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The village was razed by the troops of Napoleon during their return to Egypt after their failed siege of Acre in 1799, and the British traveller James Silk Buckingham, who passed through the village (" El Mukalid ") in 1816, described it as still " rather poor ", while noting that the village resembled an Egyptian one in form and constructions of its huts.
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In China it was a baby sitting on a railroad platform, smudged, blood-specked, with the village burning about him and shells exploding.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
His first move was to send Hino to the village to spend a few days.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.
His father Soeren was the village apothecary whose slender income made it difficult to feed his family, let alone educate them in a town without even a school.
They had been kind to us and we were indebted to them for one or two pleasant dinners, and for information as to where to shop, which dentist, doctor, plumber, and sitter to call ( not that there was much of a choice, since Catatonia was just a village ; ;
In the morning the fog was still thick so that to go to the village I crept along with my headlights full on.
This meant that the land around a village was rented from a landlord.
The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.
This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and Slievemore.
It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.
Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.
Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.
Finally a deal was reached in 1881 and the Ainu decided to settle in the village of Yavin.
Another village, Golygino was founded later.
In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.
The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).
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Over 13, 000 people were arrested, and the village of Lidice was razed to the ground ; its male inhabitants and all adults in the village of Ležáky were murdered.
The Mattauw campaign had been easier than expected and the tribe submitted after having their village razed by fire.
That night, the village was partially razed.
Occasionally, German troops engaged in massacres, such as the destruction of Oradour-sur-Glane, where an entire village was razed and the population murdered because of persistent resistance in the vicinity.
However most of the village was razed after the citizens of East Haddam controversially voted in 1967 to accept urban renewal funding to build a new commercial district for Moodus a quarter mile east, along CT 149.
In 1695, the castle and the village were again completely razed.
The original village of thatched cottages was razed in the 1930s and replaced by a council-housing scheme.
Immediately after the assault the village of al-Nahr was razed.
In 1927 the old village of Tunuma and the other settlements were razed and their population relocated either to neighboring villages or to a previously farmed empty zone 3 kilometers away that was made available to build a new neighborhood ( the current neighborhood of Tounouma ).
The village was razed by the Red King and no longer exists.
All that remains of the East German border village of Bardowiek, razed in the 1970s.
North Corel is home to the surviving inhabitants of the former mining village Corel, Barret Wallace's hometown, which was razed to the ground by Shinra troops in reprisal after members of the original AVALANCHE attacked the new Mako reactor at the nearby Mt.
In June 1942, he along with Karl Hermann Frank and other organs of the SS carried out the reprisal orders by having the village of Lidice razed to the ground ; the male inhabitants there and all adults in the village of Ležáky murdered.
The Mattau campaign had been easier than expected and the tribe submitted after having their village razed by fire.
Typically, the conquistadors attacked an Indian village, stole the maize and other food, razed and burned the dwellings, and tortured the native leaders to gather information on what riches could be stolen there, or from nearby populations.
He was given the Ring of Darkness by Yago, and once tried to use it to save his village from attack but unable to control the great power, the demon he summoned razed the village.
Naturally, such a development would have meant that the village itself would probably have been razed to the ground and the villages rehomed.
During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia the village was completely razed to the ground by Nazi forces during the reprisals for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.
On 10 June the village of Lidice was razed to the ground and its male inhabitants shot.
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An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.
Kayabashi must feel fairly certain of his victory in order to make a visit like this, a trip which could be so easily misinterpreted by the people in the village.
And what better way to end a day than by dining with artists and gourmets in a squat but charming fisherman's village on the Mediterranean??
The cards, filed by circonscription ( sub-chiefdom, or village ), are kept in the headquarters of each territoire ( chiefdom ).
The " matai " ( chiefs ) are elected by consensus within the fono of the extended family and village ( s ) concerned.
In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.
In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).
* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.
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Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (= " birch forest "), referred originally to a small Polish village that was destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp.
* Action Comics Number 579, published by DC Comics in 1986, written by Lofficier and Illustrated by Keith Giffen, featured an homage to Asterix where Superman and Jimmy Olsen are drawn back in time to a small village of indomitable Gauls.
In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.
* 1992 – The Maraghar Massacre, killing of ethnic Armenian civil population of the village Maraghar by Azerbaijani troops during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The present town of Ajaccio was founded in 1492 south of the Christian village by the Bank of Saint George at Genoa, which dispatched Cristoforo of Gandini, an architect, to build it.
" Chaudhry " was the title used by the Jats as village chieftains.
The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.
From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.
Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.
The settlement extinguished Alaska Native claims to the land by transferring titles to twelve Alaska Native regional corporations and over 200 local village corporations.
Land selection by the state of Alaska under the Statehood Act and for the regional and village corporations has continued through the present.
Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.
On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.
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