The whales migrate between their feeding ground in the north and their breeding ground in the Caribbean. |
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Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens. |
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When he hit the Jersey wall separating the north and southbound traffic, he sent up a huge cloud of dust that I couldn't see through. |
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Some copies of this text mention a tribe called Saxones in the area to the north of the lower Elbe. |
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In the Netherlands, Saxons occupied the territory south of the Frisians and north of the Franks. |
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Physically different from the usual local inhabitants found before this period, they instead resembled the Germanic populations of the north. |
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Less dense usage is suggested for north Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, the Clyde Valley and eastern Dumfriesshire. |
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Munster, in the south, records the least snow whereas Ulster, in the north, records the most. |
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It radically altered the geography of North America north of the Ohio River. |
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Descendants of these mammoths moved north and eventually covered most of Eurasia. |
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The north and west corners are indeed sometimes penetrated by the rain and require a little attention from the housewright to remedy the evil. |
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Emanating from Southern France, this culture extended into the north of the peninsula. |
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Many of the ousted Gothic nobles took refuge in the unconquered north Kingdom of Asturias. |
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It is bordered on the southeast and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north, west, and southwest by the Atlantic Ocean. |
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The Heel Stone lies north east of the sarsen circle, beside the end portion of Stonehenge Avenue. |
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Subsequent aerial archaeology suggests that this ditch runs from the west to the north of Stonehenge, near the avenue. |
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This territory of the Celtic tribes was bounded on the south by the Garonne and on the north by the Seine and the Marne. |
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An edition printed at Ulm in 1482, including woodcut maps, was the first one printed north of the Alps. |
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An edition printed at Ulm in 1482 was the first one printed north of the Alps. |
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By 390 BC, several Gallic tribes were invading Italy from the north as their culture expanded throughout Europe. |
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Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes. |
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Their territory was on the north side of the Thames estuary in current Essex and Suffolk, and included lands now located in Greater London. |
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They were bordered to the north by the Iceni, and to the west by the Catuvellauni. |
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Closer to Rome, he built a navigable canal on the Tiber, leading to Portus, his new port just north of Ostia. |
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However, Dio says the Romans sailed east to west, and a journey from Boulogne to Richborough is south to north. |
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Eleven tribes of South East Britain surrendered to Claudius and the Romans prepared to move further west and north. |
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Following the successful suppression of Boudica's uprising, a number of new Roman governors continued the conquest by edging north. |
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The first to be dealt with were the Ordovices of north Wales, who had destroyed a cavalry ala of Roman auxiliaries stationed in their territory. |
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His successors are not named in any surviving source, but it seems they were unable or unwilling to further subdue the far north. |
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Roman troops, however, penetrated far into the north of modern Scotland several more times. |
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Cartimandua was evacuated, and Venutius was left in control of the north of the country. |
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He fled north to the Brigantes, but their queen, Cartimandua, was loyal to the Romans and handed him over in chains. |
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Severus then thrust north with his army across the wall into enemy territory. |
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There is evidence that the Emperor Hadrian visited in 122 on his way north to plan his great walled frontier. |
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This mark of Imperial favour was probably a recognition of Eboracum as the largest town in the north and the capital of Britannia Inferior. |
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Constantius's campaign, like that of Septimius Severus before it, probably advanced far into the north without achieving great success. |
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Other cities of the north Italian plain sent Constantine embassies of congratulation for his victory. |
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Constantine sent a small force north of the town in an attempt to cross the river unnoticed. |
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Tradition has it that Saint Patrick was not welcomed by the locals and was forced to leave to seek a more welcoming landing place further north. |
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Tacitus portrays a people called the Eudoses living in the north of Jutland and these may have been the later Iutae. |
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Bravo Three, this Bravo Six. Immediate! We are coming under fire from the north from an unknown enemy, over! |
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Archaeological surveys show that Angles settled the lands north of the River Thames by the 6th century. |
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In time this would deprive Wessex of its territories north of the Thames and the Avon, encouraging the kingdom's reorientation southwards. |
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This suggests that West Kent at this point was independent of East Kent, and part of the Kingdom of the East Saxons north of the Thames Estuary. |
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Halfdan and Ivar moved north and captured Northumbria in 867 and York as well. |
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After making peace with the local East Anglian king in return for horses, the Great Heathen Army moved north. |
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During the peace, the Danes turned north and attacked Mercia, which they finished off in short order, and captured London in the process. |
