The two pairs of main roads-the cardines ( north-south ) and decumani ( east-west )-in Aelia Capitolina.

In addition to the usual central north-south road ( cardo ), which in Jerusalem headed straight up the western hill, a second major north-south road was added down the line of the Tyropoeon Valley ; these two cardines converge near the Damascus Gate, close to the Via Dolorosa.

These two approaches frequently converged and generally complemented one another.

The American gauges converged over time as the advantages of equipment interchange became increasingly apparent ; notably, the South's broad gauge system was converted to be compatible with standard gauge over two days, beginning May 31, 1886.

A block north of where Sonntag and Rutt had been murdered, Whitman shot and killed a 38-year-old doctoral student and father of six named Harry Walchuk as he browsed at a newsstand before wounding a 36-year-old press reporter named Robert Heard in the arm as Heard ran towards two highway patrolmen who had converged on the scene.

In the mid-1850s, two large railway lines converged on the Indiana-Illinois state line – the narrow-gauge Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway ( later the Wabash Railroad ), whose route from the east crossed Warren County and reached the border in October 1856, and the standard-gauge Great Western Railroad, which shortly thereafter reached the state line from the west.

It was only logical that the point at which two railroads converged would be ideal for a city.

Murray's 3, 886-man force consisted of ten regular battalions, a converged light infantry battalion, and two companies of rangers.

Collingwood altered the course of his column slightly so that the two lines converged at the line of attack.

His attitude Fred would soften by mid-season as episodes tended to focus more on the two working together to solve a problem, as when several bill collectors converged on the house threatening to repossess their belongings.

In 862 two groups of Vikings — one the larger of two fleets recently forced out of the Seine by Charles the Bald, the other a fleet returning from a Mediterranean expedition — converged on Brittany, where one ( the Mediterranean group ) was hired by the Breton duke Salomon to ravage the Loire valley.

In 862 two groups of Vikings — one the larger of two fleets recently forced out of the Seine by Charles the Bald, the other a fleet returning from a Mediterranean expedition — converged on Brittany, where one ( the Mediterranean ) was hired by the Breton duke Salomon to ravage the Loire valley.

This converged device saves desk space and simplifies wiring by replacing two electronic devices with one.

On August 26, 1779, Sullivan left Fort Sullivan, where the two columns of his army had converged, with an estimated five thousand well armed and now freshly provisioned troops.

Maj. Gen. James Longstreet's command would remain in place for the day to deceive Pope into believing that Lee's entire force remained in his front, while Jackson's command made their flanking march, north and then east, to take strategically important Germantown, Virginia, where Pope's only two routes to Washington — the Warrenton Pike ( modern U. S. Route 29 ) and the Little River Turnpike ( modern U. S. Route 50 )— converged.

It was originally more serious than lam plern and required more skilled performers, but in the late 20th century the two converged to a style strongly influenced by Central Thai and western popular music and dance.

An adjacent shopkeeper heard their hammering, informed the City of London Police ( in whose area the shop was ), and nine unarmed officers — three sergeants and six constables ( two in plain clothes ) — converged on Exchange Buildings.

Their catchment areas had gradually converged, and by the early 1990s the standard of play and geographical coverage of the two competitions were considered to be similar enough that a new competition was formed to cater for the best clubs previously split across the two leagues.

During the early 20th century, two interurban trolley lines converged in Clarendon a short distance west of today's Clarendon Metro station.

In 1852, both constitutions were converged into one, which converted the personal union of the two duchies into a real union ; the duchies were now inseparable, with a common set of institutions.

The main Bulgarian army crossed the border in two strong divisions ( Guchev and Nikolaev ), supported by flanking columns, and converged on Pirot.

The main Bulgarian army crossed the border in two strong divisions ( Guchev and Nikolaev ) supported by flanking columns and converged on Pirot.

At Waterford, the two branches converged and continued north toward the Canadian border as a unified US 9.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

Six radiomen told how, twice on two days after the ring was nabbed, a transmitter near Moscow was heard calling, using signals, times and wavelengths specified on codes found hidden in cigaret lighters in Lonsdale's apartment and the Krogers' house and also fastened to the transmitter lid.

A young man was killed and two others injured at midnight Friday when the car they were riding slid into a utility pole on Lake Avenue near Waddell Street, NE, police said.

Four persons died in Georgia weekend traffic crashes, two of them in a fiery crash near Snellville, the State Patrol said Sunday.

Amphibians have two kidneys located dorsally, near the roof of the body cavity.

Gen. George H. Thomas moved against the Confederates, Crittenden decided to attack one of the two parts of Thomas's command at Logan's Cross Roads near Mill Springs before the Union forces could unite.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

The better known of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape.

For the rest of the two spacecrafts ' pass over the near side of the Moon, Mattingly prepared to shift Casper to a circular orbit while Young and Duke prepared Orion for the descent to the lunar surface.

In general, the guitar's soundbox can be thought of as composed of two connected chambers: the upper bouts and lower bouts ( a bout being the rounded corner of an instrument body ), which meet at the waist, or the narrowest part of the body face near the soundhole.

In the year 1893, during rule of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, a Royal Commission for setting up of Boundary between Afghanistan and British Governed India was set up to negotiate terms with the British, for the agreeing to the Durand line, and the two parties camped at Parachinar, now part of FATA Pakistan, which is near Khost, Afghanistan.

For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.

Berkelium ( III ) ions shows two sharp fluorescence peaks at 652 nanometers ( red light ) and 742 nanometers ( deep red – near infrared ) due to internal transitions at the f-electron shell.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.

Excavations near the site of a present day church and monastery, have revealed an early church with two empty tombs, believe to be that of St. Barnabas and Anthemios.

File: Lovers 9000BC british museum. jpg | Room 2-Ain Sakhri lovers, from the cave of Ain Sakhri, near Bethlehem, 11, 000 years old ( oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse )

Antony, who had found himself generally deserted, after vainly attempting to secure the army stationed near Paraetonium under Pinarius, and sending his eldest son Antyllus with money to Octavian and an offer to live at Athens as a private citizen, found himself in the spring attacked on two sides.

Italy had only two recently-obtained African territories, both located near Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa: Eritrea and Somali-land.

: Four volcanoes ( two of them active ) rise near San Jose, in the center of the country ; one of the volcanoes, Irazu Volcano, erupted destructively in 1963 – 1965.

This area is located near the Sečovlje-Plovanija official border crossing point ( set up by an interim agreement of the two countries in the 1990s ).

Further south, near Vukovar and near Šarengrad, there are two river islands ( Vukovarska ada and Šarengradska ada ) which have been part of SR Croatia ( during Yugoslavia ) but during the war they came under Serbian control.