Starting in the spring of 218 BC, he crossed the Pyrenees and, by conciliating the Gaulish chiefs along his passage, reached the River Rhône before the Romans could take any measures to bar his advance.

Since the Celtic year was based on both lunar and solar cycles, it is most likely that the holiday would be celebrated on the full moon nearest the midpoint between the winter solstice and vernal equinox, or when the primroses, dandelions, or other spring flowers rise up through the snow, or when the sun aligned with the passage tombs in the pre-Celtic megaliths.

Menorca is a well watched island which is on the migration route of many species and good number of passage migrants can be seen in spring.

( Genesis 14: 18-20 ) In this period the city is sufficiently large and powerful to construct a " massive " stone wall to defend its water supply, the Gihon Spring, by protecting the vulnerable passage from the top of the hill to the spring tower below.

* A nymph of a spring who incessantly mingles her waters with those of the river god Cydnus, who in one passage of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca is said to be her father, and in another her consort.

In place of the velvet light trap on modern cassettes, the Robot cassette used spring pressure and felt pads to close the film passage.

Within Great Britain, the most important wintering areas are in Norfolk ( 147, 000 in 2004 ), Lancashire ( 44, 000 in 2004 ), and Aberdeenshire ( primarily on autumn and spring passage ).

The castle's well was also in the gatehouse passage which was supplied by a spring fed cistern.

: A passage about rain is not considered appropriate to ( Northern Hemisphere ) spring and summer, when rain does not fall in Israel.

By the spring of 1942, 12 more convoys had made the passage with the loss of only one out of 103 ships.

Nowadays the coasts of the peninsula are popular bird watching areas during spring migration as the Arctic geese and other waterfowl are on their passage.

There is a marked passage in spring through the Straits of Dover.

Barred Warblers are regular on autumn passage as far west as Great Britain ( typically 100-200 records annually ), where it occurs mainly on the east coast between late August and late October, and more rarely to Ireland ( around 10 – 20 records annually ); spring passage records in Britain are very rare ( 1 – 3 per decade ).

Black Lark is a very rare vagrant away from its breeding range, with records during both spring and autumn passage periods, and also in winter ; the following is a complete list of European records away from the breeding range & normal wintering range at the time of writing ( 2005 ):

For example, in the sections on the topic of Spring, the editors pieced together a detailed representation in poetic form of the advancement of spring and the passage of time, using similar words and expressions to link each poem to the next.

In the spring of 1818 the officers and men of 99th were at Quebec, and, in common with those of other regiments, had their choice of a passage home to Ireland or, if they so elected, to remain here in Canada where they would receive free grants of land in the new country to be settled on the Ottawa and Rideau rivers.

The passage of large ships and barges is possible during spring inundation and the particular years with rainy weather allows short period of navigation at the end of summer or at the start of autumn.

However, due to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption in spring 2010 the Fimmvörðuháls route has been partly blocked, but passage is possible.

There is an octagonal base at the spring, surrounded by a covered passage.

Salts, sulfur compounds, and gases are among the substances that can be dissolved in the spring water during its passage underground.

Nettlebed Cave was first explored by cavers in 1969 through the dry overflow passage of a large spring pouring into the Pearse River.

After the passage of the Switchblade Knife Act in the U. S. in 1958, it was discovered that some U. S. businesses were importing folding stiletto knives without spring mechanisms which did not have a pronounced blade heel ( internal surface ) in the pivot area allowing the longer 11 and 13 inch-bladed models to easily flick open.

The passage from winter to spring is very abrupt, and the steppes are rapidly clothed with vegetation, which, however, is soon scorched by the sun.

The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.

Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring.

Though creeks in the Santa Cruz mountains flow brimful the year round and it is forever spring, the apples that grow there have a wintry crackle.

Most drill presses have a quill return spring that raises the spindle automatically when the feed lever is released and holds the quill in the raised position.

The return spring tension may be adjusted to suit individual requirements by gripping the spring housing with a pair of pliers ( to prevent the spring from unwinding when it is released ), loosening the lock nut or screw, and rotating the housing until the desired tension is achieved.

otherwise, you'll have to spend a few minutes to either attach a suitable spring clip somewhere on the press head or fit the key to a length of light chain and fasten to the bottom of the motor mount so that the key is out of the way when not in use.

