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* Moldavian Magnate Wars for the background on southern wars ( with Ottoman Turkey and its allies )

In 1990, realizing that the game's background was in danger of becoming obsolete, GDW published Merc 2000, an alternative campaign setting which revolved around mercenaries fighting brushfire wars in a time in which the Twilight War never occurred.

Revisionist historians have placed the background of the Pequot War within the context of European history, in which religious wars gave rise to increased violence, and Dutch and English colonization in North America, as well as the geopolitical ambitions and struggles of contending Native peoples during the first half of the seventeenth century.

Brazil Red () is a 2001 French historical novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin which recounts the unsuccessful French attempt to conquer Brazil in the 16th century, against a background of wars of religion and a rite-of-passage discovery of the charms and secrets of the Amerindian world.

She led the colony for nearly 25 years, against a background of two world wars, the Great Depression and other challenges.

For cost reasons ( much of the story was set in Indochina against the background of wars there ) the BBC did not film The Honourable Schoolboy, the middle novel of the Quest for Karla trilogy — even the Far Eastern parts of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy were relocated to Portugal for the television adaptation.

However, in the 1950s, after the disappointment over Sweden's limited support during the wars, he contributed energetically to inter-Nordic contacts and cultural exchange, and may be credited for the at least partial healing of the rupture between Conservatives in Finland and Scandinavia, that had its background in fennomania and the Åland Crisis.

( On the formative background of the Kansas-Missouri border wars on the post-war western outlaws, notably the James-Younger gang.

In particular, it explores the tension between the patient, dedicated laboratory work of Franklin and the sometimes uninformed intuitive leaps of Watson and Crick, all played against a background of institutional turf wars, personality conflicts and sexism.

The background for this lies in the loss of the originally Danish provinces of Blekinge, Halland and Scania to Sweden in 1658.

Where this Latveria lies is unclear but there are Belgian Flags on display in the background in the one picture displayed of Latveria.

Downtown Frankfort is seen in the foreground, while South Frankfort lies across the river in the background.

Maria even lies about her background, telling Dino she is three-quarters Italian.

In Ankara, a central figure is silhouetted against an industrial background, whereas in France, a man lies in a field.

Jurong Island lies in the background of this panoramic view of Jurong Industrial Estate.

Pulau Tekong lies in the distance in the background, as taken from Changi Beach Park.

Mount Juneau lies in the background behind the Coast Guard island.

Phillip's lies about his ' primitive ' background seem most obviously an ironic response to Rigsby's racist remarks, and sometimes result in moments when Rigsby's gullibility and desperation lead to his belief in some aspect of Phillip's lore: for example, the ' love wood ' which fails to excite Miss Jones ( in the ' Charisma ' episode, first broadcast 1974 ).

Giza Peak lies in the background of this image, Eros Glacier lies immediately east from this view, however, it is not visible in this image.

Due to Shannon's wealthy background, which is hated by the lower class Irish they find themselves surrounded by, Joseph lies and tells everyone that she is in fact his sister, to save her from being exiled or hurt.

Attempts have been made to trace the genesis of the concept to the work of Alfred Adler, but its immediate background lies in the work of Rotter and his students.

The city of Chieti lies on a crest along the Pescara river with its unmistakable profile with the high belltower of San Giustino against the sky, a few km away from the Adriatic Sea, and with the Majella and Gran Sasso mountains in the background.

Steinbock's relevance also lies in his background and profession, illustrating Balzac's conception of the Polish people, as well as himself.

River Valley lies in the background.

: The background of the National colors refers to the seat of the government, which lies within the Military District of Washington, with the dome shaped upper part suggesting the Capitol building.

Chieti lies on a crest along the Pescara River a few kilometres away from the Adriatic Sea, and with the Maiella and Gran Sasso mountains in the background.

Thus, its uniqueness lies in the fact of its historic-religious-cultural background, and as a result it attracts approximately 100, 000 visitors every month, apart from the very large congregation that occurs during the annual Pushkar Fair.

The background to this new movement of reform lies in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.

The historical background of ' Antara's Mu ' allaqat lies somewhat earlier than that of Zuhayr's.

Above the Gaziantep banner lies the martrys memorial, the checkered background represents the cities treat to the world, the famous desert ‘ Baklava ’.

The incomplete Alai Minar, with Qutb Minar in the background

These " third party " background checking agencies cannot guarantee the accuracy of their information, thus many of them have incomplete records or inaccurate records.

