To many a Frenchman -- they came 95 years ago, colonized, and stayed until Laos became independent in 1953 -- the land had been even more delightfully tranquil than Tahiti.

Their lungs improved and their skeletons became heavier and stronger, better able to cope with the increased gravitational effect of life on land.

The fish's hyomandibula bone in the hyoid region behind the gills diminished in size and became the stapes of the amphibian ear, an adaptation necessary for hearing on dry land.

As bishop, he immediately adopted an ascetic lifestyle, apportioned his money to the poor, donating all of his land, making only provision for his sister Marcellina ( who later became a nun ), and committed the care of his family to his brother.

The Rajasthan Land Reforms and Resumption of Jagirs Act, 1952 was the landmark in the legal history of land reforms in Rajasthan which was followed by Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 that became applicable to the whole of Rajasthan.

After the invention of cannons, naval warfare became useful as support units for land warfare.

This became a major problem as bidding wars between the ballclubs to land the best amateur players escalated signing bonuses.

Eventually this song became " Bro goz va zadoù " (" Old land of my fathers ") and is the most widely accepted Breton anthem.

In stream communities few animal groups became extinct because stream communities rely less directly on food from living plants and more on detritus that washes in from land, buffering them from extinction .< ref > Similar, but more complex patterns have been found in the oceans.

She won so much land for her father's kingdom that Zeus became enraged and changed her into a monster.

In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.

He may have been the son of Cynric of Wessex and the grandson of Cerdic of Wessex, whom the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle represents as the leader of the first group of Saxons to come to the land which later became Wessex.

However when combined with land mines, snipers, barbed wire, and air cover, crossfire became a difficult tactic to counter in the early 20th century.

With the advent of agriculture, larger areas began to be deforested, and fire became the prime tool to clear land for crops.

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

In the late 1760s he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory.

Land purchased by Allen and his brothers included tracts of land that eventually became Burlington, Vermont.

However, there was a catch: the land would remain independent of France until Eleanor's oldest son became both King of the Franks and Duke of Aquitaine.

Because the 16th Earl held land from the Crown by knight service, after his father's death on 3 August 1562, Oxford became a royal ward of the 29-year-old Queen, and was placed in the household of Sir William Cecil, her Secretary of State and chief advisor.

In 330 BC, Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ) invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela and Afghanistan became part of the new Greco-Bactrian kingdom.

In the 1st century, the land became part of the Kushan Empire whose official religion was Buddhism.

( daughter of 7th emperor Emperor Kōrei and identified as the emperor's aunt on the father's side ) acting as sibyl became possessed by a god, who identified himself as, and said that the land will be pacified if he were to be venerated.

Madero assured Zapata that the land redistribution promised in the Plan of San Luis Potosí would be carried out when Madero became president.

During his second trip to America, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water.

The German territories became part of Austrasia ( meaning " eastern land "), the northeastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

In 1755 Newton became tide surveyor ( a tax collector ) of the Port of Liverpool, again through the influence of Manesty.

In the 19th century, the architect John Shaw Jr ( 1803 – 1870 ) became surveyor to Eton.

He was a quantity surveyor for Fairclough Builders, which became AMEC, from 1967 – 94, then was Operations Director for North Shropshire District Council from 1995-7.

The disputants engaged an expert British team, astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason – Dixon Line.

The county is named for Gustav Schleicher, a German immigrant who became a surveyor and politician.

According to Spaulding's history, Powers " became a noted backwoodsman and colonial land surveyor ," and eventually accrued approximately in the north part of Hollis.

He worked for a while as a shipping merchant in Philadelphia and became a surveyor.

Eldest son Charles Barry ( junior ) ( 1823 – 1900 ) designed Dulwich College and park in south London and rebuilt Burlington House ( home of the Royal Academy ) in central London's Piccadilly ; Edward Middleton Barry ( 1830 – 1880 ) completed the Parliament buildings and designed the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden ; Godfrey Walter Barry ( 1834 – 1868 ) became a surveyor ; Sir John Wolfe-Barry ( 1836 – 1918 ) was the engineer for Tower Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge.

It was named for Dr. A. H. Collins, an engineer and surveyor who first surveyed the land that became this community.

He became a surveyor and astronomer, and was involved in taking measurements during the 1769 transit of Venus across the sun.

Due to his mathematical skill he became county surveyor of New Haven County in 1745, and began providing astronomical calculations for almanacs in 1788.

As the dispute became a crisis, the key issue became Britain's refusal to include in the proposed international arbitration the territory east of the " Schomburgk Line ", which a surveyor had drawn half a century earlier as a boundary between Venezuela and the former Dutch territory of British Guiana.

In 1614 Naunton was knighted and in 1616 became master of requests and later surveyor of the court of wards.

Other notable New Orleanians here include Bernard de Marigny, the French-Creole playboy who brought the game of craps to the United States ; Barthelemy Lafon, the architect and surveyor who allegedly became one of Jean Lafitte's pirates ; and Paul Morphy, one of the earliest world champions of chess.

Their son Moses Greenleaf ( 1777 – 1834 ), Simon's older brother, became a distinguished surveyor and map-maker in Maine.

Busby became a coal miner and later a mineral surveyor and civil engineer in Scotland, and was employed on various public work projects, including the provision of a water-supply for Leith fort.

Moses Cleaveland, a surveyor charged with exploring the Connecticut Western Reserve, first arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, and subsequently decided to locate a settlement there, which became Cleveland, Ohio.

Henry Dangar ( 1796 – 1861 ) was a native of St Neot who became a surveyor and explorer of Australia.

Dunbar became surveyor general in the Natchez area in 1798 and making his first meteorological observations in the Mississippi Valley in 1799.

In 1821 he became the first surveyor of the Guardian Assuarance Company, a post he held until his death.

Captain Atwood was cleared of all charges and later became a ship surveyor at Wellington where he died in the 1930s.

He became a mining engineer and, returning to the United States, was appointed U. S. surveyor of the Interior Department in 1879.