicinity, attest to the long Tlingit occupation.

Approximately of oil surged out of a huge undersea break, fouling hundreds of square miles of ocean and all the coastline from Ventura to Goleta, as well north facing beaches on the Channel Islands.

Places to go within the area are Pier Village in Long Branch, Red Bank, and the numerous beaches all along the shore towns to the north and south.

There are three beaches on the island, as the north side consists of marsh.

The coastline directly south and north of Simrishamn is stony to a great degree, but turns into broad beaches with white sand further away.

Kelso is located on Interstate 5 at Exits 36, 39, 40 and 42, and is north of Portland, Oregon, south of Seattle, Washington, and from the Pacific Ocean beaches.

After nightfall they turned around and landed on the beaches of Clontarf, just over a mile to the north of Dublin, in order to surprise Brian's army the next day.

The lake is elongated in shape and is from north to south, with remote sandy beaches, large limestone cliffs, and many bat caves in some areas.

The rock strata slopes slightly upwards to the south, giving the highest cliffs on the south and some beaches to the north.

The main island also features small beaches in the north and the south and drops to the sea high in the north, west and southwest.