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In exchange for diplomatic recognition from France, Boyer was forced to pay a huge indemnity for the loss of French property during the revolution.
Apart from imposing territorial concessions and a huge indemnity, this obligated the Dutch to maintain a French army of occupation of 25, 000 men.
Carthage, stripped of allies and territory ( Sicily, Sardinia, Hispania ), was suffering under a huge indemnity of 200 silver talents to be paid every year for 50 years.
China was forced to concede more trading rights, allow freedom of navigation of the Yangtze, give full civil rights and freedom of religion to Christians, and give France and Britain a huge indemnity.
The treaty forced upon Antiochus III by the victorious Romans was crippling, in the Treaty of Apamea Antiochus was forced to pay a huge war indemnity of 15, 000 Talents along with giving up significant territory in Asia Minor.
The emperor promised to pay Matthias a huge war indemnity, and recognized him as the legitimate king of Hungary on the understanding that he should succeed him if he died without male issue, a contingency at this time somewhat improbable, as Matthias, only three years previously ( 15 December 1476 ), had married his third wife, Beatrice, daughter of Ferdinand I of Naples.
China was forced to concede more trading rights, allow freedom of navigation of the Yangzi river, give full civil rights and freedom of religion to Christians, and give France and Britain a huge indemnity.
Following the Namamugi Incident on September 14, 1862, Lieutenant-Colonel Neale, the British Chargé d ' Affaires, demanded from the bakufu an apology and a huge indemnity for the Namamugi outrage of £ 100, 000 ($ 440, 000 in Mexican silver dollars ), representing roughly 1 / 3 of the total revenues of the Bakufu for one year.
This way, they can receive a huge indemnity from the insurance company.
This left Sulla to settle Asia, which he did by imposing a huge indemnity and with five years of back taxes, thus leaving the Asian cities heavily in debt for a long time to come.
After its victory in the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 71 ), Germany extracted a huge indemnity from France of £ 200, 000, 000 in gold, and used it to join Britain on a gold standard.
China was forced to concede more trading rights, allow freedom of navigation of the Yangzi river, give full civil rights and freedom of religion to Christians, and give France and Britain a huge indemnity.

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World War II exacted both a huge physical and psychological toll on French culture.

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Moreover, the entire state Democratic hierarchy, from Gov. Brown on down to the county chairmen, also participates in this huge operation.
One of the most beautiful buildings in Istanbul, it was constructed in the early years of the Seventeenth Century, with a huge central dome, two half domes that seem to cascade down from it, and smaller full domes around the gallery.
Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.
One high-up camera shot is magnificent, as the Germans straggle from a cathedral, dotting a huge, cobblestone square, and drop their weapons.
This type of military fiefdom enabled the nomadic Turks to draw on the resources of the sedentary Persians, Turks and other established cultures within the Seljuq realm, and allowed Alp Arslan to field a huge standing army, without depending on tribute from conquest to pay his soldiery.
The lake absorbs huge amounts of eroded gravel and snowmelt that the river brings from the Alps, and the former swamps have become fruitful plains: they are known as the " vegetable garden of Switzerland ".
The current is circumpolar due to the lack of any landmass connecting with Antarctica and this keeps warm ocean waters away from Antarctica, enabling that continent to maintain its huge ice sheet.
* In John Christopher's 1967-68 trilogy of novels The Tripods, an alien race known as " the Masters " live in three huge, domed arcologies built on Earth to use as a base from which to colonise the planet.
Few of his other paintings resemble this apocalyptic scene of two huge armies dominated by an extravagant landscape seen from a very high viewpoint, which looks south over the whole Mediterranean from modern Turkey to include the island of Cyprus and the mouths of the Nile and the Red Sea ( behind the isthmus to the left ) on the other side.
The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.
* Furniture ; ( a ) Domestic furniture, such as vessels of all sorts and in many materials, from huge store jars down to tiny unguent pots ; culinary and other implements ; thrones, seats, tables, etc., these all in stone or plastered terracotta.
Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.
Visual effects supervisor William Mesa showed Raimi storyboards he had from Victor Fleming's film Joan of Arc that depicted huge battle scenes and he picked out 25 shots to use in Army of Darkness.
The Labour Party benefited the most from this huge change in the British electorate, forming its first minority government in 1924.
As a side-effect, the huge industrial effort needed, from establishing iron-works to make more nails to agriculture feeding the quadrupled strength of the Royal Navy, started to transform the economy.
Some of them were sited beside precipitous cliffs and were protected by large ramparts, artificial or natural: a good example is at Burland near Gulberwick in Shetland, on a clifftop and cut off from the mainland by huge ditches.
After a short pause at midday, Teuton units were able to push the Poles back ; however, they found themselves under very heavy fire from crossbows of the Polish infantry, which caused huge losses and withdrawal.
Their preferred tactic was to avoid an open field battle, and to fight from the cover of a huge fortified camp.
A huge range of inclusions exist in different cell types, and range from crystals of calcium oxalate or silicon dioxide in plants, to granules of energy-storage materials such as starch, glycogen, or polyhydroxybutyrate.
Scholars such as Frederick W. Mote argue that the wide drop in numbers reflects an administrative failure to record rather than an actual decrease ; others such as Timothy Brook argue that the Mongols created a system of enserfment among a huge portion of the Chinese populace, causing many to disappear from the census altogether ; other historians like William McNeill and David Morgan argue that the Bubonic Plague was the main factor behind the demographic decline during this period.
Many excellent examples of structures made from these concretes are still standing, notably the huge dome of the Pantheon in Rome and the massive Baths of Caracalla.
Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Europe and migrants from the eastern states.

