My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

A visit in December, 2002 showed that the three aqueducts mentioned above have been nearly completely destroyed.

Lula da Silva's recent visit to Africa included State visits to three Portuguese-speaking African nations ( Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Mozambique ).

Four years later Victoria made her last visit, three months before her death on 22 January 1901.

In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, three of the characters visit the town en route to Pamplona, Spain.

During a visit to England he complained of dizziness and had to have his blood pressure checked on August 29, 1959 ; however, before dinner at Chequers on the next day his doctor General Howard Snyder recalled Eisenhower " drank several gin and tonics, and one or two gins on the rocks ... three or four wines with the dinner ".

Feltenstein came to see him three times that day, administering the steroid ACTH by injection and, on his third visit, half a grain of morphine sulphate, which affected his breathing.

Paul's first and hurried visit for the space of three months to Ephesus is recorded in.

On his second visit early in the following year, he remained at Ephesus " three years ," for he found it was the key to the western provinces of Asia Minor.

For example the Italian flag code expressly replaces the Italian flag for the European flag in precedence when dignitaries from other EU countries visit – for example the EU flag would be in the middle of a group of three flags rather than the Italian flag.

The three priests answer to Bishop Len Brennan, who has banished them to Craggy Island as punishment for different incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety ( apparently involving some money ' resting ' in his account and a child being deprived a visit to Lourdes so that Ted could go to Las Vegas ), Dougal for something only referred to as the " Blackrock Incident " ( resulting in many " lives irreparably damaged "), and Jack for his alcoholism and womanising.

Accra was followed by a visit to Funchal on the Portuguese colony of Madeira ; they would spend most of the next nine years on the island, only returning to England for three or four months in the summer.

In fact, during the reigns of the final three joint rulers ( 1760 – 1837 ), there was only one short visit, by George IV in 1821.

In the original theatrical shorts, they were originally sent to visit Donald for only one day ; in the comics, the three were sent to stay with Donald on a temporary basis, until their father came back from the hospital ( the boys ended up sending him there after a practical joke of putting firecrackers under his chair ).

The Chairman Dances ( Foxtrot for Orchestra ) ( 1985 ): This is a by-product of Nixon in China, set in the three days of President Nixon's visit to Beijing in February 1972.

Nixon in China ( 1987 ): The opera, in three acts, is based on Richard Nixon's visit to China on February 21 – 25, 1972.

In return, John promised not to visit England for the next three years, thereby in theory giving Richard adequate time to conduct a successful crusade and return from the Levant without fear of John seizing power.

Wanting to progress further, in 1965 he joined The Rockin ' Vickers who signed a deal with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe, reportedly being the first British band to visit Yugoslavia.

In some countries or regions, law stipulates that clinics may provide at most one week's worth of methadone ( up to 30 days in the USA but states may allow as few as three ), except for patients unable to visit the clinic without undue hardship due to a medical disability or infrequent exceptions made for necessary travel to areas without clinics, and this level is only reached after a few years of proper results.

Kim Il-sung died from a sudden heart attack on July 8, 1994, three weeks after the Carter visit.

Examples of the expansion of China's capabilities were the 1980 recovery of an intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) in the Western Pacific by a twenty-ship fleet, extended naval operations in the South China Sea in 1984 and 1985, and the visit of two naval ships to three South Asian nations in 1985.

The human rights NGO directly investigated three such cases and received additional information about over twenty possible executions during a visit to the zone.

Islanders were made aware of their vulnerability to naval attack, despite extensive fortifications, following a visit by a fleet of three German super-dreadnoughts in January 1914.

On 14 November 2010, Vice President Xi Jinping visited Singapore on a three day visit which affirmed Singapore's strong ties with China.

It is not clear when the name changed, but by the time of the visit of the Chinese pilgrim monk, Xuanzang, c. 636 CE, it was known as Ayodhya.

Tourists often follow the historical pilgrim routes to visit the spectacular church.

The pilgrim places of Haryana are thronged by devotees all over the year, who visit the important religious places in order to seek divine blessings and eternal happiness.