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Southern kings had never ruled the north, and his usurpation was met with outrage by the Northumbrians, who had always resisted southern control. |
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In contrast to his strong control over southern Britain, his position in the north was far more tenuous. |
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When he marched north, the Welsh did not join him, and they did not fight on either side. |
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Scandinavia extends north of the Arctic Circle, but has relatively mild weather for its latitude due to the Gulf Stream. |
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Huge burial cairns built close to the sea as far north as Harstad and also inland in the south are characteristic of this period. |
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To the north, west and south, Norway is bordered by the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and Skagerrak. |
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Several Uralic Sami languages are spoken and written throughout the country, especially in the north, by some members of the Sami people. |
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Harold marched south to confront him, leaving a significant portion of his army in the north. |
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Meanwhile, William attacked the Danes, who had moored for the winter south of the Humber in Lincolnshire, and drove them back to the north bank. |
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In 1072 William invaded Scotland, defeating Malcolm, who had recently invaded the north of England. |
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The planned attack disintegrated after Stephen marched rapidly north to York, and Henry returned to Normandy. |
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He cracked down on crime, seizing the belongings of thieves and fugitives, and travelling justices were dispatched to the north and the Midlands. |
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Word then reached Henry that King William had been defeated and captured by local forces at Alnwick, crushing the rebel cause in the north. |
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Henry II attacked from the north while other of his allies, namely the Trencavels and Ramon Berenguer opened a different front. |
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Louis VII answered by raiding the Norman Vexin, forcing Henry II to move his troops north, giving Louis the opportunity to free Bourges. |
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The aim was for the Earl of Salisbury and John's German allies to attack Philip from the north, whilst John attacked from the south. |
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Soon after this battle, in 732, the Moors raided Vasconia and Aquitaine as far north as Poitiers and defeated Odo twice near Bordeaux. |
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To the north, it bordered on Bretagne, Anjou, Blois and Bourbonnais, all of which had passed to the kingdom of France by the 13th century. |
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Edward made alliances with the German king, the Counts of Flanders and Guelders, and the Burgundians, who would attack France from the north. |
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The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north. |
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The city's residents fled to the north, most of them dying during the journey, but the infection had been spread to the people of Asia Minor. |
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A second front opened up when the plague arrived by ship at the Humber, wherefrom it spread both south and north. |
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In May it reached York, and during the summer months of June, July and August, it ravaged the north. |
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Margaret and the remaining Lancastrian nobles gathered their army in the north of England. |
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After Lancastrian revolts in the north were suppressed in 1464 and Henry was captured once again and placed in the Tower of London. |
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King Henry led an army south to meet them while Margaret remained in the north with Prince Edward. |
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Landing in north Wales, he and his wife Cecily entered London with all the ceremony usually reserved for a monarch. |
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Queen Margaret and her son had fled to north Wales, parts of which were still in Lancastrian hands. |
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Edward and Warwick marched north, gathering a large army as they went, and met an equally impressive Lancastrian army at Towton. |
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Henry and Margaret, who were waiting in York with their son Edward, fled north when they heard the outcome. |
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Edward IV had already marched north to suppress another uprising in Yorkshire. |
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Initially the earl had issues with Richard III as Edward groomed his brother to be the leading power of the north. |
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Northumberland and his men fled north on seeing the king's fate, and Norfolk was killed. |
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In Foss's opinion both sources are describing an area of flat ground north of Dadlington. |
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The following year, Richard was rewarded with all the Neville lands in the north of England, at the expense of Anne's cousin, George Neville. |
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In 1583, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted Walter Raleigh a charter to plant a colony north of Spanish Florida. |
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David Beers Quinn theorized that the colonists moved north to integrate with the Chesepians that Chief Powhatan claimed to have killed. |
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The Golden Hind sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America, attacking Spanish ports and pillaging towns. |
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After looting the Cacafuego, Drake turned north, hoping to meet another Spanish treasure ship coming south on its return from Manila to Acapulco. |
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The Armada managed to regroup and, driven by southwest winds, withdrew north, with the English fleet harrying it up the east coast of England. |
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By 1604, he had moved north of the river again, to an area north of St Paul's Cathedral with many fine houses. |
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This time, a Scots army defeated Charles's forces in the north, then captured Newcastle. |
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Marston Moor secured the north of England for the Parliamentarians, but failed to end Royalist resistance. |
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Cromwell was still in the north of England, dealing with Royalist resistance, when these events took place, but then returned to London. |
