Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.

For new galaxies to be created, Professor Bondi declares, it would only be necessary for a single hydrogen atom to be created in an area the size of your living room once every few million years.

Commercial farming became viable in the area once the grain trade had developed technologies to handle the bulk export of grain, especially hopper cars and grain elevators.

The best marked of the basins so formed ( the Congo basin ) occupies a circular area bisected by the equator, once probably the site of an inland sea.

As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live-action facsimile of Dogpatch ( including a lifesize statue in the town square of Dogpatch " founder ," General Jubilation T. Cornpone ) has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters, and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

As the engine only renders the immediate area around the player, this does not allow a player to see the entire level at once.

The Mayumbe area of Lower Zaire was once the major center of timber exploitation, but forests in this area were nearly

The area of long-term eruption ( the hotspot ), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that once separated the Seychelles plateau from India.

The area was once heavily forested, but overexploitation led to extensive erosion, and it has become semibarren.

The area where Green Hedges once stood is now occupied by houses and a street called Blyton Close.

Whereas if a plan were there to be followed, a single area of code is expected to be written once.

These plant communities cover approximately 9. 4 percent of the Earth's surface ( or 30 percent of total land area ), though they once covered much more ( about 50 percent of total land area ), in many different regions and function as habitats for organisms, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the biosphere.

For this reason, the furlong was once also called an acre's length, though of course in modern usage an area of one acre can be any shape.

Convicts once lived and worked in the Gosford area.

The name " Hong Kong ", literally meaning " fragrant harbour ", is derived from the area around present-day Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island, where fragrant wood products and fragrant incense were once traded.

Ore, Silverhill and Hollington were once villages that have since become part of the Hastings conurbation area during rapid growth.

Indo-Iranian languages were once spoken across a still wider area.

The area once known as the Turbary of Alberysheved between the River Teign and the headwaters of the River Bovey is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor of 1240 ( by 1609 the name of the area had changed to Turf Hill ).

Evidence also suggests that a profound change took place in the Ancestral Pueblo area and areas inhabited by their cultural neighbors, the Mogollon.

Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's founding fathers, designed the city and chose its location close to the River Torrens in the area originally inhabited by the Kaurna people.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

The area around Alicante has been inhabited for over 7000 years, with the first tribes of hunter gatherers moving down gradually from Central Europe between 5000 and 3000 BC.

The area totals 151 km² ( about 0. 9 times the size of Washington, DC ) and comprises 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands ; includes the islands of Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda and Jost van Dyke.

The larger group inhabited the north-eastern slopes of the Carpathians and the area between the Prut and Dnieper rivers ( Moldova Republic / Western Ukraine ), while a separate smaller group ( the Peucini ) dwelt in and North of the Danube delta region.

The area inhabited by the Zarubintsy culture had no settlements after c. 100 AD.

Fishermen displaced from Bakassi had been settled in a landlocked area called New Bakassi, which they claimed is already inhabited and not suitable for fishermen like them but only for farmers.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

The area known today as Croatia today was inhabited throughout the prehistoric period.

Initially, the new arrivals inhabited the eastern area of Baracoa, before expanding across the island.

The variant English name " Bohemian " was used until the late 19th century, reflecting the original English name of the Czech state derived from the Celtic tribe of Boii who inhabited the area since the 4th century BC.

During the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, who had taken the place of the Miami and Sauk and Fox peoples.

The Dumnonii or Dumnones were a British Celtic tribe who inhabited Dumnonia, the area now known as Devon and Cornwall in the farther parts of the South West peninsula of Britain, from at least the Iron Age up to the early Saxon period.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

The Jama-Coaque culture inhabited areas between Cabo San Francisco in Esmeraldas, to Bahía de Caráquez, in Manabi, in an area of wooded hills and vast beaches of their immigrant who facilitated the gathering of resources of both the jungle and the ocean.

The Thuringii inhabited the Erfurt area ca.

The area, roughly encompassing the later geographical meanings of Flanders, had been inhabited by Celts until Germanic people began immigrating by crossing the Rhine, either gradually driving them south-or westwards, or rather merging with them.

The bay and surrounding area was originally inhabited by the Taino people.

Saxons inhabited the area down to the Unstrut River.

The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lencas, the central north coast by the Tol, the area east of Trujillo by the Pech ( or Paya ) and the Miskito and Sumo.

The land inhabited by the Afghan tribes ( i. e. ancestors of Pashtuns ) was called Afghanistan, which loosely covered a wide area between the Hindu Kush and the Indus River, principally around the Sulaiman Mountains.

In the age known as the Nordic Bronze Age, the area had some shipping of furs to northern Germany and the Roman army, but not much is known from that time other than the area being inhabited ; there has also been older finds from 3000-4000 BC.

The area continued to be inhabited mainly by farmers until the 20th century.