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Amathus () was one of the most ancient royal cities of Cyprus, on the southern coast in front of Agios Tychonas, about 24 miles west of Larnaca and 6 miles east of Limassol.
In the summer of 2001 a new visitors ' centre was opened to the public beside the Abbey's west front.
It celebrates the illumination of the medium-sized trees lining College Walk in front of Kent and Hamilton Halls on the east end and Dodge and Journalism Halls on the west, just before finals week in early December.
The three Greek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard originally formed the baptistery complex of the Constantinean church, the southern most chapel being the vestibule, the middle chapel being the actual baptistery and the north chapel being the chamber in which the patriarch chrismated the newly baptized before leading them into the rotunda north of this complex.
Currently the Ugandans and the MLC still hold a wide section of the north of the country ; Rwandan forces and its front, the Rassemblement Congolais pour la Démocratie ( RCD ) control a large section of the east ; and government forces or their allies hold the west and south of the country.
At the beginning of the war, a discontinuous front line ran through southern Finland from west to east, dividing the country into White Finland and Red Finland.
Lord Grimthorpe financed a £ 130, 000 renovation and rebuilding of the then dilapidated cathedral, which is most apparent in his generally poorly regarded Neo-Gothic rebuild of the west front ( 1880 – 1883 ).
When speaking Mongolian, speakers will typically use the words for " front ", " back ", " left ", and " right " to mean " south ", " north ", " east ", and " west ", respectively.
One bomb fell into Old Palace Yard on 26 September 1940 and severely damaged the south wall of St Stephen's Porch and the west front.
In the west, apart from the Battle of the Atlantic the sieges were not on the same scale as those on the European Eastern front ; however, there were several notable or critical sieges: the island of Malta, for which the population won the George Cross, Tobruk.
Tours Cathedral: 15th century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.
Valhalla has spear-shafts for rafters, a roof thatched with shields, coats of mail are strewn over its benches, a wolf hangs in front of its west doors, and an eagle hovers above it.
However, with a powerful enough force of knights pressing them in the front from the west, and a powerful force of knights chasing them from the East, the Hungarians would be unable to escape.
The amount of yearly rainfall increases from west to east along the southern front of the range.
The first stone of the nave was laid and the west front was undertaken in 1925.
* Bedonkohe ( Bi-dan-ku-‘ In Front of the End People ’, Bi-da-a-naka-enda-‘ Standing in front of the enemy ’, often called Mogollon, Gila Apaches, Northeastern Chiricahua, lived in the Mogollon Mountains and Tularosa Mountains between the San Francisco River in the West and the Gila River to the southeast in west New Mexico )
Lossberg rejected the proposed withdrawal to the Flandern Line and ordered that the current front line east of the Sehnen Line ( Oosttaverne Line to the British ) be held rigidly as the front of a deepened Flandern Stellung ( position ), in front of the Flandern Line which was to become Flandern I, with a new Flandern II line built west of Menin, north to Terhand and Passchendaele, at the back of a new Flandern II Stellung.
In September 1902 the Yacolt Burn, the largest fire in state history, began in neighboring Skamania County and swept west along a 12-mile front to Yacolt, nearly engulfing the town.
Cold north, northwest, or west winds generally blow across the lake following the passage of a cold front, and the temperature difference between the warm lake and the cool air can form clouds that lead to precipitation downwind of the lake.
The most dramatic element of the new design was an octagonal dome, which he placed above the west front of the building in place of a second-story portico.
An image of the west front of Monticello by Felix Schlag has been featured on the reverse of the nickel minted since 1938 ( with a brief interruption in 2004 and 2005, when designs of the Westward Journey series appeared instead ).
Paul's Cathedral, west front

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Following the eighteenth century, when European men west of Poland were universally clean-shaven, sideburns, like beards, began to grow in popularity during the Napoleonic period, as first among military men ( illustration, left ); the trend eventually made its way to Meiji Japan, in the first wave of Western fashion there.
An old illustration of the gate c. 1650Newgate at the west end of Newgate Street was one of the historic seven gates of London Wall round the City of London and one of the six which date back to Roman times.
Though Lescot was confirmed in his position after the king's death by his heir Henry II, and though he worked at the Louvre project until his death, only the west side and part of the south side were completed, comprising the present southwest wing of the Cour Carré, the Aile Lescot, or " Lescot Wing " ( illustration ).
The High Level Bridge and the 1781 stone bridge, in an 1861 illustration taken from the Gateshead bank looking north west
The illustration to the right shows the station from the west.
At the west end of the wall there is an illustration of Khety sitting in front of a full offering table.
While it looks somewhat volcanic from the east and west, the movement of glacial ice created its current form and the National Park Service names the peak as " an exceptional illustration of the complex anticlinal deformation which formed the Green Mountains ".

