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It's said that as one herd crossed a river it would raise the water level several feet.
When sunflower was crossed with Jerusalem artichoke, F 1 hybrid plants carried 51 chromosomes and showed reduced pollen fertility.
The flight across the Channel was uneventful, but as soon as the formation crossed into German territory, ack-ack started opening up.
On average it takes one day per time zone crossed to recover from the effects of jet lag.
We are striking with extreme reluctance and keeping our fingers crossed that somebody can pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the problem.
My fingers are permanently crossed behind my back and I'm carrying my four leaf clover, horse shoe and rabbit's foot.
When crossed, there would be left no doubt in one's mind it was best to take one's leave.
For unknown reasons, as it crossed the bar, the vessel turned northwest bringing it abeam of the breaking waves.
Dare we keep our fingers crossed that people are waking up to what a hollow man he is?
Fingers crossed he can jack up a video projector, or at the very least a big-screen tv for it.
The cultural abyss had grown too wide to be crossed using traditional methods.
McManus routinely completed it in just over nine minutes and was in the middle of his warm-down when the rest crossed the line.
The F4 twister cut a long swath of destruction that crossed just four blocks from my house.
Breaking away from brother Viri, the abbot crossed to where Darius lay.
He bunches himself up tightly, one leg entwined over the other, with the crossed leg dangling, limply, languorously.
By the time his first son was born James Lever was managing a wholesale grocer's warehouse and shop on Manor Street, near where Bank Street crossed the Croal.
If parents notice crossed or wall eyes persisting in a child four months of age, they should immediately take the child to an eye care professional for an examination.
Spiegelman was fired for sending a nasty email with antigay slurs to someone who had crossed him.
For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.
Bryant was famous for standing with his arms crossed, and a bullet had struck his armpit and pierced his chest.
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Chan still felt that a line had been crossed and he went to arrest the man.
Having just crossed the country in coach, I needed instant spiritual repair.
Foot to the floor and before you can say Jack Robinson you've crossed the finish line having attained a speed in excess of 300mph in a quarter mile!
By now I'm so overwrought with chi's and fu's and kong's and kung's that my eyes have about crossed.
Together, they crossed over the International Bridges on foot into Juarez to conduct some business.
When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home.
Until the threshold of 270 was crossed, the stillness of the clammy night continued to hang over the city.
He stopped and crossed his eyes, his expression conveying abashment.
Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.
In 1639 Ivan Moskvitin ascended the Aldan and Maya Rivers and crossed to the Ulya River to reach the Sea of Okhotsk.
On completion of the works in the town, the Sultan crossed the Strait to look at the works and stayed in Gibraltar for two months.
In 1638, Perfilyev crossed from the Angara over the Ilim portage to the Lena River and went downstream as far as Olyokminsk.
In the winter of 1920, the Great Siberian Ice March occurred, when the retreating White Russian Army crossed frozen Lake Baikal.
In 2013 633 Northumberland patients crossed into Scotland for treatment at the Borders General Hospital.
In 1732, Mikhail Gvozdev crossed it for the first time, from Asia to America.
Khabarov crossed the mountains in the fall of 1650 and this time was met with armed resistance.
He went down the west coast for two weeks and then crossed to the east coast.
They were very desirous to know what became of the slaves after they had crossed the salt water.
The state is crossed by several mountain ranges which have mountains between 2,300 and 3,000 meters high.
Scribal realization of the digraph could look like a pair of Vs whose branches crossed in the middle.
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Fewer than half of the 80,000 Russian soldiers who crossed the Pruth in 1853 survived.
Many routes crossed the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire, enabling salt, limestone, coal, fleeces and cloth to be transported.
One of the major obstacles to be overcome was Chat Moss, a large bog that had to be crossed.
Hannibal famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region.
The Alps have been crossed for war and commerce, and by pilgrims, students and tourists.
Jake lengthened his stride and crossed the road in front of a double-parked car, large, black and with CD plates.
Omar crossed the Ingur on 7 November and then wasted a great deal of time, the Russians doing little.
The A6 crosses the River Great Ouse twice more, and is crossed by the John Bunyan Trail, near a GSJ for Clapham and Oakley.
