The mouth and estuary of the Congo was now discovered ( perhaps in August 1482 ), and marked by a Padrão, or stone pillar ( still existing, but only in fragments ) erected on Shark Point, attesting the sovereignty of Portugal ; the great river was also ascended for a short distance, and intercourse was opened with the natives of the Bakongo kingdom.

It was a home of the Royal Navy from the reign of Edward III and was twice surprised and sacked during the Hundred Years ' War, after which the mouth of the estuary was closed every night with a great chain.

Firstly, a great amount of flood water ran into the Solent River and its tributaries, carving the estuary deeper.

Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.

It enters Backergunje near the north-west corner of the district, whence it forms its western boundary, and runs south, but with great windings in its upper reaches, until it crosses the Sundarbans, and finally falls into the Bay of Bengal by a large and deep estuary, capable of receiving ships of considerable size.

Because its demarcation line was midway between Cape Saint Roque ( northeast cape of South America ) and the mouth of the Amazon River ( its estuary is marked Todo este mar he de agua doçe ( All of this sea is fresh water ) and its river is marked Rio grande ( great river )), Harrisse concluded that the line was at 42 ° 30 ' W on our sphere.

The Gironde is subject to very strong tidal currents and great care is needed when navigating the estuary by any size or type of boat.

The munitions factory was in a remote spot in the middle of the open marshes of north Kent, next to the Thames coastline, which explains why the great explosion at about noon on 2 April was heard across the Thames estuary as far away as Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Southend-on-Sea, where domestic windows were blown out and two large plate-glass shop windows shattered.

The estuary itself supports a great variety of thriving estuarine aquatic species ; contrary to popular stereotypes, New York Harbor and its adjacent, interdependent waters are very much alive, and recovering from pollution.

Germany ’ s various World War II designs were mostly designed to attack Allied shipping off landing beaches and harbours, although the Seehund had a great enough range to attack shipping off the Thames estuary.

A day later, Cadamosto discovered a great river ( grandissimo fiume ), which they named Rio Grande ( the Geba River-more precisely, the wide estuary it forms together with the Corubal River, it doesn't seem they actually entered the river itself ) ().

Below Dolgellau the river enters a wide and sandy estuary of great beauty.

The estuary of the Mawddach was a great centre of ship building in the 18th century and probably for some centuries before.

Sections of the river and surrounding estuary habitat are protected as parts of New Jersey ’ s extensive Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, because of the river ’ s great significance to migratory birds and waterfowl.

In order to enhance the appearance of what could have been a flat and dull settlement, built as it was on land reclaimed from Traeth Mawr, the estuary of the Afon Glaslyn, he placed the Market Square, the centre of his project, just in front of a great crag of rock, which had formerly been the Caernafonshire edge of the estuary.

The Khawr Abd Allah () is today an estuary, but once was the point where the great Euphrates and Tigris rivers emptied into the Persian Gulf.

* A century later, Ptolemy's The Geographia also refers to Bharakuccha port as a great commercial center situated on the Narbada estuary.

In the Stalag, Helion came to know and love his comrades, most of them plain folk, who, in their extremity, showed true courage and ran great risks to help each other.

But it was then that Hume started his great historical work The History of England, which took fifteen years and ran over a million words, to be published in six volumes in the period between 1754 and 1762, while also involved with the Canongate Theatre.

" WikiWikiWeb " was also the name of the wiki that ran on the software, and in the first years of wikis ' existence there was no great distinction made between the contents of wikis and the software they ran on, possibly because almost every wiki ran on its own customized software.

It is known that in ancient times the great chain of the Red Mountains ran north to south near here, and was roughly analogous to the Blue Mountains of the west ( the world was once symmetrical at the dawn of time ).

With the close support of his family, Hadlee cancelled all his appointments for two weeks, and took a holiday to Rarotonga, where he ran into his great cricketing rival Dennis Lillee.

News of the two deaths broke almost simultaneously and some newspapers ran an obituary of Howerd in which Hill was quoted as regretting Howerd's passing, saying " We were great, great friends ".

Through the rich plain of Issus ran the great highway that linked east and west, on which stood the cities of Tarsus ( Tarsa ) on the Cydnus, Adana ( Adanija ) on the Sarus, and Mopsuestia ( Missis ) on the Pyramus.

At the Bologna university the students ran everything — a fact that often put teachers under great pressure and disadvantage.

