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The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.
Since 1999, the German parliament has again assembled in Berlin in its original Reichstag building, which dates from the 1890s and underwent a significant renovation under the lead of British architect Sir Norman Foster.
A wait of fourteen years would ensue until another British Isles team tour took place, again in South Africa.
By 18: 00, the British fleet was again under full sail, Vanguard sixth in the line of ten ships as Culloden trailed behind to the north, and Alexander and Swiftsure hastened to catch up to the west.
In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.
In 1901, he was caught planning to sabotage strategic British installations in Cape Town and sentenced to life in prison ; however, he escaped and was re-captured several times again throughout his life.
In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.
Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.
Germany used bicycles again in World War II, while the British employed airborne " Cycle-commandos " with folding bikes.
By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.
The day ended once again with the Afrika Korps and Ariete coming off second best to the superior numbers of the British 22nd Armoured and 4th Armoured Brigades, frustrating Rommel's attempts to resume his advance.
At daybreak on 22 July, the British armoured brigades again failed to advance.
In 1775 – 77, and again in 1781 he led his men against the main British forces.
One indication of Guadeloupe's prosperity at this time is that in the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France, defeated in war, again, agreed to abandon its territorial claims in Canada if the British returned Guadeloupe, which was captured in 1759.
On 4 February 1810 the British once again seized the island and continued to occupy it until 1816.
He had his second majorly successful venture with the British firm Burma Corporation, again producing silver, lead and Zinc in large quantities at the Namtu Bawdwin Mine, where he caught malaria in 1907.
And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.
By July 1942, the British and Indian forces in Burma had completed their fighting retreat back into India, and Alexander, having yet again been mentioned in despatches for his Burma service, was recalled to the United Kingdom.
Astor's fur trading ventures were again disrupted when the British captured his trading posts during the War of 1812.
When the British again refused to accept the 49th parallel boundary proposal, Polk broke off negotiations and returned to the Democratic platform " All Oregon " demand ( which called for all of Oregon up to the 54-40 line that marked the southern boundary of Russian Alaska ).
In 1878, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the British again invaded and set up camps in Jalalabad but withdrew two years later.
The British-led Indian forces invaded in 1878 as Kabul was under Sher Ali Khan's rule, but the British residents were again massacred.
The diamond has belonged to various Hindu, Rajput, Mughal, Iranian, Afghan, Sikh and British rulers who fought bitterly over it and seized it as a spoil of war time and time again.

British and occupied
Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.
Following the war, Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years ( 1936 – 41 ), before eventually being driven out during World War II by British Empire and Ethiopian patriot forces.
Following the Battle of Brandywine, Wilmington was occupied by the British, and State President John McKinly was taken prisoner.
The democratization of the American, British, and French sectors of occupied Germany ( disputed ), Austria, Italy, and the occupied Japan served as a model for the later theory of regime change.
British Club in Kathar ( in Orwell's time, it occupied only the ground floor )
Ghent was occupied by the Germans in both World Wars but escaped severe destruction and was liberated by the British 7th Desert Rats Armoured Division on September 6, 1944.
When William of Orange, ruler of the Dutch Republic, occupied the British throne with his wife Mary in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution, gin became vastly more popular, particularly in crude, inferior forms, where it was more likely to be flavoured with turpentine as an alternative to juniper.
Post-war occupied Germany: The British ( green ), Soviet ( Red ), American ( Yellow ), and French ( Blue ) occupation zones.
John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using laborers from the Cook Islands and Niue, occupied the island from 1886 to 1891.
During the Crimean War the British occupied Piraeus to prevent Greece declaring war on the Ottomans as a Russian ally.
In 2003, after the American and British invasion, Iraq was occupied by Coalition forces.
These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”
* 1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
* 1841 – Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British.
Lübeck was occupied without resistance by the British Second Army on 2 May 1945.
Before the American company could begin their operations, however, the island was occupied by an Australian company under British license.
By 1944 US and British air forces were sending huge air fleets over occupied Europe, increasing the pressure on the Luftwaffe day and night fighter forces.
Despite the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi ' kmaq.
The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.
During the Revolution, the British occupied Newport.
But on 14 February 1815, Kandy was occupied by the British, in the second Kandyan War, finally ending Sri Lanka's independence.
The Dutch settlers occupied the island for nearly half a century, but were dislodged several times: in 1629 by the Portuguese, in 1645 and 1659 by the French and in 1663 by the British troops.
The Italians also occupied parts of the British East Africa Protectorate bordering Jubaland around the towns of Moyale and Buna.
With the fall of France in 1940 during World War II, Syria came under the control of the Vichy Government until the British and Free French occupied the country in July 1941.

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