Uige Province was one of the hardest-hit areas of Angola during the 26-year long civil war.

After a 26-year military campaign, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009, bringing the civil war to an end.

In 1853, the new railroad hired a 26-year old civil engineer and graduate of Virginia Military Institute from Southampton County by the name of William Mahone.

Sri Lanka has emerged from its 26-year war to become one of the fastest growing economies of the world.

* March 8, 1999 – Amy Watkins a 26-year old social worker from Kansas who worked with battered women in the Bronx, is stabbed to death in a botched robbery near her home in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

The location of the capital city of the Province of Canada changed six times in its 26-year history.

It was 1894, and 26-year old Václav Klement, who was a bookseller in Mladá Boleslav, in today's Czech Republic, which was then part of Austria-Hungary, was unable to obtain spare parts to repair his German bicycle.

A resident and restaurant owner named Ronald McDonald was in a 26-year legal battle with McDonald's over the name of his restaurant.

* December 8 – Cyndi Lauper with fourth single from She's So Unusual, " All Through the Night ", becoming the first woman in the 26-year history of Billboard Hot 100 to have four singles in the top five from the one album.

In Paris, at Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard he became acquainted with Belle van Zuylen, a 26-year older Dutch woman and writer, who knew his uncle well through their correspondance.

After a 26-year absence from motion pictures, West appeared as Leticia Van Allen in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge ( 1970 ) with Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck in a small part.

Coors sponsored Premiership side Chelsea FC 1994 – 1997, the last competitive game that the club wore shirts bearing Coors as sponsors being the 1997 FA Cup Final in which they beat Middlesbrough 2-0 to end their 26-year wait for a major trophy.

The 26-year run of the strip came to an end in 1964.

The show had a 26-year run on U. S. national TV, preceded by three years of local broadcast in Dayton, Ohio, before ending in 1996.

They were again relegated from the First Division in 1966 and began a 26-year exile from the top division.

The 1991 documentary Djembefola by Laurent Chevallier depicts Mamady Keïta's return to the village of his birth after a 26-year absence.

The Expos were poised to enter the postseason for only the second time in their 26-year history.

Stuart's 26-year career with BBC Television News was brought to a close on 3 October 2007, when the BBC announced her departure.

The stadium itself remains named Sprankle-Sprandel stadium in honor of two Albion athletic and academic legends: Dale Sprankle, who won 23 MIAA championships in four sports over a 26-year span as a teacher, coach, and athletic director ; and Walter Sprandel, a championship coach in track and basketball while at Olivet and Albion, and later Albion's dean of students for parts of two decades.

The argument quickly became heated and turned into a fist fight with one of the men, 26-year old Juan Montañez.

Lemon's 26-year old son, Jerry, was killed in an automobile accident in the fall of 1980, 10 days after Lemon had won a World Series.

He had reportedly made over $ 6, 000, 000 ( approaching $ 400 million in early 21st century, inflation-adjusted values ) during his 26-year film career.

He was slow as postmaster, having belatedly delivered a lost 1917 " draft " notice to Fred Ziffel after 51 years, which surpassed the 26-year delivery record of a lost 1942 WPA letter to Haney for stealing a shovel.

However, full civil equality was obtained only when they received the formal rights of citizenship, which had long been withheld from them in their own communities of Endingen and Lengnau.

The political landscape of Burundi has been dominated in recent years by the civil war and a long peace process and move to democracy.

Scotland is often said to use the civil law system but it has a unique system that combines elements of an uncodified civil law dating back to the Corpus Juris Civilis with an element of common law long predating the Treaty of Union with England in 1707 ( see Legal institutions of Scotland in the High Middle Ages ).

A long civil war erupted between the Staufen also known as Hohenstaufen supporters and the heirs of Lothar III.

The long civil war over investiture sapped the energy of both German churchmen and intellectuals.

However, the combined effects of ethnic and religious fractionalization, i. e. the more chance that any two randomly chosen people will be from separate ethnic or religious groups the less chance of a civil war, were also significant and positive, as long as the country avoided ethnic dominance.

More states also meant more states in which to have long civil wars.

Using a separate statistical evaluation than used above for interventions, civil wars that included pro-or anti-communist forces lasted 141 % longer than the average non-Cold War conflict, while a Cold War civil war that attracted superpower intervention resulted in wars typically lasting over three times as long as other civil wars.

For example, for a long period it was assumed that Imperial China had no system of civil law because the law codes did not have explicit provisions for civil lawsuits.

The civil sanction for contempt ( which is typically incarceration in the custody of the sheriff or similar court officer ) is limited in its imposition for so long as the disobedience to the court's order continues: once the party complies with the court's order, the sanction is lifted.

Marriage is a divine institution that can never be broken, even if the husband or wife legally divorce in the civil courts ; as long as they are both alive, the Church considers them bound together by God.

In certain areas of the law another head of damages has long been available, whereby the defendant is made to give up the profits made through the civil wrong in restitution.

As such Egypt was not directly involved in the Sudan Peace Process that was hosted in Kenya under the auspices of IGAD and that gave the peoples of south Sudan the right to secede and form an independent state in 2001 after the long and brutal Sudanese civil war that cumulatively lasted more than 40 years and claimed over 2 million lives.

A license typically allows the holder to carry one handgun, in some cases a long gun, and residents in certain settlements such as the West Bank are issued firearms by the government and given civil defense training.

In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.

* Category 4: Civil firearms ; According to French law, a civil firearm is a semi automatic long gun with more of 2 rounds in magazine which don't use a military gauge, or a handgun ( pistol or revolver, including all magazine capacities ) which doesn't have a gauge used by the army.

A long civil war began ; Philip was about to win when he was murdered by the Bavarian count palatine Otto VIII of Wittelsbach in 1208.

France was struck by a long period of civil unrest in 2005 after the death of two teenagers.

Its position on the estuaries of the Stour and Orwell rivers and its usefulness to mariners as the only safe anchorage between the Thames and Humber led to a long period of maritime significance, both civil and military.

* 1970 – Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur initiating massive reforms ; modernization programs and end to a decade long civil war.