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The sea was traditionally known as Archipelago ( in Greek, Αρχιπέλαγος, meaning " chief sea "), but in English this word's meaning has changed to refer to the Aegean Islands and, generally, to any island group.
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Underneath him the sea was a dark and muddied gray.
When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.
Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.
It was one with the desolate rocks and the alien water on those days when she hated the sea.
The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.
To starboard was a cape a thousand feet high, patched with ice and snow, populated by thousands of screaming sea birds.
Hudson pointed the Discovery down the east coast of the newly discovered sea ( now called Hudson Bay ), confident he was on his way to the warm waters of the Pacific.
The great `` sea to the westwards '' was a dead end.
Just as it was being hauled inboard, a sea hit the ship.
A visitor from a more peaceful country across the sea was taken to one of our amusement parks, and after he had seen it all, he said to a friend: `` You must be a very sad people ''.
It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.
He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;
Next morning he tied a bunch of sea daisies with string and threw them across the V-shaped inlet to the rock where she was swimming around.
I was slowly swimming down to the bottom of the sea.
Mythographers agree that Artemis was born first and then assisted with the birth of Apollo, or that Artemis was born one day before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth to Apollo.
The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".
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Until fairly recent times, there has been a remarkable homogeneity in the culture throughout this area, which traditionally relied on fish, sea mammals, and land animals for food, heat, light, clothing and tools.
The central part of the island is ruggedly mountainous, such that the island's peninsulas have traditionally been remote from each other, with better connections by sea than by road.
An early 19th-century historian wrote that the Tuscarora traditionally were said to occupy the " country lying between the sea shores and the mountains, which divide the Atlantic states ," in which they had 24 large towns and could muster 6, 000 warriors, probably meaning persons.
Two main subdivisions of echinoderms are traditionally recognised: the more familiar motile Eleutherozoa, which encompasses the Asteroidea ( sea star ), Ophiuroidea ( brittle stars ), Echinoidea ( sea urchins and sand dollars ), and Holothuroidea ( sea cucumbers ); and the sessile Pelmatozoa, which consists of the crinoids and of the extinct blastoids and Paracrinoids.
The sea has been traditionally used for fishery and transportation of goods between the coastal countries and its coral reefs and islands are popular tourist destinations.
Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.
The Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who nomadised in the inland tundra region with their herds of reindeer.
Based on genetic anаlyses and local migration patterns, the global Steller sea lion population has traditionally been divided into an eastern and western stock at 144 ° W longitude, roughly through the middle of the Gulf of Alaska.
Anapsid skull of Caretta caretta ( Loggerhead sea turtle ), a TestudineWhile " anapsid reptiles " or " anapsida " were traditionally spoken of as if they were a monophyletic group, it has been suggested that several groups of reptiles that had anapsid skulls may be only distantly related.
This was an unprecedented act by the pharaoh since most Egyptians had traditionally harboured an inherent distaste for and fear of the sea.
Corvina or Cebo ( sea bass ) was the fish traditionally used.
The goddess of love, Venus or Aphrodite is often traditionally depicted rising from the sea on a seashell.
It is situated on the Atlantic coast, on land surrounded by Francis Marion National Forest and has traditionally derived its livelihood from the sea and coastal marshes by fishing, shrimping and oystering.
It is traditionally expressed either in m or feet above mean sea level ( or planetary surface ), or as the corresponding pressure level in hectopascal ( hPa, equivalent to millibar ).
The area where Tokaji wine is traditionally grown is a small plateau, 457 m ( 1500 ft ) above sea level, near the Carpathian Mountains.
The district has traditionally been where full-time residents prefer to live, as distinct from the generally hotter and busier, more tourism oriented towns near sea level such as Kihei and Lahaina.
Life has traditionally been seen as driven by energy from the sun, but deep sea organisms have no access to sunlight, so they must depend on nutrients found in the dusty chemical deposits and hydrothermal fluids in which they live.
It is traditionally made by mashing ripe avocados with a molcajete ( mortar and pestle ) with sea salt.
This might be a conflation of Lamia with the sea goddess Ceto, traditionally Phorcys's wife and mother of Scylla.
There was debate, however, over who should be in charge, but his ability to win over Pétion and a Curaçaoan sea merchant, Luis Brión ( he is traditionally referred to by the Spanish form of his name ), who had just acquired a much-needed warship in England to aid the embattled Cartagenan Republic, forced the other Venezuelan leaders to grudgingly accept his leadership.
Historians have traditionally blamed this decline on an invasion or uprising by another wave of Greek people, the Dorians, who may have been a subjugated local people, although Pylos was probably destroyed by sea peoples.
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Included in this family are the well known plants: angelica, anise, arracacha, asafoetida, caraway, carrot, celery, centella asiatica, chervil, cicely, coriander / cilantro, cumin, dill, fennel, hemlock, lovage, Queen Anne's Lace, parsley, parsnip, sea holly, and the now extinct silphium.
However, the species of sea snail which is known in the seafood trade as the " Chilean abalone ", Concholepas concholepas, is from another family altogether.
Work songs sung by sailors between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries are known as sea shanties.
Henceforth, this sea was known as the Aegean Sea.
In the Middle Ages the sea was known by variety of names, the name Baltic Sea started to dominate only after 16th century.
A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.
This sea eagle has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the White-tailed Eagle.
Another well known town is Fonni, being the highest town in Sardinia, More than 1000 meters above sea level.
This appeared to be confirmed by the exploration of the deep sea beds conducted by the Challenger expedition, 1872-6, which showed that contrary to expectation, land debris brought down by rivers to the ocean is deposited comparatively close to the shore in what is now known as the continental shelf.
The same word for “ sea ” is also known from Germanic, but with an a (* mari -), whereas a cognate of marbh is unknown in all dialects of Germanic.
He built a large racetrack known as the circus of Gaius and Nero and had an Egyptian obelisk ( now known as the Vatican Obelisk ) transported by sea and erected in the middle of Rome.
This characteristic clay, known as mattaione, represents the sediments of the Pliocene sea which covered the area between 2. 5 and 4. 5 million years ago.
The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the Earth's sea floor hydrosphere, with a depth of to by direct measurement from submersibles, and slightly more by sonar bathymetry ( see below ).
Penn strongly desired access to the sea for his Pennsylvania province and leased what then came to be known as the " Lower Counties on the Delaware " from the Duke.
Following the departure of the British, the French colony of Mauritius began marooning lepers on Diego Garcia, and in 1793 the French established a coconut plantation using slave labour, which also exported cordage made from coconut fiber, and sea cucumbers, known as a delicacy in the orient.
Shippers managed ships to and from Osaka ( known as tarubune ) and other cities, bringing goods into the city or transferring them from sea routes to river barges or land routes such as the Tōkaidō ( which began there ).
A national flag flown at sea is known as an ensign.
The island is also well known by sea angling enthusiasts and at various times of the years plaice, black bream, mackerel, bass, cod and whiting can be taken.
The territory the tribes covered came to be known as Illyria to Hellenistic and Roman authors, corresponding roughly to the area between Adriatic sea in west, Drava river in North, Morava river in east and the mouth of Vjosë river in south.
The dates of very few of these sacred compositions are known ; perhaps the most notable example is the anthem They that go down to the sea in ships.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
Many solutions were proposed for how to determine longitude at the end of an exploratory sea voyage and hence the longitude of the place that was visited ( in case one would want to revisit it, place it on a map, or more urgently, avoid known marine hazards ).
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