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Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination.
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Besieged by Old Prussians for four years during a Prussian uprising, the castle was destroyed in 1264.
Besieged in 1408 during the confusion of the Papal Schism by the condottiere Braccio da Montone, and later heavily damaged by Cesare Borgia, Deruta was plundered by Braccio Baglioni, the master of Perugia.
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Since its re-publication in 1980 in mainland China, Fortress Besieged has become internationally famous.
Besieged with financial difficulties, the company had to its right on North Borneo Consul of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Hong Kong, Baron Von Overbeck.
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* Part Three: A City Besieged has thirteen chapters.
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* September 9 – Thirty Years ' War – Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustav Adolph attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the Alte Veste.
Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged ( 1998 ) is also set in a house next to the steps.
Fortress Besieged ( Simplified Chinese: 围城 ; Traditional Chinese: 圍城 ; Pinyin: wéi chéng ) was written by Qian Zhongshu, published in 1947, and is widely considered as one of the masterpieces of twentieth century Chinese literature.
Besieged, it is occupied by the Protestant Monsieur de Blacons on October 14, 1621.
Besieged planets are believed to be very restricted in their functioning, so even if a planet is a benefic, the very fact that it is besieged means the beneficial attributes it would normally emanate will be lessened whilst in that configuration.
# Invasion of Italy by Alaric – Manners of the Roman Senate and People – Rome is Thrice Besieged and at Length Pillaged by the Goths – Death of Alaric – The Goths Evacuate Italy – Fall of Constantine – Gaul and Spain Occupied by the Barbarians – Freedom of Britain
The unfinished poem The Free Besieged by Dionysios Solomos is dedicated to the siege.
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Besieged in turn by the Scots, Irish, English and French, the castle played an important military role until 1928 and remains one of the best preserved medieval structures in Ireland.
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Besieged by the forces of Chaos, the City requires certain rare minerals to continue to power their weapons.
Besieged from May until October 1574 by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enabling ships to carry provisions to the inhabitants of the flooded town.
* Paul K. Davis Besieged: 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 )
Besieged by military forces of Northern Zhou and Chen, Northern Qi court ladies were out of tinder and needed a way to start fires for cooking and heating.
) From Superpower to Besieged Global Power: Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine, Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 2008.
* Barber, Major Charles H. Besieged in Kut-and After Blackwood, 1917
Virtue Besieged: Virtue, Equality, and the General Welfare in the Tariff Debates of the 1820s.
Besieged and besiegers eventually reached an informal agreement allowing traffic on the Boston Neck, provided no firearms were carried.
* Duncan B. Campbell, " Besieged: siege warfare in the ancient world ", Osprey Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84603-019-6, pages 113 – 114
Besieged in Chattanooga, Rosecrans was relieved of command by Grant.
* Lenin, 4 volumes: Building the party ( Vol. 1, 1975 ), All Power to the Soviets ( Vol. 2, 1976 ), The Revolution Besieged, 1917-1923 ( Vol. 3, 1978 ) and The Bolsheviks and World communism ( Vol. 4, 1979 ).
" Besieged: 100 Great Sieges from Jericho to Sarajevo.
, the standard format uses Magic 2012, Magic 2013, Scars of Mirrodin, Mirrodin Besieged, New Phyrexia, Innistrad, Dark Ascension, and Avacyn Restored.
Besieged by 12, 000 troops, the fighting in Hama lasted for three weeks – the first week " in regaining control of the town ," and the last two " in hunting down the insurgents.
Besieged by the Pueblo in August 1680.
" He was assisted by Mahmood Farooqui, translated key Urdu and Shikastah sources and published a selection in Besieged: Voices from Delhi 1857.
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I had the impression that he had read my forms, perhaps several times.
Steinhager '' She whispered Steinhager to herself, several times, memorizing it.
Kissing her he whispered, several times, `` Eurydice ''.
Die Frist ist um, und wiederum verstrichen sind sieben Jahr, the Maestro quoted The Flying Dutchman, as he told of his career and wanderings, explaining that the number seven had significantly recurred in his life several times.
The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.
The authority for the program was renewed several times until the vocational rehabilitation program was made permanent as Title 5, of the Social Security Act in 1935.
Younger men usually don't think of pensions as an important job benefit factor anyhow and they're liable to change jobs several times before settling down.
Long weekends enable many to get away from home for three or four days several times a year.
Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.
Woodbury's remarks were applauded by a portion of the audience several times and once there was hissing.
One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.
For, in the process of decanting, the bottle is only tilted once instead of several or more times at the table: hence, a minimum of the undesirable mixture of wine and dregs.
He'd been there several times, back when, while he and Radic had been friends, or at least not enemies.
Each had been shot in the back several times with a
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with commentary has been televised several times in recent months.
`` I stopped '', responded the man, `` several times to look at beautiful sceneries ''.
Before you let loose a howl saying we announced its coming, not once but several times, indeed we did.
Van Vogt's father, a lawyer, moved his family several times and his son found these moves difficult, remarking in later life:
The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).
He spoke of them several times over the course of the tour, and the Australian media quickly caught on.
When questioned by the Sadducees about the resurrection of the dead ( in a context relating to who one's spouse would be if one had been married several times in life ), Jesus said that marriage will be irrelevant after the resurrection as the resurrected will be ( at least in this respect ) like the angels in heaven.
The party's leader Antonin Svehla ( 1873 – 1933 ) was prime minister several times.
After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.
The cathedral was extended several times in later ages, turning it into a curious and unique mixture of building styles.
The king's army conquered Alcácer Ceguer ( 1458 ), Tangiers ( won and lost several times between 1460 and 1464 ) and Arzila ( 1471 ).
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