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loss and 8000
The group of Radek Wojtak of the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen collected data from 8000 galaxy clusters and found that the light coming from the cluster centers tended to be red-shifted compared to the cluster edges, confirming the energy loss due to gravity.
Those of the French were about 8000 killed and wounded, and perhaps 12, 000 missing, and prisoners, representing a total loss of about 41 %.
* Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in the 2000 to 8000 Hz range.
However, the heavy loss of life resulting from the accident was caused by the load of the two runaway wagons next to the brake van ; they carried 50 wooden barrels holding about 1700 gallons ( 8000 litres ) of paraffin oil.

loss and troops
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
He had a record of issuing unrealistic orders and persistently attempting to fight unwinnable battles, leading to the loss of his best troops.
He was ever mindful of the inevitable loss of life and suffering that would be experienced on an individual level by the troops under his command and their families.
As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.
The Peace Party, however, had its own armed forces – scattered bands of household troops ( Hofleute ) under diverse command, which only united in action in 1565 ( Battle of Pärnu, 1565 and Siege of Reval, 1565 ), in 1570 – 1571 ( Siege of Reval, 1570-1571 ; 30 weeks ), and in 1574 – 1576 ( first on Sweden ’ s side, then came the sale of Wiek to the Danish Crown, and the loss of the territory to Tsardom of Russia ).
At first it seemed that this would be a repeat of the battle on Rhodes, with most of Malta's cities destroyed and half the Knights killed in battle ; but a relief force from Spain entered the battle, resulting in the loss of 30, 000 Ottoman troops and the victory of the local Maltese citizenry.
The Company retook the island in May 1673 without loss of life and reinforced it with 250 troops.
The result was the Paraguayan War, a five-year conflict in which Uruguayan, Brazilian and Argentinian armies fought Paraguay, and which Flores finally won, but only at the price of the loss of 95 % of his own troops.
* 1818: The Third Anglo-Maratha War is fought between the Marathas and the British East India Company troops resulting in the defeat of the Peshwa, the breakup of the Maratha Empire, and the loss of Maratha independence to the British as they annexed Central India.
* May 30, 1815 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.
* May 30 – The Arniston, an East Indiaman repatriating wounded troops to England from Ceylon, is wrecked near Waenhuiskrans, South Africa with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.
Thus, in 260 BC, a body of Roman troops were encamped in the neighborhood, when they were attacked by Hamilcar, and defeated with heavy loss.
Despite a catastrophic loss of gliders and troops loads at sea, the 1st Airlanding Brigade captured the Ponte Grande bridge south of Syracuse.
As a result of the loss of carrier-based air cover, Turner decided to withdraw his ships from Guadalcanal, even though less than half of the supplies and heavy equipment needed by the troops ashore had been unloaded.
It is, however, based on the fact that there were widespread demonstrations in the area, sparked off by the arrival of the Potemkin in Odessa Harbour, and both The Times of London and the resident British Consul reported that troops fired on the crowds with accompanying loss of life ( the actual number of casualties is unrecorded ).
Secretary of State Andrew Oliver reported that, had the troops not been removed, " that they would probably be destroyed by the people — should it be called rebellion, should it incur the loss of our charter, or be the consequence what it would.
In November 2001, he ordered Taliban troops to abandon Kabul and take to the mountains, noting that " defending the cities with front lines that can be targeted from the air will cause us terrible loss ".
Despite the loss of the resident program, Wakenah was still used by troops for weekend camping and district events.
After the loss of Fort Mifflin, Fort Mercer was abandoned without a fight when Lord Charles Cornwallis landed 2, 000 British troops nearby on November 18.
This sent the remaining troops into Cuba with a significant loss in men and morale.
Mountain troops prior to their transfer to Crete The bridge was damaged in the fighting, which slowed the German advance and gave the Allies time to evacuate 18, 000 troops to Crete and an additional 23, 000 to Egypt, albeit with the loss of most of their heavy equipment.
In February, following the fall of Singapore and the loss of the 8th Division, Churchill attempted to divert I Corps to reinforce British troops in Burma, without Australian approval.
Ligonier later recorded, " Having had orders to make a second attempt, our troopsa second time made the enemy give way ; and they were once more pushed as far as their camp with great loss of men, which we too felt upon our side.
However, the trip was not a total loss, for Sverdrup had sighted a plateau north of the Owen Stanley Range suitable for airstrips, allowing troops to be flown across the Owen Stanley Range.

