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Fleeing from those who sought to steal this discovery, Plunder took his eldest son Kevin with him for a second trip into the Savage Land.
Having learnt from the heavy casualties inflicted upon the airborne formations in Operation Market, the two airborne divisions were dropped several thousand yards forward of friendly positions, and only some thirteen hours after Operation Plunder had begun and Allied ground forces had already crossed the Rhine.
" Appearances include The Beginning, Plunder Down Under, Valley of the Hungry Dunes, Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake, No Such Loch, The Inhuman Race, Fountain of Terror, Ship of Terror, Queen's Ransom, Avalanche Run, Barbella's Big Attraction, Invaders from S. C. U. M., Ol ' Man River, Catching the Wave, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sherlock IQ, Quantum Diamonds, Rubies Aren't Forever, The Thing in the Ice, Monument to S. C. U. M.
* FBI Press Release Relating to fall-out from Plunder Dome
Clockwise from left: Dr. Blight, Verminous Skumm, Duke Nukem, Hoggish Greedly, Zarm, Looten Plunder, and Sly Sludge.
Joseph Goebbels was well aware of Plunder ′ s potential impact from the beginning.
Part of Operation Plunder, the effort by the British 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery to cross the Rhine River and from there enter Northern Germany, Varsity was meant to help the 21st Army Group to secure a foothold across the Rhine River in western Germany by landing two airborne divisions on the eastern bank of the Rhine near the village of Hamminkeln and the town of Wesel.
* Dead Skip ( 1972 ) by Joe Gores — Parker appears briefly in a sequence that was also described ( from a different viewpoint ) in Plunder Squad ( 1972 ).
After Operation Veritable, the Allied advance from the Dutch-German border into the Rhineland, and the crossing of the Rhine at Wesel and Rees in Operation Plunder, the Canadian First Army liberated the eastern and northern parts of the Netherlands.
He mentions that Barbara learned of Ka-Zar ’ s whereabouts from the butler at the Plunder Estate, clearly indicating that Barbara is meant to be the same character as the brunette from the previous two issues.
* translated by Jefferson Chase from the German Hitlers Volksstaat ( see above ): Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005.

Plunder and was
Plunder in itself was often the objective of a military campaign, to either pay mercenary forces, seize resources, reduce the fighting capacity of enemy forces, or as a calculated insult to the enemy ruler.
In more recent years, the Savage Land was rediscovered by Lord Robert Plunder, who took back a sample of the metal known as " anti-metal " or " Antarctic vibranium " with him.
Unfortunately, the elder Plunder was killed by a local tribe of Man-Apes.
In the 1834 Safed Great Plunder, much of the Jewish quarter was destroyed by rebel Arabs, who plundered the city for many weeks.
In March 1945, the 6th Airborne Division was informed that it would be participating in Operation Varsity, an airborne operation in support of 21st Army Group crossing the River Rhine during Operation Plunder.
The original concept was embodied in the introductory television movie Plunder and Lightning which was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program ( Prime Time for Programming One Hour or More ) in 1991 and was later re-edited into four half-hour episodes for reruns.
Archway was initially intended to support Operation Plunder and Operation Varsity, the crossings of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River in North Rhine-Westphalia by the British Second Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey.
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, commanding the British 21st Army Group devised a plan to allow the forces under his command to breach the Rhine, which he entitled Operation Plunder, and which was subsequently authorized by Eisenhower.
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, commanding the British 21st Army Group devised a plan to allow the forces under his command to breach the Rhine, which he entitled Operation Plunder, and which was subsequently authorized by Eisenhower.
On 23 March, Wesel came under the fire of over 3, 000 guns when it was bombarded anew, in preparation for Operation Plunder.
Commencing on the night of 23 March 1945 during World War II, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the River Rhine at Rees, Wesel, and south of the Lippe River by the British 2nd Army, under Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey ( Operations Turnscrew, Widgeon, and Torchlight ), and the U. S. Ninth Army ( Operation Flashpoint ), under Lieutenant General William Simpson.
The first part of Plunder was initiated by the 51st ( Highland ) Infantry Division, led by the 7th Black Watch at 21: 00 on 23 March, near Rees, followed by the 7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was present at Field Marshal Montgomery ′ s headquarters near Venlo on the eve of Plunder ( 23 March ).
After his mother had died and his father was killed by the barbaric Man-Ape natives of the Savage Land, Plunder was found and raised by the sabertooth cat Zabu, who possesses near-human intelligence thanks to a mutation caused by radioactive mists.
In January 1976 Michael Blakemore revived Plunder at the Royal National Theatre and at the Evening Standard Awards, held at the Savoy Hotel on 4 February, Travers was presented with the 1975 Special Award for his Services to the Theatre, and received the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, commanding the British 21st Army Group, devised a plan entitled Operation Plunder that would allow the forces under his command to breach the Rhine, which was subsequently authorized by Eisenhower.
The closure of the Pollack & Plunder tannery in 1985 caused immense hardship in the town, as a significant proportion of the population ( Carrick's population was roughly 4, 000 by this point ) were employed there or were dependent on someone who was.
* In the North, Operation Plunder was the crossing of the Rhine river at Rees and Wesel by the British 21st Army Group on the night of 23 / 24 March.