A suspended cable ferry for railway cars crossed the American River in Northern California.
At the head of Thirlmere is the pass of Dunmail Raise, crossed by the A591 road.
This bridge either crossed the Thames, or gave access to a now lost island in the river.
The estuary is crossed by the Cumbrian Coast Line railway on the Eskmeals viaduct just south of Ravenglass.
The fell is crossed by several public footpaths, as well as the Kirkby Slate Road, which has a right of access.
Only fragments of Stane Street and Ermine Street, the Roman roads which crossed the county, remain.
In early 1939, Hemingway crossed to Cuba in his boat to live in the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana.
The route is also crossed by many roads and passes through many villages and towns with good public transport.
On commissioning the total capacity of wind power crossed 10GW of installed capacity for the first time.
The second, or central, column crossed the Ebro at the oppidum of Mora and from there information is fairly sparse.
The Cosmic Woman is an integrated, multidimensional woman who has crossed both the Zodiacal and cosmic planes.
This tribe had fortified a camp on the far side of the river, and was awaiting Hannibal's army to cross, so as to attack them as they crossed.
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By this means, Hanno's corps crossed the river and immediately proceeded south to the barbarian location.
Upon seeing Hannibal had not crossed with the whole of his force, the scouts raced back to the coast to alert the consul.
The coalfield is crossed by several major faults which generally run in a north and south direction.
Further north at Littleborough is the site of the Roman town of Segelocum, where a Roman road once crossed the river.
Trade flourished with the Union and many young men crossed the Atlantic to join the Union Army.
There is a ford by the side of the footbridge and this can be easily crossed by road vehicles for most of the year.
In recent years this trend has reversed and some rugby league players have crossed codes to play union.
The speed of trains, as well as the number of passengers that crossed multiple borders, made enforcement of passport laws difficult.
Wakefield is crossed by the A61, A638, and A642 roads and is the starting point of the A636 and A650 roads.
It is crossed by the Roman road from Bowes to Brough, now part of the A66, and formerly by the Stainmore Railway.
This also meant the scout group had crossed the line first for three consecutive years.
The rivers are crossed by a number of clapper bridges, notably at the hamlet of Postbridge.
Approximately 350 million legal crossings occur annually, and is the most frequently crossed border in the world.
The rights and obligations of farmers who cultivate crops in fields crossed by public footpaths are now specified in the law.
After that crossbreeding, a population of steppe bison crossed the Bering Land Bridge to North America.
Early in the morning they shouldered light packs, took their rifles, crossed the big draw, and entered the timber where was the deadfall.
Before this time, the Manchus had crossed the Great Wall multiple times to raid, but this time it was for conquest.
Of course, my competitive nature occasionally crossed the line into being a sorehead and poor loser.
The border is unmarked, and is crossed even when going round a roundabout or overtaking a vehicle.
The land boundary follows a watershed and is crossed by two roads, the A9 and the A836, and one railway, the Far North Line.
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The striker crossed the ball into the area and found his strike partner Jones, who headed it into the net.
The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
More raiders crossed from Jedburgh and rampaged through Northumberland, burning homes and farms as they went.
Generally, male domestic bulls were crossed with buffalo cows, producing offspring of which only the females were fertile.
After Caerlaverock eventually succumbed, Edward passed through Dumfries again as he crossed the Nith to take his invasion into Galloway.
As it is forced down, the arms, normally crossed over the chest, are caught on the pelvis and made to upride alongside the head.
Under nightfall the English forces crossed the stream that is known as the Bannock Burn, establishing their position on the plain beyond it.
Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed!
In yet another ironic twist in a story richly endowed with such warps, the Tsar's telegram crossed one despatched in the other direction.
The preliminary conclusion was that the SARS virus crossed the xenographic barrier from palm civet to humans.
Lewis Weever and Leon Brennan crossed as the former Super League outfit regained their rhythm.
By 1862, Signal Corps Soldiers were wearing an unofficial shoulder patch with crossed wig-wag flags, the primary implement of communication.
The vehicle crossed the Brooklyn Bridge, and then stopped behind a school.