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Working to a plan at last, James's firefighters had also created a large firebreak to the north of the conflagration. |
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In the library's north wing, you'll find the current periodicals. |
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It was customary in the north to have an arval or funeral dinner after an interment. |
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The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north. |
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Suppose that, initially, the barley-sugar aerials are twisted in such a sense that the polar diagram of each has its maximum north of the zenith. |
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The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north. |
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In 1069 the exiles returned to England, to join a spreading revolt in the north. |
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The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof. |
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Kansas is bounded by Nebraska on the north, Missouri on the east, Oklahoma on the south and Colorado on the west. |
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Cammocky butter was a nuisance in Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In the north children dug up the root and chewed it. |
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In Lancashire and the north of Ireland, the catch-hold or catch-as-catch-can system still finds favour. |
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This was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England. |
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Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north. |
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Our streets are full of a general sloshiness that lingers and won't go away, as if a glacier is deicing to the north. |
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The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north. |
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In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond. |
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The dominant strike orientation of both bedding and foliation of Vermont bedrock is north or northeasterly. |
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The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. |
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She had now got her eye in. A 10000-ton tanker heading for Tunisia with powerful escort got no farther than the north coast of Sicily. |
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The group met Friday morning and took a bus north from Cairo to the Qalyubiya governate, an hour away. |
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Some English people, especially in the north, were Jacobites and continued to support James and his sons. |
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All eleven English clubs in Super League are based in the north of England. |
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The Highlands and Islands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. |
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It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, and the Bristol Channel to the south. |
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The country lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable, maritime climate. |
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Over 560,000 Welsh language speakers live in Wales, and the language is spoken by a majority of the population in parts of the north and west. |
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In the late 18th century, slate quarrying began to expand rapidly, most notably in north Wales. |
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Much of Wales' diverse landscape is mountainous, particularly in the north and central regions. |
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Services between north and south Wales operate through the English towns of Chester and Shrewsbury along the Welsh Marches Line. |
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To the north, the connection is through the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Malin Sea. |
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This species travels north to the waters off the British Isles every year following the swarms of jellyfish that form its prey. |
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The Celtic Sea takes its name from the Celtic heritage of the bounding lands to the north and east. |
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The only exception is the Norwegian trench, which extends parallel to the Norwegian shoreline from Oslo to an area north of Bergen. |
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The lake was fed by meltwater from the Baltic and from the Caledonian and Scandinavian ice sheets that joined to the north, blocking its exit. |
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The scheme mandates that vessels travelling north must use the French side, travelling south the English side. |
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The two dominant cultures are English on the north shore of the Channel, French on the south. |
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Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. |
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At the present time the north of the island is rising as a result of the weight of Devensian ice being lifted. |
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Maximum temperatures occur north of the equator, and minimum values are found in the polar regions. |
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Ships are subject to superstructure icing in the extreme north from October to May. |
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The Irish Sea Glacier terminated just to the north of the Isles of Scilly during the last Ice Age. |
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The north coast is unusual in having four high tides each day, with a double high tide every twelve and a half hours. |
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It does not have a motorway, although there is a short stretch of dual carriageway towards the north of Newport near the hospital and prison. |
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Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary. |
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Teuton was the byword the Romans applied to the barbarians from the north and which they used to describe subsequent Germanic peoples. |
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Lands to the north and east of the Rhine emerge in the Roman records under the name Germania. |
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More to the south in Belgium, archaeological evidence from this period indicates immigration from the north. |
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On October 31 of 1527 Saavedra sailed from New Spain, crossing the Pacific and touring the north of New Guinea, then named Isla de Oro. |
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Despite Iberian protections, the new technologies and maps soon made their way north. |
