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Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.
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Thousands of Acadians were deported from Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) and Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ).
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Thousands succumbed to a yellow fever during the summer months and more than half of the French army died because of disease.
Thousands of angry Hamas loyalists marched on February 24, 2008 at the funeral of a Muslim preacher who died in PNA custody, turning the ceremony into a rare show of defiance against President Mahmoud Abbas.
Thousands of prisoners held in appalling conditions in Nazi concentration camps such Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen also died of typhus during World War II, including Anne Frank at the age of 15 and her sister Margot.
Thousands of combatants on both sides died in the fighting, alongside civilians, many of which were reportedly ethnic Russians ; unclaimed bodies were later collected and buried in mass graves on the city outskirts.
Thousands were dispatched for " re-education " in remote parts of the country, where many died and many more were kept for up to ten years.
Thousands died in forced labor camps such as Lambinowice, Zgoda labour camp, Central Labour Camp Potulice, Central Labour Camp Jaworzno, Glaz, Milecin, Gronowo, and Sikawa.
Thousands more died and were deported in fighting in eastern Slavonia, but the JNA was the principal actor in that part of the conflict.
Thousands of warriors died and with the army decimated the generals had no choice but to return home.
Thousands of people have died in fighting since the passage of Sharia law in the Muslim dominated northern region after a return to civilian rule in 1999.
Thousands of them died in disease epidemics common to the squalor of refugee camps, such as cholera and dysentery.
Thousands died or were arrived sick and were treated in the hospital ( equipped for less than one hundred patients ) in the summer of 1847 ; in fact, many boats that reached Grosse-Île had lost the bulk of their passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island.
Thousands of Irishmen did join ( particularly those from working class areas, where unemployment was high ) and many died in the war.
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Thousands of Scots, mainly Lowlanders, took up positions of power in politics, civil service, the army and navy, trade, economics, colonial enterprises and other areas across the nascent British Empire.
Thousands of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with many more being created every year.
Thousands more Hmong people, mainly former soldiers and their families, escaped to remote mountain regions — particularly Phou Bia, the highest ( and thus least accessible ) mountain peak in Laos.
Thousands of students, mainly from the University of Dhaka, protested in Dhaka and clashed with security forces.
Thousands of viewers submitted their recorded tapes which were mainly made using home-made video equipments and featured themselves or relatives as the actors.
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* 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L ' Aigle, France ; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
* 1975 – Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from the Quang Ngai Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.
Thousands of years from now Centaurus will, once again, be at lower latitudes and be visible worldwide.
Thousands of slaves found freedom by fleeing from their masters, forming communities of maroons and raiding isolated plantations.
Thousands of readers wrote to affirm that they, too, had heard the fiendish voices from inside the Earth.
Thousands of scientists and other experts contribute ( on a voluntary basis, without payment from the IPCC ) to writing and reviewing reports, which are reviewed by representatives from all the governments, with summaries for policy makers being subject to line-by-line approval by all participating governments.
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Thousands of Cuban and Spanish tabaqueros came to the area from Key West, Cuba and New York to produce hundreds of millions of cigars annually.
Thousands of these hunters quickly eliminated the bison herds, bringing the population from several million in the early 1800s to a few hundred by the 1880s.
Thousands of volunteers sold coffee from Angola and Nicaragua in worldshops, in the back of churches, from their homes, and from stands in public places, using the products as a vehicle to deliver their message: give disadvantaged producers in developing countries a fair chance on the world ’ s market, and support their self-determined sustainable development.
Thousands of Salvadoran labourers were expelled from Honduras, including both temporary harvest workers and longer-term settlers.
Thousands of rebels charged down from Mousehold and began swimming the Wensum between the Cow Tower and Bishops Gate.
Thousands of Ohlones are resting in the Ohlone cemetery located about a quarter of a mile from the mission down Washington Boulevard.
Thousands of students, residents from the surrounding area and many from out of state, many armed, were involved.
Thousands marched through the streets of Haiti ’ s capital, singing pro-Aristide slogans while denouncing Martelly, to mark the eighth anniversary of Aristide ’ s ouster from power on Feb. 29, 2004.
Thousands of Protestants expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg were allowed to settle in depleted East Prussia.
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