Flying in reinforcements and winning air superiority, the Luftwaffe contributed decisively to the German conquest and expulsion of the Western Allies from Scandinavia.

It is located on the shores of the Gulf of Papua, on the southeastern coast of the island of New Guinea, which made it a prime objective for conquest by the Imperial Japanese forces during 1942 – 43 in World War II, as a staging point and air base to cut off Australia from Southeast Asia and the Americas.

The step he made in man's conquest of the air was an important one with far-reaching consequences, and he should be remembered as an important experimenter and inventor, who " probably did as much to bring about the accomplishment of dynamic flight as any other single individual ".

After the conquest of the Celts, the Roman Labienus created a temporary camp on the island, but further Roman settlement developed in the healthier air on the slopes above the Left Bank, at the Roman Lutetia.

While Kay presents war and conquest with an air of nobility and grandeur, the novel also constantly reminds the reader of the real price of war paid in bloodshed, loss and grief.

The conquest of Greece was completed in May with the capture of Crete from the air, although the Fallschirmjäger suffered such extensive casualties in this operation that the Germans abandoned large-scale airborne operations for the remainder of the war.

Although trench warfare, poison gas, and the development of the machine gun and air support meant that defensive strategies should have prevailed, many European nations were under the illusion that conquest was easy or that they were valuable.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

The moment of representation is when the hero, flushed with conquest, displays the head of the " snaky Gorgon ", whilst the right hand grasps a sword of singular device.

However, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran " all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas ", indicating the town was still considered a separate ' county ' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest.

This conquest of Peloponnesus by the Dorians, commonly called the " Dorian invasion " or the " Return of the Heraclidae ", is represented as the recovery by the descendants of Heracles of the rightful inheritance of their hero ancestor and his sons.

The diamond was traditionally known as Syamantaka-mani and later Madnayak or the " King of Jewels ", before being renamed " Kuh-e nur " in the 18th century by Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani of Khorasan after their conquest of India.

With the growth of centralized authority in the Scandinavian region, Viking raids, always an expression of " private enterprise ", ceased and the raids became pure voyages of conquest.

In the foundation myth expressed in the medieval Turkish story known as " Osman's Dream ", the young Osman was inspired to conquest by a prescient vision of empire ( according to his dream, the empire is a big tree whose roots spread through three continents and whose branches cover the sky ).

Ottoman historians often dwell on the prophetic significance of his name, which means " bone-breaker ", signifying the powerful energy with which he and his followers appeared to show in the following centuries of conquest.

The aggressive mutants of Dromm in " Inside Straight ", who totally subdued their own planet and embarked on interstellar conquest, had started as a persecuted minority.

" Contrasting the European conquest of North America with that of South Africa, Roosevelt felt that the fate of the latter's colonists would be different because, unlike the Native American, the African " neither dies out nor recedes before their advance ", meaning the colonists would likely " be swallowed up in the overwhelming mass of black barbarism.

Often erroneously labeled " the last successful invasion of Great Britain ", it was in fact the last successful conquest of what is now Great Britain ( the last successful invasion in general – by the Dutch in 1688 – was upon invitation by Parliament to overthrow King James II of England ).

Started sometime before 1426 and completed, at least partially, by 1432, this polyptych has been seen to represent " the final conquest of reality in the North ", differing from the great works of the Early Renaissance in Italy by virtue of its willingness to forgo classical idealization in favor of the faithful observation of nature.

If only one monarch has used a particular name, no ordinal is used ; for example, Queen Victoria is not known as " Victoria I ", and ordinals are not used for English monarchs who reigned before the Norman conquest of England.

The French word was derived from the Spanish embarazar, whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in Cancionero de Stúñiga ( Songbook of Stúñiga ) by Álvaro de Luna .< sup > 7 </ sup > The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese embaraçar, which probably is a combination of the prefix em-( from Latin in-for " in -") with baraça " a noose ", or " rope ", which makes sense with the synonym encinta (" on noose, on rope " because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant ).< sup > 8 </ sup > Baraça originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE .< sup > 9 </ sup > Thus, baraça could be related to the Celtic word barr, " tuft ".

This marriage was important, as King Henry VII was descended from it, but Parliament declared that he was king by " right of conquest ", so some issues remained unresolved.

According to Swazi royalist tradition, these chiefdoms came to be classified in the Dlamini kingdom as the Emakhandzambile category of clans (" those found ahead ", e. g. the Gamedze ), meaning that they were on the land prior to Dlamini immigration and conquest, as opposed to the Bomdzabuko (" true Swazi ") who accompanied the Dlamini kings, and the Emafikemuva (" those who came behind ") who joined the kingdom later.

In " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Shakespeare casually bestowed upon Theseus-a semi-legendary character, dated to the misty time of the Second Millenium BC-the title of " Duke of Athens ", which derives from the Latin conquest the Byzantine Empire in the 13th Century AD ...

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Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American animated short film directed by George Pal, about a Dutch boy and girl whose idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of mechanical men called " The Screwballs ", who lay waste to everything they touch ; it is generally recognized as a not-so-subtle allegory about the conquest of Holland by the Nazis.

The Greco-Persian Wars had their roots in the conquest of the Greek cities of Asia Minor, and particular Ionia, by the Achaemenid Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great shortly after 550 BC.

Following the Roman occupation and the conquest by the English, education in Wales was at a very low ebb in the early modern period ; in particular, formal education was only available in English while the majority of the population spoke only Welsh.

In the earlier book, Heim personally, as a privateer waging an undeclared war on the Aleriona, forced a reluctant Earth into an all-out war — which Heim felt was needed since the Aleriona were ideologically committed to the universal conquest of everybody else ( apparently, in this context, the analogue of Communism — though the Aleriona do not resemble Communists in any particular detail ).

If the main objective of a campaign was not the conquest of a particular city, it could simply be passed by.

As a result of conquest or internal ethnic differentiation, a ruling class is often ethnically homogenous and particular races or ethnic groups in some societies are legally or customarily restricted to occupying particular class positions.

* The royal landed properties, lands that were annexed to the royal domain through conquest, and that the king exploited either directly, in particular through servile workforce made up of prisoners of war, or indirectly through a leasing system.

To Uthman, the conquest of Mecca and Ta ’ if were of particular significance, as he had considerable property in both cities, and he could now profitably develop them.

Episodes of military history in the various compartments glorify the exploits of the Venetians, with particular emphasis on the conquest of the maritime empire ; the only exception being the last oval, recording the taking of Padua in 1405.

Aguilar, now quite fluent in Yucatec Maya as well as some other indigenous languages, would prove to be a valuable asset for Cortés as a translator, a skill of particular significance to the later conquest of the Aztec Empire which would be the end result of Cortés ' expedition.

Some of the earlier works from before the Akkadian conquest are also extremely interesting, in particular Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures and Entemena's great silver vase ornamented with Ningirsu's sacred animal Anzu: a lion-headed eagle with wings outspread, grasping a lion in each talon.

The subjugation of the Hazarajat, the mountain fortresses of Ghor in particular, proved difficult for the Mongols after their conquest of the region, and ultimately Mongol military detachments left behind in the region “ adopted the language of the vanquished ”.

Veneration of this Virgin in Mexico dates back to the Conquest, with various stories surrounding how this particular manifestation became associated with the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

France in particular first came into conflict with inland African states over the supply of the commodity, providing an early spur for the conquest of French West Africa.

Of particular importance and popularity, especially following the Roman conquest, were a number of deities among whom were Endovelicus, Ataegina, Nabia and Trebaruna.

The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature, with its own particular characteristics dating back to the earliest years of Spain ’ s conquest of the Americas ( see Latin American literature ).

( In particular, the covenant with Abraham about the future conquest of Canaan is sorted as if it were contemporary with the latter.

Popular history particularly incorrectly credits the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur's alleged ' conquest ' in 1591 of part of the Songhai Empire, in particular Timbuktu, with bringing large numbers of captives and slaves back across the Sahara to form the Gnawa.

In particular, the tomb at Pasargadae has almost exactly the same dimensions as the tomb of Alyattes II, father of the Lydian King Croesus ; however, some have refused the claim ( according to Herodotus, Croesus was spared by Cyrus during the conquest of Lydia, and became a member of Cyrus ' court ).

The Norman conquest introduced northern French artistic styles, particular in illuminated manuscripts and murals, and reduced the demand for carvings.

# < big > W </ big > e have demonstrated in the first part that Alava, Guipúzcoa and Viscaya were not free sovereign independent republics, but subject territories like all others in Spain by titles of conquest, inheritance and particular treaties among the kings of Asturias, León, Castile and Navarre.

As bankers, the Frescobaldi financed ventures for numerous members of European royal families, notably their financial conquest of England, which Fernand Braudel has signalled as the greatest achievement of the Florentine firms, " not only in holding the purse-strings of the kings of England, but also in controlling sales of English wool which was vital to continental workshops and in particular to the Arte della Lana of Florence.