There, they hoped to find Descartes material that had not been contaminated by ejecta from South Ray Crater, a large crater south of the landing site.

After consolidating political and financial support, William crossed the North Sea and English Channel with a large invasion fleet in November 1688, landing at Torbay.

The main feature that defines a galliard step is the last two beats consist of a large jump, landing with one leg ahead of the other.

Iqaluit's first permanent inhabitant was Nakasuk, an Inuk guide who helped American Air Force planners to choose a site with a large flat area suitable for a landing strip.

* Location of landing: In the city of Ashdod the light-tower hill is called Givat-Yonah, on the holy Muslim site of Nebbi Yunes, according to traditions of the three monotheistic Abrahamic religions, the site where Jonah was thrown by the large fish.

Given barely two months to assemble a large sea-going invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft.

Because of the great width of the pontoons, Schwimmpanzer IIs were to be deployed from specially modified Type C landing barges, from which they could be launched directly into open water from a large hatch cut into the stern.

There are few commercial airports, but a large number of basic landing strips for small aircraft do exist.

A farmer and her daughter observed the strange scene of a figure in a bright orange suit with a large white helmet landing near them by parachute.

The Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', a Soviet-era bomber, has large bulged landing gear nacelles behind the two inner engines, increasing the aircraft's overall cross section aft of the wing root.

Aerialists train for their jumping maneuvers during the summer months by skiing on specially constructed Water Ramps for Freestyle Skiing & Snowboarding and landing in a large swimming pool.

This enabled the smaller countries in the network to afford their own landing points, and also allowed the network to accommodate for large changes in traffic demands at any individual station, such as the dramatic increase during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

Gelimer, ignorant or contemptuous of Justinian's plans, sent a large army consisting of most of the available army in Africa under his brother Tzazo to crush the rebellion, meaning that the landing of Belisarius was entirely unopposed.

Any fish can theoretically be caught with any rod, of course, but catching panfish on a heavy rod offers no sport whatsoever, and successfully landing a large fish on an ultralight rod requires supreme rod handling skills at best, and more frequently ends in broken tackle and a lost fish.

In the early 20th century, with a well equipped seaport, with piers, quays, landing sheds and electric cranes, enabling large vessels to discharge cargoes direct into the railway trucks, Lourenço Marques developed under Portuguese rule and achieved great importance as a lively cosmopolitan city.

This part has a large number of regulations to ensure airworthiness in areas such as structural loads, airframe, performance, stability, controllability, and safety mechanisms, how the seats must be constructed, oxygen and air pressurization systems, fire prevention, escape hatches, flight management procedures, flight control communications, emergency landing procedures, and other limitations, as well as testing of all the systems of the aircraft.

The principal advantage of the Zaschka machine is in its ability to remain motionless in the air for any length of time and to descend in a vertical line, so that a landing may be accomplished on the flat roof of a large house.

Notable bull markets marked the 1925-1929, 1953 – 1957 and the 1993-1997 periods when the U. S. and many other stock markets rose ; while the first period ended abruptly with the start of the Great Depression the end of the later time periods were mostly periods of soft landing, which became large bear markets.

Otto's army was unable to break the fortification, so he changed tactics and sailed around it landing in Jutland with a large fleet.

They were not even designed for a soft landing ; the large probe had a parachute that was designed to cut loose at a certain altitude, and the small probes had no parachute at all.

The landing rockets used an 18-nozzle design to spread the hydrogen and nitrogen exhaust over a large area.

This hallway leads to a maze-like complex, starting with a large room ( the " Anteroom "), which in turn leads to a truly enormous space ( the " Great Hall "), a room primarily distinguished by an enormous spiral staircase which appears, when viewed from the landing, to spiral down without end.

It has two very large letters " LH " and an arrow painted on it which was used to denote to aircraft pilots the direction to nearby London Heathrow Airport using visual flight rules ( VFR ) if landing on the now closed runway 23.

To transport the Orbiter from the OMCF ( on North Vandenberg AFB ) to SLC-6, the route was upgraded to accommodate a 76-wheeled vehicle built specifically to carry the Orbiter on its large flat deck utilizing the three external tank interface points ( built by Commetto, Italy ), versus towing the Orbiter on its landing gear that long distance.

The meat cutters' union, which has a history of being one of the fairest and least corrupt in our area, represents the little corner markets as well as the large supermarkets.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

Areas should be large enough to include the attractions, have ample space for the use of facilities needed, and have room around the edges to protect the values of the area from encroachment by private developments.

Acreage in excess of the minimum is good practice as recreation areas are never too large for the future and it is often more economical to operate one large area than several small ones.

A large picnic area or camping development is most efficient in shape as a square or rectangle several hundred feet in width in preference to a long narrow area less than one hundred feet wide.

It is possible that especially large anacondas will prove to belong to subspecies limited to a small area.

The unstructured schools were in a large suburban community, predominantly middle- to upper-middle class, but fringed by an industrial area.

This is an area in which there is still a large backlog of demand.

The large acreage in the Southwest Redevelopment area beckons white people -- what with high-priced town houses and elevator apartments.

The division said it would be impossible to work on the line until then because of the large amount of acid sewage from jewelry plants in the area flowing through the line, heavy vehicle traffic on Eddy Street and tide conditions.

A modern cotton gin plant costs in the neighborhood of $250,000, and it's a safe assumption that a large percentage of new gins in the U.S. and foreign countries contain machinery made in this area.

This is an area nearly as large as Western Europe ; ;

At one extreme are the systems of upper New York State, where libraries in two or more counties combine to serve a large, sparsely populated area.

and I asked myself a question: Suppose I had the same number of peas as there are atoms in my body, how large an area would they cover??

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 cytokines trigger an inflammatory response, which draws large numbers of white blood cells to the area and increases the regional blood flow.

It has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.

If there is much current, or the vessel is moving while dropping the anchor, it may " kite " or " skate " over the bottom due to the large fluke area acting as a sail or wing.

It too features a sharp toe like the Bügel for penetrating weed and grass, sets quickly, and has a particularly large fluke area.

The impact severely damaged an area of the Pentagon and caused a large fire.

Apart from the city of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory also contains agricultural land ( sheep, dairy cattle, vineyards and small amounts of crops ) and a large area of national park ( Namadgi National Park ), much of it mountainous and forested.

Geologists chose the area because of a wide crater created approximately 1. 6 million years ago by a large meteorite.

The Auschwitz complex of camps was located administratively in Germany, Provinz Oberschlesien, Regierungsbezirk Kattowitz, Landkreis Bielitz, approximately 30 km south of Katowice and 50 km west of Kraków, encompassing a large industrial area rich in natural resources.