But neptune 's existence wasn 't confirmed until september 23 , 1846 , when german astronomer johann galle used a telescope to search the predicted location in the sky and spotted a tiny blue-green disk .
My husband and I first visited galle over christmas in 2000 , and my memories are of decrepit houses , impromptu cricket games and gin-and-tonics on the new oriental hotel 's sagging veranda .
Louis galle , a senior vice president at timex , said that fewer young people wear watches today than five years ago .
路易斯格里,是蒂梅克斯的一位高级副总裁说;相对于5年前,现在很少年轻人戴手表了。
Helping out with costly maintenance is one way of convincing residents to stay , said parakrama dahanayake , the head of the galle heritage foundation .
Tolerance and interaction among the faiths is high , and some people in galle occasionally pray to other faiths , despite the ethnic strife in northern sri lanka between the tamil minority , which is predominantly hindu , and the mostly buddhist sinhalese majority .