It lasted a number of days, and a host of exotic animals were killed, including elephants, giraffes, tigers, rhinoceroses, crocodiles and hippopotami.

" Fleming grew the mould in a pure culture and found that it produced a substance that killed a number of disease-causing bacteria.

The locally resident Nicoleño nation sought a payment from the Aleut hunters for the large number of otters being killed in the area.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.

Disputed facts mostly centre on the number of German sailors who escaped the sinking submarine, to be killed later.

A large number of these persons were killed in what has come to be called the Bleiburg tragedy.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

The number of Comorians residing in Madagascar was drastically reduced after anti-Comorian rioting in December 1976 in Mahajanga, in which at least 1, 400 Comorians were killed.

Since the beginning of the second Intifada the DFLP has carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli targets, such as the 25 August 2001 attack on a military base in Gaza that killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded seven others.

As diplomats by definition enter the country under safe-conduct, violating them is normally viewed as a great breach of honour, although there have been a number of cases where diplomats have been killed.

When a number of officers in George's unit are killed, he is promoted.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

The estimated total number of people killed in these camps is over three million:

This, for the most part, does not take into account the large number of calves injured or left to starve after their mothers had been killed in the breeding lagoons.

The ceremony ends with the throwing of 83 roses on to the tracks to mark the number of passengers killed.

As facilitator and overseer of the concentration camps, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200, 000 and 500, 000 Romani people, and other victims ; the total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people.

Heydrich calculated the number of Jews to be killed at 11 million, and told the attendees that Hitler had placed Himmler in charge of the plan.

The raids, codenamed Operation Gomorrah by the RAF, killed at least 42, 600 civilians ; the precise number is not known.

The invasion was stopped decisively at the Battle of Flodden Field during which the King, many of his nobles, and a large number of ordinary troops were killed, commemorated by the song Flowers of the Forest.

Before the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, researchers who attempted to count the number of people killed under Stalin's regime produced estimates ranging from 3 to 60 million.

In 2009, of the 429 Florida manatees recorded dead, 97 were killed by commercial and recreational vessels, which broke the earlier record number of 95 set in 2002.

A number of tribes traditionally adopted captives into their group to replace members who had been captured or killed in battle.

Prey is killed by a process known as constriction ; after an animal has been grasped to restrain it, a number of coils are hastily wrapped around it.

A hebephrenic man used to give a repetitious wave of his hand a number of times during his largely-silent hours with his therapist.

By applying this general principle, a great number of complex compounds of osmium, ruthenium, iridium, and rhenium, with triphenylphosphine, triphenylarsine, and triphenylstibine have been obtained in this laboratory during the past few years.

In the adult world, there are a number of rather general and diffuse sources of ideological diffusion that further compound the adolescent's search for meaning during this particular identity crisis.

If Rock shows up during the number -- or you hear anything -- give me the signal ''.

He made his fortune during World War 2, when he took over a number of dying steel plants and kept them alive until the boom.

In fact, during the first century B.C., an extensive literature sprang up devoted to these subjects, finding its typical expression in the so-called `` wei books '', a number of which were specifically devoted to the Lo Shu and related numerical diagrams, especially in connection with divination.

A number of tour boats, ranging from large motorized vessels to small sailing yachts, visit the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months ( January – March ).

In the mid-5th century the number of adult male citizens was perhaps as high as 60, 000, but this number fell precipitously during the Peloponnesian War.

The trait arose a number of times in different groups during the Cenozoic, and in each instance was immediately followed by an adaptive radiation.

Alexander Grothendieck's work during the ` Golden Age ' period at IHÉS established several unifying themes in algebraic geometry, number theory, topology, category theory and complex analysis.

The ANAC number is useful primarily during the installation of landline telephones to quickly identify one of multiple lines.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

They lead the NFC in number of wins during that period with 43.

After interviewing a number of women who alleged that Thomas had frequently subjected them to sexually explicit remarks, Wall Street Journal reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson wrote a book which concluded that Thomas had lied during his confirmation process.

In the course of time and during their development, adhesives have gained a stable position in an increasing number of production processes.

Al-Baghdadi wrote that during the famine in Egypt in 597 AH ( 1200 AD ), he had the opportunity to observe and examine a large number of skeletons.

Although it is commonly believed that assassins were under the influence of hashish during their killings or during their indoctrination, there is debate as to whether these claims have merit, with many Eastern writers and an increasing number of western academics coming to believe that drug-taking was not the key feature behind the name.

Historical convention dedicates a register to " the accumulator ", an " arithmetic organ " that literally accumulates its number during a sequence of arithmetic operations:

Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek.

For a number of years ( both before and during the Inprise name ) Borland suffered from serious financial losses and very poor public image.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.