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During the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ), the now defunct Wivenhoe Port imported coal and became subject to picketing by miners ( many from Yorkshire ), which led to a very substantial police presence, some of them drafted in from other counties, and violent skirmishes as striking miners tried to prevent vehicles entering and leaving the port.
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During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.
During recent years, the Fosters UK division of the brand focused on cultivating comedy-centric advertising and sponsorship arrangements and on 9 November 2011 they launched a trailer for their sponsored, online-only version of the hit 90s ' television show The Fast Show.
During her stay in the UK, Nehru frequently met her future husband Feroze Gandhi, whom she knew from Allahabad, and who was studying at the London School of Economics.
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The comic was reprimanded by the United Nations after featuring a strip called " The Thieving Gypsy Bastards " During the resulting court case, UK newspaper The Sun ran a story revealing that the principal Roma man who initiated the action against them was in fact also being tried for ( and was later found guilty of ) handling stolen property.
During the 1939 – 1942 period, the UK depleted much of its gold stock in purchases of munitions and weaponry on a " cash-and-carry " basis from the U. S. and other nations.
During 1972, the same year he again spoke publicly of his opposition to the immigration of Ugandan Asians, Powell was also defeated in his struggle against the European Communities Bill, which helped prepare the UK to join the common market, which he had spent three years campaigning to prevent from happening.
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During the late 1980s, Amstrad had a substantial share of the PC market in the UK.
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During the 19th century, the area was repopulated by miners, farmers and ranchers, but the town of Tubac is best known today as an artists ' colony.
During the days of the Gold Rush, the miners knew the town by the names of " Bedbug " and " Freezeout.
During the 1830s and 1840s, Cumming benefited from the gold mining industry as many business were created to meet the needs of the miners.
During the Coeur d ' Alene, Idaho labor confrontation of 1899, 200 miners from Mullan joined the Dynamite Express.
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During the Great Coal Strike of 1902 the Pennsylvania National Guard was called into Shenandoah to keep the peace and curb rioting by angry miners.
During the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910 – 1911, miners were evicted from company-owned houses, which were used to house strikebreakers, predominantly southern Blacks.
During and after the gold rush of 1876, farmers and ranchers alike settled in the fertile valleys, growing food for the miners and their work animals.
During its days of prosperity, the Northern Pacific Coal Company built the Roslyn Athletic Club for miners and their families.
During the early 1900s, miners settled near the mine shaft and leased the land from the mining company.
During 1988 / 89 he was one of the leaders of the student and miners protests against the Milosevic government.
During the bitter 1989 – 90 Pittston Coal strike in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, the wives and daughters of striking coal miners, inspired by the still-surviving tales of Jones ' legendary work among an earlier generation of the region's coal miners, dubbed themselves the " Daughters of Mother Jones.
During the summer of 1902, Hagerty went on a tour of mining camps in Colorado with Socialist Party of America ( SPA ) orator Eugene V. Debs, attempting to recruit the impoverished miners to the ALU and the SPA.
During the confrontation, the Coeur d ' Alene miners received considerable assistance from the Butte Miners ' Union in Butte, Montana, who mortgaged their buildings to send aid.
During the UK miners ' strike ( 1984 – 1985 ) Reid was highly critical of the strike and its leader Arthur Scargill in his newspaper column.
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