It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.

A cold supper was ordered and a bottle of port.

The John Harvey arrived in Bari, a port on the Adriatic, on November 28th, making for Porto Nuovo, which, as the name indicates, was the ancient city's new and modern harbor.

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

When she reached port, she was found to have on board only eight men, all near starvation.

Her father, James Upton, was the Upton mentioned by Hawthorne in the famous introduction to the Scarlet Letter as one of those who came into the old custom house to do business with him as the surveyor of the port.

Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

A port was in development for the 5200 and advertised as a launch title but never officially released, although an unofficial release was produced by AtariAge.

A port was also included on Atari's Cosmos system, but the system never saw release.

Preparing to depart from Aulis, which was a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurred the wrath of the goddess Artemis.

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

The house was restored to the U. S. in 1818, though the fur trade would remain under British control until American pioneers following the Oregon Trail began filtering into the port town in the mid-1840s.

The SCC was chosen because it would allow multiple devices to be attached to the port.

The " new " AppleBus was announced in early 1984, allowing direct connection from the Mac or Lisa through a small box that plugged into the serial port and connected via cables to the next computer upstream and downstream.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

It also was responsible for switching to ROM BASIC when the system was turned on with the break key pressed, and later supported a primitive LAN system, using the RS232 port with modified cabling.

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.

The port was used as the sailing point for the Crusades of 1147 and 1190, and a creek close to Dartmouth Castle is supposed by some to be named for the vast fleets which assembled there ( Warfleet Creek ).

His landing at Heirkte ( near Panormus ) drew the Romans away to defend that port city and resupply point and gave Drepana some breathing room.

Socrates uses the parable of the ship to illustrate this point: the unjust city is like a ship in open ocean, crewed by a powerful but drunken captain ( the common people ), a group of untrustworthy advisors who try to manipulate the captain into giving them power over the ship's course ( the politicians ), and a navigator ( the philosopher ) who is the only one who knows how to get the ship to port.

Around 1200 the port became the main point of departure for colonists leaving for the Baltic territories conquered by the Livonian Order and, later, Teutonic Order.

The nearest major port and the transshipping point for the country is Durban.

The port ’ s location at the extreme western point of Africa, at the crossroad of the major sea-lanes linking Europe to South America, makes it a natural port of call for shipping companies.

The port had been built from scratch, beginning in 1905, to complement the railroad line from Khartoum to the Red Sea by serving as the entry and exit point for the foreign trade the rail line was to carry.

A port in this context is a point where an external waveguide or transmission line ( such as a microstrip line or a coaxial cable ), connects to the device.

However, most boil down to two simple components: local loop ( the cost the local incumbent charges to transport the signal from the end user's central office, otherwise known as a CO, to the point of presence, otherwise known as a POP, of the carrier ) and the port ( the cost to access the telephone network or the Internet through the carrier's network ).

Its position, on the western edge of Africa, is an advantageous departure point for trans-Atlantic and European trade ; this fact aided its growth into a major regional port.

The port facilities were improved with jetties, a telegraph line was established along the coast to Saint-Louis and the Dakar-Saint-Louis railway was completed in 1885, at which point the city became an important base for the conquest of the western Sudan.

Once it passed under Roman rule in the 3rd century BC, it developed strategic significance as the point of junction between the coast road and the Via Traiana and as a port for eastward trade ; a branch road to Tarentum led from Barium.

The port of Milazzo is a departure point for ferries to the Aeolian Islands and Naples.

This is usually due to poor crossover designs or choices ( too high crossover point or insufficient crossover slope ) used in many computer and home theater systems ; localization also comes from port noise and from typically large amounts of harmonic distortion in the subwoofer design.

A focal point of the river port is the industrial park on President's Island, just south of Downtown Memphis.

Instead of concentrating his next attack on Havana with the intention of conquering Cuba, as expected, Vernon depart again to New Granada to attack Cartagena de Indias, the main port of the Viceroyalty and main point of the Indian fleet to the Iberian Peninsula.

The Spanish lee division now put about to the port tack with the intention of breaking the British line at the point where the ships were tacking in succession.

The port of Charleston was the main dropping point for Africans captured and transported to the United States for sale as slaves.

Five days later, Thrasybulus led his force, which had already grown to the point that he could leave 200 men at Phyle while taking 1, 000 with him, to Piraeus, the port of Athens.

During the Ottoman period, Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, became a focal point of trade to Iran and the Caucasus.

Its location at the closest point of the Murray to Melbourne contributed to its development as a thriving river port city during the 19th century.

Being the point of shortest distance between the Murray River and the major city of Melbourne, Echuca was both a key river port and railway junction.