At this point you cross the wide Corso Vittorio Emanuele 2,, walk along the Corso Del Rinascimento a couple of hundred yards, then turn left on the Via Dei Canestrani to enter the splendid Piazza Navona, one of the truly glorious sights in Rome.

Inheriting a more mature Mantle, who now has seen the sights on and off Broadway, Ralph Houk quietly bestowed, no pun intended, the mantle of authority on Mickey.

I guess she was between affairs or something, but anyway, she had set her sights on Johnnie, my Johnnie.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

Before computers, some armies set the range on the gun's sights, which mechanically corrected it for the gun's muzzle velocity.

At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.

Soon, David turned his critical sights on the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

Dissatisfied with the results of his activity, he set his sights eastward in 1545 and planned a missionary journey to Makassar on the island of Celebes ( today's Indonesia ).

Two important sights on the fairground are the Hermes Tower ( 88. 8 metres high ) and the EXPO Roof, the largest wooden roof in the world.

The 36 most important sights of the city centre are connected with a long red line, which is painted on the pavement.

Fulk was then faced with a new and more dangerous enemy: the atabeg Zengi of Mosul, who had taken control of Aleppo and had set his sights on Damascus as well ; the union of these three states would have been a serious blow to the growing power of Jerusalem.

After the Baltic states were forced to accept treaties, Stalin turned his sights on Finland, confident that Finnish capitulation could be attained without great effort.

In return, Pepin assumed the role of ordained protector of the Church and set his sights on the Lombards.

His rule now undisputed, Otto reneged on his earlier promises and now set his sights on reestablishing Imperial power in Italy and claiming even the Kingdom of Sicily.

The two and a bunch of friends set their sights on New York City to bring the Roman gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life.

* The Goths, led by Alaric I, invade and devastate Thrace and Macedonia, impose a tribute on Athens, and then turn their sights on the West.

The Romanian Athenaeum building is considered to be a symbol of Romanian culture and since 2007 is on the list of the Label of European Heritage sights.

Second-generation semi-automatically command guided SACLOS missiles require the operator to only keep the sights on the target until impact.

For 1935, Nuvolari set his sights on a drive with the German Auto Union team.

But when Des Grieux reveals their unmarried state to the Governor and asks to be wed with Manon, the Governor's nephew sets his sights on winning Manon's hand.

" Clean Mud " ( clay mud ), oil paint and body paint are usually familiar sights on one's body during J ' ouvert.

* 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.

The first successful Japanese film in late 1897 showed sights in Tokyo.

* 1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.

* 1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

* February 19 – Captain William Smith in British merchant brig Williams sights Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, the first land discovered south of latitude 60 ° S.

Neptune is not truly discovered until 1846, about 234 years after Galileo first sights it with his telescope.

* April 17 – da Verrazzano's expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay and sights the island of Manhattan.

* May 3 – Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.

It is one of the first sights seen when entering the city from West Memphis via the Memphis-Arkansas Memorial Bridge.

According to Theodore Roosevelt: " We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land the Midwest and saw the great natural meadows of long grass — sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt — they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.

With the team clearly on the verge of missing the playoffs for the first time in 13 years, Paul Holmgren set his sights on rebuilding the team and preparing for the future.

The two most notable sights in the municipality are the mountain / ridge Kinnekulle ( with 306 meters the highest point in the county ) and the village Husaby, with an old church and church well, where the first Christian king of Sweden, Olof Skötkonung, is believed to have been baptized.

Among other sights in Hrodna and its environs, we should mention the Orthodox cathedral, a polychrome Russian Revival extravaganza from 1904 ; the botanical garden, the first in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded in 1774 ; a curiously curved building on the central square ( 1780s ); a 254-metre-high TV tower ( 1984 ); and Stanisławów, a summer residence of the last Polish king.

The first incontrovertible, documented use of indirect fire in war using Guk's methods, albeit without lining-plane sights was on 26 October 1899 by British gunners during the Second Boer War.

The first use of these cannons, lacking sights, was made in the Battle of Degania in northern Israel, which was also the first time the Israeli side employed field artillery.

Cabral ( center-left, pointing ) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500.

Hofheinz abandoned his interest in the world's first air-conditioned shopping mall, The Galleria, and set his sights on bringing major league baseball to Houston.

Except for the very first delivery order, all U. S. military-issue M4 and M4A1 carbines possess a flat-top NATO M1913-specification ( Picatinny ) rail on top of the receiver for attachment of optical sights and other aiming devices — Trijicon TA01 and TA31 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsights ( ACOG ), EOTech 550 series holographic sights, and Aimpoint M68 Close Combat Optic ( M68 CCO ) being the favorite choices — and a detachable rail-mounted carrying handle.

Due to the difficult weather conditions, the guns ' optical sights were ineffective: the first salvo fell short of the target and the next ones overshot it.

* February 19-Captain William Smith in British merchant brig Williams sights Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, the first land discovered south of latitude 60 ° S.

* June 18-English sea captain Samuel Wallis sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.