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After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
There is a monument to him in his native village.
On Faro Island, a giant octopus ( known as the Oodako ) attacks the native village.
Here and there would be a Company post where Company agents seemed imprisoned, captive by the business of ivory ; now and then on shore an occasional native village would be seen, with a frenzied uproar by the natives.
Van Buren received a basic education at a poorly lit schoolhouse in his native village and later studied Latin briefly at the Kinderhook Academy and at Washington Seminary in Claverack.
Gorbachev recalled in a memoir that " In that terrible year 1933 nearly half the population of my native village, Privolnoye, starved to death, including two sisters and one brother of my father.
A native of Montefano, a small village near Macerata and Loreto he was the son of Ricardo Cervini who was the Apostolic Treasurer in Ancona.
He was released from house arrest in late 1984 and ordered back to his native village of Owando.
He was an ethnic Tajik and native of Kalakan, a village thirty kilometers north of Kabul.
It starred Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner, a timid American mathematician ( his wife at one point attempts to erase Einstein's field equations from his blackboard ) who leaves the chaos of college anti-war protests to live with his young wife Amy ( Susan George ) in her native village in Cornwall, England.
The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in Mexico from a group of marauding native bandits led by Calvera, portrayed by Eli Wallach.
When an outbreak of yellow fever would occur in an African village with colonists, it would wipe out nearly all the Europeans, while leaving the native population with usually nonlethal symptoms resembling influenza.
* August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields ; the subsequent use of the term " Paspahegh " in documents refers to their former territory.
* Xiao Wen Di sets up the " Three Leaders " system, under which native hamlet, village and district officers are responsible for taxation and conscription.
The island's rich fur trading potential led the fur-trader John Meares to set up a single-building trading post near the native village of Yuquot ( Friendly Cove ), at the entrance to Nootka Sound.
Summer is also when many villages are host to a range of folk festivals and fairs, taking advantage of the fact that many of the locals who reside abroad tend to come back to their native village for the holidays.
Yet throughout these phases of his style " he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk.
Statue of Mussorgsky near his native village
Many descendants of the founders of this settlement, which was established just after the turn of the 20th century, have left their native village.
The Santiaguillo carried men and supplies for Almagro ’ s expedition, under the command of Juan de Saavedra, who named the town after his native village of Valparaíso de Arriba in Cuenca, Spain.
The name is derived from the Huron-Iroquois word " kanata ", or village, which was incorrectly interpreted as the native term for the newly discovered land.
After the initial exploration of the mainland coast and the native settlements there, the natives of the village of Aquascogoc were blamed for stealing a silver cup.
He gradually rose up the ranks and, in 1954, led a battalion in expelling the communists from his native village.
The site where Wyandotte sits today in the 18th century was a small village called by the native Indians " Maquaqua " and by the local French " Monguagon ".

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It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.
Antonio began his musical studies in his native town of Legnago ; he was first taught at home by his older brother Francesco Salieri ( a former student of the violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini ), and he received further lessons from the organist of the Legnago Cathedral, Giuseppe Simoni, a pupil of Padre Giovanni Battista Martini.
As time progressed, most terminal programs began using the ANSI standard, but could use their native character set if it was available.
The history of discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like copper and gold, and extracted ( smelted ) iron and a few other metals from their ores.
He was employed as a law clerk at Chioggia and Feltre, after which he returned to his native city and began practicing.
Southern Hemisphere native varieties of English began to develop during the 18th century, with the colonisation of Australasia and South Africa.
Kollár's interest in linguistic and cultural diversity was aroused by the situation in his native multi-lingual Kingdom of Hungary and his roots among its Slovaks, and by the shifts that began to emerge after the gradual retreat of the Ottoman Empire in the more distant Balkans.
John Armstrong, who was also a native of New York, began working at the Oxford University Press at a young age and eventually reached the position of Vice President of the American branch.
However, the excited native Chamorros, who did not share the Spaniards concept of ownership, canoed out first and began helping themselves to everything that was not nailed down to the ship.
After a thorough scientific and philosophical training at the University of Padua, he began his career in the service of his native city.
In 2008, Neal Walfield began working on the Viengoos microkernel as a modern native kernel for HURD.
They carried Kurtz to the pilot-house: " there was more air there "-The natives once again assembled on shore, and the native woman returned-they all began to shout.
Gurgīn began imprisoning and executing many of the native Afghans, especially those suspected of organizing a rebellion.
country of origin and native land ) is the concept of the place ( cultural geography ) to which an ethnic group holds a long history and a deep cultural association with — the country in which a particular national identity began.
This work he began while still in his native land, on occasions of private and public festivities, such as weddings and other assemblies.
As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.
In 1914, pearl farmers began growing cultured freshwater pearls using the pearl mussels native to Lake Biwa.
The Germans in particular began to show great commercial interest in the Samoan Islands, especially on the island of ' Upolu where German firms monopolized copra and cocoa bean processing ; the United States laid its own claim and formed alliances with local native chieftains, most conspicuously on the islands of Tutuila and Manu ' a ( which were later formally annexed to the USA as American Samoa ).
The United States began operations at the excellent harbor of Pago Pago on Tutuila in 1877 and formed alliances with local native chieftains, most conspicuously on the islands of Tutuila and Manu ' a ( which were later formally annexed as American Samoa ).
It was only in the 1850s that the French, under the governor, Louis Faidherbe, began to expand their foothold onto the Senegalese mainland, at the expense of the native kingdoms.
Soon after they arrived in the islands in 1492, or 1512, the Spanish began capturing the Taínos of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Lucayans as slaves ( technically, as workers in the encomienda system ) to replace the largely depleted native population of Hispaniola.
In the early 17th century, large-scale settlement by Protestant settlers from both Scotland and England began, especially in the province of Ulster, seeing the displacement of many of the native Roman Catholic Irish inhabitants of this part of Ireland.
It was at this time he began his controversy with Simon Episcopius, who, in attacking the Coronis, railed against the author as having been " a disturber of the public peace in his native country, so that the English magistrates had banished him thence ; and now, by his late printed Coronis, he was raising new disturbances in the peaceable Netherlands.
Casta's modeling career reportedly began when she was discovered by the photographer Frederic Cresseaux, during a family holiday in her father's native Corsica, at age 15.

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