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At sea, the British and French were bitter rivals ; the French aided the fledgling United States in the American Revolutionary War, but their strategic purpose was to capture territory in India and the West Indies -- which they did not achieve.
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At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis becalmed the sea and stopped the journey until an oracle came and said they could win the goddess ' heart by sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.
At the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia the water is no longer salty and many fresh water species live in the sea.
At, the Channel Tunnel possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at and deeper at below sea level.
At the end of glacials with sea level rapidly rising, corals become major sinks for Carbon dioxide as the reefs grow up to the new sea level.
At sea, warships and troop carriers were painted in dazzle patterns that were highly visible, but designed to confuse enemy gunners as to the target's speed, range, and heading.
At first, the danger to a battle fleet was considered only to exist when at anchor, but as faster and longer range torpedoes were developed, the threat extended to cruising at sea.
At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.
At Cofete on the western side of Jandía a remote and imposing house-Villa Winter-looks out to sea across wide and generally empty beaches.
* At sea, it was usually ejected from siphons, although earthenware pots or grenades filled with it or similar substances were also used.
At sea naval defeats against British fleets at Lagos and Quiberon Bay in 1759 and a crippling blockade forced France to keep its ships in port.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastal vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea.
At the northern end of the sea, more than 10, 000 square kilometres of land in Atyrau Province have been flooded.
At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort.
At the bottom of the trench, where the plates meet, the water column above exerts a pressure of, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed ( completed in 1997 ).
At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.
At standard temperature and pressure, radon forms a monatomic gas with a density of 9. 73 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >, about 8 times the density of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, 1. 217 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >.
At and British
At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.
At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.
At this time, Lord Sandwich, together with the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was advocating establishment of a British colony in New South Wales.
At the durbar on July 22, 1880, Abdur Rahman was officially recognized as Amir, granted assistance in arms and money, and promised, in case of unprovoked foreign aggression, such further aid as might be necessary to repel it, provided that he align his foreign policy with the British.
At the same time, Charlton's emergence as the country's leading young football talent was completed when he was called up to join the England squad for a British Home Championship game against Scotland at Hampden Park.
At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.
* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.
At the centre of the Great Court is the Reading Room vacated by the British Library, its functions now moved to St Pancras.
At the same time it encouraged Bulgarian aspirations over Thrace, preferring a Bulgarian Thrace to a Russian one, despite the assurances the British had given to the Russians in regard to their expansion there.
At the 2007 British Soap Awards, it won Best Storyline, and Kate Ford was voted Best Actress for her portrayal.
At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.
At around the same time, British legislation was similarly freeing the corporation from historical restrictions.
* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
At the heart of the Great Game lay the willingness of Britain and Russia to subdue, subvert, or subjugate the small independent states that lay between Russia and British India.
At the same time, the Russians feared permanent British occupation in Central Asia as the British encroached northward, taking the Punjab, Sindh, and Kashmir ; later to become Pakistan.
At a conference with them Sir William MacNaghten was killed, but in spite of this, the sirdars ' demands were agreed to by the British and they withdrew.
At age 11, he began his acting career, appearing on the British television soap opera Coronation Street, which was produced at Granada Studios by Granada Television in Manchester.
At the 1993 British Academy Awards ( BAFTA ) the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film was introduced.
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