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* 1930 – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
" Doc " was approached by Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, governor of the state of San Luis Potosí and one of the last remaining lieutenants of Pancho Villa.
The last remaining claimant in Avignon, Benedict XIII, refused to resign and was excommunicated.
One of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.
It is the last remaining descendant of the pre-Indo-European languages of Western Europe.
A further deportation of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon occurred in 586 when a second unsuccessful rebellion resulted in the destruction of the city and its Temple and the exile of the remaining elements of the royal court, including the last scribes and priests.
At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.
Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.
Enemies turn " angry " – becoming pink-colored and moving faster – if they are the last enemy remaining, escape from a bubble after being left too long, or a certain amount of time has been spent on the current level.
After the ending of the war, all refugees were repatriated to Sudan ; the last of the 9, 700 remaining in Central African Republic were evacuated in April 2007.
Lighthouse keeper Victoriano Álvarez ultimately found himself the last man remaining on the island, together with 15 women and children.
Since the last railway was dismantled in 1952, the only remaining modes of transport are by motorways, by sea, and by air.
:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).
Agrippina was one of the few remaining descendants of Augustus, and her son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( the future Emperor Nero ) was one of the last males of the Imperial family.
The last person remaining is the winner.
They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.
However, Constantius realised that too many threats still faced the Empire, and he could not possibly handle all of them by himself, so on 6 November 355, he elevated his last remaining relative, Julian, to the rank of Caesar.
Ceawlin was active during the last years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, with little of southern England remaining in the control of the native Britons by the time of his death.
At Taï, it can be found in the last remaining tropical rainforest in Côte d ' Ivoire.
Rainforests once covered 14 % of the earth's land surface ; now they cover a mere 6 % and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
Recently, Emsworth's last remaining oyster boat The Terror was restored and is now sailing again.
For example, if the last player to draw wants three replacements but there are only two cards remaining in the deck, the dealer gives the player the one top card he can give, then shuffles together the bottom card of the deck, the burn card, and the earlier players ' discards ( but not the player's own discards ), and finally deals two more replacements to the last player.
In October 2008 de Klerk spoke at Brigham Young University concerning the global politics and role of the United States as the world's last remaining superpower.
This law abolished the last remedy by which Hitler could be legally dismissed — and with it, the last remaining checks on his power.

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Twice in the last thirty years our enemies, the Germans, have passed through this corridor.
Geoff Hurst's " Ghost goal | Wembley Goal " during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final | 1966 world cup finalThe Germans equalised with virtually the last kick of the game, forcing extra time.
It looked like a 3 – 2 win for England with Hurst as the hero with the winning goal but in the last seconds, as the Germans were pushing everyone forward to seek the equalizer, Moore cleared his lines with a long ball over the German defence.
The family is listed as Germans, last residence ( Timişoara ).
* Helped secure the release of the last German prisoners of war in 1955, ( see Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union ).
When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".
In World War I, in the last year of the conflict, the Germans developed the Bergmann MP 18, a small, hand-held automatic weapon with a ' rifle-like ' form ( including a wooden stock ).
The force which evacuated the Colony in December 1917, was estimated at the time at 320 white and 2, 500 black troops ; 1, 618 Germans were killed or captured in the last six months of 1917, 155 whites and 1, 168 Askaris surrendered at the close of hostilities.
As the Germans started to retreat on 18 September 1944, Jüri Uluots, the last Prime Minister of the Estonian Republic prior to Soviet occupation, assumed the responsibilities of president ( as dictated in the Constitution ) and appointed a new government while seeking recognition from the Allies.
The Germans captured Fort Vaux on 7 June and, with the aid of the gas diphosgene, came within 1, 200 yards ( 1 km ) of the last ridge over Verdun before stopping on 23 June.
This was the last large-scale airborne assault by Hitler and the Germans.
The Germans continued to decry his writings and produced propaganda claiming that he was a descendant of French Jews and that his real last name was Kramer, a Jewish-sounding name, and his original name spelled backwards.
Over the last thousand years, Germans emigrated from traditional German lands in Central Europe and settled further east in Russia, present-day Romania and other countries.
On 2 June ( the day the last of the British units embarked onto the ships ), the French began to fall back slowly, and by 3 June the Germans were two miles from Dunkirk.
Over 26, 000 French troops were lifted off on that last day — but between 30, 000 and 40, 000 French soldiers were left behind and forced to surrender to the Germans.
As the squad is down to its last few rounds of ammunition, the weather clears, allowing Allied fighters to attack the Germans and C-47 transports to drop supplies, enabling the 101st to hold.
The 1830s American stage, where blackface first rose to prominence featured similarly comic stereotypes of the clever Yankee and the larger-than-life Frontiersman ; the late 19th-and early 20th-century American and British stage where it last prospered featured many other, mostly ethnically-based, comic stereotypes: conniving, venal Jews ; drunken brawling Irishmen with blarney at the ready ; oily Italians ; stodgy Germans ; and gullible rural rubes.
" By the end of the war, the best German troops were dead and the remainder were under continuous pressure on all parts of the Western Front, a consequence in part of an almost endless supply of fresh American reinforcements ( which the Germans were unable to match ) and in part of industry at last supplying the weakened Entente armies with the firepower to replace the men they lacked ( whilst Germany wanted for all sorts of materials thanks to the naval blockade ).
After Germany's defeat at the Marne, there began a series of flanking maneuvres by both the Germans, and the British and French Allies heading northwards in one last attempt to end the war quickly.
During the last 100 days of World War I, the British forces broke through the German trench system and harried the Germans back using infantry supported by tanks and close air support.
Either course of action would be without recent precedent ; the last time a Privy Counsellor's status was revoked was in 1921 when Sir Edgar Speyer was accused of collaborating with the Germans during the First World War.
Composed entirely of escort carriers, the task force wreaked havoc with German shipping in the area and re-asserted Allied dominance over the last remaining area of the Mediterranean still controlled by the Germans.
The Germans launched their last great offensive in December, resulting in the Battle of the Bulge.
At around this time, the Germans in charge of Szpilman ’ s group decided to allow each man five kilograms of potatoes and a loaf of bread every day, to make them feel more secure under the Germans ; fears of deportation had been running at especially high levels since the last selection.

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