Concurrent introduction of metallurgy shows that some people must have crossed cultural boundaries.
The third car passed as he crossed from the bus lane to the road.
A DAREDEVIL driver crossed the Mersey in his amphibious car just ahead of the Parade of Sail yesterday.
A period of reform occurred between 49 BC, when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, and 29 BC, when Octavian returned to Rome after Actium.
A whale and dolphin creates the wolphin and, best of all, a donkey crossed with a zebra results in a zeedonk.
A BRITISH yachtsman became the first quadriplegic to sail across the Atlantic yesterday when he crossed the finish line in the Caribbean.
Spalding's first goal attempt came on 34 minutes when Mattan crossed to an unmarked Forbes who shot straight at Shepshed keeper Quaily.
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At 11 o'clock, Thomas, Lord Howard's vanguard and artillery crossed the Twizel Bridge.
Disguised as a woman, he escaped from the Palace in 1648 with the help of Joseph Bampfield, and crossed the North Sea to The Hague.
These controversary points I have rather crossed in my way, than taken along with me.
His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate.
A Field Marshal's insignia consists of two crossed batons surrounded by yellow leaves below St Edward's Crown.
The rank insignia of a field marshal in the British Army comprises two crossed batons in a wreath of oak leaves, with a crown above.
Albinus crossed to Gaul in 195, where the provinces were also sympathetic to him, and set up at Lugdunum.
After three hours on the road, they finally crossed the state line.
The cap badge also has the crossed carbines of the 3rd Carabiniers at the rear of the eagle.
Many Bretons crossed the Atlantic to support the American War of Independence.
To reduce travel times, two diagonal streets crossed the square grid, passing through the central square.
A simple cantilever span is formed by two cantilever arms extending from opposite sides of an obstacle to be crossed, meeting at the center.
The conference was cut short, however, when news reached Licinius that his rival Maximin had crossed the Bosporus and invaded European territory.
A significant part of these raiders however did not return and crossed the Bosporus instead.
These villages were built on land, but generally near a stream, with roads that crossed each other at right angles.
Due to their appearance, Tacitus believed they had crossed over from Spain at an earlier date.
Sometimes, where depressions deeper than 50 metres had to be crossed, inverted siphons were used to force water uphill.
In this vicinity, the riverside is used as a recreation area with a bandstand, benches and boat cruises, being crossed by four bridges.
None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian.
When churches came to be built, an ideal site was where a drove crossed a river.
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In early 1223, Llywelyn crossed the border into Shropshire and captured Kinnerley and Whittington castles.
Montfort himself had crossed the Severn with his army, intending to rendezvous with his son Simon.
Edward crossed the English Channel to France in January, leaving Gaveston as his custos regni in charge of the kingdom in his absence.
The young Prince Edward crossed the English Channel and completed the bargain in September.
The next day, further elements of the brigade crossed, securing a further bridgehead and repulsed more German attacks.
The 115th Brigade crossed the river and cleared several German positions facing them, took at least 30 prisoners and captured 15 machine guns.
The rest of the division crossed the following day, either wading or using the new bridges.
Almost every state in the Union was traversed and mapped by him, the Allegheny Mountains being crossed and recrossed some 50 times.
If the waterway had been built, canal traffic would have crossed the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct heading north to Chester and the River Dee.
The Buchanan Plan of 1964 envisaged a highly ambitious extended city centre, crossed with urban motorways.
Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions.
The truck crossed the double yellow line and entered the other lane.
Are you justified to reproach him in public even if he hasn't crossed any incondonable limit, just committed a petty folly?
He crossed back and forth between the continent and England at least 19 times between 1067 and his death.
Probably the most devastating storm to affect Scotland over the last 500 years, the surge crossed between the Orkney and Shetland Isles.
Then it followed the Volkhov River, upstream past the towns of Staraya Ladoga and Velikiy Novgorod, crossed Lake Ilmen, and up the Lovat River.
In 1139, Robert and Matilda crossed the channel and arrived in England while Geoffrey kept the pressure on Normandy.
However, Charles Martel coveted the southern realm, crossed the Loire in 731 and looted much of Aquitaine.