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Hudson's final expedition ranged farther north in search of the Northwest Passage, leading to his discovery of the Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay. |
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They parted ways, with Barentsz continuing northeast, while Rijp headed north. |
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This area includes the Derwent Fells above the Newlands Valley and hills to the north amongst which are Dale Head, Robinson. |
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Broadly speaking the area can be divided into three bands, the divisions between which run south west to north east. |
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The limestone is exposed at the surface in the north of the range, in the North Pennines AONB, and in the south in the Derbyshire Peak District. |
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It is believed that the north Pennines were under the control of the kingdom of Rheged. |
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It is situated north of the Spa town of Cheltenham which has much Georgian architecture of some merit. |
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Moving further north, Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire. |
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In 1999, the remains of a Bronze Age bridge were found on the foreshore north of Vauxhall Bridge. |
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Epping Forest is also known for its fallow deer, which can frequently be seen in herds to the north of the Forest. |
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Bletchley Park in north Buckinghamshire was the principal Allied centre for codebreaking. |
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Rentokil Initial have their head office and pest control division next to Blackwater railway station, north of the A30, towards Camberley. |
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To the north, Aria Assistance is on the B2028 near Haywards Heath railway station. |
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Williams Grand Prix Engineering is based at Grove on the A338 north of Wantage. |
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The region extends from the Scottish Borders in the north to the West Midlands region in the south. |
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In Cumbria the M6 runs all the way down the east of the county connecting the very north of England to the Lancashire border. |
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On the Bolton boundary in north of the borough in Little Hulton, Eaton Transmissions closed in 2006, with production moving to Tczew in Poland. |
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Further north on the estate next to the A5208 is QVC UK's distribution centre, with all three in Kirkby. |
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Slightly to the north, TKA Tallent make automotive axles and chassis components. |
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His brother Tostig and Harold Hardrada, King of Norway, attempted a takeover in the north, having won the Battle of Fulford. |
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From the 5th century AD, north Britain was divided into a series of petty kingdoms. |
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As a result, Gaelic, once dominant north of the Tay, began a steady decline. |
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Roman culture north of the Po River was almost entirely displaced by the migrations. |
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The Lombards, who first entered Italy in 568 under Alboin, carved out a state in the north, with its capital at Pavia. |
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The Early Middle Ages marked the beginning of the cultural distinctions between Western and Eastern Europe north of the Mediterranean. |
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The settlement of Kent is attributed to Jutes, who originated in the land to the north of Angeln. |
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It forms part of the border between Germany and Denmark and marks north border of Angeln. |
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They include the major rivers of north Europe, such as the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman, the Daugava and the Neva. |
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The land north of the Tweed was finally ceded to Scotland in 1018 as a result of the battle of Carham. |
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In 1072, with the Harrying of the North completed and his position again secure, William of Normandy came north with an army and a fleet. |
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In 1080, William sent his son Robert Curthose north with an army while his brother Odo punished the Northumbrians. |
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In September, learning of William Rufus's approaching army, Malcolm withdrew north and the English followed. |
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The king's body was sent north for reburial, in the reign of his son Alexander, at Dunfermline Abbey, or possibly Iona. |
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How much Norse influence spread to the English north of the River Tees is uncertain. |
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Alivia, the very peculiar wilder who seemed to have no other name, strode off north, cloak flapping behind her, surrounded by the glow of the Power. |
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Much of the northern antidivision sentiment in 1887 was rooted in the fear that statehood for the southern half alone might doom the north to indefinite territorial status. |
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Marble Arch and Wellington Arch, at the north and south ends of Park Lane, respectively, have royal connections, as do the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall in Kensington. |
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However, after becoming king, Richard began moulding his nephew, John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, to manage the north, passing over Northumberland for the position. |
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Unfortunately for the Danes, the fleet of reinforcements encountered a storm and lost more than 100 ships, and the Danes were forced to return to East Mercia in the north. |
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Pack an esky with ice-cold bottles of Cooper's Green Label and head down to Holloways Beach, just north of Cairns, around beer o'clock on a Friday afternoon. |
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Avery Dennison UK are based to the north off the A308 at Furze Platt. |
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On 21 August, the Stanleys were making camp on the slopes of a hill north of Dadlington, while Henry encamped his army at White Moors to the northwest of their camp. |
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On 14 September he moved his army to Coventry and then to the north of the Cotswolds, a strategy which placed his army between the Royalists and London. |
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When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate. |
