The Nazis hid looted art in salt mines at Altaussee such as the Ghent Altarpiece.

The output work W here is the movement of the piston as it is used to turn a crank-arm, which was then typically used to turn a pulley so to lift water out of flooded salt mines.

They also had the superintendence of all the other revenues of the state, the vectigalia, such as the tithes paid for the public lands, the salt works, the mines, the customs, etc.

He set out again with a caravan in February 1352 and after 25 days arrived at the dry salt lake bed of Taghaza with its salt mines.

It is estimated that, were the straits closed even at today's higher sea level, most water in the Mediterranean basin would evaporate within only a thousand years, as it is believed to have done then, and such an event would lay down similar mineral deposits as those such as the salt mines now found under the sea floor all over the Mediterranean.

The youth worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in West Virginia for several years, then made his way east to Hampton Institute, a school established to educate freedmen, where he worked to pay for his studies.

The King provided funding for one chair in liberal arts, two in Medicine, three in Canon Law and five in Roman Law, funded by a quarterly payment taken from the proceeds of the royal monopoly on the salt mines at Wieliczka.

Much of Berchtesgaden's wealth has been derived from its salt mines, the first of which started operations in 1517.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

About 5 feet tall and 6 feet wide, between 2 to 3 slaves slept in these after working in near by salt mines.

* Morton Salt-One of the largest salt mines in the Northeast is located in Silver Springs and has been running since the mid-to-late 19th century.

It closed in 1892, but not before Wyandotte became a major hub in the chemical production industry, possible because of the many salt mines deep below the city.

Conventional symbols were used to mark canals, tunnels, tramways and roads, collieries, lead, copper and tin mines, together with salt and alum works.

Saline County was formed by European-American settlers on November 25, 1820, and was named after the salt mines found in the region.

It rapidly became an important town, due to the Old Salt Route, on which the salt produced in the salt mines of Lüneburg ( Lower-Saxony ) was shipped to the baltic harbour of Lübeck, and the Stecknitz Canal, which was a precursor of the today's Elbe-Lübeck Canal.

Huntsville was well known for its commerce producing salt, coal mines, hemp rope, and tobacco.

Several salt mines were built within the township.

This changed when a company of Confederate Colonel William Holland Thomas's Legion occupied the town to protect the salt peter mines at Alum Cave, near the Tennessee-North Carolina border.

Under the town is the Wieliczka Salt Mine – one of the world's oldest operating salt mines ( the oldest is at Bochnia, Poland, from Wieliczka ), which has been in operation since prehistoric times.

Despite its proximity to lead mines and salt springs, the majority of its population came as farmers during the 1750s and 1760s, and they primarily grew wheat, corn and tobacco.

Phosphorus and salt mines are the most plentiful.

Mineral salt has long been mined wherever it was available ; the salt mines of Hallstatt go back at least to the Iron Age.

The Lake Eyre Basin is a large endorheic system surrounding the lakebed, the lowest part of which is filled with the characteristic salt pan caused by the seasonal expansion and subsequent evaporation of the trapped waters.

Notable features include coastal salt pans, elevated limestone formations ( the Dukhan anticline ) along the west coast under which lies the Dukhan oil field, and massive sand dunes surrounding Khawr al Udayd, an inlet of the gulf in the southeast known to local English speakers as the Inland Sea.

Spam is less popular than Ma Ling Meats, its main competitor in the Hong Kong processed meat market, although recent controversies surrounding high salt content in Ma Ling products may allow Spam to gain market share.

The brine surrounding the cells has a higher concentration of salt than the fluid within the cells, but the cell fluid has a higher concentration of other solutes.

One interpretation of the myths surrounding Huixtochiuatl says she gained control over sea water when she was having a fight with the Tlaloques and they threw all their salt water at her in an attempt to drown her.

In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town's island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer.

The primary role of the loop of Henle is to concentrate the salt in the interstitium, the tissue surrounding the loop.

On Earth, salt domes are salt diapirs in the crust which rise through surrounding rock.

In the Avon-Heathcote estuary / Ihutai, New Zealand, species abundance and the physical properties of the surrounding margins were strongly linked, and the majority of salt marsh was found to be living along areas with natural margins in the Avon and Heathcote river outlets ; conversely, artificial margins contained little marsh vegetation and restricted landward retreat.

The southern part of the island, an extensive salt marsh, is protected under the Ramsar Convention and the island as a whole, along with the surrounding area of sea, has been designated a nature reserve by the European Union.

The surrounding region produces petroleum, natural gas, bitumen and salt.

From the beginning, inhabitants made a living by extracting salt from the brackish waters of the surrounding lake.

In salt and pepper noise ( sparse light and dark disturbances ), pixels in the image are very different in color or intensity from their surrounding pixels ; the defining characteristic is that the value of a noisy pixel bears no relation to the color of surrounding pixels.

The central focal point of the Grulla National Wildlife Refuge is an ephemeral salt lake or saline playa – a shallow basin that collects runoff from the surrounding drainage area during heavy downpours but then often dries completely due to evaporation.

Harrill lived in a bunker and shared his beliefs about " common sense " with thousands of visitors every year while surviving on what he could gather from the surrounding salt marsh and oyster beds.

A salt dome is a type of structural dome formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals ( mainly salt, or halite ) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir.

The name is due to the typical colour of the salt covering the soils surrounding the shores.

Health concerns surrounding doner kebab in the UK and Western Europe, including the hygiene involved in overnight storage and re-heating of partially cooked meat, unacceptable salt and fat levels, and improper labeling of meat used ( e. g., illicit addition of pork ), are repeatedly reported in the European media.

New Lake was formerly a salt water marsh, but during the First World War, over-cutting of the grass on the surrounding sand dunes led to their destabilisation and the movement of the sand to block up the river.

Middlewich was founded by the Romans, who gave it the name Salinae because of its surrounding salt deposits.

In the middle of the 19th century Middlewich was described as a town with principal works being the surrounding farming district, a silk factory, and the salt works in Kinderton and Newton.