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The area was devastated by the Saracens in 813 and 847 ; in 1004 it was occupied by Henry II of Germany ; the Norman Roger II of Sicily took it in 1130 granting the island to the Norman Aldoyn de Candida created Count d ’ Ischia ; the island was raided by the Pisans in 1135 and 1137 and subsequently fell under the Suebi and then Angevin rule.
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The area was deserted.
Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.
Therefore, what we must prove or disprove is that there were Saxons, in the broad sense in which we must construe the word, in the area of the Saxon Shore at the time it was called the Saxon Shore.
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
How foolish it was to try to fathom the truth in an area where only faith would suffice.
A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.
Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.
Such items recall the California journalist who reported an accident involving a movie star: `` The area in which Miss N -- was injured is spectacularly scenic ''.
The mean temperature of the surface was then computed according to the following relation: Af where x is the fraction of the plug area covered by the hot spot.
From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34,000 square miles was covered.
As can be seen from Figure 2, an extensive area was covered by this aerosol.
As can be seen from these dosage isopleths, approximately 100 square miles was covered within the area sampled.
It is quite likely that an even greater area was covered, particularly downwind.
In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.
The myocardium of the posterior base of the left ventricle was replaced by gray scar tissue over a 7.5 cm. area.
The mucosa of the stomach was atrophic and irregularly blackened over a 14 cm. area.
Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.
There was a particularly marvelous opportunity for study in this area since almost every stage of pregnancy was represented, from a childless couple to and including every trimester.
Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.
The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.
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Severe weather is uncommon in the Chicago area, though there have been some exceptions such as the F4 tornado that devastated the south side of the city on April 21, 1967.
Still more damaging was the 1990 earthquake that devastated a wide area in Luzon, including Baguio and other northern areas.
This is not unexpected because the area was devastated by the Babylonians, then rebuilt and destroyed several times.
Genghis Khan and Mongol invasions devastated the region during the late Middle Ages, but their hold upon the area was transitional as later Timur Leng and Uzbeks contested the land.
The spectacle that confronted Kulik as he stood on a ridge overlooking the devastated area was overwhelming.
More heavy air raids devastated the area around the railway station in 1944 causing several hundred deaths.
According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people.
In the 5th century, both Alaric the Goth and then Attila and the Huns devastated the area.
In 1056, the area was devastated by the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, on his way with an army of Welsh, Saxons and Danes to defeat Ralph, Earl of Hereford and sack the Saxon burh at Hereford, to the north.
It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which Nero seized much of the area to add to his personal domain.
Cook Island MP Teina Bishop said " New Zealand aid should have been sent to the devastated area much sooner.
On February 2, 2007, Lake County was devastated by a series of early morning tornadoes, which killed at least 20 people in the area.
The traditional vineyards were devastated by Phylloxera in the nineteenth century and only partially replanted, due to the growth of the tourist industry and the development of irrigation in the area.
Over 200 years passed and the Mississippian Indian culture disappeared, devastated by disease, but the Indian town named Chicasa which De Soto visited was probably the ancestral home of the Chickasaws who still lived in the area when Anglo-Americans began showing up.
The war devastated the area.
A quarter mile ( 400 m ) wide swath through the downtown area was devastated, with at least 370 houses damaged or destroyed.
On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, which produced the largest storm surge ever recorded in the area, reaching nearly and pushing many shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.
On August 29, 2005, the area was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, with a local storm surge of nearly and higher waves that engulfed Bayou La Batre and pushed over 23 shrimp boats and the cargo ship M / V Caribbean Clipper onto shore.
This devastated the area and the city struggled to recover.
On the 25th Good Friday after the earthquake, in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, causing an oil spill that again devastated Chenega and other places around the area economically.
The devastated area was a mobile home park.
On February 2, 2007, the town was devastated by a tornado, which killed 20 people in the entire area, at least six of them in Lady Lake.
While Erin caused mild damage to the area, Hurricane Opal devastated much of the neighboring Pensacola Beach and Navarre communities.
In March 2005, Screven was hit by a tornado, causing the uprooting of trees, damaged homes and stores in the downtown area, and devastated Screven Cabinets into a pile of sheet metal and insulation.
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