In 2015, more than one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe.
The German armies crossed the border and advanced on Nancy but were stopped to the east of the city.
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The army crossed at a tidal ford at Blanchetaque, leaving Philip's army stranded.
Next day, Austrian forces crossed the Drina and began the first invasion of Serbia.
You say that you do not see how you and I have crossed swords with the priests.
It was crossed in March 1945, and the way lay open to the center of Germany.
By 15 or 16 August, Henry and his men had crossed the English border, making for the town of Shrewsbury.
Even by then most of the infantry had not crossed, much of the success being due to the actions of just six platoons, mainly assault engineers.
Five assault divisions of the VII Armeekorps crossed the Rhine into the Colmar area with a view to advancing to the Vosges Mountains.
German tanks crossed Pont Freycinet and British troops dispersed, having no weapons to engage tanks.
Due to shortages of personnel, many small craft crossed the Channel with civilian crews.
Once they crossed the seawall, they were confronted by a series of tank obstacles that prevented their entry into the town.
Nearly 160,000 troops crossed the English Channel on 6 June, and more than two million Allied troops were in France by the end of August.
On the afternoon of 30 August, the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division crossed the Seine near Elbeuf and entered Rouen to a jubilant welcome.
Approximately 2,300 tanks and assault guns were committed to the battle, of which only 100 to 120 crossed the Seine at the end of the campaign.
Winding alongside the canal at a distance, the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway crossed the area on an embankment.
A Conservative member of Parliament crossed the aisle this weekend to join the resurgent Labor Party of Tony Blair.
Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
Nott also pioneered the use of hybrid energy, where solar power is a significant heat source, and in 1981 he crossed the English Channel.
Barrett and Cannon were unsuccessful but three weeks after Ederle's feat, Corson crossed in a time that was 50 minutes slower than Ederle.
I can tolerate a lot, but they really crossed the line when they broke the window.
He put his fingers over his head like two antennas, crossed his eyes, and waggled his tongue like some kind of insect.
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Only those land species which crossed before the creation of the English Channel and those introduced by humans exist in Great Britain.
In 2014, infection crossed the Mississippi River, but species native to northern Mexico and the West had not yet been affected.
The cut created an island, known as Runcorn Island, crossed by Castle Bridge.
Nearly 150 boats crossed the line in a gale of wind that caused several dismastings, and minor disasters.
The flight started from Svalbard in Norway, and crossed the Arctic Ocean to Alaska.
Riley lowered his eyebrows and crossed his arms and tried to look non-judgy even if he felt a little judgy.
Because eggs were inexpensive in most regions, the practice of decorating Easter eggs crossed all social classes and remained somewhat simple.
But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
She crossed her bediamonded wrists across her breast so that her fingertips touched both sides of her throat.
Clad in red robes and a gold pectoral cross, Agostini finally lowered his gaze as he crossed the marble floor.
The fourth group crossed to the eastern Atlantic and then moved into the Mediterranean Sea for spawning.
William Rufus crossed into Normandy to take the war to Robert in 1094, and when progress stalled, called upon Henry for assistance.
Theobald's younger brother, Stephen of Blois, quickly crossed from Boulogne to England, however, accompanied by his military household.
Upon learning the whereabouts of the Prussian army, the French swung westwards and crossed the Saale with overwhelming force.
Even among migratory species, only a few crossed the thermocline and reached the bottom layer.
At the end of the Upper Paleolithic, a group of humans crossed Beringia and quickly expanded throughout the Americas.
Caesar asserts they had first crossed the channel as raiders, only later establishing themselves on the island.
Under the direction of the Marquis of Sarria Spanish troops crossed from Galicia into Northern Portugal capturing several towns.
The English channel was crossed on 27 March 1899, from Wimereux, France to South Foreland Lighthouse, England.
Where the pipeline crossed water drainage ditches it ran above ground in a concrete case.
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Many marathons around the world have such time limits by which all runners must have crossed the finish line.
In the early morning of 10 April, leading elements of the Austrian army crossed the Inn River and invaded Bavaria.
Cows and antelopes were successful, and some camel species crossed into Asia from North America.
