It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

* 1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

Prior to the second world war, the subject was commonly known as radio engineering and basically was restricted to aspects of communications and radar, commercial radio and early television.

The social burdens caused by war included the huge war debt, made worse by the loss of France's colonial possessions in North America and the growing commercial dominance of Great Britain.

The government of the United States set up the National Helium Reserve in 1925 at Amarillo, Texas, with the goal of supplying military airships in time of war and commercial airships in peacetime.

In 1798 under President John Adams, the U. S. and France unofficially went to war — the Quasi War, that involved naval warships and commercial vessels battling in the Caribbean.

In August 1257, John of Arsuf tried to end the war by granting commercial rights in Acre to Ancona, an Italian ally of Genoa, but aside from Philip of Montfort and the Hospitallers, the rest of the nobles continued to support Venice.

Nevertheless after the war rebuilding started quickly and when Berlin was separated into East and West Berlin, the Kurfürstendamm became the leading commercial street of West Berlin in its Wirtschaftswunder days.

In August 1940, the Soviet Union briefly suspended its deliveries under their commercial agreement after their relations were strained following disagreement over policy in Romania, the Soviet war with Finland, Germany falling behind in its deliveries of goods under the pact and with Stalin worried that Hitler's war with the West might end quickly after France signed an armistice.

The need to protect its commercial interests compelled Borno to intervene in Kanem, which continued to be a theater of war throughout the 15th century and into the 16th century.

" Luckily, many directors recognized the necessity ( and likely the commercial success they would reap ) of supporting the battle against fascism as public opinion lay with the war effort.

G. Raymond Rettew made a significant contribution to the American war effort by his techniques to produce commercial quantities of penicillin.

Despite all the devastation, commercial life reappeared in the ruins around Potsdamer Platz within just a few weeks of war ’ s end.

Especially notable are those at the Waalsdorpervlakte near The Hague, where many Dutch resistance fighters were executed during the war, and at the war cemetery Grebbeberg, which are broadcast by the commercial broadcasting companies.

Unlike the pre-civil war period when most services and the industrial sector were government-run, there has been substantial, albeit unmeasured, private investment in commercial activities ; this has been largely financed by the Somali diaspora, and includes trade and marketing, money transfer services, transportation, communications, fishery equipment, airlines, telecommunications, education, health, construction and hotels.

The conduct of the banks cooperating with the Nazis and the commercial relations with the axis powers during the war became the subject of sharp criticism, resulting in a short period of international isolation of Switzerland from the world.

The commercial versions were not as secure ; Dilly Knox, of GC & CS, is said to have broken one before the war.

King's government greatly expanded the role of the National Research Council of Canada during the war, moving into full-scale research in nuclear physics and commercial use of nuclear power in the following years.

The commercial prosperity that was produced by his war policy was in a great part delusive, as prosperity so produced must always be, though it had permanent effects of the highest moment in the rise of such centres of industry as Glasgow.

The DuMont Television Network, which had begun experimental broadcasts before the war, launched what Newsweek called " the country's first permanent commercial television network " on August 15, 1946, connecting New York with Washington.

* The forests, whose timber was very appreciated by the Greek cities to build their ships: in particular, it is known that Athens made commercial treaties with Macedon in the 5th century BC to import the timber necessary for the construction and the maintenance of its fleet of war.

The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s.

It peaked on the UK albums chart at No. 8, their lowest placing to date, and in 1981 was widely considered an artistic and commercial failure.

Queensrÿche had the most melodic sound of the three and achieved, with Operation Mindcrime and Empire the genre's most immediate commercial successes, which peaked with the crossover single " Silent Lucidity " reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100.

Although many of their previous albums, including Pleasure to Kill ( 1986 ), were quite popular in the United States, Kreator did not experience major American commercial success until the 2009 release of their twelfth studio album, Hordes of Chaos, which peaked at number 165 on the Billboard 200 and debuted at No. 16 on the Media Control Charts, the band's highest ever chart position in Germany.

A tentative amalgamation of oldies and some new songs, the record was released in the summer of 1976 to commercial acclaim and, despite moderate reviews, peaked at # 8 on the Billboard album chart, the band's highest entry ( apart from Endless Summer and the followup 1975 compilation Spirit of America ) since 1965.

The accelerating pace of industrial and commercial development during the first half of the nineteenth century led to a period of prosperity, and the department's population peaked in 1851.

More commercial sounding than Reproduction, it peaked at No. 16 in the UK, giving the band their first real success.

It peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard album chart, a moderate commercial success.

It was not until the release of the band's fifth album The Art of Drowning that the band achieved measurable commercial success ; the album peaked at number 174 on the Billboard 200 and it also peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers Albums Chart.

This led to greater commercial success ; by its fifth release the label had its first Top 20 chart entry with LFO and their eponymous single, " LFO ", which sold 130, 000 copies and peaked at # 12 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1990 ; by coincidence, that same month another Warp act, Tricky Disco, reached # 14 in the UK chart with another eponymous single, " Tricky Disco ".

Her commercial success peaked in 1959 with " Broken Hearted Melody ", a song she considered to be " corny ", but, nonetheless, became her first gold record and a regular part of her concert repertoire for years to come.

In March 2005, Jackson's second commercial album, The Massacre, sold 1. 14 million copies in the first four days-the highest in an abbreviated sales cycle-and peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 for six weeks.

It built on the commercial success and critical acclaim of his two previous albums and peaked at # 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

" While major music publications such as Rolling Stone favored the album's unique name-dropping lyrics and the album peaked at # 14 on the Pop Albums chart, Paul's Boutique did not equal its predecessor's commercial success with hip hop fans, as it only peaked at # 24 on the Top R & B / Hip-Hop Albums chart.

A commercial and critical success, Vincebus Eruptum peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and spawned the top-20 hit cover of Eddie Cochran's " Summertime Blues ".

The single became a commercial success for more, becoming her first Top 10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number 7.

According to the 1986 book Rock of Ages: The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll, " the following year disco had peaked as a commercial blockbuster ".

" Guaglione " peaked at number 2 in the UK Singles Chart in 1995, following its use in the Guinness television commercial Anticipation.

Upon its release, the song was a significant commercial success, especially in the United States, where it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 ( although it therefore became the first single from the album not to peak at number 1 on the chart ) and peaked in the top ten of many national charts worldwide.

New Detention was released in June 2002 and was more commercial — it peaked at No. 2 on the ARIA Albums Charts and went platinum.

In Australia, after hitting No. 3 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001, with virtually no airplay on commercial radio, it debuted and peaked at No. 14 in February 2002.