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Their headquarters then moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus, and they also attempted to maintain a garrison on tiny Arwad Island, just off the coast from Tortosa.
Their unusual size has been attributed to island gigantism, since there are no other carnivorous animals to fill the niche on the islands where they live.
Their possession of the island was confirmed four years later by the Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ).
Their small size is an adaptation to the thick, dense forests of the island of Sumatra where they reside, as well as the smaller-sized prey.
Their first collaboration was Stromboli terra di Dio ( 1950 ) ( in the island of Stromboli, whose volcano quite conveniently erupted during filming ).
Their letters and journals contain a wealth of information about the island and are preserved at Harvard University.
Their launch sites were located on the east coast of the main Japanese island of Honshū.
Their souls were reportedly seen wandering the island at times.
Their intent: to pump some of sand and shells from the bottom of the bay and thus enlarge and raise the ground level of the three keys Doc Waldron had purchased from the State and join them to create one large island intersected with canals between the sections.
Their descendants were known to early French explorers as Etchemins ; some continued to live on the island even after Anglo-Americans established settlements.
Their formation is facilitated by high groundwater flow, often caused by high rainfall – such high rainfall causes formation of the giant sinkholes in Nakanaï Mountains, New Britain island in Papua New Guinea.
Their breeding habitat is rocky shores, cliffs and islands on northern Atlantic coasts in eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in western Europe as far south as Ireland. They are one of the few birds to breed on Surtsey, Iceland a new volcanic island.
Their barracks remain as the oldest structure on the island in the Two Harbors area and are currently the home of the Isthmus Yacht Club.
Their beliefs and traditions, coupled with modern archaeological research, suggest that they may have occupied and utilised the mountain and its surrounding areas for much of the occupation of the island.
Their presence was resisted by the peoples who were already in the valley, but the Mexica were able to establish a city on a small island on the western side of Lake Texcoco.
Their situation worsens when the warlike queen Coo-ee-oh, who is holding them captive and who alone knows how to raise the island back to the surface of the lake, loses her battle and gets transformed into a swan, forgetting all her magic in the process.
Their nocturnal approach to the breeding sites means that Zino's Petrels avoid the attentions of gulls or diurnal raptors, and the only owl on the island, the Barn Owl, is a rodent hunter.
Their army arrived in the island with 180 ships in Avdimou.
Their ancestral relatives reached the island of Madagascar, where they diversified and are known as lemurs.
Their king Syrmus ( eponymous to Roman Sirmium ) took refuge in the Danubian island of Peukê where most of the remnants of defeated Thracians exiled.
Their purpose was to protect the approaches to the port of Brisbane and at its peak 900 troops were stationed on the island.
Their aircraft make six strikes totalling 738 sorties, destroying 22 of the 34 Japanese aircraft on the island in exchange for the loss of 12 American aircraft lost in combat and 14 to other causes.
I have no doubt it is a peculiar species ... Their numbers have rapidly decreased ; they are already banished from that half of the island which lies to the eastward of the neck of land between St. Salvador Bay and Berkeley Sound.
Their surrounding reef ecosystems also provide food and building materials for island inhabitants.
Their aunt had also set aside a trust fund for upkeep of the island, but it was exhausted by the 1970s.

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Their work was lonely.
Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;
Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.
Their answer was: it can be done, and we will do it.
Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.
Their house was a centuries-old Colonial which they had had restored ( guided by an eminent architect ) and updated, and added on to.
Their world, again, was a still simple, traditional age which was only slowly beginning to appreciate the complexity of life.
Their study showed that it was possible to transfer 3 to 4 lb of oxygen / hr. / hp.
Their onrush and retreat, he reported, was accompanied by a great hissing, roaring and rattling.
`` Their house '', writes Albert S. Flint, `` was always a haven of hospitality and good cheer, especially grateful to one like myself far from home ''.
Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.
Their joint statement was welcomed by the Western delegations who will attend tomorrow the nineteenth plenary session of the fourteen-nation conference on the future of Laos.
Their flight was delayed, Dunn said, when a boarding ramp inflicted some minor damage to the wing of the plane.
Their singing was well-balanced, clear and, within obvious limitations, extremely pleasing.
Their collaboration in the Beethoven Second Symphony was lucid, intelligent and natural sounding.
Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.
Their robust Calvinism was publicized in such confessions as the London Baptist Confession of 1644 and the Second London Confession of 1689.
Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.
Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.
Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.
Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.

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