Meanwhile, the growing confederations of Franks and Alemanni broke through the frontier fortifications and settled along the Rhine frontier, invading Gaul, Hispania and Italy as far as North Africa, while Saxon pirates ravaged the Western Europen coasts.

Meanwhile, North American camelids died out at the end of the Pleistocene.

Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.

Meanwhile, Marsh's rival Edward Drinker Cope also had unearthed several specimens of the large North American pterosaur.

Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under the emperor Justinian, who eventually recaptured North Africa from the Vandals, and attempted to fully recover Italy as well in the hope of re-establishing Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire.

Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.

Meanwhile ski area founder Joe Zoline worked hard to put Telluride on the map, developing one of the best mountains in North America for expert skiers and creating infrastructure for tourism which respected Telluride's need to stay small and beautiful.

Meanwhile, in the North, aristocrat Li Yuan ( 李淵 ) held an uprising after which he ended up ascending the throne to become Emperor Gaozu of Tang.

Meanwhile the English navy tried to gain control over the North Sea also and in the two-day Battle of the Gabbard in June drove the Dutch back to their home ports, starting a blockade of the Dutch coast, which led to an immediate collapse of the Dutch economy and even starvation.

Meanwhile, at the North Pole, Charlie helps Scott and the head elves perfect a new sleigh and communication devices.

Meanwhile, the " Big John " campaign ran in the North of England from 1981, and centred around a re-writing of the Big Bad John country music staple.

Meanwhile the exposed chalk cliffs are gradually being worn down by the sea, particularly at the North Foreland.

Meanwhile, the Communist Chinese established the three-man fireteam concept as the three-man cell when they organized a regular army, and its organization seemed to have been disseminated throughout all of Asia's communist forces, perhaps the most famous of which are the PAVN / NVA ( People's Army of Vietnam / North Vietnamese Army ) and the Viet Cong.

Meanwhile, the North became the Chosŏn Minjujuŭi Inmin Konghwaguk (, ) literally the " Joseon Democratic People's Republic ", known in English as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Meanwhile, the South Ossetian secessionist authorities demand independence or unification with North Ossetia under the Russian Federation while the international community refuses to recognize South Ossetia as an independent country and considers the area part of Georgia.

Meanwhile, it has launched broadcasts to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the North Caucasus.

Meanwhile, the Prussians had created a 4th Army, and marched it to the southern flank of Sedan, while the 3rd Army dug in North of Sedan.

Meanwhile the French sent a detachment to the North to capture Emden on 3 July, which was an important access point for Britain to Europe.

Meanwhile the right column, under Colonel Skyuderi, was to advance across the Chernaya via the Tractir Bridge before moving south through the Fedioukine Heights and across the North Valley to attack No. 3 redoubt.

Meanwhile, news of British victories against Italian forces in North Africa dulled support for Gaylani's government, and, on 31 January 1941, under pressure from Regent Abdul-Illah, he resigned his post as Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, Twelfth Night ( now with Devoil, Sears, Keyworth, Baker and newcomer Andy Faulkner ) have been confirmed for their first-ever performance in North America.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of the then North and East Provincial Council, Vartharaja Perumal put forward a 19 point demand to resolve the ethnic crisis.

Meanwhile, the Māori in the far North, around the Bay of Islands, who had been the first to sign the Treaty of Waitangi, were feeling increasingly sidelined and resentful of the changes that had taken place in New Zealand.

Meanwhile, despite official adoption of the new system in South Korea, many in the Korean Studies community – both in and out of South Korea – and international geographic and cartographic conventions generally continue to use either the McCune – Reischauer or Yale system, and North Korea uses a version of McCune – Reischauer.

Meanwhile Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.

" Meanwhile Pakistan has claimed almost all of the state except for the portion of the state Pakistan ceded to China.

Meanwhile, the wars empowered several nations, including the UK, U. S., Russia, China and Japan, to exert a strong influence over many world affairs.

Meanwhile, in the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong in China, there was a surge in emigration as a result of the poverty and ruin caused by the Taiping rebellion.

Meanwhile, the Roman Republic is embroiled in war against the Samnites, the Mauryan Empire continues to thrive in Ancient India, and the Kingdom of Qin in Ancient China, the one which in the future will conquer its adversaries and unite China, begins to emerge as a significant power during the Warring States Period.

Meanwhile, China had no ability to ferry troops across the 100-mile wide Taiwan Strait and conquer the island.

Meanwhile, US president Richard Nixon had taken office in 1969 and announced his willingness to restore ties with China.

Meanwhile, Universal also outsourced its die casting capabilities in Southern China.

Meanwhile, Hu kept a tight lid on China politically, cracking down on social disturbances, ethnic minority protests, and dissident figures.

Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan ’ s invasion of China at first, for they too had also invaded Manchuria and waged a war against Zhang and his father.

Meanwhile, South Jiangsu continued to be an important center of trade in China ; some historians see in the flourishing textiles industry at the time incipient industrialization and capitalism, a trend that was however aborted, several centuries before similar trends took hold in the West.

Meanwhile, American economic support to China began to increase.

Meanwhile, China " accidentally " shoots down a Taiwanese airliner.

Meanwhile, Pei-Pei, who was tricked into believing she was freely escaping her arranged marriage in China, finds out she has been kidnapped by an agent of Lo Fong, who ran away from the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese.

Meanwhile many OIC member states, as well as Russia, China, India, and Brazil, have congratulated Ahmadinejad on his victory.

Meanwhile in China itself, people usually referred to their nation state based on the name of the ruling dynasty, e. g. Da Ming Guo (" the state of the Great Ming "), or as the " Middle Kingdom " ( Zhongguo 中國 ); see also Names of China for details.

Meanwhile, the ROC opposes the use of the designation " Taiwan, China " because it would imply the ROC's status is subordinate to the PRC.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union supplied fighter and bomber squadrons to China, but these units were mostly withdrawn by the summer of 1940.

Meanwhile northern China was infiltrated politically by Japanese politicians in Manchukuo using facilities such as Wei Huang Gong.

Meanwhile, in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), GR survived until the 1970s as a pronunciation aid in monolingual dictionaries such as Gwoyeu Tsyrdean Cídiǎn and Tsyrhuey, but was officially replaced in 1986 by a modified form known as MPS II.

Meanwhile, Chinese troops too had made incursions into Indian-held territory and tensions between the two reached a new high when Indian forces discovered a road constructed by China in Aksai Chin.