In 860, an attack was made on the city by a new principality set up a few years earlier at Kiev by Askold and Dir, two Varangian chiefs: Two hundred small vessels passed through the Bosporus and plundered the monasteries and other properties on the suburban Prince's Islands.

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

Two armed schooners, Franklin and Hancock, from Beverly, Massachusetts, made prisoner of the attorney-general at Charlottetown, on advice given them by some Pictou residents after they had taken eight fishing vessels in the Gut of Canso.

Two types of technology share the name " sonar ": passive sonar is essentially listening for the sound made by vessels ; active sonar is emitting pulses of sounds and listening for echoes.

Two hurricanes, the first in August 1813, the second in October 1815, destroyed more than two-hundred buildings, significant salt stores, and sank many vessels.

Two of the vessels were as naus or newly built for the voyage, possibly a caravel and a supply boat.

Other of his works include Angainor ( the chain of Melkor ), the Two Lamps and the vessels of the Sun and Moon.

Two British armed vessels sailed up the Kennebec River toward Bath, but turned back after being attacked.

Two galleasses, which had side-mounted cannon, were positioned in front of each main division, for the purpose, according to Miguel de Cervantes ( who served on the galley Marquesa during the battle ), of preventing the Turks from sneaking in small boats and sapping, sabotaging or boarding the Christian vessels.

Two more Portuguese vessels arrived in June, were attacked by Chinese ships, but were able to fend off the Chinese attack.

* Two Russian vessels arrested at Bear Island for violation of fishing regulations

Two volcanoes in the region were named by Ross for his vessels.

* Two Mine Countermeasures vessels

Two of his vessels, Pearl and Severn, failed to round the Horn and returned home.

Two Libyan MiG-23 fighters engage in a dogfight with two U. S. Navy F-14 Tomcats, although none of the aircraft involved fire at each other ; Libyan forces ashore fire surface-to-air missiles ( SAMs ) at American aircraft, scoring no hits ; and U. S. Navy aircraft attack Libyan radars, SAM sites, and warships, sinking two vessels.

Two thirds of coastal vessels using the Pool were colliers meeting an increase in the demand for coal as the population of London rose.

Two types of molds, namely single-piece mold and multi-piece mold, are frequently used to produce mold-blown vessels.

Two vessels in this class — and — were completed after the war's end.

Two vessels of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Dubbo, for the town of Dubbo, New South Wales.

Two vessels of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS Fremantle for the city of Fremantle, Western Australia:

Two thirds of coastal vessels using the Pool were colliers meeting an increase in the demand for coal as the population of London rose.

Two vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Katahdin, after Mount Katahdin.

Two vessels of the oldest generation are still in daily line use, MS Nordstjernen ( built in 1956 ) and MS Lofoten ( 1964 ), although only in winter as replacements for vessels used for Antarctic cruises then.

Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.

Two absorptions of Af with ethyl acetate or two absorptions of Af ( which had been passed through Dowex-2-chloride ), NS and Af with crown gall tissue powder, or mouse liver powder did not further improve the specificity of staining.

Two companies now had headquarters with Clark J. Wait, who by then had his own drugstore at Factory Point -- the `` Northern Union Telegraph Company '' and the `` Western Union ''.

Two entries in The Early Life support the assumption that during this period Hardy had virtually suspended the writing of poetry.

Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.

Two hours of watching his serenely happy face, listening to his soft humming as he bent over his penciled figures, and Blanche had to leave.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

Two to three weeks prior to the charter of the Virginia, Graham had been snooping around the San Luis Rey Mission.

Two weeks ago she had gone west to Pearson City.

Two women, who had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

Two letters had arrived for Miss Theresa Stubblefield: she put them in her bag.

Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.

Two other reasons for this title are that he would support his aged father-in-law with his hand at Senate meetings, and that he had saved those men that Hadrian, during his period of ill-health, had condemned to death.

Two aspects of this attitude deserve to be mentioned: 1 ) he did not only study science from books, as other academics did in his day, but actually observed and experimented with nature ( the rumours starting by those who did not understand this are probably at the source of Albert's supposed connections with alchemy and witchcraft ), 2 ) he took from Aristotle the view that scientific method had to be appropriate to the objects of the scientific discipline at hand ( in discussions with Roger Bacon, who, like many 20th century academics, thought that all science should be based on mathematics ).

Records from the early 19th century survive to this day describing the distinct dialect that had surfaced in the colonies since first settlement in 1788, with Peter Miller Cunningham's 1827 book Two Years in New South Wales, describing the distinctive accent and vocabulary of the native born colonists, different from that of their parents and with a strong London influence.

Two other uncommon sources were promoted by Alexander: Anselm of Canterbury, whose writings had been ignored for almost a century gained an important advocate in Alexander and he used Anselm's works extensively in his teaching on Christology and soteriology ; and, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, whom Alexander used in his examination of the theology of Orders and ecclesiastical structures.

Two years later, to avenge his sister, Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full brother, sent his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

Two airports, Sofia Airport and Burgas Airport, had a runway longer than 3, 000 meters, and there were four heliports.