Trade across the desert intensified, and a significant slave trade crossed the desert.
A lot of foulard tie bulged out and was rain-spotted above his crossed lapels.
The historic record as well as the remains of harbours, ships and cargoes, testify to the volume of trade that crossed it.
In the Second Battle of Porto he crossed the Douro river in a daylight coup de main, and routed Marshal Soult's French troops in Porto.
And beyond lay the pasture I had crossed on my way from the station then more fields rising towards a dark rim of hills.
She crossed the Humber from Hull to New Holland Pier swimming the distance in 50 minutes, 6 minutes slower than the men's record.
Caesar relates that he crossed the Rhine again to punish the Suebi for sending reinforcements to the Treveri.
He eventually crossed the River Thames at Wallingford, pillaging the land as he went.
The Bastarnae first appear in the historical record in 179 BC, when they crossed the Danube in massive force.
Most perished as they crossed the frozen Danube on foot, only for the ice to give way.
In 105, Trajan crossed the Danube river and besieged Decebalus' capital, Sarmizegetusa, but the siege failed because of Decebalus' allied tribes.
Darius the Great, king of Persia, crossed the river in the late 6th century BC in order to invade European Scythia and to subdue the Scythians.
A 1986 survey showed that a tributary crossed the path of the tunnel, and so the tunnel route was made as far north and deep as possible.
The many streams, rivers and canals are crossed by some 2,500 bridges, more than London, Amsterdam and Venice put together.
In 82 Agricola crossed an unidentified body of water and defeated peoples unknown to the Romans until then.
Prior to the construction of the first bridge in 1966, the channel was crossed by the Aust Ferry.
I got my wires crossed and went to the bus depot instead of the railway station.
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Road traffic between Culham and Sutton Courtenay crossed the Thames via Culham Ferry until 1807, when Sutton Bridge was built.
Trains instead had to follow a lengthy route via Gloucester, where the river was narrow enough to be crossed by a bridge.
D 234, the barbarians crossed the Rhine and Danube in hordes that even caused panic at the gates of Rome.
Others were small, only a few crossed lines, and reminded Leverett of cuneiform glyphics.
Gildas calls Alban a martyr of Verulamium but says he crossed the river Thames prior to his execution, during the persecution of Diocletian.
Alaric then crossed the Gulf of Corinth and marched with the plunder of Greece northward to Epirus.
Modern Rome is also crossed by another river, the Aniene, which flows into the Tiber north of the historic centre.
At the start of the modern era, the Spice Route between India and China crossed Majapahit, an archipelagic empire based on the island of Java.
After assembling forces at Saragossa the Muslims entered French territory in 735, crossed the River Rhone and captured and looted Arles.
The Saracens crossed the mountains to claim Ardo's Septimania, only to encounter the Basque dynasty of Aquitaine, always the allies of the Goths.
Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard crossed the Alps in 773 and chased the Lombards back to Pavia, which they then besieged.
His mehmandar stood by, fresh as a clover from their walk, his arms crossed on his Aiantian chest.
Then he marched through Westphalia, conquering the fort of Sigiburg, and crossed Engria, where he defeated the Saxons again.
Their sudden appearance in the written sources suggests that the Huns crossed the Volga River from the east not much earlier.
Uldin crossed the Danube and captured a fortress in Moesia named Castra Martis, which was betrayed from within.
Reports that the Bishop of Margus had crossed into Hun lands and desecrated royal graves further angered the Hun kings.
Thoroughbreds are often crossed with various Warmblood breeds due to their refinement and performance capabilities.
Once this psychological barrier had been crossed, it became easier to probe further along the coast.
England's players claimed a goal whilst the Germans were adamant that the ball had not fully crossed the line.
In 1849, Livingstone crossed the Kalahari Desert from south to north and reached Lake Ngami.
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We extend to the category of crossed modules of Leibniz algebras the notion of biderivation via the action of a Leibniz algebra.
Diouf rounded Zaluska near the byeline and crossed but Daniel Majstorovic headed away and Celtic eventually mopped up the danger.
To this end, he crossed through the lands of caciques Coquera and Tumaco, defeating them easily and taking their riches of gold and pearls.
