A Flowering Tree ( 2006 ): An opera in two acts, based on a folktale from the Kannada language of southern India as translated by A. K.

The victory of James K. Polk ( Democrat ) over Henry Clay ( Whig ) in the 1844 presidential election had caught the southern Whigs by surprise.

For example, Paul K. Davis wrote, " Mongol victory broke the southern Sung dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Yüan dynasty.

After this, Copán became one of the more powerful Maya city states and was a regional power in the southern Maya region, although it suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of its former vassal state Quirigua in 738, when the long-ruling king Uaxaclajuun Ub ' aah K ' awiil was captured and beheaded by Quirigua's ruler K ' ak ' Tiliw Chan Yopaat ( Cauac Sky ).

The name derives from the K ' iche ' word q ' uq, referring to the Resplendent Quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno, a brightly coloured bird of the cloud forests of southern Mesoamerica.

The Marquesas Islands ( or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises ; Marquesan: Te Henua ( K ) enana ( North Marquesan ) and Te Fenua ` Enata ( South Marquesan ), both meaning " The Land of Men ") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

This legal position was inherited by the U. S. from the U. K .. Later, some jurisdictions, a total of 16 in the southern and eastern United States, as well as the states of Wisconsin and Utah passed statutes creating the offense of " fornication " that prohibited ( vaginal ) sexual intercourse between two unmarried people of the opposite sex.

Her family subsequently moved to Germany, then returned to the U. K. where Siobhan was sent to a convent school in Edinburgh, Scotland and attended schools in Stroud, Gloucester and Kent in southern England.

* J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, lived on the southern edge of the Forest at Tutshill from 1974 to 1983.

After a British minister rejected U. S. President James K. Polk's offer to settle the boundary at the 49th parallel north, Democratic expansionists militantly called for the annexation of the entire region up to Parallel 54 ° 40 ′ north, the southern limit of Russian America as established by parallel treaties between the Russian Empire and the United States ( 1824 ) and Britain ( 1825 ).

It is present but local in southern parts of Great Britain, having first been discovered in the UK by H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe and W. C. Crawley on July 23, 1912 in the New Forest.

* Sawyer, S. L. & Rose, R. K. ( 1985 ): Homing in and ecology of the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans in southeastern Virginia.

* Stone, K. D .; Heidt, G. A .; Baltosser, W. H. & Caster, P. T. ( 1996 ): Factors affecting nest box use by southern flying squirrels ( Glaucomys volans ) and gray squirrels ( Sciurus carolinensis ).

* Stone, K. D .; Heidt, G. A .; Caster, P. T. & Kennedy, M. L. ( 1997 ): Using geographic information systems to determine home range of the southern flying squirrel ( Glaucomys volans ).

* Taulman, J. F .; Smith, K. G. & Thill, R. E. ( 1998 ): Demographic and behavioral responses of southern flying squirrels to experimental logging in Arkansas.

President James K. Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to garrison the southern border of Texas, as defined by the former Republic.

On the morning of 11 June, the orders for the attack were given to 42 CDO by Vaux ; K Company was ordered to attack the eastern end of the mountain, while L Company would attack the southern side an hour later, where it — if the mountain was secured — would then move north of Mount Harriet to Goat Ridge.

L Company crossed their start line shortly after K Company and were almost immediately engaged by effective machine gun fire from Sub-Lieutenant Pablo Oliva's platoon defending the lower southern slopes.

* Mr. Knox ( voiced by Len Carlson )-An acquaintance of Cyril Sneer, a southern crocodile / business mogul ; he is married to Lady Baden-Baden, and owner of the TV company K. N. O. X.

* The similarly moribund Southern dialects of Sanya and Heinya are spoken from Sumner Strait south to the Alaska-Canada border, excepting Annette Island, which is the reservation of the Tsimshian people, and the southern end of Prince of Wales Island which is the land of the Kaigani Haida ( K ' aayk ' aani ).

Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. Welman, E. Reitief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. v. Wyk & A. Nicholas, 1987, ' List of species of southern African plants ', Mem.

* Dell, R. K. ( 1952 ) A revision of the molluscan fauna of the Hurupi beds, southern Wairarapa.

* Dell, R. K. ( 1972 ) Notes on nomenclature of some Mollusca from Antarctica and southern South America.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

Encyclopædia Britannicas 1956 article on " New York ( City )" ( subheading " Greenwich Village ") states that the southern border of the Village is Spring Street, reflecting an earlier understanding ( today, Spring Street might be considered the southern boundary of the neighborhood sometimes called the South Village, though some cite Canal Street as the furthest extent of the South Village ).

The erection of two discount hotel chain box buildings, at the southern end of Armada Way and the other at the Sound end of Leigham Street, contrast with their Victorian surroundings.

This small park sits between Crosby Hall and Chelsea Old Church, an Anglican church on Old Church Street whose southern chapel was commissioned by More and in which he sang with his parish choir.

At around 1 a. m., the white mob began setting fires, mainly to businesses on commercial Archer Street at the southern edge of the Greenwood district.

The Mile Zero is located in the southern part of the city at the corner of Douglas Street and Dallas Road, where there is a small monument.

