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For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.
And they also had the lights of the city, the port wall lanterns, and a shore crane's spotlight to guide on.
During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.
A keyboard was developed, and the keyboard had an expansion port ( which was the SIO port from Atari's 8-bit computer line, though the 7800 could not run Atari computer programs ) allowed for the addition of peripherals such as disk drives and printers.
The 17th-century rise of Britain's American colonies and the rapid 18th-century expansion of the Atlantic slave trade had made Bristol an important international sea port, and Teach was most likely raised in what was the second-largest city in England.
Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
Adam described Birka as a Geatish port town and had gathered many details about it.
Another example was the ore-carrier recounted by Berlitz as lost without trace three days out of an Atlantic port when it had been lost three days out of a port with the same name in the Pacific Ocean.
Mean Machines gave the Game Boy port of the game a score of 91 %, noting that while some changes had been made the game played identical to the original arcade port and " provides much addiction and challenge ".
This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.
His near light speed ship had been gone so long that on its return to Urth, there were no space port facilities any more, and it crashed.
Merchants at the port of Wilmington had trading ties with the British.
The area of Dumnonia had been mined since ancient times, and the tin was exported from the ancient trading port of Ictis ( St Michael's Mount ).
The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.
The culmination of Islamic dominance in the region occurred in 1557 when an Ottoman invasion during the time of Suleiman I and under Özdemir Pasha ( who had declared the province of Habesh in 1555 ) took the port city of Massawa and the adjacent city of Arqiqo, even taking Debarwa, then capital of the local ruler Bahr negus Yeshaq ( ruler of Midri Bahri ).
By 1967 the ELF had gained considerable support among peasants, particularly in Eritrea's north and west, and around the port city of Massawa.
The new capital had a sea port and was good for foreign trade and diplomatic activities.
The city had the third busiest port in the U. S. and its financial district was known as the " Wall Street of the South.
In May 1937, HMS Arethusa had to tow HMS Hunter into port after Hunter hit a mine off Almeria that killed and wounded several British sailors.
In an effort to end the fighting, the United States government dispatched Sumner Welles to the port of Amapala ; he had instructions to try to produce a settlement that would bring to power a government eligible for recognition under the terms of the 1923 treaty.
It was therefore an outward-looking, international-minded port within the Persian Empire and the historian's family could well have had contacts in countries under Persian rule, facilitating his travels and his researches.

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The Acropolis, the Temple of Aphrodite, the market, the city ’ s walls, the basilica and the port have all been excavated.
At the port city of Jaffa ( today part of Tel Aviv ) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.
Abadan is thought to have been further developed into a major port city under the Abbasids ' rule.
The port of Alicante has been reinventing itself since the industrial decline the city suffered in the 1980s ( with most mercantile traffic lost to Valencia's harbour ).
The moves to develop the port for more tourism have been welcomed by the city and its residents, but the latest plans to develop an industrial estate in the port have caused great controversy.
A proposed rail link between Ouagadougou andin Burkina Faso and Kumasi and Boankra in Ghana, has been discussed with Ghanaian officials, and feasibility studies are being undertaken to explore this possibility, which would provide rail access to the inland port of Bonakra.
A boat's disappearance, for example, would be reported, but its eventual ( if belated ) return to port may not have been.
Sydney has traditionally been the main port, with various facilities in a large, sheltered, natural harbour.
Guangdong has long been a trading port and many imported foods and ingredients are used in Cantonese cuisine.
The port would handle 2 million containers per year, while as of 2007, there has been no official announcement of a project not universally welcomed due to its environmental, economic and cultural impact.
The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.
For example Bukavu itself and Goma and other north-eastern towns are linked by paved road from the DRC border to the Kenyan port of Mombasa, and most goods for these cities have been brought via this route in recent years.
Additionally Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth, and would have been able to convey the letter to Rome after passing through Corinth and taking a ship from Corinth ’ s west port.
Their firepower was provided by field artillery summoned from their garrison at Athlone which they positioned on the northside of the city at Phibsborough and at Trinity College, and by the patrol vessel Helga, which sailed up the Liffey, having been summoned from the port at Kingstown.
The precise location of the port was carefully guarded to keep it secret from the Spaniards, and several of Drake's maps may have been altered to this end.
The port of Hong Kong has always been a key factor in the development and prosperity of the special administrative region, which is strategically located on the Far East trade routes and is in the geographical centre of the fast-developing Asia-Pacific Basin.

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Closer to Rome, he built a navigable canal on the Tiber, leading to Portus, his new port just north of Ostia.
In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.
After the population recovered it continued building up the city and in 1364 a crane was built for the port.
A new fishing port, however, was built at Port-Gentil in 1979.
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The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.
The tower was built by a linen merchant in order to view ships as they entered the Forth, affording the merchant the opportunity to procure the best goods at port.
To take advantage of the country's sizable iron ore deposits in Zouerate, the new government built a 675-km railway and a mining port.
To the west, a major highway was built that linked Manama to the isolated village port of Budaiya, this highway crossed through the ' green belt ' villages of Sanabis, Jidhafs and Duraz.
Under his reign a port was built at Ancona, with a highway that gave easy access to the interior.
The " Lombard " appeared in 1999, ( AKA: Bronze Keyboard ) a thinner, lighter, and faster ( 333 or 400 MHz ) PowerBook with a longer battery life and had both USB and SCSI built in and was a New World ROM Mac, and then the " Pismo " in 2000, which replaced the single SCSI port with two FireWire ports, updated the PowerBook line to AGP graphics, a 100 MHz bus speed, and DVD-ROM optical drives standard, in addition to dropping the " G3 " from the PowerBook name.
It was built in 1988 in the place in where was once the ancient Roman port of Portiolum, and after its immediate success, a huge village was built around it with the same name.
After 1800, ships from plague-countries ( or with foul bills ) were enabled to perform their quarantine on arrival in the Medway instead of taking a Mediterranean port on the way for that purpose ; and about the same time an extensive lazaret was built on Chetney Hill near Chatham at an expense of £ 170, 000, which was almost at once condemned owing to its marshy foundations, and the materials sold for £ 15, 000.
Subway system was built in Seoul, highway network was expanded by 487 km and major port projects were started in Pohang, Ulsan, Masan, Incheon and Busan.
Stephenson's Stockton and Darlington railway ( S & DR ) was built primarily to transport coal from several mines near Shildon to the port at Stockton-on-Tees.
They built a new road, the via Portuensis, to connect Rome with Fiumicino, leaving the city by Porta Portese (' the port gate ').
Malindi port was built in 1925 as a modest lighter port.
TAZARA, a railroad to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam, built with Chinese assistance, reduced Zambian dependence on railroad lines south to South Africa and west through an increasingly war ravaged Angola.
Caligula ordering a floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for two miles from Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.
Forts were built above the port ; lighthouses were constructed to guide passing ships ; and one of the best-preserved Roman villas in Britain is here.
It is built on bridges and landfills across small islands and skerries, and spans from the small communities of Vikan and Vevang to Averøy, an island with several historic landmarks, such as the Bremsnes cave with Mesolithic findings from the Fosna culture, the medieval Kvernes stave church, and Langøysund, now a remote fishing community, but once a bustling port along the main coastal route.
Under the French, a port was constructed at Cotonou, and railroads were built.

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