Even the pilgrims seemingly did not visit Shiloh, for the only one that mentions its name — the sixth-century pilgrim Theodosius ( ch.

* 786 to 788: Yuchi Yao still ruling Khotan at the time of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Wukong's visit to Khotan.

In the visit, the pilgrim had to take part in a religious celebration or spend a half hour in Eucharistic adoration.

The pilgrim route currently used to visit Kailash-Mansarovar, goes along this river and crosses into Tibet at Lipu Lekh pass.

Since the medieval ages, every year thousands of Poles go in pilgrim groups to visit Jasna Góra.

Leaving his relation Lidmila Markvartová z Hrádku to raise the children, in 1598 and 1599 he went to the Holy Land as a pilgrim, wishing to visit the Holy Sepulchre with Eva's brother Hermann.

The government issues special pilgrimage visas that permit the pilgrim to visit Mecca and to make the customary excursion to Medina to visit the Prophet's tomb.

Following the visit by the famous Chinese pilgrim monk Xuanzang to the court of Harsha, the king ruling Magadha, Harsha sent a mission to China which, in turn, responded by sending an embassy consisting of Li Yibiao and Wang Xuance, who probably travelled through Tibet and whose journey is commemorated in inscriptions at Rajagrha-modern Rajgir – and Bodhgaya.

Many devotees, who recovered from serious illness or closely escaped accidents, often visit this pilgrim site to offer thanks to St. Sebastian.

This temple developed as a famous pilgrim center, and daily hundreds of people visit it.

A fascinating account of a visit to Lough Derg by Catalan pilgrim Ramon de Perillos in 1397 is given in Haren and de Pontfarcy's book., along with several other pilgrims ' accounts.

He wrote a major work on the Chinese buddhist medieval pilgrim Xuanzang, particularly emphasising the importance of his visit to the northern Indian Buddhist university of Nalanda.

He also became the oldest Hajj pilgrim to visit Mecca in 2004, after benefactors donated funds to underwrite the trip.

The source for this visit, Julius Firmicus Maternus, does not give a reason for this but the quick movement and the danger involved in crossing the channel in the dangerous winter months, suggests it was in response to a military emergency of some kind, possibly to repel the Picts and Scots.

If he did visit the English court, he was the first reigning King of Scots to do so in more than eighty years.

Hugh MacDiarmid, the Scots poet and writer lived in Whalsay from the mid-1930s through 1942, and wrote many poems there, including a number that directly address or reflect the Shetland environment such as " On A Raised Beach ", which was inspired by a visit to West Linga.

White's most remarked-upon service for Cecil is his report on his visit with Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1569, during the early years of her imprisonment by Queen Elizabeth.

In 1574 Bess took advantage of a visit of the Countess of Lennox to marry her daughter Elizabeth to Charles Stuart, the younger son of the Lennoxes and brother of Henry, Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.

After the Roman departure the area around Dumfries had various forms of visit by Picts, Saxons, Scots and Danes culminating in a decisive victory for Gregory, King of Scots at what is now Lochmaben over the native Britons in 890.

In earlier times, Mary, Queen of Scots stayed at the castle circa 1563 and granted several charters during her visit.

On the Monday he made a private visit to the Holyrood Palace apartments of his ancestor Mary, Queen of Scots, then in the evening attended the Caledonian Hunt Ball in a Guards uniform.

Mary, Queen of Scots, made a famous marathon journey on horseback to visit the wounded Bothwell there, only a few weeks after the birth of her son.

After a visit to England in 1428, he returned to the war, and on 12 February 1429 when in charge of the convoy for the English army before Orléans defeated the French and Scots at the Battle of the Herrings.

The Irish played yearly first-class matches with the Scots, only interrupted by world wars, up until 1999, but all their other cricket depended upon touring international sides finding it convenient to include a visit to Ireland in their schedules.

After the Roman departure the area around Dumfries the locale had various forms of visit by Picts, Saxons, Scots and Danes culminating in a decisive victory for Giric mac Dúngail ( Modern Gaelic: Griogair mac Dhunghail, known in English simply as Giric, and nicknamed Mac Rath, (" Son of Fortune "); fl.