Xerxes evidently took the bait, and the Persian fleet was sent out to effect the block.

As a result of subterfuge on the part of Themistocles, the Persian navy sailed into the Straits of Salamis and tried to block both entrances.

Xerxes evidently took the bait, and the Persian fleet was sent out that evening to effect this block.

The allied Greek land forces, which Herodotus states numbered no more than 4, 200 men, had chosen Thermopylae to block the advance of the vastly numerically superior Persian army.

Led by Hydarnes, a detachment of the Persian army advanced along this path, encountering 1000 Phocians stationed to block this route.

The name nardshir comes from the Persian nard ( Wooden block ) and shir ( lion ) referring to the two type of pieces used in play.

The Persian fleet next headed south down the coast of Attica, landing at the bay of Marathon, roughly from Athens Under the guidance of Miltiades, the general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon.

The Athenian general Themistocles proposed that the Allied Greeks block the advance of the Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae and simultaneously block the Persian navy at the Straits of Artemisium.

He brought bad news for the Allies — whilst most of the Persian fleet was undergoing repairs, the Persians had detached 200 seaworthy ships to sail around the outer coast of Euboea, to block the escape route of the Allied fleet.

He dug a number of ditches to block the Persian cavalry ; leaving gaps between them to allow a counterattack.

The name nardshir comes from the Persian nard ( Wooden block ) and shir ( lion ) referring to the two type of pieces used in play.

It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun.

The presence of the British there, and the creating of Kuwait to block non-British access to the Persian Gulf speaks to the strategic importance.

Expecting Hannibal to advance on Rome, Gnaeus Servilius and Gaius Flaminius ( the new consuls of Rome ) took their armies to block the eastern and western routes Hannibal could use.

The Hephthalites from Herat and some unidentified Turks opposed the Arab forces in a battle of Qohestān in 651-52 AD, trying to block their advance on Nishāpur, but they were defeated

A Thessalian delegation suggested that the allies could muster in the narrow Vale of Tempe, on the borders of Thessaly, and thereby block Xerxes's advance.

* March 26 – WWI: First Battle of Gaza: British cavalry troops retreat after 17, 000 Turks block their advance.

General Jose de Urrea was to advance eastward on the Texans from the south, Santa Anna and General Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma pushing from the center, and General Antonio Gaona supplied to march north of the Texans to Nacogdoches and then turn to block further retreat toward Louisiana.

Initially the ' congress ' agreed to defend the narrow Vale of Tempe, on the borders of Thessaly, and thereby block Xerxes's advance.

Multiple-indicator kriging ( MIK ) is a recent advance on other techniques for mineral deposit modeling and resource block model estimation, such as ordinary kriging.

Their king, Josiah, sided with the Babylonians and attempted to block his advance at Megiddo, where a fierce battle was fought and Josiah was killed ( 2 Kings 23: 29, 2 Chronicles 35: 20-24 ).

The county militia made a stand to block his advance on the county seat and the resulting conflict is known as the Battle of Corydon.

The Confederates were forced to retreat from the bloodiest battle in United States history up to that time, ending their hopes that they could block the Union advance into northern Mississippi.

It works by generating the hashes for each block in advance, encrypting them, and storing them on the server, then retrieving them when doing an incremental backup.

General José Miaja sent three International Brigades to the Jarama Valley to block the advance.

An advance guard under De Carnall defeated the Prussians at Neukalen ( 2 January 1762 ) who were trying to block the road and Ehrensvard marched into Malchin.

In early June General Rapp's Army of the Rhine of about 23, 000 men, with a leavening of experienced troops, advanced towards Germersheim to block Schwarzenberg expected advance, but on hearing the news of the French defeat at Waterloo, Rapp withdrew towards Strasbourg turning on 28 June to check the 40, 000 men of General Württenberg's Austrian III Corps at the battle of La Suffel – the last pitched battle of the Napoleonic Wars and a French victory.

The precise components of the kit varied but generally included pieces to modify the spark advance of the distributor, limiting spark advance to 34-36 ° at no more than 3, 000 rpm ( advancing the timing at high rpm for increased power ), a thinner head gasket to raise compression to about 11. 23: 1, a gasket to block the heat riser of the carburetor ( keeping it cooler ), larger carburetor jets, high-capacity oil pump, and fiberglass shims with lock nuts to hold the hydraulic valve lifters at their maximum point of adjustment, allowing the engine to rev higher without " floating " the valves.

Sometimes the catcher may block a pitch, and the ball may be nearby, but the catcher has trouble finding the ball, allowing runners to advance.

Audience members lined up around the block hours in advance to attend the show.

His division was actually under orders to proceed down the very road that Davout was on, to block his advance in the Kösen Pass.

During the game, the player must sometimes solve block puzzles to advance the story.

* Knock control by engine block sensor and new signal handling software that acted simultaneously on spark advance, fuel quantity injected and turbocharging ;

In the long term the Russians brought in more infantry and began a systematic advance through the city, house by house and block by block, with dismounted Russian infantry moving in support of armour.

For added strength, I also fastened a small block on each side of every frame and batten joint.

Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.

In the final block of ice, each of the small crystals ( called " crystallites " or " grains ") is a true crystal with a periodic arrangement of atoms, but the whole polycrystal does not have a periodic arrangement of atoms, because the periodic pattern is broken at the grain boundaries.

A small file is generated that contains a condensed, computer readable digest of this description that can then be used by content filtering software to block or allow that site.

On the northeast corner of High Street and Court Street the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, now the U. S. National Geodetic Survey, has placed a small medallion into a granite block showing an elevation of.

This showed a person dressed as the queen placing her head on the execution block in front of a small group of bystanders in Elizabethan dress.

Prepared commercial blends may be sold as a powder or as a concentrated gelatinous block, divided into small squares.

* Nok Hockey is a table-top version of hockey played with no defense and a small block in front of the goal.

For any information rate R < C and coding error ε > 0, for large enough N, there exists a code of length N and rate ≥ R and a decoding algorithm, such that the maximal probability of block error is ≤ ε ; that is, it is always possible to transmit with arbitrarily small block error.

In addition, for any rate R > C, it is impossible to transmit with arbitrarily small block error.

After World War II, Le Corbusier attempted to realize his urban planning schemes on a small scale by constructing a series of " unités " ( the housing block unit of the Radiant City ) around France.

( Thus, they are called " macros " because a big block of code can be expanded from a small sequence of characters ).

However small the pieces, the block should be cut so that each person gets some of each kind.

A soft-drink stand disappears, replaced by a small slip of paper with the words " SOFT-DRINK STAND " printed on it in block letters.

Licensed by Spedeworth, as opposed to BriSCA, the V8 Stock Cars use small block 5 litre Chevrolet engines and race at tracks operated by Spedeworth.

Victoria is the only Canadian provincial capital without a local CBC Television station, owned-and-operated or affiliate, although it does host a small CBC Radio station in the 1000 block of Pandora Avenue.

Later, the closure was extended an additional block to the east to 15th Street, and East Executive Avenue, a small street between the White House and the Treasury Building.

When many small files are expected a small block size would typically maximize capacity, but for a system dealing mainly with large files, a larger block size can provide a performance advantage.

Thus, the smallest allocation and routing block contained only 256 addresses — too small for most enterprises, and the next larger block contained addresses — too large to be used efficiently by even large organizations.

In large / small devices, the sample is placed in a heating block, and optical detection is automated.