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Old Khmer is attested by many primary sources and has been studied in depth by a few scholars, most notably Saveros Pou, Phillip Jenner and Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow.
A few days earlier the Khmer Rouge army had entered Phnom Penh.
There were in fact a few contacts between some of the more moderate elements of the Khmer Rouge communists-notably Hou Yuon-and the Republic.
While Sirik Matak, Long Boret, Lon Non and several other politicians remained in the capital in an attempt to negotiate a ceasefire, the Khmer Rouge finally entered the city on April 17 ; within a few days they had executed many representatives of the old regime, and the Khmer Republic had effectively come to an end.
Predominantly animist peoples, with few ties to the Buddhist culture of the lowland Khmers, the Khmer Loeu had resented Sihanouk's attempts to " civilise " them.
In the meantime, following the abandonment of the Angkorian sites, the few remaining Khmer survivors, with Siamese help, established a new capital several hundred kilometers to the southeast on the site of what is now Phnom Penh.
King Ang Chan ( 1516 – 1566 ), one of the few great Khmer monarchs of the post-Angkorian period, moved the capital from Phnom Penh to Lovek.
The newspaper was forced to cease publication in March, and Son Ngoc Thanh fled the capital with a few armed followers to join the Khmer Issarak.
It is one of the few Khmer Empire era bridges to have survived to the modern day.
Tiziano Terzani (; 14 September 1938-28 July 2004 ) was an Italian journalist and writer, best known for his extensive knowledge of 20th century East Asia and for being one of the very few western reporters to witness both the fall of Saigon to the hands of the Vietcong and the fall of Phnom Pehn at the hands of the Khmer rouge in the mid-1970s.
After the fall of Phnom Penh to the communist Khmer Rouge in 1975, a few Cambodians managed to escape, but not until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown in 1979 did large waves of Cambodians began immigrating to the United States as refugees.
Aside from personal memoirs of coming to America, such as those by Loung Ung, a few books have been dedicated to studying the Khmer American population in the U. S., such as Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.
As for the Buddhist temples that populated the landscape of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge destroyed 95 percent of them, and turned the few remaining into warehouses or allocated them for some other degrading use.
Khmer National Armed Forces occupied the place for a few weeks in late April that year, after the fall of the ineffective and beleaguered Lon Nol regime.
Khmer classical dance training was resurrected in the refugee camps in eastern Thailand with the few surviving Khmer dancers.

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* 1944: a few days after the liberation of Paris, Edith Piaf, whose talent is already evident, performs at the Moulin Rouge, with Yves Montand, a newcomer chosen to appear with her.
According to the Baton Rouge Advocate, very little was left standing in either Boothville or Venice, the few buildings that survived had water up to the rooftops (), and the area orange groves had also been submerged.
He later was known as L ' Aile Rouge, by the French Canadians, and later still took the name Shakea, or " The Man Who Paints Himself Red " after passing the name Red Wing on to a successor. During his lifetime, there were few pioneers, and Red Wing was known as a firm friend of the United States, keeping peace with the settlers and trading for goods that were valued by his tribe.
Giraud left the series in 1973 leaving the artwork to Colin Wilson, Michel Rouge and later Michel Blanc-Dumont for a few books.
Writing to Major General Mansfield Lovell, Commander of the lower Mississippi in March 1862, Beauregard recommended, “… the fortification of Port Hudson as a measure of precaution against the fall of our defenses north of Memphis .” In June 1862, Major General Earl Van Dorn wrote Jefferson Davis: “ I want Baton Rouge and Port Hudson ” A few days after the fall of Baton Rouge to the Union, Confederate General John C. Breckinridge with 4, 000 men, carried out the wishes of General Van Dorn by occupying Port Hudson, situated between Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, with troops under the command of General Daniel Ruggles.
As a branch campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LSUNO was conceived as a liberal arts college, which might within a few years develop into an urban university.
By then, the majority of the HI motels were removed from the chain, with a few exceptions ( In the 1980s and 1990s HI hotels were built alongside the motel properties Baton Rouge, Louisiana in order to provide more amenities and newer rooms ).
Hired by the Moulin Rouge nightclub in 1889, within a few years she headlined at the Jardin de Paris, one of the major café-concerts on the Champs-Élysées.
The hurricane's effects in Baton Rouge were confined to a few downed trees and scattered debris.
His wife, Jerusha, died on 16 March 1980, aged 89, and both were interred in the Baton Rouge National Cemetery, sharing a tall granite marker, one of the few non-standard markers in the cemetery.
It is one of the few CBS affiliates that airs The Young and the Restless on a tape delay ( airing at 4 p. m., leading into the 5 p. m. newscast ); fellow CBS affiliates WAFB / Baton Rouge, WRAL-TV / Raleigh and KMOV / St.
We were off for a few days and I had gone to Baton Rouge, Louisiana but had to return to San Antonio the next day.
After suffering financial difficulties for the few years it was on the air, KLNI discontinued operations in 1976, leaving WBRZ ( and later WRBT, now WVLA ) from Baton Rouge and KPLC from Lake Charles as Lafayette's de facto NBC affiliates.
Amerindians are located in a few villages on the outskirts of town: Balaté ( Arawaks ), Paddock, Prospérité, Terre Rouge, Espérance, Village Pierre ( Kalinas ).
What later became known as the Crescent City Connection was the second bridge to span the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge after the Huey P. Long Bridge a few miles up river from the city, and the first bridge across the river in New Orleans itself.

few and loyalists
Quite a few of the people who had joined McCarthy's effort early on were Kennedy loyalists.
There are relatively few loyalists in areas such as the Highlands, Borders and the northeast ( including Aberdeen ).
Enomoto became one of the few former Tokugawa loyalists who made the transition to the new ruling elite, as politics at the time was dominated by men from Chōshū and Satsuma, who had a strong bias against outsiders in general, and former Tokugawa retainers in particular.
The fall of Taiyuan was one of the few examples in the Chinese Civil War in which Nationalist forces echoed the defeated Ming loyalists who had, in the 17th century, brought entire cities to ruins resisting the invading Manchus.
A few days before, on 1 September, he had taken his degree of D. D., one of a batch of loyalists created doctors by royal mandate.
Primarily populated by descendants of the loyalists, African-Canadian and White, it also is home to a few Acadians, Mi ' kmaq and people of German ancestry.
Li Jue and a few other loyalists of Dong Zhuo, including Niu Fu Fan Chou, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji, managed to escape.
Xiahou Mao fled with a few hundred loyalists and sought refuge with the Qiang tribe, and, staying true to his words, never returned.
* On 19 December, loyalists detonated a car bomb at Kay's Tavern in Dundalk, a few miles across the Irish border.

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But what few containers they found were inadequate.
Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.
Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
I leave it to the statisticians to say what they were, but I noticed several a few years ago, during an automobile ride from Memphis to Hattiesburg.
All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.
A few weeks later the maps were being divided into squares and a position was described as being `` about lots 239, 247 and 272 with pickets forward as far as 196 ''.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.
It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.
In spite of his being well liked there were a few people who were very careful about Alfred.
There were a few reasons for that, too: Garibaldi had been taken up and exploited by the Communists nowadays.
Granted that the Tammany name and the Tammany tiger often were regarded as badges of political shame, the sachems of the Hall also have a few good marks to their credit.
In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.
A few weeks ago, I read in the Bulletin that there were to be given Chinese classes in Cranston.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
A few days before I saw your mention of what Texas Liberals were doing to promote `` Louis Capet '' ( The Week '', June 3 ), another analogy had occurred to me.
However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.
The larger ships were near Paulus Hook, already being called, by a few, Jersey City.

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