This location also means that the city lies in the great Minnesota River Valley, an area of considerable width in which a great river once ran after the receding of the glaciers that left Minnesota with so many lakes.

The trail followed the great divide between the Missouri and Mississippi watershed and ran through the site of what was to become Macon County's first county seat, Bloomington, in 1837.

When the original system was laid out, it ran to two wooden troughs on the Square, which is now the intersection of Main St. and Market St. One trough was since replaced by Matilda Zimmerman in memory of Mary Rex Zimmerman, her mother and great granddaughter of Alexander Schaeffer.

In the late 19th century a great Giorgione revival began, and the fashion ran the other way.

The magazine ran a near-nude centerfold of actor Burt Reynolds in April 1972, causing great controversy and attracting much attention.

His cheerful manner and boyish good looks made him a great favourite with viewers ; he was asked to present other quiz programmes, including Movie Quiz and Film Buff of the Year which was ran from 1985 to 1992.

Jean Stapleton's screeching high note on the line " And you knew who you WEEERRE then " became louder, longer, and more comical, although it was only in the original version that audience laughter was heard in response to her rendition of the note ; Carroll O ' Connor's pronunciation of " welfare state " gained more of Archie's trademark enunciation and the closing lyrics ( especially " Gee, our old LaSalle ran great.

" The same entry says he was the first person for many years who had been so made in London ; there was great difficulty in finding sufficient members to perform the Ceremony ; and immediately thereafter " Freemasonry took a run and ran itself out of breath through the folly of its members.

Her old friend Sally Seton, whom Clarissa admires dearly, is remembered as a great independent woman: She smoked cigars, once ran down a corridor naked to fetch her sponge-bag and made bold, unladylike statements to get a reaction from people.

He is called an Italian, a Spaniard, a Pole ; a somebody that married a great fortune in Mexico, and ran away with her jewels to Constantinople ; a priest, a fiddler, a vast nobleman.

His work ran parallel to that of the great mathematician Gauss ( potential theory ).

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

America did not become great through softness and self-indulgence.

`` Well, as a matter of fact, I've looked through back-issue files of New York papers for December, 1957, and haven't found a great deal '' --

We have already witnessed great changes through mergers and acquisitions in the food industry -- at both the manufacturing and retail ends.

and it is not unlikely that, even as the great Bach lay dormant for so many years, so has the erudite, ingenious SalFininistas passed through his `` purgatory '' of neglect.

Pip's great expectations, his progress through illusion and disillusionment, turn, somewhat as they do for the naive hero of Dreiser's American Tragedy, upon the lure of genteel prosperity through unearned income -- what Wemmick calls `` portable property '' and what Jaggers reproaches Pip for letting `` slip through ( his ) fingers ''.

Through which he has granted us the very great and precious promises, so that through them you may become partaker of the divine nature.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

Nobel invested in these and amassed great wealth through the development of these new oil regions.

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

An example of ancient aesthetics in Greece through poetry is Plato's quote: " For the authors of those great poems which we admire, do not attain to excellence through the rules of any art ; but they utter their beautiful melodies of verse in a state of inspiration, and, as it were, possessed by a spirit not their own.

A person who has mastered great amounts of knowledge of the grammars, rules, & language of an art-form are adepts ( Daksha ), whereas those who have worked through the whole system and journeyed ahead of these to become a law unto themselves is called a Mahana.

His march northward through the Alps was interrupted by Rudolph, King of Transjurane Burgundy, and it was only with great difficulty that Arnulf crossed the mountain range.

" Rav also exercised a great influence for good upon the moral and religious conditions of his native land, not only indirectly through his disciples, but directly by reason of the strictness with which he repressed abuses in matters of marriage and divorce, and denounced ignorance and negligence in matters of ritual observance.

About the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the popes, then residing at Avignon in France, began to reserve the collation of a great many benefices, so that all the benefices, especially the greater ones, were to be conferred through the Roman Curia ( Lega, Praelectiones Jur.

After the end of the official celebration, the day ended in a huge four-day popular feast and people celebrated with fireworks, as well as fine wine and running naked through the streets in order to display their great freedom.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

Fungi communicate with their own and related species as well as with nonfungal organisms in a great variety of symbiotic interactions, especially with bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, plants and insects through semiochemicals of biotic origin.

North and northeast of Lake Chad, the basin extends for more than 800 kilometers, passing through regions characterized by great rolling dunes separated by very deep depressions.

To the southeast of this great basin is the Mekong Delta, which extends through Vietnam to the South China Sea.