Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the Maritz rebels against the British in the Second Boer War, which had ended only twelve years earlier.

Many superstitious fans attribute this collapse to an incident at Shea Stadium when a fan released a black cat onto the field, further cursing the club, although the " Amazin ' Mets " ended the season at a torrid pace, finishing with a remarkable 100 wins.

Many major silent filmmakers and actors were unable to adjust and found their careers severely curtailed or even ended.

Many of the pulp novels typically presented very unhappy women, or relationships that ended tragically.

Many in the group too disappointed to stay ended up settling around what is now Metropolitan Lansing.

Many groups ended up expending more effort debating their own internal operations than dealing with external matters, seeking to " perfect a perfect society in microcosm " rather than focus on the larger world.

Many people were trampled and some ended up trapped underneath crowd control barriers that were pushed over in the chaos.

Many books ended unsatisfactorily and drastically, often with suicide, and writers portrayed their gay characters as alcoholics and deeply unhappy.

Many other states ( such as New Jersey ) have some form of limited financial assistance for candidates, but New Jersey's experiment with Clean Elections was ended in 2008, in part due to a sense that the program failed to accomplish its goals.

Joan Didion wrote, " Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true.

Many intellectuals were sent to rural labour camps, and many of those who survived left China shortly after the revolution ended.

Many Fox staple shows of the 1990s had ended.

Many of these married women from their host people and remained after the fighting had ended, some fathering children who would later become significant leaders.

Many of his battles ended in stalemates, prompting at least one modern historian to argue that William lacked an ability to manage armies in the thick of conflict.

" Many feel the restrictions should be loosened or ended, while others claim the flow of talent across the Atlantic is mostly one way, from the UK to the United States.

Many of the fine statues ended up at Versailles.

In 1999 Norman explained the unpolished nature of Bootleg: " Many songs which ended up being released on Bootleg, ... weren't really finished but I had to release the album immediately so it wouldn't violate the terms of my MGM contract which was soon going to be in effect.

Many streets ended up losing their original names, and were instead named after influential townspeople of the past and present.

Many people that ended up living in Northport came from New York or Canada where the crops & economics were going down the drain. The fishermen, farmers, and other community would gather on the bay and cut chunks of ice for fisheries, hotels, or even private homes.

Many ended up splitting and moved North in search of better living conditions.

Many early Black Flag shows ended in violence, often involving the Los Angeles Police Department.

Many soldiers stationed in the Ryukyu islands during World War II took aboriginal brides with them once the war ended.

Many episodes ended on a somber note, and villains often got away with their crimes.

Many autistic children grow up to lead relatively normal lives.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

Many others are attracting the traffic needed to push revenues up to the break-even point.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Many animals rear up on their hind legs whilst fighting or copulating.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

Many of his sets, especially in street scenes, bear a strong similarity to Kennington, where he grew up.

Many events offer beginner-level instructions for up to half an hour before the dance.

Many went to Nicaea, where Theodore Lascaris set up an imperial court, or to Epirus, where Theodore Angelus did the same ; others fled to Trebizond, where one of the Comneni had already with Georgian support established an independent seat of empire.

Many questions remain unanswered — most importantly, it is not clear why the couple split up — but Catullus's poems about the relationship display striking depth and psychological insight.

Many of them take second jobs on the side or even venture into other occupations within the field of sports such as coaching, general management, refereeing or recruiting and scouting up and coming athletes.

Many victims of Cheka repression were ' bourgeois hostages ' rounded up and held in readiness for summary execution in reprisal for any alleged counter-revolutionary act.

Many groups sprang up independently of CND, some affiliating later.

Many writings, up until about 1925, also refer to a " law of chemical affinity ".

Many private firms in the 19th century avoided the corporate model for these reasons ( Andrew Carnegie formed his steel operation as a limited partnership, and John D. Rockefeller set up Standard Oil as a trust ).

Many lives were lost in futile attempts to charge across the no man's land where these crossfires were set up.

Many thought the incident would end his season early, but Earnhardt refused to give up.

Many English Parliamentarians had suspicions regarding such a move, because they feared that setting up a new kingdom might destroy the old English traditions which had bound the English monarchy.

Many books still appeared after that, but were mainly story books made up from recycled work.

Many social researchers have investigated flaming, coming up with several different theories about the phenomenon.

Many franchisors have set up corporate universities to train staff online.

Many recent examples are " backronyms " ( acronyms made up to explain a term ), as in " snob ", and " posh " for " port outward, starboard homeward "; many other sourced examples are listed in the article on backronyms.

* Many disk galaxies have a puffed up outer disk ( often called the " thick disk ") that is composed of old stars.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Many estates were sold or broken up, and this trend was accelerated by the introduction of protection for agricultural tenancies, encouraging outright sales, from the mid-20th century.