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Once captured, the islands of Saipan and Tinian were used extensively by the United States military as they finally put mainland Japan within round-trip range of American bombers.
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Once the city of Bursa was captured, Orhan sent cavalry troops towards Bosphorus, capturing Byzantine coastal towns of Marmara.
Once he reached Bira, near the river, he was joined by Kukbary and Nur al-Din of Hisn Kayfa and the combined forces captured the cities of Jazira, one after the other.
Once again, the Angevin cavalry proved too strong, and for a moment it appeared that Stephen might be captured for a second time.
Once the Republicans captured the legislature, Garfield's victory was never in doubt ; he was elected to the Senate by acclamation.
Once the data are captured, they can be displayed several ways, from the simple ( showing waveforms or state listings ) to the complex ( showing decoded Ethernet protocol traffic ).
Once the sound effects are recorded or captured, they are usually loaded into a computer integrated with an audio non-linear editing system.
Once they had captured their initial targets, they were reinforced by 2, 600 soldiers and critical equipment carried in 408 gliders daylight missions code-named Operation Bluebird, phase 2, simultaneous with the beach landings, and Operation Dove, phase 3.
Once, Josephus relates, after kidnapping the secretary of Eleazar, governor of the Temple precincts, they agreed to release him in exchange for the release of ten of their captured assassins.
Once Allied ground forces had captured islands sufficiently close to Japan, airfields were built on those islands ( particularly Saipan and Tinian ) and B-29s could reach Japan for bombing missions.
Once they were captured by him, and Captain America was placed under Nazi control by a drug and told to assassinate the supreme commander of the Allied armies in Europe, but thanks to Bucky he broke free.
Once again, the Angevin cavalry proved too strong, and for a moment it appeared that Stephen might be captured for a second time.
Once such experience happened when Bill Davison captured a federal boat at Lewisport.
Once captured, these emissions can be used to generate heat or electrical energy, thereby reducing local demand for fossil fuels.
Once, while he was traveling in the Thames estuary with the seal, he was captured by pirates.
Once captured by Team Rocket, Fuji tells Mewtwo that he is honored by the statement, and is then killed.
Once inside, though, they were surrounded and killed, except Gwindor, who was captured and imprisoned.
Once it was captured by German forces, the town was bombed by the US Air Force on 25 and 26 December 1944 and by RAF Bomber Command with 300 aircraft on the 26.
During " Once Upon a Time " it is also stated ( with greater certainty ) that Number Six flew a bomber in " the war "; exactly which war is not stated but evidently Number Six was shot down and captured by the Germans, which presumably means World War II, which is possible given his stated birthdate, if only just.
Once towns and villages were securely in their hands, the Serb forces-the military, the police, the paramilitaries and, sometimes, even Serb villagers – applied the same pattern: Bosniak houses and apartments were systematically ransacked or burnt down, Bosniak civilians were rounded up or captured, and sometimes beaten or killed in the process.
Once captured by the Allies, the islands in the Gulf became bases for the B-29's that bombed Japan in 1945.
Once the redoubts had been captured, Zhabokritsky was to occupy the Fedioukine Heights.
Once the town had been captured the garrison would withdraw into the citadel, which then had to be separately reduced.
Once the parachute brigade had captured the bridge, they would then have to defend it until relieved by units of the Eighth Army advancing from the landing beaches.
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Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.
Once the Russians reached the islands in the 18th century they found an etymology from Russian kurit (" курить "-" to smoke ") due to the continual fumes and steam above the islands from volcanoes.
Once they reached the islands, the ancestors of Oceania's present flora and fauna adapted to life on the islands.
Once the most widespread of Asian rhinoceroses, the Javan rhinoceros ranged from the islands of Java and Sumatra, throughout Southeast Asia, and into India and China.
Once the midstream islands were secured, General Kuroki ordered a feint on the lower Yalu River when Japanese gunboats engaged Cossack detachments at the river mouth.
Once the perimeter was finished, work began on the of the three artificial islands.
Once the Japanese home islands were unified in the early 17th century, the Tokugawa Shogunate launched an effort to solidify the power of the feudal samurai class and banned the use and manufacture of all firearms ( as well as repairs to feudal castles ).
Once they opened the Gambia River, Cadamosto and Usodimare led the next great leap of Henrican discoveries in Africa-Cape Verde islands, the Casamance River, Cape Roxo, Cacheu River and finally the Geba River and Bissagos Islands.
Once among the Caribbean islands, that began to change.
Once under the jurisdiction of Azad Hind, the islands formed the government's first claims to territory.
Once again, the islands became a port for merchants.
Once Russian and Spanish claims to the Haida Gwaii were given up in treaties with Britain and the United States, the islands continued to be claimed by the United States until the British claim to them was formalized by the creation of the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1853.
Once upon a time in a bid to look for greener pasture, a group of Malaysian traders boarded a vinta sailing across many islands and accidentally landed in an island what is now Tandubas Island.
Once the laws of Nicaragua became common law, all these communities, which were ruled from Bluefields until the autonomous laws were enacted in the 1980s with U. S. acquiescence and the Nicaraguan government directed the local administration of the islands.
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Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.
Once, they were at Easthampton for the summer ( again, Fritzie said, a good place, even though they were being robbed ).
Once on the road ( and especially if the passengers were all regulars and masculine ), the schedule meant nothing.
Once again, both anti-A and anti-B activities were found in the insoluble material precipitated during dialysis.
Once more, Juet's complaints were the loudest.
Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.
Once they were gone, Abd a-Rahman and Bedr immediately set off westwards.
Once " stand off " nuclear weapon designs were developed, bombers did not need to pass over the target at high altitude to make an attack ; they could fire and turn away to escape the blast.
Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.
Once the account exceeded its quotas, it was automatically disabled, but the messages were still saved as they arrived.
Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favor for general use.
Once the toads were established, a 1963 study concluded, as the toad's diet included both harmful and beneficial invertebrates, it was considered " economically neutral ".
Once the bombardment had disordered the infantry formation, cavalry were able to rout and pursue the scattered foot soldiers.
Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.
* The songs " A Very Strange Agony " and " To Die Only Once " of the Spanish symphonic metal band Döxa were inspired by " Carmilla ".
Once the round has ended, surviving players retain their equipment for use in the next round ; players who were killed begin the next round with the basic default starting equipment.
Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.
Once again his spirits were raised when the unit under his command received orders overseas to France ; this time his wishes were thwarted when the armistice was signed, just a week before departure.
Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice were not concluded.
Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.
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