520 BCE falls between the start of the Persian empire in 539 BCE and 520 BCE a period that saw major kings such as Zerubbabel helped lead the Jews in their return to the land.

The land falls steeply downwards to the north and the west of the castle, and the Sandstone Trail, a long-distance footpath, runs along the base of these slopes.

The Seneca called the land around this canyon " Seh-ga-hun-da ", the " Vale of the three falls "; the Middle Falls (" Ska-ga-dee ") was believed to be so wondrous it made the sun stop at midday.

When they arrived, they were offered instead land 20 miles above the falls of the James River, at the abandoned Monacan village known as Manakin Town, now in Powhatan County.

From its highest point at Slieve Gullion, in the south of the County, Armagh's land falls away from its rugged south with Carrigatuke, Lislea and Camlough mountains, to rolling drumlin country in the middle and west of the county and finally flatlands in the north where rolling flats and small hills reach sea level at Lough Neagh.

One of the characters tricks one of the naiads to come above land where she is then turned into a human and falls in love with the human who tricked her.

From the wooded high ground around Highgate and Muswell Hill, at, the land falls sharply away to the flat, open low lying land beside the River Lea in the east.

From the wooded high ground around Highgate and Muswell Hill, at, the land falls sharply away to the flat, open low lying land beside the River Lea in the east.

Kanangra-Boyd National Park is composed of two land units — the elevated, gently undulating Boyd Plateau and the area of creeks, rivers, gorges and ridges into which the plateau falls away.

Aside from acting as the architectural committee for architectural compliance with the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions ( CC & R ’ s ) of the 80 plus tracts within the district the SCSD has no land use authority under existing law, that responsibility falls on the County of Imperial Board of Supervisors.

Aside from acting as the architectural committee for architectural compliance with the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions ( CC & R's ) of the 80 plus tracts within the district the SCSD has no land use authority under existing law, that responsibility falls on the County of Imperial Board of Supervisors.

Knowing what a business opportunity the falls could give, he returned in 1872 with a gentleman only known as Cook and bought of land with rights at the confluence.

In the year of 1741, two Dutchmen, Nicholas and Adolphus Brewer, purchased 750 acres of land around the falls and they built the first stone house in the village near the present Mill Street.

Consequently, during the day as the tide rises and falls in the Puget Sound, so do parts of land slightly rise and fall.

After performing the appropriate ritual, Brutus falls asleep in front of the goddess's statue and is given a vision of the land where he is destined to settle, an island in the western ocean inhabited only by a few giants.

Some of this rain falls directly onto the area of land where the aquifer limestone rock is exposed, which is known as the recharge zone.

The first private land claim at the falls was made by Franklin Steele in 1838 — though he didn't obtain financing for development until 1847, in the form of $ 12, 000 for a 9 / 10 stake in the property.

In the UK regulation of contaminated land comes from Part 2A of the Environment Act, responsibility falls on local authorities to create a " contaminated land register ", sites with dubious past and present uses may be subject to a desktop study, which is sometimes implemented as a condition in planning applications.

Another call — a harsh, pulsed cooing that rises and falls in pitch, and is typically repeated up to 10 times in a row — is used in territorial encounters and pair-bonding, and by parent birds encouraging their young to move on land between bodies of water.

Harlech Castle rests upon part of the Harlech Dome, a spur of rock almost high ; the land falls away sharply on the north and west, and a ditch cut into the rock protects the remaining approaches to the castle.

Most water falls back into the oceans or onto land as rain, where the water flows over the ground as surface runoff.

Subways improved land values without taking away land ; ;

When Jones too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the neck of land running into the gully, crouched low and waited as before.

It is a land of long fjords, few people, a single-lane road miles away -- and of wild stags, Greylag geese, wild swans, dolphins and porpoises playing in the waters.

With the Confederates having confiscated his land, his slaves taken away, and his home made into a military hospital, Johnson made his final comments in the Senate: " I am a Democrat now, I have been one all my life ; I expect to live and die one, and the corner-stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis of the Union.

At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.

General Oreste Baratieri, commander of the Italian forces, knew the Ethiopian forces had been living off the land, and once the supplies of the local peasants were exhausted, Emperor Menelik's army would begin to melt away.

Players take turns shooting discs across the circular playing surface, trying to have their discs land in the higher-scoring regions of the board, while also attempting to knock away opposing discs.

But a rather deaf and short-sighted giant blunders on to his land, and Giles manages to ward him away with a blunderbuss shot in his general direction.

Towards the end of the period, numerous examples of extremely fine metalwork begin to be found deposited in rivers, presumably for ritual reasons and perhaps reflecting a progressive shift of emphasis away from the sky and back to the earth, as a rising population increasingly put the land under greater pressure.

The small parcel of land made a tall tower necessary, and Pei had usually shied away from such projects ; in Hong Kong especially, the skyscrapers lacked any real architectural character.

This reflected a change in attitude amongst military planners that a land war in Europe was increasingly likely, and a turning away from Tirpitz's scheme for worldwide expansion using the navy.

The first known use of the term was by Congressman Davy Crockett, who said on the floor ( of the U. S. House of Representatives ) in 1835, " my people don't like me to log-roll in their business, and vote away pre-emption rights to fellows in other states that never kindle a fire on their own land.

The glaciers were able to carve away more land on the eastern side of the lowland because the bedrock is made of shale which is much softer than the carbonate rocks on the western side.

As with peasant plots, the demesne was not a single territorial unit, but consisted rather of a central house with neighbouring land and estate buildings, plus strips dispersed through the manor alongside free and villein ones: in addition, the lord might lease free tenements belonging to neighbouring manors, as well as holding other manors some distance away to provide a greater range of produce.

By the end of chapter 25, both the people of King Limhi, and the people of Alma have been guided by the Lord away from the Lamanites and to the land of Zarahemla.

Due to extreme land erosion, the top soil was swept away, and in some places at the coast, sheer cliffs as high as 25 metres ( 82 ft ) have developed.

There are no cross-border minorities, the nearest land is too far away: see Demographics of Iceland

Cablevision was fixated against the Jets owning the land as Madison Square Garden, located only a few blocks away, would be forced to compete with the stadium.

The nearest land is usually said to be Kaffeklubben Island, off the northern coast of Greenland about away, though some perhaps non-permanent gravel banks lie slightly closer.

* 1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

In summer, particularly away from land, fog is common, with visibility under registered 20 % of the time in July and 1 % of the time in January, at Hopen and Bjørnøya.

Whilst Aengus was away the Dagda shared out his land among his children, but Aengus returned to discover that nothing had been saved for him.

A Bahamian wrecker, when asked if he and his crewmates made beacons on shore or showed their lights to warn ships away from the land at night, is reported to have said, " No, no ; we always put them out for a better chance by night ".