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Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.
Because of the huge interest in the Confucius family tree, there was a project in China to test the DNA of known family members.
In other international issues, Beria ( along with Mikoyan ) correctly foresaw the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War and greatly helped the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's Liberation Army, mainly from the recently-captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.
The Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki route was particularly profitable because the Portuguese acted as middlemen, shipping Chinese silks to Japan and Japanese silver to China, pocketing huge markups in the process.
The 1940s saw huge change in South Asia with the Partition of India in 1947 ( resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan ), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949.
The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.
He pays a huge ransom and then abandons Northern China, heading for Kaifeng.
The immediate causes of this famine lay in Mao Zedong's ill-fated attempt to transform China from an agricultural nation to an industrial power in one huge leap.
In ancient China there was a huge flood.
The Dutch originally sought to use their castle Zeelandia at Tayowan as a trading base between Japan and China, but soon realized the potential of the huge deer populations that roamed in herds of thousands along the alluvial plains of Taiwan's western regions.
During this period, huge numbers of people moved south from the central plain, stimulating the development of Southern China.
A steady stream of Johnny Wadd films followed which included Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here ( 1976 ), Liquid Lips ( 1976 ), The Jade Pussycat ( 1977 ), The China Cat ( 1978 ), and Blond Fire ( 1978 ), all of which were huge box office successes.
As a hydrologist, Zhu grasped the impact such water savings, multiplied by China's huge population, could have on China's infrastructure .< ref name =" China Online 2000 ">
At the United Nations Aiken took an independent stance and backed the admission of China to the organisation, in spite of huge protests from the United States.
This system had a huge influence on both society and culture in Imperial China and was directly responsible for the creation of a class of scholar-bureaucrats irrespective of their family pedigree.
For nations that suffered huge losses such as the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Germany and Yugoslavia, our sources can give us only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown of deaths caused by military activity, crimes against humanity and war related famine.
Peng eventually defeated the Kuomintang in Northwest China, captured huge amounts of military supplies, and actively incorporated the huge area, including Xinjiang, into the People's Republic of China.
This system had a huge influence on both society and culture in Imperial China and was partly responsible for changes in the power structure of the Tang and Song Dynasties that would hold long after their dissolution.
According at an estimate, every year, nearly 750, 000 Chinese and 400, 000 Indian students apply to higher education institutions around the world to study, indicating huge aspirations of students from these two countries to study abroad Top two source countries for international students are China and India with 441, 186 and 170, 255 globally mobile students respectively in 2008.

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