[permalink] [id link]
Thousands of Japanese occupied Timor, in February 1942, and the borders of the Dutch and Portuguese were overlooked with Timor island being made a single Japanese army administration zone.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Thousands and Japanese
Thousands of modern works of Japanese fiction set in the Edo period cast characters who are rōnin.
Thousands of Japanese Canadians ( born in Canada ) were being sent to a country they had never known and where they would still feel quite alienated.
Thousands of kanji characters were in use in various writing systems, leading to great difficulties for those learning written Japanese.
Thousands were crowded into the holds of Japanese ships, without water, food, or sufficient ventilation.
Thousands of these soldiers would die under Japanese captivity during the ensuing Bataan Death March and imprisonment.
Thousands and occupied
Thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from the southern counties of Scotland migrated from farms and small holdings they had occupied to the new industrial centres of Glasgow, Edinburgh and northern England or abroad.
Thousands of squire miles of sal forests have been clean destroyed by them in the progress of their dahiya cultivation, the ground being afterwards occupied by dense scrub of low sal species springing from the stumps.
Thousands of Baluch families in occupied Baluchistan are looking for justice for their beloveds and peace of mind for themselves in particular and for the Baluch society in general.
Thousands and Timor
Thousands of people are believed to have died and East Timor ’ s economic infrastructure was shattered.
Thousands and February
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 people flock to Napier every February for the Art Deco Weekend event, a celebration of its Art Deco heritage and history.
Thousands of mourners attended a memorial service at St. Gregory the Great Church in Warwick on February 24, 2003, to remember those lost in the fire.
On February 14, 2004, the Associated Press reported that " Thousands of people, many of them women wearing headscarves, marched in France ... to protest a law banning the Islamic coverings and other religious apparel in public schools.
Thousands of employees were sent home starting in the early afternoon of February 6, but thousands more were still caught by the storm.
Thousands of people come to the shrine ( known in Bengali as an Akhra ) twice a year, at Dol Purnima in the month of Falgun ( February to March ) and in October, on the occasion of the anniversary of his death.
Thousands of anti-government protesters, gathered in the Zuwara town square on 24 February, repulsed another Libyan Army attempt to retake the city.
Thousands and 1942
In addition to Klee Wyck, Carr wrote The Book of Small ( 1942 ), The House of All Sorts ( 1944 ), and, published posthumously, Growing Pains ( 1946 ), Pause, The Heart of a Peacock ( 1953 ), and Hundreds and Thousands ( 1966 ).
Thousands and borders
Thousands of Hindus escaped across the borders of Kashmir, others were massacred.
Thousands and Dutch
Thousands of forced laborers were impressed to construct these permanent fortifications along the Dutch, Belgian and French coasts facing the English Channel.
Thousands from across the Capital District and beyond come to Tulip Fest each May to celebrate Albany ’ s rich Dutch heritage.
* Thousands of " Pennsylvania Dutch " ( German ) farmers move from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada between the 1780s and the 1830s ; they claimed a share of the United Empire Loyalists ' foundational myth, drawing on its themes of loyalty and sacrifice.
Thousands of British, Dutch and Australian nationals perished in the railway's prisoner of war construction camps during World War II, and the railway's construction served as the inspiration for the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai.
Thousands of Dutch leap at the chance in cold winters to tie up their skates and glide across frozen lakes and canals, and sports stores all over the country sell out their skates.
Thousands and Portuguese
Thousands of Portuguese were arrested and tortured in PIDE's prisons.
Thousands of Kxoe were murdered in Angola after independence, as they had been used by the Portuguese as trackers, and the survivors fled to Zambia.
Thousands of Ndongo subjects were taken prisoner, and Mendes de Vasconcelos sought unsuccessfully to create a puppet government to allow Portuguese rule.
Thousands and were
Image: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska ( natural ). jpg | The thick pall of smoke the fires were creating ( August 2, 2009 ).
Thousands of dollars were raised to purchase ads in the The Washington Post and Sunday The New York Times, featuring an image of the head of a statue of Apollo and reading: " Costas Poisoned Olympic Spirit, Public Protests NBC.
Thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were also released.
Thousands of Congolese were executed, including government officials, political leaders of opposition parties, provincial and local police, school teachers, and others believed to have been Westernized.
Thousands were arrested, and were taken to various detention centers across the country.
Thousands were arrested, and were taken to various detention centers across the country.
Thousands of people were present at the periodic rallies and the membership in anticommunist organizations had grown steadily.
Thousands of priests and bishops were harassed or imprisoned, with large fines and closures of Catholic churches and schools.
Thousands of soup kitchens were opened to feed the hungry people, who grumbled that the farmers were keeping the food for themselves.
Thousands of workers were laid off, and the wages of those remaining on the job were reduced, as were the prices paid to independent banana producers by the giant fruit companies.
" Thousands of their family members were imprisoned for years in work camps and jails and later exiled for decades to miserable state farms built on reclaimed marshlands.
Thousands of records were seized to dig into the movement of billions of dollars in and out of Afghanistan.
Thousands of servants, eunuchs, and superfluous officials were therefore summarily dismissed.
Thousands, including journalists and curious spectators, showed up, unaware that what they were witnessing was a stunt involving a Lindbergh look-alike.
Thousands of Kazakhs were killed, and thousands of others fled to China and Mongolia.
Thousands of others, including Paraguay's bravest soldiers and generals, also went to their deaths before firing squads or were hacked to pieces on Solano López's orders.
Thousands of these sweatshirts were given away.
Thousands were sold as slaves to the Europeans.
Thousands of gay men and women were publicly humiliated, physically harassed, fired, jailed, or institutionalized in mental hospitals.
Thousands of photographs of Earth were taken, and records for human time spent in orbit were extended.
1.657 seconds.