The third is between Japan and western North America.

Copper-tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia before the third millennium BC.

In 1988 the EPLF captured Afabet, headquarters of the Ethiopian Army in northeastern Eritrea, putting approximately a third of the Ethiopian Army out of action, prompting the Ethiopian Army to withdraw from its garrisons in Eritrea's western lowlands.

Under the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western third of Hispaniola to France which renamed the colony Saint-Domingue.

In the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain formally ceded the western third of the island to France.

Ten years after the move to Indiana the commune moved again, this time returning to western Pennsylvania, and named their third and final town Economy (' Ökonomie ' in German ).

* Terrain: mostly mountainous ( Alps ) with Rhine Valley in western third

The Late Middle Ages were marked by difficulties and calamities, such as famine, plague, and war, which much diminished the population of western Europe ; in the four years from 1347 through 1350, the Black Death killed approximately a third of the European population.

However, a Time Magazine reconstruction of the long-suppressed Bavarian prosecutor's report indicates that a third kidnapper ( Reeve identifies Adnan Al-Gashey ) stood at the door of the western helicopter and raked the remaining five hostages with machine gun fire ; Gutfreund, Shorr, Slavin, Spitzer and Shapira were shot an average of four times each.

On the southern border, Texas makes up the eastern two-thirds, while the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora make up the western third, with Chihuahua making up about 90 % of that.

Starting in Asia, the disease reached Mediterranean and western Europe in 1348 ( possibly from Italian merchants fleeing fighting in Crimea ), and killed an estimated 20 to 30 million Europeans in six years ; a third of the total population, and up to a half in the worst-affected urban areas.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

The third winter saw Maud frozen in the western Bering Strait, before finally reaching Seattle for repairs in 1921.

In early Islamic states of the western Sudan, including Ghana ( 750 – 1076 ), Mali ( 1235 – 1645 ), Segou ( 1712 – 1861 ), and Songhai ( 1275 – 1591 ), about a third of the population were enslaved.

Western Australia ( abbreviated as WA ) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

Europeans began to settle permanently in 1826 when Albany was claimed by Britain to forestall French claims to the western third of the continent.

Western Australia did not receive significant flows of migrants from Britain, Ireland or elsewhere in the British Empire until the early 20th century when local projects — such as the Group Settlement Scheme of the 1920s which encouraged farmers to settle the southwest — increased awareness of Australia's western third as a destination for colonists.

This secures the western ' third ' of the Australian landmass for the British.

This secures the western ' third ' of the Australian landmass for the British.

The French Institute of International Relations ( IFRI ) was founded in 1979 and is the third oldest think tank of western Europe, after the Chatam House ( UK, 1920 ) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( Sweden, 1960 ).

The remaining third of the country consists of the foothills and lower lying areas along the Danube valley between the two mountain ranges in the centre, and the eastern plains along the Hungarian border, forming the western edge of the Pannonian Basin.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, thirteen centrally controlled commanderies — including the capital region — existed in the western third of the empire, while the eastern two-thirds were divided into ten semi-autonomous kingdoms.

A proposed South-North Water Transfer Project involves several schemes to divert water from the Yangtze River: one in the western headwaters of the rivers where they are closest to one another, another from the upper reaches of the Han River, and a third using the route of the old Grand Canal.

Under the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western third of Hispaniola to France.

Public parkland includes the esplanade along the Charles River, which mirrors its Boston counterpart, Cambridge Common, a busy and historic public park immediately adjacent to the Harvard campus, and the Alewife Brook Reservation and Fresh Pond in the western part of the city.

* Michigan Wolverines is the first " western " team to travel east and play against the established teams at Harvard Crimson, Yale Bulldogs and Princeton Tigers.

Capitol Hill is also responsible for half of Seattle's 12 steepest street grades: 21 % on E. Roy Street between 25th and 26th Avenues E. ( eastern slope ), 19 % on E. Boston Street between Harvard Avenue E. and Broadway E. ( western slope ) and on E. Ward Street between 25th and 26th Avenues E. ( eastern slope ), and 18 % on E. Highland Drive between 24th and 25th Avenues E. ( eastern slope ), on E. Lee Street between 24th and 25th Avenues E. ( eastern slope ), and on E. Roy Street between Melrose and Bellevue Avenues E. ( western slope ).

Adjacent to Harvard Yard, the historic heart of Harvard University, the Square ( as it is sometimes called locally ) functions as a commercial center for Harvard students, as well as residents of western Cambridge and the inner western and northern suburbs of Boston.

He was admitted to Harvard College as a second year student soon after arriving in America and upon graduation in 1671 became pastor and physician at Westfield, on the remote western frontier of Massachusetts, where he remained until his death.

It was included in the Harvard Classics as one of the most important and representative works of the western canon.

