At various times in the past, and as late as the 1870s, the Bahr el Ghazal Depression, which extends from the northeastern part of the lake to the Djourab, acted as an overflow canal ; since independence, climatic conditions have made overflows impossible.

Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's doorstep in the 16th century, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, became available.

By the late 1870s, however, croquet had been eclipsed by another fashionable game, tennis, and many of the newly-created croquet clubs, including the All England club at Wimbledon, converted some or all of their lawns into tennis courts.

In the late 1860s or early 1870s, Pissarro became fascinated with Japanese prints, which influenced his desire to experiment in new compositions.

Pissarro, Degas, and American impressionist Mary Cassatt self-published a journal of their original prints in the late 1870s, which contained a large group of their own fine etchings.

Esperanto was created in the late 1870s and early 1880s by Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, an ophthalmologist of mixed cultural heritage from Bialystok, then part of the Russian Empire.

Kerosene started replacing lard oil in the 1870s and the lighthouse service was finally converted by the late 1880s.

Maxwell noted in the late 1870s that detecting motion relative to this aether should be easy enough — light traveling along with the motion of the Earth would have a different speed than light traveling backward, as they would both be moving against the unmoving aether.

In the late 1870s, Afghan Emir Sher Ali Khan escaped from Kabul to take refuge in Mazar-e Sharif, which was un-affected by the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century between Afghanistan and then British India.

In the late 1870s, Furnivall and Murray met with several publishers about publishing the dictionary.

The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity, a mare, died on August 12, 1883, at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam.

In the late 1860s and early 1870s, a series of mass rallies called tabori, modeled on the Irish monster meetings, were organized in support of the United Slovenia program.

The denomination in the 1870s turned to missionary work and revivals, tripling its membership to 16, 000 by 1880 and establishing a presence beyond North America during the late 19th century.

Thomas worked on the family farm in East Campbell, New York and attended the District School Number Five in the late 1870s.

In 1881 he established the Irish Coercion Act, which permitted the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to detain people for as " long as was thought necessary ", as there was much rural disturbance in Ireland owing to the agricultural depression of the late 1870s.

At first it attempted to present the género grande, but it soon yielded to the taste and economics of the time, and became the " temple " of the more populist género chico in the late 1870s.

Len L. Lewis, a horse trader and former Union Army officer, helped establish the community in the late 1870s or early 1880s.

In the late 1870s, John Warne Gates of Illinois began to promote barbed wire, now a proven product, in the lucrative markets of Texas.

During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

In the late 1870s, the centrifugal cream separator was introduced, marketed most successfully by Swedish engineer Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval.

The town and its environs quickly grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminal in the late 1860s and 1870s.

Ocean piracy, off the coasts of North America, continued as late as the 1870s.

As late as the 1870s, Half Dome was declared " perfectly inaccessible ".

Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.

The system was used in Russia as late as the early 18th century when Peter the Great replaced it with Arabic numerals.

* Patriarch Alexius II ( 1990-2008 ), late former Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

In late 2005, the FABF acquired two Mil Mi-35 ' Hind ' attack helicopters from Russia in apparent response by moves by neighbouring Côte d ' Ivoire to bolster its own air attack capabilities during the Ivorian Civil War.

The current resistance to Russian rule has its roots in the late 18th century ( 1785 – 1791 ), a period when Russia expanded into territories formerly under the dominion of Turkey and Persia ( see also the Russo-Turkish Wars and Russo-Persian War ( 1804 – 1813 )), under Mansur Ushurma — a Chechen Naqshbandi ( Sufi ) Sheikh — with wavering support from other North Caucasian tribes.

Eisenhower also conducted the first pre-inaugural cabinet meeting in history in late 1952 ; he used this meeting to articulate his anti-communist Russia policy.

Gymnasts in Russia and Europe typically start training at a very young age and those at their peak are typically in their late teens ( 15 – 19 ) or early twenties.

Although there still were battles such as Maloyaroslavets the Napoleonic army left Russia in late 1812 annihilated, most of all by the Russian winter, exhaustion, and scorched earth warfare.

However others, pointing to Marx's encounter with late 19th-century Russian populism and Marx and Engels's preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( 1882 ), have argued that Marx evinced a growing conviction in his late writings that revolution could in fact emerge first in Russia.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

By the late 18th century, a number of defeats in several wars with Russia led some people in the Ottoman Empire to conclude that the reforms of " Deli Petro " ( Peter the Mad, as Peter the Great was known in Turkey ) had given the Russians an edge, and the Ottomans would have to keep up with Western technology in order to avoid further defeats.

The raids of Crimeans, however, didn't cease until the late 17th century, though the construction of new fortification lines across Southern Russia, such as the Great Abatis Line, constantly narrowed the area accessible to incursions.

The late 19th century saw the rise of various socialist movements in Russia.

Between the early 16th and the late 17th centuries, however, an original tradition of stone tented roof architecture had been developed in Russia.

* Many Russian language translations have been undertaken, reflecting the popularity of the Rubaiyat in Russia since the late 19th century and the increasingly popular tradition of using it for the purposes of bibliomancy.

Due to a common enemy, diplomatic cooperation between the two countries dramatically got back on track during the late 1990s and early 2000s, when Vladimir Putin was elected the President, and then the Prime Minister of Russia, and along with Chinese leader Hu Jintao opposed UN Peacekeepers in Darfur.

The sport is now popular in Brazil, in Europe ( where especially Italy, the Netherlands, and countries from Eastern Europe have been major forces since the late 1980s ), in Russia, and in other countries including China and the rest of Asia, as well as in the United States.

Zamyatin wrote The Islanders, satirizing English life, and its pendant A Fisher of Men, both published after his return to Russia in late 1917.

In 1810, the Persians scaled up their efforts late in the war, declaring a holy war on Imperial Russia.

Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.

One of the successors of Khan Kubrat, Kotrag led nine Bulgar tribes to the north along the banks of the river Volga in what is today Russia, creating the Kingdom of the Volga Bulgars in the late 7th century.

The first books from the area came during the late 18th century, and became part of the Terskaya Region of Russia in the mid-19th century.