The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

C. crocodilus, the Spectacled Caiman, has the widest distribution, from southern Mexico to the northern half of Argentina, and grows to a modest size of about 2. 2 meters.

The southern half of Sakhalin was acquired by Japan as a result of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 – 05, but at the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan and took possession of the Kuril islands and southern Sakhalin.

Productive soils are found in most of the southern half of the province ( excluding the mountains ), and in certain parts of the north.

What remains of it today are the sacristy, added by Abbot Paniter in the 15th century, the southern transept, which features Scotland's largest lancet windows, part of the choir and presbytery, the southern half of the nave, parts of the western towers and the western doorway.

* R1 is the southern half ringway and R2 is the northern half ringway around Antwerp.

Roads are mostly unsurfaced and are likely to be impassable during the wet season, especially in the southern half of the country.

The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area.

The actual origin of this anomaly is clearly established in a long line of disputes and temporary agreements which was finally concluded in 1804, when southern Southwick, ( whose residents sought to leave Massachusetts ), was split in half.

The two most widely spoken forms of the Corsican language are Supranacciu, spoken in the Bastia and Corte area ( generally throughout the northern half of the island ), and Suttanacciu, spoken around Sartene and Porto-Vecchio ( generally throughout the southern half of the island ).

The southern half is separated from the northern half at what used to be the Lisan Peninsula because of the fall in level of the Dead Sea.

Significant salt-water wetlands called barachois exist in the southern half of the lagoon.

Soon, the war began to go well ; French troops marched across the southern half of the Netherlands ( which would later become Belgium ), and the emergency that had placed the Committee of Public Safety in control was no more.

* Most of the southern half of the boundary with Somalia is a Provisional Administrative Line, not an international boundary, which is ignored by rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region

One of them was a tack-like shape, looking like the left half of an H. This system was first used in the southern Italian colonies of Heracleia and Tarentum.

Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia ( on the southern half of East Falkland ) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that suggests the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands.

In the second half of the twentieth century, however, there has been a gradual shift of political and economic power to Flanders, which, having modernized its economy, is now more wealthy and prosperous than its southern counterpart .< ref >" Belgium.

All Asterales families are represented in the southern hemisphere ; however Asteraceae and Campanulaceae are cosmopolitan and Menyanthaceae nearly so.

They speak a number of subdialects of the Aimaq dialect of Persian, however some southern groups of Taymani and Maleki Aymaqs have adopted Pashto.

At the end of 1131, the kingdoms of France, England, Germany, Castile, and Aragon supported Innocent ; however, most of Italy, southern France, and Sicily, with the patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch, and Jerusalem, supported Anacletus.

Toward the southern end of the Elephant Mountains, however, because of the topography, some small rivers flow southward on the eastern side of the divide.

) One of his grandfathers, however, came from a southern tribe.

Near the year 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years, it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

In October 1987, however, the contras staged a successful attack in southern Nicaragua.

Sulfuric springs and steam vents, largely concentrated in the central and southern parts of the island, remain active, however.

Not having formally been appointed governor of any territories in the Capitulation of Toledo in 1528, however, forcing him to declare himself adelantado ( governor ) of Nueva Toledo, or southern Peru and present-day Chile.

Beginning about 550, however, the British began to lose ground once more, and within twenty-five years it appears that control of almost all of southern England was in the hands of the invaders.

By AD 100, the time of Tacitus's Germania, Germanic tribes settled along the Roman frontier at the Rhine and the Danube ( the Limes Germanicus ), occupying most of the area of modern Germany ; however, Austria, southern Bavaria, and the western Rhineland were Roman provinces.

It is crucial, however, not to underestimate the creative and transforming power of subsequent tradition: for instance, Achilles, the most important character of the Iliad, is strongly associated with southern Thessaly, but his legendary figure is interwoven into a tale of war whose kings were from the Peloponnese.

The protests continued, however, resulting in the flight of President Bakiyev to his southern stronghold of Jalalabad, and the freeing later the same day of the arrested opposition figures.

According to Kourouniotes, however, the southern peak has never been called Diaforti, only " Ayios Ilias " after the chapel of St. Elijah below the summit.

An obstacle in southern Ōmi Province, however, was the Rokkaku clan.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.

Oswald's father Æthelfrith was a successful Bernician ruler who, after some years in power in Bernicia, also became king of Deira, and thus was the first to rule both of the kingdoms which would come to be considered the constituent kingdoms of Northumbria ( Bernicia in the northern part and Deira in the southern part ); it would, however, be anachronistic to refer to a " Northumbrian " people or identity at this early stage, when the Bernicians and the Deirans were still clearly distinct peoples.

U. S. President Abraham Lincoln, however, was not prepared to enforce emancipation on the southern states, and reprimanded Hunter for his actions.

Gold made the Transvaal the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa ; however, the country had neither the manpower nor the industrial base to develop the resource on its own.

Tórshavn is among the cloudiest places in the world, with significant sunshine records at only about 2. 4 hours of sunshine per day ; however no data whatsoever exist for places such as the Aleutian Islands or southern Chile which may have even less sun.

On this occasion however, it was largely rejected by southern Africans, primarily due to its very bad timing.

The southern Holstein region belonged to Francia and later to the Holy Roman Empire, it was however held as an Imperial fief by the Danish kings since the 1460 Treaty of Ribe.

Brighton has an Oceanic climate, like most of southern Britain, however during the summer months is affected by sea breezes, therefore temperatures by the sea can be 5 or so degrees lower than 2 + miles inland.