The first western team to travel east was the 1881 Michigan team, which played at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

In Harvard, the route leaves Massachusetts Avenue at its far western end, looping around until it meets Route 110 at that town's center.

Finally, the Ludlam Canal and Florida East Coast Railroad Yard delimit the western boundary.

The Mill Yard Tract was a portion of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase of western New York State.

The Triangle Tract was 87, 000 acre ( 352 km² ) parcel of land abutting the Mill Yard Tract portion of the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in western New York State in the USA.

However, when the Mill Yard Tract was surveyed, the surveyor assumed that the Genesee River ran due north, and ran the western boundary 12 miles ( 19 km ) distant from the westernmost bend, due north.

Bishopsgate station ( also commonly known as Bishopsgate Goods Yard ) was a railway station located on the eastern side of Shoreditch High Street ( A10 ) in the modern London Borough of Tower Hamlets ; the western edge of the East End.

After the fleet rounded Cape Horn and steamed up the western coasts of South and North America, he detached from at Mare Island Navy Yard and was assigned to the staff of his father, Edward D. Taussig by then a Rear Admiral and Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard.

It runs from the Passaic and Harsimus Line at Marion Junction in western Jersey City via a short connection known as the Marion Running Track north to the North Bergen Yard and the CSX Transportation ( CSX ) Rivers Subdivision, At its southern end the running track provides a connection to Norfolk Southern Railway's Croxton Yard and junctions with the National Docks Secondary.

The line's western terminus is a junction with the CSX ( former Louisville and Nashville Railroad ) main line in Birmingham, Alabama, near CSX's Boyles Yard.

These conceptions and the manner in which they were transposed into poetry or engendered by poetic form are intrinsic to western life from the time of Aeschylus to that of Shakespeare.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

The people of Graz, the capital of Styria, speak yet another dialect which is not very Styrian and more easily understood by people from other parts of Austria than other Styrian dialects, for example from western Styria.

Confirming evidence is found in excavations of the western regions of the Mississippi Valley between 1150 and 1350, which show long-lasting patterns of warmer, wetter winters and cooler, drier summers.

Most of the population lives in the western and northwestern parts of the country, where the two major cities, Yerevan and Gyumri ( which was called Aleksandropol ' during the tsarist period ), are located.

Among many roles in his career, Arau has played " Captain Herrera ", a lieutenant of Federal general " Mapache ", in Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, chief bandit " El Guapo " in Three Amigos ( USA, 1986 ), a comedy with Martin Short, Steve Martin, and Chevy Chase, and the smuggler " Juan " in Romancing the Stone which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In the Coastal Plain are the Tombigbee River in the west, the Alabama River ( formed by the Coosa and Tallapoosa ) in the western central, and in the east the Chattahoochee River, which forms almost half of the Georgia boundary.

Hardly less important is the Ruwenzori Range, over, which lies east of the western trough.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

Astrology's modern representation in western popular media is usually reduced to sun sign astrology, which considers only the zodiac sign of the Sun at an individual's date of birth, and represents only 1 / 12 of the total chart.

The first IFV was the Soviet BMP-1, which surprised western intelligence analysts when it appeared in a military parade in 1967.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

What remains of it today are the sacristy, added by Abbot Paniter in the 15th century, the southern transept, which features Scotland's largest lancet windows, part of the choir and presbytery, the southern half of the nave, parts of the western towers and the western doorway.

The northern and western sides consist of stony but fertile plains, which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain, with some cotton, vines, almonds, olives and figs, but the most characteristic crop of Aegina today ( 2000s ) is pistachio.

The detachment at Jerusalem, which apparently encamped all over the city ’ s western hill, was responsible for preventing Jews from returning to the city.

The liturgical communities in western Christianity that derive their rituals from the Roman Missal, including those particular communities which use the Roman Missal itself ( Roman Catholics ), the Book of Common Prayer ( Anglicans / Episcopalians ), the Lutheran Book of Worship ( ELCA Lutherans ), Lutheran Service Book ( Missouri-Synod Lutherans ), use the Apostles ' Creed and interrogative forms of it in their rites of Baptism, which they consider to be the first sacrament of initiation into the Church.

However, in 1948, when the Western Allies extended the currency reform in the Western zones of Germany to the three western sectors of Berlin, the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the access routes to and from West Berlin, which lay entirely inside Soviet-controlled territory.

Berlin is situated in northeastern Germany, approximately west of the Polish border, in an area of low-lying marshy woodlands with a mainly flat topography, part of the vast Northern European Plain which stretches all the way from northern France to western Russia.

In Spandau, Berlin's westernmost borough, the Spree empties into the river Havel, which flows from north to south through western Berlin.

Most of Bede's informants for information after Augustine's mission came from the eastern part of Britain, leaving significant gaps in the knowledge of the western areas, which were those areas likely to have a native Briton presence.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.