The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.

Almagro promptly initiated the exploration of the new territory starting towards the valley of the Aconcagua River, where he was well received by the natives.

On May 1, 1561, King Charles IX of France received a lily of the valley as a lucky charm.

Burgoyne's concern over supplies was magnified in early August when he received word from Howe that he ( Howe ) was going to Philadelphia, and was not in fact going to advance up the Hudson River valley.

Rainfall in the valley varies between and per year, the bulk of which is received during the monsoonal wet season.

He moved up the Thames valley to cross the river at Wallingford, Berkshire ; while there, he received the submission of Stigand.

The valley receives 55 inches ( 140 cm ) or more of snow in a year, with up to 100 inches ( 250 cm ) received on the benches.

Kumaraja ) from whom he received the Dzogchen empowerment and teachings in the mountains, the uplands of Yartökyam at Samye where he was traveling from valley to valley with his students under the most difficult of circumstances.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

In the 1700s the valley in which San Diego Country Estates is located received its name when Father Mariner of Mission San Diego de Alcalá discovered the location, proclaiming it a constant and beautiful valley, and named it in honor of Saint Vincent.

A second federal highway, U. S. Highway 275, received its designation in 1939 ; it follows the Elkhorn valley upstream from Omaha through Norfolk to O ' Neill.

Pisco may have received its name from the town of Pisco, located on the coast of Peru inside of the valley of Pisco, made by the river with the same name.

Whilst encamped in the valley of the Yarkand River, Younghusband received a messenger at his camp, inviting him to dinner with Captain Bronislav Grombchevsky, his Russian counterpart in " The Great Game ".

Much of that precipitation was received into the Susquehanna from its western tributaries, and the valley suffered disastrous flooding.

At the height of Samudra Gupta ’ s power, he controlled nearly all of the valley of the Ganges ( Ganga ) River and received homage from rulers of parts of east Bengal, Assam, Nepal, the eastern part of the Punjab, and various tribes of Rajasthan.

Its current state has occurred because the Medina used to be a tributary of the river Solent and have a much larger catchment area, as the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal.

David was settled in Adrianople together with his family, and received the profits of estates in the Struma River valley, comprising an annual income of some 300, 000 pieces of silver.

Influences from the West were heard everywhere, because TV and radio that came from the Klassenfeind ( enemy of the working class ) could be received in many parts of the East, too ( a notorious exception being Dresden, with its geographically disadvantageous position in the Elbe valley, giving it the nickname of “ Valley of the Clueless ” despite some Western radio being available ).

The Valle ( valley ) receives relatively little rainfall from summer thunderstorms ; most of the precipitation is received in the form of snow on the high mountain tops surrounding the city.

She settled in the Château of La Chevrette in the valley of Montmorency, a few miles north of Paris, and there received a number of distinguished visitors.

Draco received intelligence of a secret base in a valley, where Dr. Harley is experimenting with robots.

Again in 206 BC, the Seleucid emperor Antiochus led an army to the Kabul valley, where he received war elephants and presents from the local king Sophagasenus:

And the valley stretched endlessly out ahead, scorched and baked and writhing in its heat, until it vanished into the throbbing wall of fiery orange brown haze.

A great rift valley also extends along the ridge over most of its length.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The oldest indication for its use in Europe comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10, 000 – 9000 BCE.

Particularly famous for its apple crop, the valley hosts in excess of 1, 000 farms of various types, the majority being relatively small family-owned operations.

The valley also struggles with pollution from farm runoffs and residential sewers in its two major rivers, the Annapolis River and the Cornwallis River.

To the north, the Christian Kingdom of Asturias was continuing its program of Reconquista in the Duero valley.

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

France's priorities were in settling and strengthening its claim on New France and the exploration and settlement of interior North America and the Mississippi River valley.

All of the African Great Lakes were formed as the result of the rift, and most lie within its rift valley.

Gosford proper is located in a valley with President's Hill on the city's western border and Rumbalara Reserve on its eastern border, and Brisbane water to the city's south.

The Hudson's Bay Company moved its south Baffin operations to the neighbouring valley of Niaqunngut, officially called Apex, in 1949 to take advantage of the airfield.

At its peak over 1100 mills operated in this valley, including Slater's mill, and with it the earliest beginnings of America's Industrial and Technological Development.

Kabul is over 3, 500 years old ; many empires have long fought over the valley for its strategic location along the trade routes of South and Central Asia.

Drafted by a treaty and a bill of sale, and constituted between 1820 and 1858, the Princely State of Kashmir and Jammu ( as it was first called ) combined disparate regions, religions, and ethnicities: to the east, Ladakh was ethnically and culturally Tibetan and its inhabitants practised Buddhism ; to the south, Jammu had a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs ; in the heavily populated central Kashmir valley, the population was overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, however, there was also a small but influential Hindu minority, the Kashmiri brahmins or pandits ; to the northeast, sparsely populated Baltistan had a population ethnically related to Ladakh, but which practised Shi ' a Islam ; to the north, also sparsely populated, Gilgit Agency, was an area of diverse, mostly Shi ' a groups ; and, to the west, Punch was Muslim, but of different ethnicity than the Kashmir valley.

The largest Muslim group, situated in the Valley of Kashmir and estimated to number more than half the population of the entire region, lay in Indian-administered territory, with its former outlets via the Jhelum valley route blocked.

He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.

It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10. 994 km ( 10, 994 ± 40 m ) or 6. 831 mi ( 36, 069 ± 131 ft ) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end, although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at.

Due to its location in a steep-sided valley, the Italian town of Viganella gets no direct sunlight for seven weeks each winter.

The Mindanao River and its main tributaries, the Catisan and the Pulangi, form a valley with a maximum length of and a width which varies from at the river mouth to about in central Cotabato.

The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley.

However, the domestication of oxen in Mesopotamia and by its contemporary Indus valley civilization, perhaps as early as the 6th millennium .., provided mankind with the draft power necessary to develop the larger, animal-drawn true ard ( or scratch plough ).