The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.

Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.

Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

Following the Second World War, far-reaching social, economic and political changes profoundly affected a number of areas where Ismāʿīlīs resided.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.

Aerial armour has been used to protect pilots and aircraft systems since the Second World War.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

The armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) is a relatively recent development, stemming from trials and experiences during the Second World War.

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

The Memorial Hall and Gymnasium honours students who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

His paternal great-grandfather was a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War.

* 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

It is also to be noted that by anathemizing Pope Leo because of the tone and content of his tome, as per Alexandrine Theology perception, Pope Dioscorus was found guilty of doing so without due process ; in other words, the Tome of Leo was not a subject of heresy in the first place, but it was a question of questioning the reasons behind not having it either acknowledged or read at the Second Council of Ephesus in AD 449.

The Second World War left the surviving remnant of Jews in central Europe as displaced persons ( refugees ); an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, established to examine the Palestine issue, surveyed their ambitions and found that 97 % wanted to migrate to Palestine.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

" Second, they found some evidence that the minimum wage is harmful to poverty-stricken families, and " virtually no evidence " that it helps them.

Numerous music clubs and honky-tonk bars can be found in downtown Nashville, especially the area encompassing Lower Broadway, Second Avenue, and Printer's Alley, which is often referred to as " the District ".

Second, he found that the orbital speed of each planet is not constant, as had previously been thought, but rather that the speed depends on the planet's distance from the Sun.

Second, due to their congenital brain impairment, they found balancing on two legs difficult.

Although the term " Third Reich " is still in common use to refer to this historical period, the terms " First Reich " and " Second Reich " for the earlier periods are seldom found outside Nazi propaganda.

A British-born woman who migrated to Canada after the Second World War, Joy Ibsen, was found to be a 16th-generation grandniece of the king.

At the end of the Second World War, the European powers found themselves too weakened to maintain their empires.

There are several versions of the text of the Second Amendment, each with slight capitalization and punctuation differences, found in the official documents surrounding the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Which of these considerations they thought were most important, which of these considerations they were most alarmed about, and the extent to which each of these considerations ultimately found expression in the Second Amendment is disputed.

Second, later researchers found that the Protestant – Catholic differences in suicide seemed to be limited to German-speaking Europe and thus may always have been the spurious reflection of other factors.

Rousseau in his Second Discourse finally took the shocking step of claiming that this traditional account has things in reverse: with reason, language and rationally organized communities all having developed over a long period of time merely as a result of the fact that some habits of cooperation were found to solve certain types of problems, and that once such cooperation became more important, it forced people to develop increasingly complex cooperation — often only to defend themselves from each other.

After the Second World War ruby deposits were found in Tanzania, Madagascar, Vietnam, Nepal, Tajikistan, and Pakistan.

Therese of Lisieux emerged as one of the most popular saints for Catholics in the 20th century, and a statue of her can be found in many European and North American Catholic churches built prior to the Second Vatican Council ( after which the number of statues tended to be reduced when churches were built ).

No mention of it is found on the occasion of the Roman conquest of the island ; but during the Second Punic War, it was the headquarters of the praetor, T. Manlius, from whence he carried on his operations against Hampsicora and the Carthaginians, and appears on other occasions also as the chief naval station of the Romans in the island, and the residence of the praetor.

Foucault found life in Poland difficult due to the lack of material goods and services following the destruction of the Second World War.

The club found it difficult to adjust to the Second Division and were nearly further relegated in the 1937 – 38 season, when they were spared on goal averages.

At 17 Williams found considerable fame with Miles Davis, joining a group that was later dubbed Davis's Second Great Quintet.

( In some Federal Appellate Circuit Courts, such as the Second Circuit, the " some credible evidence " standard has been found constitutionally insufficient to protect liberty interests of the parties in controversy at CPS hearings.

An early version of Appendix B (" The Tale of Years ") had him leading Dwarves from the ruin of Beleriand to found Khazad-dûm at the beginning of the Second Age ; but Tolkien abandoned that line.

Besides the hints about the Second Age found in The Lord of the Rings, several shorter writings fill in some of the gap between the downfall of Morgoth at the end of the First Age and the first downfall of Sauron which marked the beginning of the Third Age.

" Mentions of rock-cut tombs are also found in the Judges 8: 32 ; 2 Samuel 2: 32 ; Second Kings 9: 28 ; 23: 30 ; 21: 26 ; 23: 16 ; Matthew 27: 60 ).

The area includes several sites of archaeological interest, notably Hezekiah's tunnel ( a water supply system, where the Siloam inscription was found ), Warren's shaft ( an earlier structure, postulated by some to have been a water supply system ), and the Pool of Siloam ( the presently extant Byzantine-era pool, and the recently discovered Second Temple-period pool ).