* Tarleton Boys: Boyd, Tom, and the twins, Brent and Stuart: The red-headed Tarleton boys were in frequent scrapes, loved practical jokes and gossip, and " were worse than the plagues of Egypt ," according to their mother.

However, due to the lower population density and better hygiene ( widespread practicing of banya, the wet steam bath ), the population loss caused by plagues was not so severe as in the Western Europe, and the pre-Plague populations were reached in Russia as early as 1500.

Other plagues which were less well recorded also appear in the record.

In spring, goats were sacrificed to him to avert plagues.

The continuing decline of the confederation of the Cinque Ports may be ascribed to a variety of different circumstances, but they were not so hampered by the raids from the Danes and the French to be removed by the numerous destructive impact of plagues, and survived the politics of the 13th century Plantagenets, and the subsequent War of the Roses.

In 16, Wang commissioned two generals, Lian Dan ( 廉丹 ) and Shi Xiong ( 史熊 ), who were initially successful against Juting, but soon became caught in problems with food supply and plagues.

Possibly 30 % of the town's population died, but the building projects of Edward III brought many building workers to the town, possibly doubling the population: the Black Death, and the plagues that followed in 1361 – 72, were a ' boom ' time for the local economy.

However, a lengthy period of decline set in around the second half of the 17th century because of plagues, famines and continual wars: courses were irregular or temporarily suspended, the number of chairs was reduced, and for those temporarily vacant, it was necessary to resort to private instruction.

He convinced the Ndebele and Shona that the white settlers ( almost 4, 000 strong by then ) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease rinderpest ravaging the country at the time.

Afterwards, between 45-48, internment camps were set which led directly to the death of 70. 000 more, of famine, frost, plagues, tortures and executions.

The plagues were designed to contrast the power of Yahweh with the impotence of Egypt's various gods.

His last years were difficult, because the utopian idealism of the first Franciscans in New Spain was fading while Spanish colonial project continued as brutal and exploitive ; millions of indigenous people died from repeated plagues.

Historically, there are various superstitions surrounding rat kings, and they were often seen as an extremely bad omen, particularly associated with plagues.

Since they were based on hard disk technology, one big problem that plagues all removable RRD drives is the risk of contaminants ending up in the drive.

Ten singer-songwriters were commissioned by Artangel to write and record a song inspired by one of the ten biblical plagues.

Some sources claim that a full eight of ten tribesmen were killed by foreign plagues and fever, brought along with the Europeans aboard their ships.

He convinced the Ndebele that the white settlers ( almost 4, 000 strong by then ) were responsible for the drought, locust plagues and the cattle disease rinderpest ravaging the country at the time.

In 1630 Mantua and the palace were sacked by invading forces, the remaining population fell victim to one of the worst plagues in history.

Bad weather, plagues, demographic collapse, decline of schools, education and culture were common features of the Frankish lands in the dark period of the 6th and 7th centuries.

The turbocharged 16 and 20 valve versions were equipped with a very efficient Viscodrive limited-slip differential to counter the understeer that plagues most powerful front wheel drive cars.

Originally, greens Impressed to girls ; however, after various natural disasters and plagues decimated Pern's population, women were needed to help repopulate the planet.

The Saint Pierre Fountain was a place of worship and pilgrimage, in which pieces of currency and plagues of thanksgivings were found.

Sultan Hossein was faced with problems elsewhere in his realm – Arab pirates seized islands in the Persian Gulf and there were plagues in the north-western provinces – but he and his court failed to take decisive action.

Another powerful method of reconstructing phylogenies is the use of genomic retrotransposon markers, which are thought to be less prone to the problem of reversion that plagues sequence data.

While passages of this text are obscure, the traditional interpretation makes the chant a prayer to seek aid of Mars and the Lares ( lases ), beseeching Mars not to let plagues or disasters overtake in the fields, asking him to be satiated, and dance, and call forth the " Semones ", who may represent sacred sowers.

* The lusheng should not be played between the sowing and transplanting of rice seedlings, since it could attract plagues of insects.

At high densities (‘ outbreaks ’, ‘ plagues ’), which may be defined as when the starfish are too abundant for the coral food supply and coral cover goes into decline.

The primary concern for socialist planned economies is to coordinate production to directly satisfy human needs / economic demand ( as opposed to generate profit and satisfy needs as a byproduct of pursuing profit ), to advance the productive forces of the economy while being immune to the systemic inefficiencies ( cyclical processes ) and crisis of overproduction that plagues capitalism so that production would be subject to the needs of society as opposed to being ordered around capital accumulation.

Jenny is castigated by her Uncle Enios, who tells her that if Angel has one moment of true happiness, one moment where his soul no longer plagues his thoughts, that his new soul would be taken from him.

Nevertheless potential outbreaks are constantly monitored as plagues can be devastating.

In a tract of 1812, he preached that " May not the ' Seventh Trumpet ' now be sounding, and the ' seven last plagues ' be pouring out?

This may be to prevent problems with the different proportions used in various Gundam series, but a larger reason may be the fact that Sunrise has been known to charge a heavy licensing fee for full-sized versions of their mecha to appear in video games, a problem which also plagues the Super Robot Wars series of video games.

The mummy of Thutmoses III had already been discovered in 1881, and Egyptian records of that period do not mention the expulsion of any group that could be identified with over two million Hebrew slaves, nor any events which could be identified with the Biblical plagues.

He writes that the tension would be relieved by disasters, famine, and plagues.

* Answering how long the judgment lasts, God reveals a description of the last times: the Age is said to be divided in twelve parts ; a character known simply as “ a man ” will appear from the pagan side, worshiped by many pagans, Jews and by Azazel and insulted and beaten by other Jews ; ten plagues will occur and finally, at the sound of the trumpet, the Chosen One ( the Messiah ) is sent to fight the enemies, and the judgment will pass upon the heathen and the wicked.

Recent years have seen outbreaks of insect pests in forest-destroying plagues: the spruce-bark beetle ( Dendroctonus rufipennis ) in Yukon and Alaska ; the mountain pine beetle in British Columbia ; the aspen-leaf miner ; the larch sawfly ; the spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana ); the spruce coneworm.

A mysterious virus plagues the station that disrupts people's mind connection between the mundane things which are seen and their mental comprehension.

The war killed almost as much of the Indian population as the plagues of 1616-19, which had decimated the area and turned whole villages into places of death and desolation.

He explains that they invited Katherine to investigate the plagues because they hoped she would join them, since she had turned her back on God like they did.

In the narrative of the Exodus, the Bible tells that God helped the Children of Israel escape slavery in Egypt by inflicting ten plagues upon the Egyptians before the Pharaoh would release his Israelite slaves ; the tenth and worst of the plagues was the death of the Egyptian first-born.

This fast commemorates the salvation of the Israelite firstborns during the Plague of the Firstborn ( according to the Book of Exodus, the tenth of the ten plagues wrought upon Ancient Egypt prior to the Exodus of the Children of Israel ), when, according to Exodus ( 12: 29 ): "... God struck every firstborn in the Land of Mitzrayim ( Ancient Egypt )...."