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Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.
In 1592 Vimaladharmasuriya I moved the kingdom to the inland city of Kandy, a location more secure against an attack from western invaders.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
Based on the equipment targeted and the location of infected machines, security experts believe it to be an attack on the Iranian nuclear program by the United States, Israel or, according to the latest news, even Russia.
During the war, the capital was moved to Richmond at the urging of Governor Thomas Jefferson, who feared that Williamsburg's location would make it vulnerable to British attack.
Several factors, such as the date, time, aircraft size, airline, eyewitness accounts, and location in New York, raised concerns that the crash was caused by another terrorist attack.
On larger scale than weapons currently near deployment but sometimes suggested in long-range future projections, a sufficiently high velocity linear motor, a mass driver, could in principle be used as intercontinental artillery ( or, if built on the Moon or in orbit, used to attack a location on Earth's surface ).
O ' Brien filmed the Jerusalem scene, and ( according to Omar Sharif ) Bentley's political discussion with Ali, but he became ill due to a heart attack on location and had to be replaced at the last moment by Kennedy, who was recommended to Lean by Anthony Quinn.
On April 18, 1780, the state capital was moved from the colonial capital of Williamsburg to Richmond, to provide a more centralized location for Virginia's increasing westerly population, as well as to isolate the capital from British attack.
In these cases, the sufferer is fearful of a particular place because they have experienced a panic attack at the same location in a previous time.
Fearing the onset of another panic attack, the sufferer is fearful or even avoids the location.
It is possible that there may have been a two-pronged attack by Godwinson on Hardrada's army, making use of both the ford and perhaps the remnants of the earlier Roman bridge one mile to the south, information of which, and of the two road routes to the location from York, could have been gathered from Godwinson's earlier occupation of the city of York.
Indirect support involved a fleet making a diversionary attack on an enemy in a location far away from where Brian planned to strike with his army.
If this political location could be overthrown, the army would have enough power to " veto anyone else's control of the state, negotiate for Cuernavaca or attack it directly, and maintain independent access to Mexico City as well as escape routes to the southern hills.
Formerly serving as the set for Titanic, Rosarito served as the ideal location to recreate the death throes of the battleships in the Pearl Harbor attack.
The city was considered too small and lacking in amenities, however, and its location made it vulnerable to American attack.
Wichita's mid-continental location made it ideal for basing strategic assets, allowing maximum time to react to a Soviet missile attack launched over the north pole or from ocean going submarines.
The original location of the attack is located on ' Courthouse Hill ' and is also the location of The Cavehouse Craft Shop.
The War Department chose Spokane for several reasons: better weather conditions, the location from the coast, and the Cascades Mountain range providing a natural barrier against possible Japanese attack.
The normalized normal force coefficient derivative with respect to the angle of attack of each component multiplied by the location of the center of pressure can be used to compute a centroid representing the total center of pressure.
The United Kingdom was considered an unsuitable location for air training, due to the possibility of enemy attack, the strain caused by wartime traffic at airfields and the unpredictable climate, so the plan called for the facilities in the Dominions to train British and each others ' aircrews.
In 1961, WGN-TV and Radio moved to its present studio location on West Bradley Place in the North Center neighborhood, a move undertaken for civil defense concerns in order to provide the station a safe base to broadcast in case of a hostile attack which would target downtown Chicago.
Far from either coast, Las Vegas ' location made it safe from surprise air attack and offered a climate perfect for year-round flying.

location and probably
Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.
This probably implies Corinth as it was the location of Paul ’ s greatest missionary success in Greece.
It is the location of the largest orange production in the Peloponnese and probably all of Greece.
According to a new theory, Bishop Jordan, Bishop of Poland | Jordan was buried here, while Mieszko's grave location is probably the Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Ostrów Tumski, Poznań | Ostrów Tumski palace | palatium complex.
There is no report available about his illness, as the papers have been moved to an unknown location, but it is commonly believed that he suffered from vascular dementia, probably due to atherosclerosis.
The first mention of any location more exact than the New Forest comes from John Leland writing in 1530 who stated that the king died at Thorougham a placename which has since fallen into disuse but was probably located at what is now Park Farm on the Beaulieu estates.
Edward spent a quarter of a century in exile, probably mainly in Normandy, although there is no evidence of his location until the early 1030s.
The location of the barrow and what was probably Estrid's grave was in the centre of the picture, just across the road.
The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location.
The tomb is now lost, and the mummified cat found in the church tower in 1949 during a search for its location probably dates to the time of the Wren restoration.
Before the creation of Llandaff Cathedral it became established as a Christian place of worship in the 6th century AD, probably because of its location as the first firm ground north of the point where the river Taff met the Bristol Channel, and because of its pre-Christian location as a river crossing on an east west trade route.
The original population appears to have consisted of Pannonians ( a people kin to the Illyrians ), who, after the great migration of the Gauls, became subordinate to various Celto-Ligurians tribes, chief amongst them being the Taurisci, who were probably identical with the Norici of Roman sources, so called after their capital Noreia, whose location is, as yet, unknown.
The precise location of Arkham is unknown, although it is probably near both Innsmouth and Dunwich.
Zaanaim means " wanderings ", " the unloading of tents ", the location was probably so called from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region.
The exact location of Greek Thurii is not known, but that of the Roman town, which probably though not certainly occupied the same site, is fixed by insignificant ruins as being 4 miles to the east of Terranova da Sibari, and as occupying an area some 4 miles in circuit.
As Mavromati is the location of the major spring capture, klepsydra, it was probably first stop for travellers to the city.
James Ferguson received a certificate to teach a public school that was probably on Cane Creek south of the present location of Ellsinore.
The name of the gateway probably derives either from the fact that this was the area where public scribes set up their desks, or from the nearby location of the cartabum, the archives of state documents.
In 1786 the Russian leader of the Lebedef-Lastochkin Company, Kolomin, built a stockade at the location of Kasilof-it bore the name Saint George, probably after the name of one of the ships of the company.
The community is probably named for its location related to the city of La Puente.
The location was probably in Newton's home, who became Mary Esther's first postmaster.
A date of no earlier than 1100 BCE for the Huastecs ’ arrival at their present location seems most likely, since they probably had not arrived at the north-central Veracruz site of Santa Luisa until about 1200 BCE, the phase at the end of the Early Formative period known locally as the " Ojite phase.
2000 BCE is a reasonable date for the Huastec / Maya split, and the slopes of the Cuchumatanes range as a reasonable location for the speakers of proto-Maya, it seems likely that the split occurred after these proto-Maya speakers ( or a portion of them ) began to migrate north, probably along the Usumacinta River, and before the two groups resulting from the split began to move in opposite directions: the proto-Huastec speakers moving northwest ( and, soon thereafter, the proto-Chicomuceltec west into the Chiapas highlands ), and the proto-Yucatec / other Maya-speakers spreading northeast ( one branch of which became Chontal, presumed by many from its widespread loan words and hieroglyphic evidence to be the dominant language of the classic Peten Maya heartland ) ( see Fig.

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