Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Carl Sagan and other scientists predicted that burning oil wells could cause environmental damage comparable to nuclear winter.

Following a shipwreck of a Ryūkyūan vessel on the southeastern tip of Taiwan in winter of 1871, in which the heads of 54 crew members were taken by the aboriginal Taiwanese Paiwan people in Mutan village ( 牡丹社 ), the Japanese sought to use this incident as a pretext to have the Qing formally acknowledge Japanese sovereignty over the Ryuku islands as a Japanese prefecture and to test reactions to potential expansion into Taiwan.

Following the siege of Avaricum in the winter of 52 BC, Julius Caesar's forces destroyed the city and killed all but 800 of its inhabitants.

Following the Battle of Washita River in November 1868, Custer was alleged ( by Captain Frederick Benteen, chief of scouts Ben Clark, and Cheyenne oral tradition ) to have unofficially " married " Mo-nah-se-tah, daughter of the Cheyenne chief Little Rock in the winter or early spring of 1868 – 1869.

Following an extremely wet winter and spring, the Flood of 1927 struck in April and May, depositing as much as four feet of sand in the Arkansas River bottoms and forcing some of the small farmers to abandon their land.

Following the winter of 1730 racing moved to the recently drained Knavesmire.

Following the winter break Hannover slipped after putting forth some disappointing performances which they turned around to be defeated only 2 times in their last 11 matches of the season.

Following the release of the album, the band toured the United States with Devastation and Bleed the Sky in the fall, toured Europe in winter of 2009 with Incite, played a small UK and European festivals during the spring and summer of 2009, and went on a fall 2009 U. S. headlining tour with Cattle Decapitation, Prong, and Mutiny Within.

Following these incidents, new procedures were put in place, which included stowing the balloons during the winter months, with regular deployment exercises and a standby team on alert to deploy the balloons in case of attack.

Following a winter of practice, Hobbs displayed greater consistency in 1906.

Following his marriage and honeymoon in the winter of 1906 – 07, Hobbs made further advances as a batsman in 1907.

Following a stateside tour at the Pentagon and promotion to lieutenant colonel, Hackworth co-wrote " The Vietnam Primer " with Marshall after returning to Vietnam in the winter of 1966-67 on an army-sponsored tour with the famous historian and commentator.

Following a relatively calm 1958, Perón's agreement with Frondizi soured when the latter opened oil exploration contracts to foreign bidders, and particularly during Alsogaray's " winter " of 1959.

Following a failed attempt in 1935 to make the first ascent of the remote, icy Mount Waddington in British Columbia, with a Sierra Club group, Brower added winter climbing to his expertise and made multiple first winter ascents of peaks in the Sierra Nevada.

Following the Norman conquest in the winter of 1066, King William bestowed the earldom on William FitzOsbern, his most trusted companion.

Following the work undertaken during the line's closure during the winter of 1966 – 67, the ceiling of Ryde Tunnel is 10 inches too low for standard National Rail vehicle types to clear.

Following the raid, in the winter of 1863-64, Quantrill led his men behind Confederate lines into Texas.

Following a solid season in Class B, Cepeda played for the Crabbers in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League ( LBPPR ) during the winter, concluding with a batting average of. 310, with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs.

Majoring in Commercial Art and Radio / TV Journalism at the University of North Dakota and the University of Arizona, he put himself through college working in radio at KILO in Grand Forks, North Dakota, KQWB in Fargo, North Dakota, and KIKX in Tucson, Arizona, where he quickly became the most popular DJ in town, under the on-air persona of " Jefferson K ." Following college, he joined the Bill Drake-formatted station WRKO in Boston, during the winter of 1968-69.

Following several public meetings in the winter of 2007 / 2008 a newly formed board of trustees appointed Dick Penny, the director of the Watershed Media Centre as executive chairman.

Following the withdrawal of the Supreme Commander Tito and other Party leaders to Bosnia, Đilas stayed in Nova Varoš in the Sandžak ( on the border between Serbia and Montenegro ); from there he retreated with the units under his command in the middle of winter and in difficult conditions to join the Supreme Staff.

Following public outcry over his tough style of play and the sacking of Real coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo and sporting director Arrigo Sacchi, who were in charge of acquiring Gravesen, he looked ready to leave Real Madrid in the winter of 2005.

Following the winter international series in South Africa, Key returned to domestic action with Kent.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

Following Day was Woodbury who spoke of his disapproval of Brown's attempt at servile insurrection, his admiration of Brown's character, and his opposition to slavery.

Following his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.

Following his death and the organisational deterioration of his empire, Asia Minor was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms which came under Roman control two hundred years later.

Following his death and the breakup of his empire, Anatolia was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms, much of it being controlled by the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Following the lighter neptunium, plutonium, and heavier curium, americium was the fourth transuranium element to be discovered.

Following public demonstrations against Ter-Petrosyan's policies on Nagorno-Karabakh, the President resigned in January 1998 and was replaced by Prime Minister Robert Kocharyan, who was elected President in March 1998.

Following the nomination of Maximinus as emperor, Alexander was assassinated ( on either 18 or 19 March 235 ), together with his mother, in a mutiny of the Legio XXII Primigenia at Moguntiacum.

Following the 1831 Nat Turner slave rebellion, a state convention was called to pass a new constitution, including provisions to disfranchise free people of color.

Following Andrew's victory, the king was obliged to transfer the government of the Duchies of Croatia and Dalmatia to Andrew.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected.

Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the Lunar Module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded ; at one point, Charlie Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

Following Olivetti's 1985 cash injection into Acorn the machine was effectively sidelined.

Following a Viking raid in 994, a peace treaty was agreed with one of the raiders, Olaf Tryggvason.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

Following the Leipzig premiere, the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy.

Following the dispersal of the Seljuqs the town was occupied by the Sâhib Ata and then the Germiyanids.

Following the Berber Revolt of the 740s, the province was in a state of confusion, with the Muslim community torn by tribal dissensions among the Arabs and racial tensions between the Arabs and Berbers.

Following World War II, Bonn was in the British zone of occupation, and in 1949 became the capital of West Germany.

Following reform in 2005, which was prompted by takeover scandals, the bank has lost exclusive antitrust authority in the credit sector, which is now shared with Italy's Antitrust Authority.