loss and Tang
Despite its loss of influence during the Tang Dynasty, Confucianist doctrine remained a mainstream Chinese orthodoxy for two millennia until the 20th century, when it was attacked by radical Chinese thinkers as a vanguard of a pre-modern system and an obstacle to China's modernization, eventually culminating in its repression during the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
In response to the regional military rule of jiedushi and the loss of civil authority during the late Tang period and Five Dynasties ( 907 – 960 ), the Song emperors were eager to implement a system where civil officials would owe their social prestige to the central court and gain their salaries strictly from the central government.
It significantly weakened the Tang dynasty, and led to the loss of the Western Regions.
Splinter's concern for his adopted family likely stems from the loss of his previous family, through the murders of his master Hamato Yoshi & Yoshi's lover, Tang Shen.
The gradual loss of taxable lands is a reason for the decline of the Tang dynasty.

loss and empire
Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.
The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, surviving three Republics, the Second French Empire, two World Wars, the rise and fall of mass conscript armies, the dismantling of the French colonial empire, and the loss of the Foreign Legion's base, Algeria.
Nationalist movements emerged in the last significant remnants of the old empire ( Cuba and the Philippines ) which led to a brief war with the United States ( 1898 ) and the loss of the remaining old colonies at the end of the century.
The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north and, after the loss of Toledo in 1085, the Muslim rulers reluctantly invited the Almoravides, who invaded Al-Andalus from North Africa and established an empire.
From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.
By the end of the third war, after more than a hundred years and the loss of many hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides, Rome had conquered Carthage's empire and completely destroyed the city, becoming the most powerful state of the Western Mediterranean.
Weakened economically, militarily and by loss of prestige, the Empire became vulnerable to rebels in the eastern areas of the empire, who began to further undermine the empire while the Parthians moved into the power vacuum to take over the old Persian lands.
With the loss of the Babenbergs Austria continued within the Holy Roman Empire becoming progressively distinct from neighbouring Bavaria under the Hapsburg Dynasty to the dissolution of the empire in 1806 in the Napoleonic Wars.
Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis was distributed in the West but was lost sight of ; it was scarcely needed in the comparatively primitive conditions that followed the loss of the Exarchate of Ravenna by the Byzantine empire in the 8th century.
When the empire became Christian under Constantine I, they were given permission to enter the city once a year, on the ninth day of the month of Av, to lament the loss of the Temple at the wall.
With the loss of the German colonial empire after World War I, some of these colonists returned to Germany with their " mixed-race " families.
The empire gradually declined because of many factors such as substantial loss of territory and imperial authority caused by their own erstwhile feudatories and the invasion by the Huna peoples from Central Asia.
Overall, his reign was a disaster for the Byzantine empire ; in particular, the military weakness for which he was largely responsible greatly contributed to the subsequent loss of Asia Minor to the Turks, and the ultimate fall of Constantinople to the Muslim Ottomans in 1453.
This also resulted in the loss of part of the territories north of the Danube for the Bulgarian empire.
Posted to Cuba and the Philippines, he witnessed their loss to the United States in 1898, bringing a close to his nation's once-great empire.
Turkey's former status as a multiethnic empire which, de facto until the loss of Libya to the Kingdom of Italy in 1912 ( and de jure until the official loss of Egypt and Sudan to the British Empire in 1914, as a consequence of the Ottoman government's decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers ) spanned three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.
Only Togoland and German Samoa became profitable and self-sufficient ; the balance sheet for the colonies as a whole revealed a fiscal net loss for the empire.
This major loss was a decisive blow to France and its colonial empire.
Korba's actions are a microcosm for Muad ' Dib's religious empire, one that began in religious fanaticism and Fremen brotherhood and ended in violence, treachery, and the loss of Fremen identity ( Korba even reaches for the claim that the survivors of the stone burner have Tleilaxu eyes, forgetting for a moment the Fremen custom of ritual suicide for the blind ).
He made a note of every family ’ s loss and personally saw to it that these losses were compensated from the empire ’ s revenue.
This led to the loss of several regions of the empire and to peace agreements with England, France and the Netherlands.
In exchange for accepting the loss of these European territories of the Spanish Empire, Philip was able to keep the remainder of the Spanish empire.

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