The estuary of these two ancient rivers lay to the north of a broad land corridor that then joined southeast England to continental Europe.
"Rome looks with wistful eye to domination of this broad land, a magnificent seat for a sovereign pontiff," one writer cautioned.
This similarity in Arctic mammalian fauna is a result of the lower sea levels of the Pleistocene glaciations, when a broad land connection, known as the Bering Land Bridge, connected present-day Alaska and Siberia.
Jewish eschatology has its beginning in the biblical promise to Abraham that, through him, all nations would be blessed and that his descendants would receive a "good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey" (Exodus 3 8).
Behind his speech were the ghosts of Lincoln's First Inaugural, which moved anxiously over "every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land," and his Second, which promised to "bind up the nation's wounds".
The decision to take him into custody was made after peasant leaders in several Chinese provinces issued a manifesto demanding broader land rights for peasants whose property had been confiscated for development.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Ahmed al-Askari, a Kurd and head of the provincial council's security committee, speaks of reconciliation, but his choice of words betrays another agenda, as does a map on his wall that traces the Kurds' broader land claims, a line stretching in to Turkey, Syria and Iran.
-- Mr. Garland, 1828 Before anything else is to be done 50 cents [is] to be paid to my son-in-law to enable him to buy for himself a good stout rope with which to hang himself, and thus rid mankind of one of the most infamous scoundrels that ever roamed this broad land or dwelt outside of a penitentiary.
