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The valleys of the Debet and Akstafa rivers form the chief routes into Armenia from the north as they pass through the mountains.
The following table gives the approximate altitudes of the chief mountains and lakes of the continent:
The chief mountain range, however, lies north of the Zambezi, and east of Lake Chilwa, namely, the Namuli Mountains, in which Namuli Peak rises to, and Molisani, Mruli and Mresi attain altitudes of These mountains are covered with magnificent forests.
In Georgian mythology, Amirani is a culture hero who challenged the chief god, and like Prometheus was chained on the Caucasian mountains where birds would eat his organs.
As Ndebele moved into Transvaal, the remnants of the Venda retreated north to the Waterberg and Zoutpansberg, while Mzilikazi made his chief kraal north of the Magaliesberg mountains near present day Pretoria, with an important military outpost to guard trade routes to the north at Mosega, not far from the site of the modern town of Zeerust.
As chief engineer, he performed much of the land survey work to determine the best possible route for the railroad over the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Judah undertook to survey and plan a way through what was one of the chief obstacles of a central route to California: a way over the high and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.
The Yezo ( or Yeddo ) spruce ( Picea jezoensis ), the Sakhalin fir ( Abies sachalinensis ) and the Dahurian larch ( Larix gmelinii ) are the chief trees ; on the upper parts of the mountains are the Siberian dwarf pine ( Pinus pumila ) and the Kurile bamboo ( Sasa kurilensis ).
Fëanor then swore an oath which all seven of his sons also proclaimed, vowing to fight anyone and everyone — whether Elf, Man, Maia, or Vala — who withheld the Silmarils, swearing upon Ilúvatar himself, and invoking the chief of the Valar and the mountains of Valinor themselves as witnesses.
The Owens Valley whites misunderstood the local Paiute and thought that Inyo was the name of the mountains, when actually it was the name of the chief, or headman, of the tribe that had those mountains as part of their homeland.
The local Aboriginal name for the mountain is " Wollumbin "; meaning, " cloud-catcher ", or alternatively " fighting chief of the mountains ".
In the spring campaign of 1797 ( invasion of Austria ) he commanded the detached left wing of Bonaparte's army in the Tyrol with great distinction, fighting his way through the mountains to rejoin his chief in Styria.
Casey served as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's chief engineer during the Battle of Bataan, in the jungles and mountains of New Guinea and the Philippines, and during the occupation of Japan.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in dens, and among the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains ; and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb ; for the great day of his wrath is come ; and who shall be able to stand?
The northern part of the prefecture consists of the narrow Noto Peninsula, while the southern part is wider and consists mostly of mountains with the prefecture's chief city, Kanazawa, located in the coastal plain.
In this quarter the principal mountains are Merrick 843 m ( 2764 ft ), the highest in the south of Scotland, and the group of the Rhinns of Kells, the chief peaks of which are Corserine 814 m ( 2669 ft ), Carlins Cairn 807 m ( 2650 ft ), Meikle Millyea 746 m ( 2446 ft ) and Millfire 716 m ( 2350 ft ).
The battlefield, near the town of Hittin, had as its chief geographic feature a double hill ( the " Horns of Hattin ") beside a pass through the northern mountains between Tiberias and the road from Acre to the west.
Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.
Skanderbeg organized a meeting of Albanian nobles, the Arianits, Dukagjins, Spani, Thopias, Muzakas, and the leaders of the free Albanian principalities from the high mountains, in the town of Lezhë, where the nobles agreed to fight together for mutual gain against the common Turkish enemy and they voted Skanderbeg as their suzerain chief.

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* Senior Principal / Partner: Typically an owner or majority shareholder of the firm ; may be the founder ; titles may include president, chief executive officer, or managing principal / partner.
Other chief crops include coffee, bananas, and oil palms, which produce palm oil and kernels.
" Examples of parliamentary systems in which the head of state is notional chief executive include Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The sub-ordinaries include the inescutcheon, the orle, the tressure, the double tressure, the bordure, the chief, the canton, the label, and flaunches.
From the Muslim perspective, a chief source of information is Usamah ibn Munqidh, a soldier and frequent ambassador from Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt, whose memoirs, Kitab al i ' tibar, include lively accounts of crusader society in the east.
Bruckner remarks that the name of the Lombards stands in close relation to the worship of Odin, whose many names include " the Long-bearded " or " the Grey-bearded ", and that the Lombard given name Ansegranus (" he with the beard of the gods ") shows that the Lombards had this idea of their chief deity.
Rutile group minerals have a ratio of 1: 2 ; the eponymous species, rutile ( TiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) is the chief ore of titanium ; other examples include cassiterite ( SnO < sub > 2 </ sub >; ore of tin ), and pyrolusite ( MnO < sub > 2 </ sub >; ore of manganese ).
Typically, the British government agreed to pay a chief a stipend in return for a commitment from him to keep the peace with his neighbours ; other specific commitments extracted from a chief might include keeping roads open, allowing the British to collect customs duties, and submitting disputes with his neighbours to British adjudication.
Preliminary practices include all Sutrayāna activities that yield merit like hearing teachings, prostrations, offerings, prayers and acts of kindness and compassion, but chief among the preliminary practices are realizations through meditation on the three principle stages of the path: renunciation, the altruistic bodhicitta wish to attain enlightenment and the wisdom realizing emptiness.
Race Officials include the Chief of Race, chief of course, starters, timers, gate judges, referees, a jury and others who organize the event and ensure it is run safely and according to governing body rules.
Deputies assigned to the Muckleshoot reservation include six patrol officers, one school resource officer, and one chief assigned full-time to the reservation.
The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced.
Compilers include Doc ( the puzzle editor as well as chief setter ), Dumpynose ( an anagram for ' Pseudonym ') and Columba.
Examples include chief cells and Paneth cells
Examples include John Baker, founder of Desire2Learn, David Cheriton, co-founder and chief scientist of Arista Networks, Mike Lazaridis, co-founder and former co-CEO of Research in Motion, Prem Watsa, chairman of Fairfax Financial and the current chancellor of the Waterloo, Steven Woods, co-founder of NeoEdge Networks and Quack. com.
The university's three chief divisions include the Office of the President, Business and Financial Affairs, and Academic and Student Life ( ASL ).
University officers include Dr. James L. Gaudino, president ; Dr. Marilyn Levine, provost ; George Clark, chief financial officer ; Sherer Holter, Chief of Staff.
Several lineages are grouped into a political unit headed by a chief and a council of elders, each of whom is the elected head of a lineage — which itself may include multiple extended-family households.
Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and strawberries.
Other elected officials in Shelby County include the sheriff, the chief law enforcement officer, trustee, chief tax collector, and assessor, the chief property appraiser.
Some cities that had been particularly faithful to the Crown were awarded an heraldic augmentation of two or three fleurs-de-lis on the chief of their coat of arms ; such cities include Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Le Havre, Angers, Le Mans, Aix-en-Provence, Tours, Limoges, Amiens, Orléans, Rouen, Argenteuil, Poitiers, Chartres and Laon among others.
Noted residents of Smallville include the Kent family, Jonathan and Martha Kent, or Ma and Pa Kent as they were often called, and their adopted son Clark Kent ; Clark's friend, classmate and sometimes romantic interest Lana Lang ; Clark's best friend Pete Ross, and Smallville police chief Douglas Parker.

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