The development of the Andrena larvae is very rapid, so that by the end of spring they have already pupated and become adults.

Thus, the writer decided to hold one experimental section of the functional preparation for marriage course in the spring semester of 1960 exclusively for persons already married -- that is, prerequisite: `` marriage ''.

The pattern of general business activity which probably lies ahead of us is a further moderate softening through the spring of 1961 before a new rise in economic activity gets under way.

But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.

-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

More than 200 are expected at the autumn event which is matched in the spring.

`` On the side toward the horizon -- the southern hemisphere -- it is spring ; ;

In temperate regions, breeding is mostly seasonal, usually in the spring, and is triggered by increasing day length, rising temperatures or rainfall.

Although they are often considered to be weeds in gardens, this viewpoint is not always necessary, as most of them die when the soil temperature warms up again in early to late spring when other plants are still dormant and have not yet leafed out.

April ( ) is commonly associated with the season of spring in the Northern hemisphere and autumn in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to October in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, " to open ," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to " open ," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of ἁνοιξις ( anoixis ) ( opening ) for spring.

Several substyles exist, including maibock or helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals ; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version ; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.

While his southern commander Greene in 1780 – 81 did use Fabian tactics, Washington did so only in fall 1776 to spring 1777, after losing New York City and seeing much of his army melt away.

Toshiki Kaifu's much publicized spring 1991 tour of five Southeast Asian nations — Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Singapore, and the Philippines — culminated in a 3 May major foreign policy address in Singapore, in which he called for a new partnership with the ASEAN and pledged that Japan would go beyond the purely economic sphere to seek an " appropriate role in the political sphere as a nation of peace.

Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons — winter and summer ; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high.

Warm southern winds blow from the plains and intermontane regions of the Western United States during much of July and August, very cool or hot but changeable airmasses often occur during spring and in September.

cold and wet, with much mist and fog ; spring and autumn are windy

The water equivalent of snowfall is measured to monitor how much liquid is available to flood rivers from meltwater which will occur during the following spring.

COPS, which first aired in the spring of 1989 and came about partly due to the need for new programming during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, showed police officers on duty apprehending criminals ; it introduced the camcorder look and cinéma vérité feel of much of later reality television.

Had the convention been held in the spring, when the economic downturn led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.

He was considered the early favorite for the nomination, but his support ebbed in the late spring of 1940, as World War II suddenly became much more dangerous for America.

Michael Calderone of Politico quoted Lipsky as saying not to read too much into the initial items since "... a business plan for the site is still in formation ," and "... these are just some very, very early bulbs of spring ( or late winter ).

In the spring of 1928, Disney lost control of the Oswald character, and much of his staff was hired away ; Disney left Universal soon afterwards.

Precipitation is much lighter in the winter months than it is in late spring and summer.

:: Series Reticulati: corm tunic for the most part decidedly covered with reticulated fibers, flower produced in winter or spring, style three-forked or much divided

By the spring of 1666, the Dutch had rebuilt their fleet with much heavier ships — thirty of them possessing more cannon than any Dutch ship in early 1665 — and threatened to join with the French.

A design with too much equator-facing glass can result in excessive winter, spring, or fall day heating, uncomfortably bright living spaces at certain times of the year, and excessive heat transfer on winter nights and summer days.

The default setups in Grand Prix Legends combined uncharacteristically low ride heights with short bump stops which resulted in cars whose suspension frequently " bottomed out " and oscillated abruptly between the expected spring rates and much higher bump stop spring rates.

They grow much like the other erect cultivars described above, however the canes that emerge in the spring, will flower in mid-summer and fruit in late summer or fall.

A mercury delay line consisted of a long tube filled with mercury, a mechanical transducer on one end, and a microphone on the other end, much like a spring reverb unit later used in audio processing.

The leading arm / trailing arm swinging arm, fore-aft linked suspension system together with inboard front brakes had a much smaller unsprung weight than existing coil spring or leaf spring designs.

* Hand-powered electrical equipment, such as a clockwork radio, where an energy-storing spring accounting for much of the size and weight of the device spins a much smaller electric generator ; such equipment is very popular where batteries and mains power ( house current ) are scarce.

" Blasphemy " may be used as a substitute for " profanity " or " cursing " as it is used in this sentence: " With much hammering and blasphemy, the locomotive's replacement spring was finally fitted.