The covered ark with golden staves carried by the priesthood ( Ancient Israel ) | priests, and seven priests with rams ' horns, at the siege of Jericho, in an eighteenth-century artist's depiction. The biblical account relates that during the Israelites ' exodus from Egypt, the Ark was carried by the priests some 2, 000 cubits in advance of the people and their army, or host.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Many Maritime Archaic people were buried with Great Auk bones, and one was buried covered in over 200 auk beaks, which are assumed to have been part of a cloak made of their skins.

In 2004, Indian elections covered an electorate larger than 670 million people — over twice that of the next largest, the European Parliament elections — and declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $ 300 million, using more than 1 million electronic voting machines.

He wrote of meeting the Chumash people, and of his exploration of a small island on the Alaskan coast on which an important burial site was marked by a sepulchre of " peculiar character " lined with boards and fragments of military instruments lying near a square box covered with mats.

The lake was built in the 1930s to store water for an electricity generator ( central of Coghinadordza ), and it covered an ancient Roman bridge as well as an ancient archaeological site of the Nuragici people.

New houses in the UK may be covered by a NHBC guarantee but some people feel that it would be more useful to put new houses on the same legal footing as other products.

Respondents were able to write in an affiliation not covered by the checklist of common religions, and a total of 42, 262 people from England, Scotland and Wales declared themselves to be Pagans by this method.

Inglehart's two-factor solution took the form of Ferguson's original Religionism and Humanitarianism dimensions ; Inglehart labelled them " secularism – traditionalism ", which covered issues of tradition and religion, like patriotism, abortion, euthanasia and the importance of obeying the law and authority figures, and " survivalism – self expression ", which measured issues like everyday conduct and dress, acceptance of diversity ( including foreigners ) and innovation, and attitudes towards people with specific controversial lifestyles such as homosexuality and vegetarianism, as well as willingness to partake in political activism.

* Hidden messages within wax tablets — in ancient Greece, people wrote messages on the wood, then covered it with wax upon which an innocent covering message was written.

Also Poland got a piece of new territory ( which included Warsaw ), but by no means covered all the areas where Polish speaking people were in the majority.

Sometimes the same group of people are covered over an entire season ( as in The Swan and Celebrity Fit Club ), but usually there is a new target for improvement in each episode.

Traditionally, it refers to people born within a certain area, that covered by " the sound of Bow bells ".

The use of such a literal definition produces other problems, since the area around the church is no longer residential and the noise of the area makes it unlikely that many people would be born within earshot of the bells anymore, although The Royal London Hospital, Guy's Hospital and St Thomas ' hospital are both within the defined area covered by the sound of the Bow Bells.

He immediately reprised his opposition to the greenback, saying, " any party which commits itself to paper money will go down amid the general disaster, covered with the curses of a ruined people.

Snow covered much of the Capitol grounds during Garfield's inauguration, which had a low turnout of about 7, 000 people.

The exposition covered more than, featuring nearly 200 new ( but purposely temporary ) buildings of predominantly neoclassical architecture, canals and lagoons, and people and cultures from around the world.

As a result, underwater archaeological sites can include a vast range including: submerged indigenous sites and places where people once lived or visited, that have been subsequently covered by water due to rising sea levels ; wells, cenotes, wrecks ( shipwrecks ; aircraft ); the remains of structures created in water ( such as crannogs, bridges or harbours ); other port-related structures ; refuse or debris sites where people disposed of their waste, garbage and other items such as ships, aircraft, munitions and machinery, by dumping into the water.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

In 1937, the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and its sister newspaper the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun covered a " contest " between two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai ( 向井敏明 ) and Tsuyoshi Noda ( 野田毅 ), both from Island troops, the Japanese 16th Division, in which the two men were described as vying with one another to be the first to kill 100 people with a sword before the capture of Nanking.

It covers an area of north to south by east to west, and housed around 100 people in five to seven groups of houses, each for an extended family, with sheds and barns, made of hazel and willow covered with reeds, and surrounded either permanently or at certain times by a wooden palisade.

By the 1850s, when a major covered bridge was constructed at Philippi to service travellers on the Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, the County's population was approaching 10, 000 people.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

In 18th century, Russian furriers promyshlenniki established settlements on the islands and exploited the people.

In 2006 a total of 825, 603 people visited the islands ( of whom 443, 987 were cruise ship passengers ).

:" Adalvard the Elder ( Adalwardus senior ) was to superintend both lands of the Geats ( uterque praefectus est Gothiae ), Adalvard the Younger Sigtuna ( Sictunam ) and Uppsala ( Ubsalam ), Simeon ( Symon ) the Sami people ( Scritefingos ), John ( Iohannes ) the islands of the Baltic Sea.

In fact, of the more than 1 million people of Cape Verdean ancestry in the world, only a little more than one-third actually live on the islands.

A variety of people settled on the islands: pirates, refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, shipwrecked sailors, and slaves.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia ( on the southern half of East Falkland ) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that suggests the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands.

On 12 December 1992, an earthquake measuring 7. 8 on the Richter scale occurred, killing 2, 500 people in and around Maumere, including islands off the North coast.

By the War's conclusion most infrastructure had been laid waste by bombing, and the islands and people had been exploited by the Japanese military to the point of impoverishment.

The book likened the scattered camps to " a chain of islands " and depicted the Gulag as a system where people were worked to death.

Recent research, based on archaeological and paleontological digs on 70 different islands, has shown that numerous species went extinct as people moved across the Pacific, starting 30, 000 years ago in the Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Islands ( Steadman & Martin 2003 ).

Hengist continued to send for more ships from his country, so that some islands where his people had previously dwelt are now free of inhabitants.

* List of islands named after people

The stated purpose of this program was to reduce the considerable poverty and overpopulation on Java, to provide opportunities for hard-working poor people, and to provide a workforce to better utilise the resources of the outer islands.

Indonesia's transport system has been shaped over time by the economic resource base of an archipelago with thousands of islands, and the distribution of its more than 200 million people highly concentrated on a single island which is Java.

It is therefore a name with which people of both main islands might identify.

There are various tales of people becoming sharks in various South Pacific islands.

Geographically, the country is part of the larger island group of Micronesia, with the population of around 68, 000 people spread out over 34 low-lying coral atolls, comprising 1, 156 individual islands and islets.

The action was brought as a test case to determine the legal rights of the Meriam people to land on the islands of Mer ( Murray Island ), Dauar and Waier in the Torres Strait, which were annexed to the state of Queensland in 1879.

Prior to British contact the Meriam people had lived on the islands in a subsistence economy based on cultivation and fishing.

The plaintiffs sought declarations, inter alia, that the Meriam people were entitled to the Murray Islands " as owners ; as possessors ; as occupiers ; or as persons entitled to use and enjoy the said islands ".