The wedding of the Hellenic to the northern genius was one of the dominant motifs in Goethe's thought.

* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.

There were a few reasons for this, one of which was political, as the kings of England preferred to appoint bishops from the south to the northern bishoprics, hoping to counter the northern tendency towards separatism.

As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

These colonnades were almost finished in 432 BC and had two wings, the northern one serving as picture gallery.

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

The southern third of the country has a two-month dry season ; the northern two-thirds, a four-month one.

During this brief era, when China was in all respects a multi-state system, five regimes rapidly succeeded one another in control of the old Imperial heartland in northern China.

The Army, twice as large as the other services combined with about 24, 000 active duty personnel, consists of six infantry brigades, a combat support brigade, an air cavalry squadron and a combat service support brigade ; the Air Force operates two main bases, one in southern region near Santo Domingo and one in the northern region of the country, the air force operates approximately 40 aircraft including helicopters ; and the Navy maintains three aging vessels which were donated from the United States, around 25 patrol crafts and interceptor boats and two helicopters.

It was one of many successor kingdoms to Dʿmt and was able to unite the northern Ethiopian plateau beginning around the 1st century BC.

The position of emperor is a territory-independent phenomenon — the emperor is the emperor, even if he has followers only in one province ( as was the case sometimes with the southern and northern courts ).

In 1975 the causeway between Viðoy and Borðoy was constructed, in 1986 a similar one between Borðoy and Kunoy was established, and in 1992 the capital Tórshavn was granted a first-class connection to the northern parts of the islands, creating the infrastructural prerequisites for a mobile society on the mainland.

West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.

This may mean that the argument is not a good one, or it may show something interesting about northern European culture as compared to Celtic and southern European culture.

The purpose of these shafts is not clear: they appear to be aligned on stars or areas of the northern and southern skies, but on the other hand one of them follows a dog-leg course through the masonry so there was not intention to directly sight stars through them.

The perpetrator is finally unmasked by Wimsey as one of the college servants, revealed to be the widow of a disgraced academic at a northern university.

The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe.

He also proved that the ruins at Boğazköy were the remains of the capital of an empire that at one point controlled northern Syria.

By 64 BC, Julius Caesar's legions had established their occupation, and the Romans had thus unified all three regions of Libya ( Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and northern Fezzan ) in one single new province called Africa proconsularis ( later Cyrenaica was separated administratively ).

Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.

Today, the Irish community in Mexico is a thriving one and is mainly concentrated in Mexico City and the northern states.

The river now passes under a viaduct that carries the Midland Main Line which links London St. Pancras International to Sheffield Midland station in northern England via Luton, Bedford, Kettering, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Chesterfield.

The Story Bridge is a steel cantilever bridge spanning the Brisbane River that carries vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the northern and the southern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Our northern mariners, who are trained in the coal-trade, apply this distinction to a broad-sterned ship, which carries no ornamental figure on the stem or prow.

The southern part of the arrondissement carries a postal code of 75016, while the northern part has the code of 75116.

Same-sex intercourse officially carries the death penalty in several Muslim nations: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Mauritania, northern Nigeria, Sudan, and Yemen.

The Hadley cell carries heat and moisture from the tropics towards the northern and southern mid-latitudes.

It carries the visitor through the northern habitats of Tundra, Taiga, and Montane.

The highway then enters the northern suburbs of Wollongong and the Illawarra region via Bulli Pass, whilst Mount Ousley Road, which is designated as part of national route 1, bypasses Wollongong's northern suburbs to meet the Princes Highway at Fairy Meadow, and carries inter-city traffic.

An observation deck is provided near the drawbridge that carries State Road 3 over the Haulover Canal, in the northern part of the refuge, since manatees frequently congregate there.

In 1986, the states in the Great Lakes region created the LMCT as part of a larger program of tourist routes in the region ; US 141 carries the LMCT between the northern I-43 junction in the Green Bay area north to the split with US 41 at Abrams.

All of Indiana 120 is an undivided surface highway, lightly traveled throughout most of its route due to the nearby Indiana Toll Road ( also known as Interstate 80 and Interstate 90 ) which carries most east – west long-distance travel through northern Indiana.

There are two related projects: the Wide Field Camera ( WFCAM ) on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii carries out infrared surveys of the northern sky, and the VLT Survey Telescope in Chile carries out surveys of the southern sky in visible light.

The northern K Street, which carries a segment of U. S. Route 29, begins in the city's Northwest quadrant as K St. NW, just west of the abutment of the old Aqueduct Bridge on the Georgetown waterfront.

In France and in some southern European countries, the word liberal does not always include the suggestion of general support for individual rights that it carries in northern Europe due to its historic matters.

The Vine Street Expressway ( I-676 ) travels between I-76 and I-95 in Center City Philadelphia, and the Roosevelt Boulevard ( US 1 ) carries crosstown traffic in northern Philadelphia.

The narrow northern stairway that originally served the drama room and Biology Room 40 was pushed into service as a through corridor for the rest of the first floor ( via the suspended corridor ) and as such carries far more footfall than it was ever designed to.

China National Highway 209 notionally crosses the northern half of the county from the northeast to the southwest ; a modern bridge carries it across the Yangtze River at the Badong county seat.

Stang now carries the marks of a more modern industry, with the Lake District's only permanent ski-tow installed on the northern slope.

The route follows the northern bank of Seeley Creek for roughly to an intersection with Cedar Street, which carries NY 427 east of this point.

From the northern end of NH 108, one may turn left or right onto Columbus Avenue, which carries NH 125, or continue straight onto North Main Street ( NH 202A westbound ).

A northern extension is in the planning stage, but before work can start, however, extensive repairs are needed to Bridge 14 which carries the track over the River Nene.