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* The Baudhayana Dharmasutra gives similar definitions, declaring that Aryavarta is the land that lies west of Kalakavana, east of Adarsana ( where the Sarasvati disappears in the desert ), south of the Himalayas and north of the Vindhyas.
The narrator gives the coordinates of Grover's Corners as 42 ° 40 ′ north latitude and 70 ° 37 ′ west longitude, which is in Massachusetts, about a thousand feet off the coast of Rockport.
* Further west is St. Anne's, a quiet church surrounded by its graveyard, which gives its name to the street it is on.
Simply measuring the distance along the horizon between these points, in angular terms ( comparing it with the length of the analemma, as described above ), gives the angle between due east or west and the direction of sunrise or sunset.
A limestone outcropping on Big Creek on the west side of town gives its name to the Bethany Falls Limestone formation.
Interstate 25, which skirts the west side of town, gives a view of the majority of the town.
After crossing the yard, wooded surroundings resume as the parkway follows the eastern edge of the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx Park neighborhood and the Bronx River, which gives the road its name, begins to follow it on the west.
At the eastern end of the Buochser See, where the containing walls of the lake-valley are directed from east to west, it is joined at an acute angle by the Bay of Uri, or Urner See, lying in the northern prolongation of the deep cleft that gives a passage to the Reuss, between the Bernese chain and the Alps of N. Switzerland.
** A cape on Lake Ontario in the municipality of Clarington, Regional Municipality of Durham, to the east of Toronto, which gives its name to a neighbourhood and local park west of the cape and east of the Port of Newcastle harbour.
Nantua faces a small lake on its west side and is protected by high cliffs on its landward sides which gives rise to a relatively mild continental climate.
It may be this population which gives rise to vagrants as far west as Iceland, Great Britain and Ireland.
The southern arm appears prominently close to Oldbury town centre, which gives it its name, but can be traced back to an industrial area at Titford, just west of the M5 motorway, between Whiteheath and Langley Green.
Shooter's Hill also gives its name to the A road which passes through east to west and is part of the A207 road, the A2 road, and also Watling Street.
Viollet-le-Duc gives examples from St Germer and St Remi, and there is one of similar form at the west front of Rochester Cathedral.
* optionally, its distinctive sequence of flashing light, which consists of a sequence of quick or very quick flashes whose number gives the clockface position which corresponds to the direction of the cardinal ( e. g. three for an east cardinal, nine for a west ; north has continuous flashes, and south may be augmented with a long flash, to help distinguish it from a west in difficult conditions )
The village of Rosneath lies on the western shore just north of Rosneath Point and gives the name Rosneath Peninsula to the whole body of land separating the Gare Loch from Loch Long to the west.
Andersons Creek Road runs along an unnamed ridge that, when atop, gives views of Mount Dandenong to the east and the further rolling hills of Templestowe to the west.
The village gives its name to Frankley services, a motorway service area on the M5 motorway to the north west of the village.
The entire area gives an impression of being at a much higher elevation than it actually is, in part because of the relatively low elevation of the adjacent area to the west.
The longitude gives the position east or west of the Moon's prime meridian, which is the line of longitude passing through the point on the lunar surface directly facing Earth.
Wairoa is situated on the SH2, which gives connections to Gisborne to the north east and Napier to the south west.
It is occupied by Magnuson Park, parts of View Ridge, Windermere and gives its name to the Sand Point neighborhood to the west.
It is overlooked by the tower blocks of Little London and Lovell Park to the west, and gives way to Meanwood in the north-west, Chapeltown in the north-east and Burmantofts in the east.

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