Bartolomeu Dias crossed the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, thus proving that the Indian Ocean was accessible by sea.
The Australians crossed for a single, leaving three runs to win with the weaker batsman Kasprowicz on strike.
The Turks took the islands of Tinos and Aegina, crossed the isthmus, and took Corinth.
The army under Bonaparte crossed the frontiers of neutral Venice in pursuit of the enemy.
Passing through the territory of the city of Urfa, he crossed the Euphrates.
In late 1299, the Mongol Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan, son of Arghun, took his army and crossed the Euphrates river to again invade Syria.
In one instance during their trip, the Polos joined a caravan of travelling merchants whom they crossed paths with.
From there, he journeyed south to Afghanistan, then crossed into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush.
He crossed the Red Sea and the Eastern Desert to reach the Nile valley and then headed north to Cairo.
De' Conti first crossed the desert to reach Baghdad and from there sailed down the Tigris to Basra.
The club played its first fixture against overseas opposition in 1907, as Racing Club de Bordelais crossed the Channel to play at the Rec.
The parts should be often traversed, or crossed, by the flowing of the folds.
Constantine and his Greek troops guarded the Mesoteichion, the middle section of the land walls, where they were crossed by the river Lycus.
The presura referred to a group of peasants who crossed the mountains and settled in the abandoned lands of the Douro Basin.
Guinea is crossed by a multitude of water streams, many of them navigable rivers, and a large part of its territory is marshy and flooded.
In the middle of the 14th century Ibn Battuta crossed the desert from Sijilmasa via the salt mines at Taghaza to the oasis of Oualata.
Abd Allah crossed over to Valencia first in 796, calling on the allegiance of the same Berber garrison that sheltered Sulayman years earlier.
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The island was first inhabited by people who crossed over the land bridge from the European mainland.
His Berber ally Jafar ibn Hamdun crossed the straits with his army, whereas Ghalib allied with the Kingdom of Navarre.
Turner crossed the Channel from Great Britain, attracted by the light and landscapes.
In the late 19th century, Dorsland Trekkers crossed the area on their way from the South African Republic to Angola.
Both expeditions were badly conducted and failed, and on 8 September Charles VIII crossed the Alps and joined Ludovico il Moro at Milan.
Once Nelson realised that the French had crossed the Atlantic Ocean, he set off in pursuit.
Ferdinand, on the other hand, crossed Castile in secret disguised as a servant.
In May 1475, King Alfonso and his army crossed into Spain and advanced to Plasencia.
By this time, Cabral had already crossed the Indian Ocean, and the change in the monsoon winds prevented Dias from undertaking his own crossing.
Finally in late 1933 the Liberals crossed the floor of the House of Commons and went into complete opposition.
But there was nothing he could do about Villa's second when Agbonlahor crossed from the left and Bent finished with a precision volley.
These crossed weddings strengthened the ties between the two crowns, facilitating an agreement regarding the Moluccas.
Of the 450,000 soldiers who crossed the Neman on 25 June 1812, fewer than 40,000 returned.
At the end of the Upper Paleolithic, a group of humans crossed the Bering land bridge and quickly expanded throughout North and South America.
In Germany, the armies of Hoche and Moreau crossed the Rhine again in April after the previous year's failure.
We found bridges of network over a very large and powerful river, which we crossed twice, which was a marvelous thing to see.
In the 1930s, Germany crossed the Atlantic with Zeppelins that could carry about 60 passengers in a similar luxurious style to the ocean liners.
Janszoon then crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea, without seeing the Torres Strait, into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
On 26 July 1572, the horde crossed the River Oka near Serpukhov, destroyed the Russian vanguard of 200 noblemen and advanced towards Moscow.
When this word was given, the troops on standby crossed the border into Iraq.
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Gordon believed that Phoenicians and other Semitic groups had crossed the Atlantic in antiquity, ultimately arriving in both North and South America.
Blessed are the poor, the sick, the crossed in love, for at least other people know what is the matter with them and will listen to their belly-achings with sympathy.
Flory crossed the brick-like earth of the yard between the hospital sheds. All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.