A life-size bronze statue of Rudolph stands at the southern end of the Cumberland River Walk at the base of the Pedestrian Overpass, College Street and Riverside Drive, in Clarksville.

The college is located at the southern end of Woodstock Road, with Little Clarendon Street to the south and Walton Street to the west.

Various streets which ran between the northern and southern part of the city, including Ledra Street, were blockaded.

* Broadway-Park Row-The Bowery-Fourth Avenue-Broadway from Wall Street ( the southern end of the Post Road ) to Madison Square Park

The new museum on Gansevoort Street will mark the southern entrance to the High Line ( New York City ) park.

Mrs. Wilberforce's house, No. 57, was a set built at the western end of Frederica Street, directly above the southern portal of Copenhagen Tunnel on the railway line leading out of King's Cross railway station.

Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway ( the southern half of which, Highway 100, is officially part of the Trans-Canada ) has a mix of traffic lights and interchanges, and gives highway drivers a way of bypassing the city completely ; however, the Trans-Canada system also has an alignment which passes through the urban core of Winnipeg, incorporating Portage Avenue, Main Street / St.

This vein followed Main Street from Angels Creek up to the southern edge of Altaville.

Local exits include New Jersey Route 172 ( the southern terminus of George Street ), the Rutgers University boathouse and Elmer B. Boyd Park, Commercial Avenue, New Street, and New Jersey Route 27 ( Albany Street ), after which the express and local lanes merge back together and cross under the New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line viaduct.

U. S. Route 29 forms Main Street in Kannapolis, China Grove, and Landis in the southern part of the county.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

The southern line runs as far as Puerto Montt and is electrified as far as the city of Temuco, from where diesel locomotives are used.

It runs between the East Anatolian Fault zone in Turkey and the northern end of the Red Sea Rift offshore of the southern tip of Sinai.

Highway 90 runs north-south on the Israeli side for a total distance of 565 km from Metula on the Lebanese border in the north to its southern terminus at the Egyptian border near the Red Sea port of Eilat.

The southern shores are smooth and shallow, but along the entire coast runs the Baltic Klint with the height up to.

Off the southern tip of Sinai in the Red Sea, the Dead Sea Transform meets the Red Sea Rift which runs the length of the Red Sea.

A depression runs parallel to the southern range, between the southern range and the Chaîne des Matheux-Sierra de Neiba.

The mountains in the northeast are an extension of the alpine system that runs eastward from the Balkans through southern Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, eventually reaching the Himalayas.

The Alay range portion of the Tian Shan system dominates the southwestern crescent of the country, and, to the east, the main Tian Shan range runs along the boundary between southern Kyrgyzstan and China before extending farther east into China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

In 2005 Turkmenistan had 2, 440 kilometers of railroad line, most of which runs close to the northern and southern borders.

The western end of the valley is defined by the course of the Syr Darya, which runs across the northeastern sector of Uzbekistan from southern Kazakhstan into the Qizilqum.

The Østfold Line runs through Moss, stopping at Moss Station, which is the southern terminus of one service of the Oslo Commuter Rail and an intermediate stop for regional trains.

It runs from north to south between the Amargosa Range on the east and the Panamint Range on the west ; the Sylvania Mountains and the Owlshead Mountains form its northern and southern boundaries, respectively.

It lies at the southern end of a geological trough known as Walker Lane, which runs north into Oregon.

The Godavari ( Telugu: గ ో ద ా వర ి)( Marathi: ग ो द ा वर ी) is a river that runs from western to southern ends of India and forms one of the largest river basins in India.

runs east-west across southern Canada, the populated portion of the country, and it connects many of the major urban centres along its route crossing almost all of the provinces, and reaching almost all of the capital cities.

If any portion of the waters of the Amazon runs round the southern side of the large island of Marajó into the river Para, it is only through tortuous, natural canals, which are in no sense outflow channels of the Amazon.

A railroad line — the Lucin Cutoff — runs across the lake, crossing the southern end of Promontory Peninsula.

In the north of the region is the Sailughem Mountains, also known as Kolyvan Altai, which stretch northeast from 49 ° N and 86 ° E towards the western extremity of the Sayan Mountains in 51 ° 60 ' N and 89 ° E. Their mean elevation is 1, 500 to 1, 750 m. The snow-line runs at 2, 000 m on the northern side and at 2, 400 m on the southern, and above it the rugged peaks tower up some 1, 000 m more.

The Vedea River () in southern Romania flows from the Cotmeana Plateau and runs into the Danube, having a total length of 224 km, of which 33 km is regulated.

The fault then runs along the southern base of the San Bernardino Mountains, crosses through the Cajon Pass and continues to run northwest along the northern base of the San Gabriel Mountains.

From its origin / spring runs from the southern Iberian plain in a direction east to west, to near the town of Badajoz, where it begins to track south leading to the Gulf of Cádiz.

The Demer river's drainage basin covers most of the central and southern part of the province, except for the southeastern corner, where the Jeker ( in French: ( le ) Geer ) runs past Tongeren and into the river Maas ( in French: ( la ) Meuse ) at Maastricht.

Marlboro is just off Route 9 which runs east-west across southern Vermont, from Brattleboro ten miles ( 16 km ) to the east to Wilmington and Bennington further to the west.