Database searches, as opposed to source records searches ( search of actual county courthouse records ), are notoriously inaccurate, contain incomplete or outdated information, and should only be used as an added safety net when conducting a background check.

She was originally part of the Ultimates ' covert operations (" black ops ") team, but with the emergence of the Chitauri threat was subsequently moved to public status after a publicly acceptable background was written for her.

" Naylor finds that " Hankey did not altogether grasp the virulence of fascism ... except as a military threat to Britain ; nor did he ever quite comprehend the changing face of domestic politics which Labour's emergence as a party of government entailed .... In these shortcomings Hankey was typical of his generation and background ; that his responsibility was greater lay in the fact that he was better informed than nearly any of his contemporaries.

Cultural appropriation in Western music as a cultural / economic phenomenon is inextricably linked with the invention of sound recording and the development of the international recording industry, but the background to its emergence covers the whole span of modern Western musical history, and what some analysts have deemed the digital revolution.

These moves, intended to ensure a peaceful future, were the background to a number of developments in the emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies as an academic discipline ( but they also, as Keynes presciently pointed out, laid the seeds for future conflict ).

A more recent study of morphological integration in human and great ape wrists suggests that knuckle-walking did not evolve independently in gorillas and chimpanzees, which " places the emergence of hominins and the evolution of bipedalism in the context of a knuckle-walking background.

He has designed a matching backdrop and costumes of points of color on white for Mr. Cunningham's Summerspace, so that dancers and background merge into a shimmering unity.

This combined experience, on a foundation of very average, I assure you, intelligence and background, has helped me do things many well-informed people would bet heavily against.

Yet in several chapters on Scotland in the eighteenth century, Trevelyan copes persuasively with the tangled confusion of Scottish politics against a vivid background of Scottish religion, customs, and traditions.

The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

Out of this background of hunting and fishing, it was only natural that Roy first painted subjects he knew best: hunters in the field, fishermen in the stream, ducks and geese on the wing -- almost always against a vast backdrop of weather landscape.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

Ideal for merchandising use, they are weather-resistant, and have mounting pegs on the back which fit into openings in a vacuum-formed waffle-pattern background panel.

In a set of case studies of teachers with various social-class backgrounds, Wattenberg illustrates a variety of approaches to students and to teaching which depend upon the teacher's personality as well as on his social-class background.

I was reminded, amusedly, by a poem of Kenneth Patchen's called The Murder of Two Men by a Young Kid Wearing Lemon Colored Gloves, which Patchen himself read on a record against jazz background.

He is, by background and living standards, better fitted to endure hardship uncomplainingly, to demand less in the way of subsistence or comfort, and to look after himself when thrown on his own resources ''.

Decoration is characterized by fine hatching, and contrasting colors are produced by the use of mineral-based paint on a chalky background.

The tower is decorated with monograms of Jesus ( JHS ), Maria ( M with the ducal crown ) and Joseph ( JHP ), made ​​ of ceramic pieces that stand out golden on the green background that covers the facade.

The average temperature of the universe today is approximately 2. 73 kelvins, based on measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation.

A United States postage stamp of 1945 shows the Arc de Triomphe in the background as victorious American troops march down the Champs-Élysées and U. S. airplanes fly overhead on 29 August 1944.

In LS AAS background absorption can only be corrected using instrumental techniques, and all of them are based on two sequential measurements, firstly, total absorption ( atomic plus background ), secondly, background absorption only, and the difference of the two measurements gives the net atomic absorption.

Total absorption is measured with normal lamp current, i. e., with a narrow emission line, and background absorption after application of a high-current pulse with the profile of the self-reversed line, which has little emission at the original wavelength, but strong emission on both sides of the analytical line.

Total absorption is measured without magnetic field and background absorption with the magnetic field on.

Wedge-shaped polycrystals were identified by transmission electron microscopy to grow out of the amorphous phase only after the latter has exceeded a certain thickness, the precise value of which depends on deposition temperature, background pressure and various other process parameters.

* " Native Experience " A four part television documentary series about the impact of oil and mineral development on the Native cultures of Alaska, dealing in particular with the historical background leading up to ANCSA and the experiences, memories and perceptions of both natives involved in the lands claim and their descendants today in rural Alaska.

The series website includes many images from the television series as well as background information on the subject.

Based on measurements of the expansion using Type Ia supernovae, measurements of temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, and measurements of the correlation function of galaxies, the Universe has a calculated age of 13. 75 ± 0. 11 billion years.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.