Just then, a sailor, who had crossed the channel, and was making rapid headway, by rowing cross-handed, emerged from behind a merchant vessel which was moored at the wharf.
He finally crossed the Thames at Wallingford in early December.
In a decidedly petulant manner she sat with crossed arms and a frown.
The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches.
Mrs. Fennel, seeing the steam begin to generate on the countenances of her guests, crossed over and touched the fiddler's elbow and put her hand on the serpent's mouth.
Other borders are partially or fully controlled, and may be crossed legally only at designated border checkpoints and border zones may be controlled.
The first ferry crossed under the command of Captain Hayward.
On 16 September 1965, two Amphicars crossed from Dover to Calais.
In 1643, Vasily Poyarkov crossed the Stanovoy Range and reached the upper Zeya River in the country of the Daurs, who were paying tribute to the Manchu Chinese.
Thus the Baltic Sea has long been crossed by much merchant shipping.
When this unknown creature entered the river, the Britons and their horses fled and the Roman army crossed over and entered Cassivellaunus' territory.
The main invasion force under Aulus Plautius crossed in three divisions.
Alarmed by this disaster and by the fury of the province which he had goaded into war by his rapacity, the procurator Catus crossed over into Gaul.
The Germans living west of the Rhine River rose against him, perhaps encouraged by Roman loyalists, and those living east of the river crossed into Gaul.
The Normans crossed to England a few days after Harold's victory over the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge on 25 September, following the dispersal of Harold's naval force.
In late June 1460, Warwick, Salisbury and Edward of March crossed the Channel and rapidly established themselves in Kent and London, where they enjoyed wide support.
In 1513, Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and led the first European expedition to see the Pacific Ocean from the West coast of the New World.
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After consolidating political and financial support, William crossed the North Sea and English Channel with a large invasion fleet in November 1688, landing at Torbay.
Millions of Muslims subsequently crossed from India to Pakistan and Hindus vice versa, and violence between the two communities cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
At the beginning of the 1860 it took over railways that had crossed the Pennines to join the West Coast Main Line at Tebay and Clifton, near Penrith.
He climbed three marble steps, crossed the terrace and entered a dim foyer, where a chamberlain silently helped him from his helmet, his jupon and his chain cuirass.
When the remnants of the Napoleon's army crossed the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 fit soldiers survived, with 380,000 men dead or missing and 100,000 captured.
On 17 October 1807, 24,000 French troops under General Junot crossed the Pyrenees with Spanish cooperation and headed towards Portugal to enforce Napoleon's orders.
He twice crossed the Atlantic, before returning to serve under his uncle as the commander of Suckling's longboat, which carried men and dispatches to and from the shore.
By March, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine north and south of the Ruhr, encircling the German Army Group B, while the Soviets advanced to Vienna.
The engineer let out the throttle after the train crossed the bridge.
Once Gundulph had entered a convent, Anselm, at age 23, left home with a single attendant, crossed the Alps, and wandered through Burgundy and France for three years.
Thoroughbreds are often crossed with horses of other breeds to create new breeds or to enhance or introduce specific qualities into existing ones.
Referee Gottfried Dienst consulted his linesman on the right flank, Tofiq Bahramov, who signalled that the ball had crossed the line, and the goal was given.
In 1913, the club crossed the city to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury.
The formation of military religious orders scandalised the Orthodox Byzantines, and Crusaders pillaged countries they crossed on their journey east.
During the latter half of the 20th century, several transcontinental interstate highways crossed the West bringing more trade and tourists from the East.
After a short pause, Napoleon carried out a brilliant flanking manoeuvre, and crossed the Po at Piacenza, nearly cutting the Austrian line of retreat.
After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire.
In the centre, the Russian forces crossed the Danube and laid siege to Silistra from 14 April with 60,000 troops, the defenders with 15,000 had supplies for three months.
On August 19, 2015, the Associated Press reported that the fire was started by a short circuit, caused by crossed wires located under the battery.
Most typical is a standing pose with arms crossed in front, but other figures are shown in different poses, including a complicated figure of a harpist seated on a chair.

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