Yersin also noted that rats were affected by plague not only during plague epidemics but also often preceding such epidemics in humans, and that plague was regarded by many locals as a disease of rats: villagers in China and India asserted that, when large numbers of rats were found dead, plague outbreaks soon followed.

Change was facilitated by the physical movement of growing numbers of peasant villagers who migrated to and from industrial and urban environments, but also by the introduction of city culture into the village through material goods, the press, and word of mouth.

Richer women would also put their babies out to be cared for in the homes of villagers.

The villagers showed interest in teaching and no sooner had two learned how to read then they began to hold classes for the rest and also began helping the pilgrims translate scriptures and songs from Chad.

The Taylor-Fleming expedition also discovered similar yeti-like footprints ( hominoid appearing with both a hallux and bipedal gait ), intriguing large nests in trees, and vivid reports from local villagers of two bears, rukh balu (' tree bear ', small, reclusive, weighing about 150 pounds ) and bhui balu (' ground bear ,' aggressive, weighing up to 400 pounds ).

When the son also disappeared, the rest of the villagers ventured into the forest seeking the two but discovered only two large lemurs sitting in the trees: the first indri.

These population transfers were effective in denying the use of remote villages to FLN guerrillas, who had used them as a source of rations and manpower, but also caused significant resentment on the part of the displaced villagers.

Bas-reliefs at the Bayon depict not only the king's battles with the Cham, but also scenes from the life of Khmer villagers and courtiers.

They also benefited in other ways: nutrition was improved by growing a wider range of crops, and villagers could also invest in health and education by selling produce and saving money.

Former villagers from King Island also live in Nome.

There, he befriended Nijiru, the local priest-healer who took Rivers on his rounds to see sick villagers and also to the island's sacred Place of the Skulls.

There are also accounts from various local villagers, who witnessed trains heading daily to the camp and returning empty ; they quickly guessed the fate of those on board.

* There is also GrameenPhone, which fused mobile telephony with Grameen Bank's microfinance program to give Bangladeshi villagers access to communication.

Heller's island also has a small community of Italian villagers, unlike the real island.

There are several threats that also endanger the villagers, such as tornadoes, volcanoes, fires, Doshin stepping on them, and even jealous tribe members named ' Naughties '.

When the others follow they are also captured, but Dennis has an idea ( inspired by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai ) of working for the villagers to prevent the guerrillas from moving them on.

Visitors can also get a good idea of Indian village life by hiring an auto-rickshaw and touring the lake, surrounding villages and by interacting with the villagers.

Observation of the dances directly blesses the audience and also serves to transmit principles of Tantric Buddhism to the villagers.

" The village had also been mockingly called " Woodpecker City ," possibly to mock the villagers, who seemed always busy.

The British also executed eight villagers from al-Birwa who had participated in the revolt.

This law was also used to prevent the villagers from returning to their homes, even by legal means.

In addition, the villagers also engaged in livestock breeding and dairy production.

Every year the villagers celebrated the Festival of Amenhotep I when the elders acted as priests in the ceremonies that paid honour to their own local gods who were not worshipped anywhere else in Egypt.

For many years, villagers celebrated St Kenelm's Day ( July 17 ) with a village fair and the ancient custom of " crabbing the parson "-bombarding the unfortunate cleric with a volley of crab apples.

Through the efforts of the villagers, the 200th anniversary of the founding of Vossbarg was celebrated in 1987.

The dengaku celebrated for rice planting was performed by villagers either at the new year or during the planting season in early summer.

* Hexayurt Shelter System-a public domain autonomous building system for refugees and poor villagers

The opportunity to relocate the village occurred when it was substantially damaged by an earthquake, with villagers offered a completely new village in exchange for the old site.

Dar es Salaam, a city projected to have over 5 million inhabitants within the next decade, continues to be the one city in Tanzania to which villagers flock for better opportunities.

He early showed remarkable ability, and it was owing to his reputation among the villagers that he gained the opportunity for a better education than he otherwise would have received.

Indeed, for most peasants, customs and traditions continued largely unchanged, including the old habits of deference to the nobles whose legal authority remains quite strong over the villagers.

The villagers processed indigo as one source of revenue, using a cauldron specifically for this purpose that was loaned to them by the Ottoman authorities in Jerusalem.

The Tonga people were forced to leave their homes and fertile lands that had been under cultivation for hundreds of years, although their farming was of the " slash-and-burn " method whereby the villages were abandoned after a few years when the soil became less fertile, the villagers moving to a new patch of bush and building a new village, see " The Shadow of The Dam " mentioned below.

She asked for three pigeons and three sparrows from each house, since she did not want to burden the villagers any further after the siege.

These alehouses formed meeting houses for the villagers to meet and gossip and arrange mutual help within their communities.

Kikuchiyo, who raised the false alarm, rebukes the villagers for their poor behavior.

* November 25 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the dramatic American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops under General Ranald S. Mackenzie sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River ( the soldiers destroy all of the villagers ' winter food and clothing, and then slash their ponies ' throats ).

Where allegedly the victims were executed with cold steel weapons. A patrol of 16 special operatives were coming back from a raid in a nearby village which they had raided a few hours earlier they looted and beat the villagers is what they said, this was done several times a week through 5 villages the patrol rout was always the same which the investigation after the massacre claimed that Albanian guerrillas had been monitoring the patrol for some weeks after they got complains by the ethnic Albanian villagers and had realised that the patrol was always the same rout and approximate times.

The villagers chose a single young woman as the liaison for the divine inspirations.

Most Russian rural residents are involved in agricultural work, and it is very common for villagers to produce their own food.

In addition in 2006 there were more than 2, 000 Fijian soldiers in the British Army, and in 2004 the British defence ministry even sent recruiting teams to Fiji to do initial fitness and aptitude tests, cutting the costs of selection for poor Fijian villagers who could not afford to fly to London to sign up.

Supported by Congress volunteers Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Abbas Tyabji, Vallabhbhai Patel began a village-to-village tour in the Kheda district, documenting grievances and asking villagers for their support for a statewide revolt by refusing the payment of taxes.

In the First World War, Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity.

The modern Chinese word for dinosaur is konglong ( 恐龍, meaning " terrible dragon "), and villagers in central China have long unearthed fossilized " dragon bones " for use in traditional medicines, a practice that continues today.

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