The great increase in the amount of archaeological activity, and therefore information, in the years immediately preceeding and following the Second World War has brought to light data which has changed the complection of the Saxon Shore dispute.

The discovery during the Second World War that guar gum was similar to imported locust gum increased its cultivation in western Asia and initiated it in the United States.

A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

On the batting-friendly wickets that prevailed in the late 1930s, most Tests up to the Second World War still gave results.

Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.

Since the Second World War, both theoretical and experimental fields have advanced at a rapid pace.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.

Following the Second World War, far-reaching social, economic and political changes profoundly affected a number of areas where Ismāʿīlīs resided.

* 1994 – Eugene Bullard, the only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.

At the close of the Second World War the British government announced its intention to abolish the penal settlement.

This was during the Second World War, and he involved his students in designing low-cost, small-scale housing for the reconstruction of war-torn Finland.

Aerial armour has been used to protect pilots and aircraft systems since the Second World War.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

With the development of effective anti-aircraft artillery in the period before the Second World War, military pilots, once the " knights of the air " during the First World War, became far more vulnerable to ground fire.

Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

The armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) is a relatively recent development, stemming from trials and experiences during the Second World War.

Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.

The Memorial Hall and Gymnasium honours students who had enlisted and died in the First World War, and in the Second World War.

During the Second Punic War in 212 BCE, the Ludi Apollinares (" Apollonian Games ") were instituted in his honor, on the instructions of a prophecy attributed to one Marcius.

In 1775, with events outpacing communications, the Second Continental Congress began acting as the provisional government to run the American Revolutionary War and gain the colonies their collective independence.

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

* 1860 – The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.

His paternal great-grandfather was a military tribune in Sicily during the Second Punic War.

* 1842 – American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.

* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

The church was destroyed in the Second World War and left in ruins.

As it descended the First Hill of the city and climbed the Second Hill, it passed on the left the Praetorium or law-court.

Following the Second World War, psychologists conducted research into the different motives and tendencies that account for ideological differences between left and right.

Alfonso XIII left the country in response to the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, although he never abdicated.

The Confederation took over the government, but Russia and Prussia in 1793 arranged for and executed the Second Partition of the Commonwealth, which left the country with critically reduced territory, practically incapable of independent existence.

This was the only cabinet of the Second Republic to run its full four-year term, and the work it left behind was considerable.

It was through abstinence from much of the Second World War that the US found itself one of only two superpowers left in 1945, whereas the British Empire, France, and Germany were all contenders prior to this.

Edward left in 1272, and despite the Second Council of Lyon's plans for another crusade in 1274, no further large-scale expedition ever arrived.

Japan was therefore left in control of Manchuria until the Soviet Union's Red Army took over the area and returned it to China at the end of the Second World War.

The June Days Uprising during the Second Republic was an attempt by the left to assert itself after the 1848 Revolution, but only a small portion of the population supported this.

from: 1889 till: 1890 color: PRO $ left text :"( Second Time ) _George Dibbs_1889 "

from: 1916 till: 1919 color: NAT $ left text :"( Second Time ) _William Holman_1916-1920 "

from: 1922 till: 1923 color: ALP $ left text :"( Second Time ) _James Dooley_1921-1922 "

from: 1930 till: 1932 color: ALP $ left text :"( Second Time ) _Jack Lang_1930-1932 "

Khomeini in youth ( Second from right and fourth from left )

From left to right: Top row-Archimedes, Aristotle, Alhazen | Ibn al-Haytham, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek ; Second row-Isaac Newton, James Hutton, Antoine Lavoisier, John Dalton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel ; Third row-Louis Pasteur, James Clerk Maxwell, Henri Poincaré, Sigmund Freud, Nikola Tesla, Max Planck ; Fourth row-Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Enrico Fermi ; Bottom row-J. Robert Oppenheimer, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, E. O. Wilson, Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking

In the futurist view of Christian eschatology, the Tribulation is a relatively short period of time where anyone who chose not to follow God up until the Rapture and was therefore left behind ( according to Pre-Tribulation doctrine, not Mid-or Post-Tribulation teaching ) will experience worldwide hardships, disasters, famine, war, pain, and suffering, which will wipe out more than 75 % of all life on the earth before the Second Coming takes place.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

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The area remained a part of Bavaria until after the Second World War, when it was separated and became a part of the new state of Rhineland-Palatinate, along with former left bank territories of Prussia and Hesse-Darmstadt.

Bentley Tollemache and his family left Peckforton at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

This left them with no other option than to call on the Romans, with whom they established an alliance, setting off the Second Samnite War.

He left home at fourteen to join the British Army with the intention of fighting in the Second Boer War.