Chalets often face south or downhill, are built of solid wood, with a steeply gabled roof to allow accumulated snow to slide off easily.

After settling his bloody business in Zaragoza, al-Fihri turned his army back south to face the " pretender ".

The basic requirement for passive solar heating is that the solar collectors must face the prevailing sunlight ( south in the northern hemisphere, north in the southern hemisphere ), and the building must incorporate thermal mass to keep it warm in the night.

The two advanced south to face Ragnall, and this led to a battle somewhere on the banks of the River Tyne, probably at Corbridge where Dere Street crosses the river.

George Monck, realizing the military stood to lose power ; secretly shifted his loyalty to the Crown but as General George Monck, who had been Cromwell's viceroy in Scotland, began to march south, Lambert, who had ridden out to face him, lost support in London.

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* May 27 – A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I.

Duke Bernard I of Saxony was heading south for the assembly when Danish Viking raids forced him to return to face the Viking threat.

Meanwhile, the Eighth Army stalled south of Mount Etna in the face of strong German defenses.

When the Northern Zhou Dynasty defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty in 577 CE, this was the culminating moment and ultimate advantage for the northern Chinese to face south.

In fact, only limited East and West ranges were initially built, with the plans for a library and chapel on the south face of the college shelved.

As King Edward made his way south to face Warwick, he realised that Warwick's brother John, Marquess of Montagu, who had up till then remained loyal to Edward, had defected at the head of a large army in the North of England.

The 2010 Sahel famine hit millions in Niger and across West Africa face food shortages after erratic rains hit farming in countries in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, the European Commission's aid group said Thursday.

Other technical routes ascend the south face and the west shoulder.

The King's Apartments face south over the Privy Garden, the Queen's east over the Fountain Garden.

The XVII Corps and I Reserve Corps, at the time south of I Corps, would be readied for a move further south to face the Russian VI Corps on Samsonov's right flank.

It lies on a narrow, level terrace on the south face of the valley of Hinnom.

In the south transept he completely remade the south face, completed in 1885, including the huge lancet window group — his proudest achievement — and the flanking turrets ; a weighty new tiled roof was also made.

In the face of this tension, Dōgen left the Tendai dominion of Kyōto in 1230, settling instead in an abandoned temple in what is today the city of Uji, south of Kyōto.

In 1861, a few months before the start of the Civil War, Camp Cooper was abandoned by federal troops in the face of building political tension between north and south.

A fire was kept burning outside the south face.

His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.

Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

Thence he pushed farther south than he had ever been before into Podolia and Nogay Tartary or the Yedisan.

The Catholics had the largest cemetery, near the Neversink River where Main Street ran south ; ;

The Class had entries from as far west as Wisconsin and as far south as Kentucky.

Giffen had already urged him to journey south, if only for a few days to clear up matters.

On the south it ended sharply as though the lava had been cut off there suddenly.

Outside, Shayne hesitated when he saw that Rourke had parked his coupe directly in front of the bar headed south.

Johnston had various remaining military units scattered throughout his territory and retreating to the south to avoid being cut off.

In 1823, Light had fondly written of the Sicilian city of Catania: " The two principal streets cross each other at right angles in the square in the direction of north and south and east and west.

By 1860, wheat farms had been established from Encounter Bay in the south to Clare in the north.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

Amalric, who had been given the County of Jaffa as an apanage when he reached the age of majority in 1151, remained loyal to Melisende in Jerusalem, and when Baldwin invaded the south, Amalric was besieged in the Tower of David with his mother.

There, they hoped to find Descartes material that had not been contaminated by ejecta from South Ray Crater, a large crater south of the landing site.

Veterans from the south had higher rates of throat cancer, acute / chronic leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, soft tissue sarcoma and liver cancer.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

To the south in Ifriqiya, the Fatimids had created an independent caliphate that threatened to attract the allegiance of the Muslim population, who had suffered under the harsh rule of Abdullah.

The Duke had assured the Dutch that if the French were to launch an offensive he would return in good time, but Marlborough calculated that as he marched south, the French commander would be drawn after him.

Villeroi had given his personal attention to that wing and strengthened it with large bodies of horse and foot that ought to have been taking part in the decisive struggle south of Ramillies.

Seeing that Schultz and Spaar were faltering, Marlborough now ordered Orkney ’ s second-line British and Danish battalions ( who had not been used in the assault on Offus and Autre-Eglise ) to move south towards Ramillies.

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

George V had substantial improvements done during the 1910s and 1920s, including formal gardens to the south of the castle.

Busch and Conrad had visited another town, only south of Pilsen, also known for its breweries: Budweis ( or Böhmisch Budweis, today's České Budějovice ).

It is located south of Asia Minor, the Anatolian peninsula of the Asian ( or Eurasian ) mainland ( now part of modern-day Turkey ), so it may be included in Western Asia or the Middle East: At a confluence of Western Asia, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa, Cyprus has had lengthy periods of mainly Greek and intermittent Anatolian, Levantine, Byzantine, and Western European influences.