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The location of the battle is traditionally identified as Oswestry ( etymology: " Oswald's Tree ") in Shropshire, which at that time is thought to have probably still been in the territory of Powys.
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The invaders — Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Frisians — gained control of parts of England, but lost a major battle at Mons Badonicus ( the location of which is not known ).
Armageddon ( from Harmagedōn, Late Latin: ) is, according to the Bible, the site of a battle during the end times, variously interpreted as either a literal or symbolic location.
* Richard III Society: history society, which contains photos and articles that present several competing theories about the location of the battle
Military operations, many of which result in battle, are given codenames, which are not necessarily meaningful or indicative of the type or the location of the battle.
Discovering their location from some peace envoys they had sent to him, he lured them into battle near the Tsibritsa by a stratagem.
The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.
More recently, a discovery of Roman artefacts in Kings Norton close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility, and a thorough examination of a stretch of Watling Street between St. Albans, Boudica's last known location, and the Fosse Way junction has suggested the Cuttle Mill area of Paulerspury in Northamptonshire, which has topography very closely matching that described by Tacitus of the scene of the battle.
While the crew spent six weeks shooting on location in Scotland, the major battle scenes were shot in the Republic of Ireland using members of the Irish Army Reserve as extras.
For all its fame, the site of the battle is uncertain and several sites have been advanced, with Bromborough on the Wirral the most favoured location.
Symeon of Durham records a battle fought at an unidentified location near Hastings in 771, at which Offa defeated the Haestingas tribe, effectively ending its existence as a separate Kingdom.
He was killed by the Mercians at the Battle of Maserfield, at a place generally identified with Oswestry ( although other candidates for the location of the battle have been suggested ) in 642, and his body was dismembered.
The Church of Saint Oswald stands on the location of the wooden cross left by Oswald at Heavenfield, the night before the battle.
Their conclusion was that there is regularly a consistency between the location of Troy as identified by Schliemann ( and other locations such as the Greek camp ), the geological evidence, and descriptions of the topography and accounts of the battle in the Iliad.
Most of the battle scenes were filmed using five Panavision cameras simultaneously — from ground level, from 100 foot towers, from a helicopter, and from an overhead railway built right across the location.
The plot meanders around the globe to such far-flung locations as Las Vegas ( where a potentially deadly, secret U. S. government-developed mutated anthrax epidemic has been accidentally unleashed ); Atlantis ( where Howard, the talking porpoise, and his porpoise aides help Hagbard battle the Illuminati ); Chicago ( where someone resembling John Dillinger was killed many years ago ); and to the island of Fernando Pó ( the location of the next great Cold War standoff between Russia, China and the USA ).
* Die-Hard scenario-Which the story takes place in limited location ; a single building, plane, or vessel-which is seized or under threat by enemy agents, but are opposed by a single hero who fights an extended battle within the location using stealth and cunning to attempt to defeat them.
The location of Stirling Bridge at the date of the battle is not known with certainty, but four stone piers have been found underwater just north () and at an angle to the extant 15th century bridge, along with man-made stonework on one bank in line with the piers.
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The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.
We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.
The location of the latter now is determined for tax purposes at the time of registration, and it is now accepted practice to consider a motor vehicle as being situated where it is garaged.
Of greater interest is a question as to whether movable property was assessed according to its location or ownership.
There was one vote for location being the place where the property is situated for the greater portion of the twelve months preceding the assessment date.
To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.
Therefore, if the target can significantly change its location in something less than 30 minutes, the probability of having destroyed it is drastically lowered.
But in the case of moving targets, and targets which have limited mobility, what will their location be when it is time to destroy them??
It is usually helpful to make a sketch map in the field, showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site.
With the vertex at Af in the C-plane we assume that Af is the parametric location on C of an ordinary intersection Q between C and Af.
If Af was assigned as the information cell for Af, the routine can detect that Af is identical to Af by comparing Af with the form stored at location Af.
The fact seems to be that very many large branch stores are uneconomical, that the choice of location in the suburbs is as important as it was downtown, and that even highly suburbanized cities will support only so many big branches.
An RDW will be of the form Af, where xxxx is the starting location of the area and yyyy is its ending location.
Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.
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