Plunder and .
* Thackston Wheeler, Murder, Mayhem, Pillage and Plunder: The History of the Lebanon in the 18th and 19th Centuries, 1988.
" It is also known that Kevin Plunder has been granted political asylum in the United States for his human rights activism in this prehistoric land.
* Parnival Plunder, the villainous brother of Ka-Zar, planned to use vibranium to make weapons with which to take over the world.
Conducted as a part of Operation Plunder, the operation took place on 24 March 1945 in aid of an attempt by the British 21st Army Group to cross the Rhine River.
He eventually approaches Plunder Island, which is governed by Elaine Marley and is currently under siege by the Zombie Pirate LeChuck himself.
* Miland Brown, Loot, Plunder, and a New Public Library.
B. Priestley's When We Are Married, with Dawn French, Alison Steadman, and Leo McKern ; and Ben Travers ' Plunder, with Griff Rhys Jones and Kevin McNally.
As studio guitarist and cellist, he has recorded on albums by artists Julie Miller, Plumb, Wes King, Switchfoot, Hammock, Lost Dogs, The Choir, Dividing the Plunder, Threefold, and Brooke Waggoner.
* The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century, 1970.
THEY, by a strange Frenzy driven, fight for Power, for Plunder, and extended Rule — WE, for our Country, our Altars, and our Homes .— THEY follow an ADVENTURER, whom they fear — and obey a Power which they hate — WE serve a Monarch whom we love — a God whom we adore ... They call on us to barter all of Good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate Chance of Something better which they promise .— Be our plain Answer this: The Throne WE honour is the PEOPLE ' S CHOICE — the Laws we reverence are our brave Fathers ' Legacy — the Faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of Charity with all Mankind, and die with Hope of Bliss beyond the Grave.
Onstage, she appeared in Ben Travers's comedy Plunder, as well as playing alongside Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in David Storey's Home, in both London and on Broadway.

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In earlier times, sherry was known as sack ( from the Spanish saca, meaning " a removal from the solera ").
Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.
Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.
* 1127 – Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing ( Kaifeng ), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty.
In 400, the Visigoths invaded the Western Roman Empire and, although briefly forced back from Italy, in 410 they were able to sack the city of Rome.
Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.
The juvenile mantle tissue cells, according to their stage of growth, produce columnar calcium carbonate, which is secreted from the inner surface of the pearl sack.
Although the Crusades were, in part, originally intended to support the Byzantine Empire at Constantinople from attack by Turkish invaders, the Fourth Crusade resulted in the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, which greatly upset Pope Innocent.
The word " quilt " comes from the Latin culcita meaning a large stuffed sack, but it came into the English language from the French word cuilte.
The Raiders were forced to punt on their next drive after they were unable to recover from Alan Page's 11-yard sack on first down.
2 penalties and a 4-yard sack pushed them back to their own 37, but on third down, Collinsworth's 49-yard reception from Anderson moved the ball the San Francisco 14-yard line.
The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.
Similar Chinese narratives state that if a vampire-like being came across a sack of rice, it would have to count every grain ; this is a theme encountered in myths from the Indian subcontinent, as well as in South American tales of witches and other sorts of evil or mischievous spirits or beings.
One example is from Aeneas ' reaction to a painting of the sack of Troy: Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt —" These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart " ( Aeneid I, 462 ).
A tornado which affected Great Bend, Kansas, in November 1915, was an extreme case, where a " rain of debris " occurred from the town, a sack of flour was found away, and a cancelled check from the Great Bend bank was found in a field outside of Palmyra, Nebraska, to the northeast.
According to one theory, the name derives from the fortified dessert wine, sherry ( which is sometimes sweetened after fermentation ) that, in England, once bore the nickname " sack ").
* Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.
As a teenager, he and two companions fled from a barbaric invasion, taking refuge in Constantinople possessing nothing more than the ragged clothes on their backs and a sack of bread between them.
After Miltiades ( the general of the Greek forces ) defeated Darius ' Persian forces, the Persians decided to sail from Marathon to Athens in order to sack the unprotected city.
It survived the sack of Bayeaux by the Hugenots in 1562 and the next definite reference is from 1724.

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