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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.

last and gunpowder
The latter is the burial place of local heroine, Betty Zane, who saved Fort Henry in Wheeling during one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War by hiding gunpowder inside her dress.
The third and last gunpowder factory to open was the Marsh Works, built by the British government 1 km northwest of the town to augment output at its Home Works and opened in 1787.

last and mill
The last mill, used as a shirt factory, closed in the early 1950s.
The Collins Companies operates the last remaining mill in the area, the Lakeview sawmill, and is also a large landowner in the region.
In 1910 the lumber boom ended when the Grandin mill whistle blew for the last time.
Nestle plans to sell the property they had acquired for the bottling site, which was the site of the defunct McCloud lumber mill ( closed by last mill owners CalCedar ).
The mill, which was steam-driven, operated from 1851 to 1864 and produced sugar, syrup and molasses, the last of which was part of the rum-making process.
The last sugarcane was hauled and processed at the mill.
The last mill built in 1859 was a flourmill which burned in September 1929.
One of Addison ’ s last landmarks, the old grist mill built in 1848, was removed in 1980.
A turbine water mill at East Alstead is probably the last of its type anywhere in the region.
The last textile mill, the L. W.
* 1928-The last mill is closed.
She was also the last private individual to own the grist mill.
* Victory Mills – A post office name and the name of the last major mill in the village of Victory.
The last operating mill in the village was closed in 1926.
Westminster is also one of the last small towns in the South with a still-functioning textile mill.
Lyman prospered for years as a textile town, but by 2005 the last mill was closed.
* Aguirre Sugar Cane Mill, the last operational sugar cane mill in Puerto Rico, Aguirre Central closed its doors in 1993 ;
Houses such as Spen Hall, Spen House ( now demolished and rebuilt, except the Coach House ), High Rising ( High Royd, another Taylor Household ) now The Gomersal Hotel, Tanfield House, Firdene ( currently on the market for £ 1. 25 million ), Hilltop House ( now split into two homes with apartment buildings in the grounds ), Gomers Hall ( apparently, originally Gothmers Hall, which was demolished in order to build an electricity sub-station ), Pollard Hall ( home of the mill owner Thomas Burnley ), Red House ( now Red House Museum ), Broadyards, Croft House, Sigston House, Gomersal Hall, Peel House, West House ( the last three still privately owned ).
The last record of the mill still being operational was in 1852, but there is no trace of the building now.
It is the last post mill in the north of England, and is open to the public on Bank Holiday Mondays from Easter to August, and the last Sundays in June and July.
From 1926 millwright Jesse Wightman was responsible for repairs until the mill ceased working commercially on the death of the last miller in 1947.
Oldham's textile industry began to fall into decline during the mid-20th century, and its last mill closed in 1998.

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