Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

Meanwhile, Lincoln sent Secretary of State Seward and his emissary Major Thomas T. Eckert to Hampton Roads to facilitate a meeting.

Meanwhile his colleague and commander of the New York fleet, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Graves, had spent several weeks trying to intercept a convoy organized by John Laurens to bring much-needed supplies and hard currency from France to Boston.

Meanwhile, primarily media music composers such as John Williams and Kentaro Sato, and prominent concert orchestral composers such as Augusta Read Thomas, Sofia Gubaidulina, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Thomas Ades also contribute vital additions to the choral repertoire.

Meanwhile, veterans such as Yuri Rasovsky ( The National Radio Theater of Chicago ) and Thomas Lopez ( ZBS Foundation ) have gained new listeners on cassettes, CDs and downloads.

Meanwhile, a Parliamentarian cavalry force under Sir Thomas Fairfax, who had been campaigning in Cheshire and Lancashire during the winter, crossed the Pennines and entered the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Meanwhile, Tyrus Thomas was traded to the Charlotte Bobcats for Acie Law, Flip Murray and a future protected first round pick.

Meanwhile in free agency they signed Tim Thomas away from divisional Phoenix, in a four-year, $ 24 million deal.

Meanwhile, Brian meets and begins a romantic relationship with Faith Thomas ( Camille Coduri ), a short sighted aspiring psychology student.

Meanwhile, the date for the rising was finally fixed for 23 May and FitzGerald awaited the day hiding in a house in Thomas Street, Dublin.

Meanwhile, at Columbia University, Thomas Babington " Babe " Levy ( a reference to Thomas Babington ) is a graduate student in history and an aspiring marathon runner.

Meanwhile, Bushwood's head greenskeeper ( Thomas A. Carlin ) is pressured by Smails to deal with a potentially disastrous gopher infestation, and entrusts his dubiously qualified assistant Carl Spackler ( Bill Murray ) with the task.

Meanwhile, Lord Howard's brother, Edmund Howard, commanding men from Cheshire and Lancashire, fought with the section of the Scottish army commanded by the Chamberlain of Scotland, Alexander, Lord Home, and Thomas, Lord Dacre's force, who had been fighting Huntley, came to assist him.

Meanwhile Wool rallied the broken regiments using the walls of the hacienda at Buena Vista as a defensive position supported by a battery under Thomas W. Sherman and two regiments of dragoons.

Meanwhile Thomas senior had taken a mistress, Isabella, from Clan Gordon, which must have been a bitter blow to his wife.

Meanwhile, the Reverend Thomas Twining had also published a book about the monument, Avebury in Wiltshire, the Remains of a Roman Work, which had been published in 1723.

Meanwhile the younger Hotham was taking an active part in the Civil War in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, but was soon at variance with other parliamentary leaders, especially with Lord Fairfax and his son Sir Thomas Fairfax, and complaints about his conduct and that of his troops were made by Oliver Cromwell and by Colonel John Hutchinson.

Meanwhile, Thomas and Gordon encounter an evil diesel locomotive, Diesel 10, stating that he has unfinished business on Sodor.

Meanwhile, the injured Thomas is out of the hospital and goes to see the Black Pope who reveals himself to be Cardinal Driscoll.

Meanwhile, his uncle, Thomas, was executed by Charles I.

Meanwhile, Spilotro was tried before Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Maloney, in Chicago, for the Miraglia and McCarthy killings, while Cullotta's foiled executioner Neumann was sentenced to life in prison in 1983.

Meanwhile, Angus helps Grampa prepare for his marriage to April ( Anna Thomas ), a woman thirty years younger than him.

Meanwhile, sources of funds associated with Sprague coupled with creative structuring of cash flow buffering due to Sporck and Lamond provided the financing required for that expansion.

Meanwhile, Charles A. Sprague, who went on to become governor of Oregon, bought the Statesman in 1929.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

Meanwhile southern Afghanistan was neither under the control of foreign-backed militias nor the interim government in Kabul, which had no hands in the affairs of southern Afghanistan during that time.

Meanwhile, the Fust – Schöffer shop was the first in Europe to bring out a book with the printer's name and date, the Mainz Psalter of August 1457, and while proudly proclaiming the mechanical process by which it had been produced, it made no mention of Gutenberg.

Meanwhile, in Rome, the triumvirate was no more.

Meanwhile, the Nazi influence was no less evident at Potsdamer Platz than anywhere else in Berlin.

Meanwhile, Saladin's rivals in Syria and Jazira waged a propaganda war against him, claiming he had " forgotten his own condition of Nur ad-Din " and showed no gratitude for his old master by besieging his son, rising " in rebellion against his Lord.

Meanwhile, Eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham was limited to just 11 of 26 completions for 161 yards and no touchdowns, with 1 interception.

Meanwhile, Abdullah of Transjordan sent the Arab Legion into the West Bank with no intention of withdrawing it following the war.

Meanwhile, Katsura had decided that Man-Kan kōkan was no longer desirable for Japan, which should not renounce activity in Manchuria.

Meanwhile the center was having serious supply problems and could no longer hope to maintain an offensive.

Meanwhile, well-liked Kay Hamilton ( Andrea Leeds ) had a great success and rave reviews in a play the year before, but has had no work since, and is running out of money.

Meanwhile, Fregosi failed to produce as a Met, making no significant contribution to the Mets ' 1973 pennant-winning campaign ; he was sold to the Texas Rangers mid-season.

Meanwhile, Sullivan wakes up in the rail yard of another city, with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

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

Meanwhile there was virtually no new residential construction between 1967 and 2000 to offset these losses.

Meanwhile, just footsteps away, Wendover, Utah, has decayed with almost no business tax base.

Meanwhile, the Nazareth tract was largely in the hand of Captain John, a Lenape chieftain who ( along with his followers ) stubbornly refused to leave, even though they no longer owned the land.

Meanwhile, at the power plant Homer's boss, Mr. Burns, announces that there will be no Christmas bonus this year.

Meanwhile, at the back of the factory, where the guidance system was being produced, no damage was done.

Meanwhile, the two Russian cavalry commanders tried to break what French infantry they could find in the vicinity, but, having no infantry of their own, the poorly coordinated Russian attacks came to nothing.

Meanwhile, Rundstedt was in a hospital in Hannover with nowhere to live, and the new SPD administration in Lower Saxony had no interest in helping ex-Field Marshals of Third Reich at a time when there was an acute housing shortage across Germany.

Meanwhile, Yoshitomo supported the now cloistered Emperor Go-Shirakawa and their old ally Fujiwara no Tadamichi and the scholar-courtier Fujiwara no Michinori.

Meanwhile, Parnell assured the Irish Party that there was no need to fear the verdict ; he would be exonerated.

Meanwhile, the government had changed its opinion of the railways, it no longer considered competition on ( passenger ) transport a viable goal.