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In the north of Britain, ongoing border struggles across the defensive walls led to the establishment of buffer states, including the Votadini in Northumberland. |
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When the Romans withdrew behind Hadrian's Wall in 164 AD, they left the Votadini as a client kingdom, a buffer zone against the Picts in the north. |
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Northumberland, who had remained inactive during the battle, was imprisoned but later released and reinstated to pacify the north in Henry's name. |
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The north of the region, comprising Cumbria and northern Lancashire, is largely rural, as is the far south which encompasses parts of the Cheshire Plain and Peak District. |
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Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit, who would build his sole piazza to the north. |
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To the north his limit is not known, and most probably he has a continuous range, quite to the classic ground of crocodiledom, the waters of the Nile. |
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Heaton Park in north Manchester is the largest municipal park in Europe. |
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But beyond the dargah, and the medieval warren in which it sits, north India's present-day politics can be a good deal less accommodating of religious diversity. |
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Across the M65 to the north Apeks make diving equipment at Blackamoor. |
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A small minority of Sami people live in the extreme north of Scandinavia. |
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Charles was victorious at the battle of Cropredy Bridge in late June, but the royalists in the north were defeated at the battle of Marston Moor just a few days later. |
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It was located on the north bank of the River Wear in Sunderland. |
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In the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, a high percentage of the population, about 350000, speak Frisian as their first language. |
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It was agreed that all of England north of the Thames was to be the domain of the Danish prince, while all to the south was kept by the English king, along with London. |
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The road is controversially still single carriageway north of Morpeth, despite being the main trunk route connecting Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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The two main airports are Newcastle Airport, located north of the city near Ponteland, and Durham Tees Valley Airport, located east of Darlington. |
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Pocket gophers appear to be abundant in the APWRA on both sides of Altamont Pass Road, whereas ground squirrels appear to be abundant only on the north side. |
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It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. |
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Opposing them the English were in two sections, Drake to the north in Revenge with 11 ships, and Howard to the south in Ark Royal with the bulk of the fleet. |
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After the Norman conquest in 1066 various Castles in England were created so law lords could uphold their authority and in the north to protect from invasion. |
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In the far north of the county the River Tees flows eastwards through Teesdale and empties its waters into the North Sea downstream of Middlesbrough. |
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The main population and industrial areas are in South Wales, consisting of the coastal cities of Cardiff, Swansea and Newport, and the South Wales Valleys to their north. |
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From a base of territory in eastern Scotland north of the River Forth and south of the River Oykel, the kingdom acquired control of the lands lying to the north and south. |
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In the north, however, its territory was increased by the acquisition of the northern provinces of Troms and Finnmark, at the expense of Sweden and Russia. |
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Important regional dailies include the Evening News in Edinburgh The Courier in Dundee in the east, and The Press and Journal serving Aberdeen and the north. |
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In AD 793, ferocious Viking raids began on monasteries such as those at Iona and Lindisfarne, creating fear and confusion across the kingdoms of north Britain. |
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The defining factor in the geography of Scotland is the distinction between the Highlands and Islands in the north and west and the Lowlands in the south and east. |
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Richard controlled the north of England until Edward IV's death. |
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The Britons of Wales later made their peace with the Vikings and Anarawd ap Rhodri allied with the Norsemen occupying Northumbria to conquer the north. |
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The second metal industry to expand in Wales was iron smelting, and iron manufacturing became prevalent in both the north and the south of the country. |
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Conversely, from late November to late January, the sun never rises above the horizon in the north, and daylight hours are very short in the rest of the country. |
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The Lancastrian army advanced south and released Henry at the Second Battle of St Albans, but failed to occupy London, and subsequently retreated to the north. |
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Viking raids and invasion were no less dramatic for the north. |
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Although football has traditionally been the more popular sport in north Wales, rugby union is seen as a symbol of Welsh identity and an expression of national consciousness. |
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It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel. |
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This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage. |
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While Renaissance ideas were moving north from Italy, there was a simultaneous southward spread of some areas of innovation, particularly in music. |
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The emperor's forces pushed north as far as the River Tay, but little appears to have been achieved by the invasion, as peace treaties were signed with the Caledonians. |
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In the north, deep fjords and sheer cliffs mark the Norwegian and Scottish coastlines, whereas in the south it consists primarily of sandy beaches and wide mudflats. |
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He assumed the title Britannicus but the title meant little with regard to the unconquered north, which clearly remained outside the authority of the Empire. |
