At 2200 B. C., a marked increase in aridity and wind circulation, subsequent to a volcanic eruption, induced a considerable degradation of land-use conditions.

At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy ( such as heliocentrism ) called astrology into question, and subsequent controlled studies failed to confirm its predictive value.

At that time the south of France was the stronghold of the Cathar or Albigensian heresy, named after the Duke of Albi, a Cathar sympathiser and opponent to the subsequent Albigensian Crusade ( 1209 – 1229 ).

At their subsequent trial they admitted trying to shut the station down, but argued that they were legally justified because they were trying to prevent climate change from causing greater damage to property elsewhere around the world.

At the end of his studies in Brussels, Chang returned home to China, and Hergé lost contact with him during the invasion of China by Japan and the subsequent civil war.

At the subsequent luncheon, Askin instead reported that he had said the remark to the police officer, which a journalist attending the event later reported it as " Run over the bastards.

At subsequent premiers ’ conferences he opposed the ' centralising ' tendencies of Canberra and became a strong advocate of the rights of the states.

At a subsequent point, they have a contest to see who can hold a note the longest.

At a subsequent age, peoples speaking languages from two other language families — Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman — seem to have settled in Bengal.

At the end of the current election cycle any unspent portions of this voucher would expire and could not be rolled over to subsequent elections for that voter.

At the time Panama was one of the largest providers of offshore financial services in the world, but the business fled subsequent the invasion, and the British Virgin Islands was one of the main beneficiaries.

At a subsequent meeting in August, SCLC became part of COFO.

At the subsequent Assembly of the French Clergy, all those present ( except P .- Jean-Fr.

At the same time his missionary travels, " disappearance " and death in Africa, and subsequent glorification as posthumous national hero in 1874 led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European " Scramble for Africa ".

At the 23rd Soviet final, held in Leningrad in January – February 1956, Spassky shared first place on 11½ / 19, with Mark Taimanov and Yuri Averbakh, but Taimanov won the subsequent playoff to become champion, defeating Spassky in both their games.

At least 3000 people died in the earthquake and subsequent fires.

At Callao, Humboldt observed the transit of Mercury on November 9, and studied the fertilizing properties of guano, the subsequent introduction of which into Europe was due mainly to his writings.

At some time subsequent to Photius the two volumes were separated, and the two volumes became known to Latin Europe as the Eclogae and the Florilegium respectively.

The subsequent report on Gardner read: " Here signs of recent habitation were clearly visible but repeated circling and zooming failed to elicit any answering wave from possible inhabitants and it was finally taken for granted that none were there ... At the western end of the island a tramp steamer ( of about 4000 tons )... lay high and almost dry head onto the coral beach with her back broken in two places.

At the subsequent feast to celebrate Gwern's investiture as King of Ireland, Efnisien in an unprovoked moment of rage throws his nephew Gwern into the fire.

At one time, scholars perceived Posidonius's influence in almost every subsequent writer, whether warranted or not.

At the conclusion of the 2005 season, the Los Angeles Dodgers made major renovations during the subsequent off-season.

At least 2, 209 people died as a result of the flood and subsequent fire that raged through the debris.

At first he is confused, but, when the phenomenon continues on subsequent days, he decides to take advantage of the situation with no fear of long-term consequences: he learns secrets from the town's residents, seduces women, steals money, drives recklessly, and gets thrown in jail.

At the congresses of Aix-la-Chapelle ( Aachen ), Troppau, Laibach and Verona the voice of Hardenberg was but an echo of that of Metternich.

At these Labour congresses, the fame of which was only increased by the fact that they were forbidden, it had been affirmed that the social emancipation of the worker was inseparable from his political emancipation.

At the annual congresses the national organisers have only a consultative vote, and must win support for new policies.

At the 9th National Congress, he was elected Secretary-General of the People's Party and was confirmed in this office at the last three national congresses of the PP which took place in Seville ( 1990 ) and Madrid ( 1993 and 1996 ).

At the European congresses of the second Socialist International, the Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) had always agreed to resolutions asking for combined action of Socialists in case of a war.

At further party congresses, Hans Knirsch proposed to call themselves the " Nationalsozialistische " ( National-Socialist ) or " Deutsch-soziale " ( German-social ) Workers ' Party.

At the local level, each of Mexico's 31 constituent states elects a governor to serve a six-year term ; they also elect legislative deputies who sit in state congresses, and municipal presidents ( presidentes municipales, or mayors ).

At its planetary Congress, it has more than 2, 300 representatives from 88 states that speak at least 19 distinct dialects, that are answerable to the 88 state congresses.

At the General People's Congress, which gathers together the governing bodies of the people's congresses, the people's committees, the trade unions and the professional associations, the most important public issues are discussed and the definitive legislative decisions are made.

At the State Department, hard-bitten Russian experts complained that the Capitol was out of its wits.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

At the same time it encouraged Bulgarian aspirations over Thrace, preferring a Bulgarian Thrace to a Russian one, despite the assurances the British had given to the Russians in regard to their expansion there.

Films featuring the Cheka include Ostern's Miles of Fire, Nikita Mikhalkov's At Home among Strangers, the miniseries The Adjutant of His Excellency, and also Dead Season ( starring Donatas Banionis ), and the 1992 Russian drama film The Chekist.

At the founding congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) Vladimir Lenin was able to gain enough support for the establishment of an all-powerful central organ at the next congress.

At various times in his life, he has studied ( in descending order of level of fluency reached ) German, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Mandarin, Dutch, Polish, and Hindi.

At first the movement grew most in the Russian empire and eastern Europe, but soon spread to western Europe and beyond: to Argentina in 1889 ; to Canada in 1901 ; to Algeria, Chile, Japan, Mexico, and Peru in 1903 ; to Tunisia in 1904 ; and to Australia, the United States, Guinea, Indochina, New Zealand, Tonkin, and Uruguay in 1905.

At its core, Russian nihilism was characterized by the belief that the world lacks comprehensible meaning, objective truth, or value.

At 16, he entered the Russian Orthodox monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg.

At the end of May 1945, Stalin proposed a victory toast to the Soviet people, and to the virtues of the Russian majority in particular:

At about this time, Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic.

At about this time Russian Nostraticists, notably Sergei Starostin, constructed a revised version of Nostratic which was slightly broader than Greenberg's grouping but which similarly left out Afroasiatic.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

At the same time while Pan-Slavism worked against Austro-Hungary with South Slavs, Poles enjoyed a wide autonomy within the state and assumed a loyalist position as they were able to develop their national culture and preserve Polish language, something under threat in both German and Russian Empires.

At this time the Imperial Russian Army was in a state of collapse.

At the second Siege of Przemysl, the Austro-Hungarian garrison showed an excellent knowledge of siege warfare, not only waiting for relief, but sending sorties into Russian lines and employing an active defense that resulted in the capture of the Russian General Lavr Kornilov.

At the time Teller was stymied by these arguments ; the concept was later adapted to be popped-up from submarines based off the Russian coast.

At around 7: 17 a. m. local time, Evenks natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky.

At the time, the Russian economy neared collapse under the strain of the war effort.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Jadidist movement of educated Central Asians, centered in present-day Uzbekistan, began to advocate overthrowing Russian rule.

The next year he was tried for maligning the Imperial Russian Military in his story Na Kulichkakh ( At the world's end ).

At the Russian parliamentary elections in 1995, with a threshold excluding parties under 5 %, more than 45 % of votes were unrepresented ( in 1998, Russian Constitutional Court found the threshold legal, taking into account limits in its use ).