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From north east of England, the cliffs become lower and are composed of less resistant moraine, which erodes more easily, so that the coasts have more rounded contours. |
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In 2006 a bone fragment was found while drilling for oil in the north sea. |
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William hurried north with an army, defeated the rebels outside York and pursued them into the city, massacring the inhabitants and bringing the revolt to an end. |
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Malcolm's marriage to Ingibiorg secured him peace in the north and west. |
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Malcolm decided on war, and took his army south into Cumbria and across the Pennines, wasting Teesdale and Cleveland then marching north, loaded with loot, to Wearmouth. |
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Backed by a papal emissary who had taken their side, they marched north. |
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When their leadership changed becoming more hostile to Rome, Roman General Quintus Petillius Cerialis led the Ninth Legion north from Lincoln across the Humber. |
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In parts of north west Scotland, Scottish Gaelic remains widely spoken. |
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William faced difficulties in his continental possessions in 1071, but in 1072 he returned to England and marched north to confront King Malcolm III of Scotland. |
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King Harold received word of their invasion and marched north, defeating the invaders and killing Tostig and Hardrada on 25 September at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. |
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Geologically the Northern Atlantic is the area delimited to the south by two conjugate margins, Newfoundland and Iberia, and to the north by the Arctic Eurasian Basin. |
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From there, he ravaged the interior and waited for Harold's return from the north, refusing to venture far from the sea, his line of communication with Normandy. |
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Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length. |
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After the marriage in 1476 of King Matthias to Beatrice of Naples, Buda became one of the most important artistic centres of the Renaissance north of the Alps. |
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The conditions favorable to health and life of the indigines of the poles or the north temperate zones are destructive to the indigines of the tropical, and vice versa. |
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Place name analysis suggests dense usage of Gaelic in Galloway and adjoining areas to the north and west, as well as in West Lothian and parts of western Midlothian. |
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A small English attack in the north of France made up little ground. |
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The other major language groups in the area were the Siouan to the west, and the Iroquoians, who included the Nottoway and Meherrin, to the north and south. |
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The coronation of Charlemagne as emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome on Christmas Day, AD 800 represented a shift in the power structure from the south to the north. |
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Driven away by the Tramontane or north wind, they retraced their course. |
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The southern limit of Wright's zero isobase should intersect the north-west coast of England 125 km further north in the vicinity of the southern shore of Morecambe Bay. |
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When the enormous mass of the continental ice sheet retreated, the Great Lakes began gradually moving south due to isostatic rebound of the north shore. |
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After his death the crew continued exploring as far north as Oregon. |
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In 1149, before Henry II became powerful, he made an oath to David that the lands north of Newcastle should belong to the King of Scotland forever. |
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The second message proved that the main French effort was directed to the east, not the north, so there was no immediate danger of a French invasion for the Republic itself. |
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These were Pomors from the Russian North, who already had been making fur trade with Mangazeya in the north of the Western Siberia for quite a long time. |
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Besides these, a few A roads penetrate the area itself, notably the A591 which runs north westwards from Kendal to Windermere and then on to Keswick. |
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The kingdom of the East Angles bordered the North Sea to the north and the east, with the River Stour historically dividing it from the East Saxons to the south. |
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They take the form of a ridge running between Derwent Water in the west and Thirlmere in the east, from Keswick in the north to Langdale Pikes in the south. |
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The central ridge running north over High Seat is exceptionally boggy. |
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In the north of this region are the lower fells of Martindale Common and Bampton Common whilst in the south are the fells overlooking the Kentmere valley. |
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Conversely, in West Kent cemeteries such Orpington mix cremations with inhumations, which is more typical of Saxon cemeteries north of the River Thames. |
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Generally speaking the rocks become younger from north west to south east. |
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These are generally a little less resistant to erosion than the rocks sequence to the north and underlie much of the lower landscapes around Coniston and Windermere. |
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In recent years, some important changes have been made to fisheries byelaws covering the north west region of England, to help protect some of the rarest fish species. |
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In 1583, Humphrey Gilbert sailed to Newfoundland, taking possession of the harbour of St John's together with all land within two hundred leagues to the north and south of it. |
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The River Ouse would have been navigable at least as far north as Lewes. |
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Thus the analysis of longer, high-resolution ice cores from the Canadian north could be quite revealing from the viewpoint of Arctic interdecadal variability. |
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The fire's spread to the north reached the financial heart of the City. |
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By 500 the Etruscans expanded to border Celts in north Italy, and trade across the Alps began to overhaul trade with the Greeks, and the Rhone route declined. |
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