Thousands of Chilean miners, ranchers, and shopkeepers from the Bío Bío Region are thought to have settled the coasts, mountains, and valleys of what became American California, both before and after the Mexican-American War, and to have helped create the cities of San Francisco, San Jose Santa Barbara, and San Diego, California.

Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially in the processes of coal mining and hard rock mining.

Thousands of former miners became coca farmers as their means of survival, but also encountered new hardships in their new profession.

Thousands attended the funerals of the two union miners who died during the siege.

Thousands of miners joined them along the way, culminating in what was to become known as the Battle of Blair Mountain.

Thousands of mourners traveled to the Arkansas capitol to witness Robinson's lying-in-state ceremony and to express their grief and their enormous admiration for the majority leader: the " fightingest " man in the U. S. Senate.

Thousands of people traveled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later.

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, including journalists and curious spectators, showed up, unaware that what they were witnessing was a stunt involving a Lindbergh look-alike.

Thousands of church buildings sprang up throughout the country during this time.

Thousands of people took up this offer to relocate temporarily in the wake of the event.

Thousands of internet users signed up as a member of the group, and reports of a feared increase of bullying of red-headed students across Canada soon followed.

Thousands of acres of old-growth forest were harvested and floated down Loyalsock Creek and its tributaries to one of the many sawmills that had sprung up throughout Lycoming County.

Thousands of armed marchers passed through the town and surrounding region on their way to and from the fighting at Blair Mountain, which is located up Spruce Fork from Madison.

Thousands of African Americans stayed up all night across the country in celebration.

Thousands of young men and women turned up dead in the streets of the capital and other cities in the following two years.

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 of children dress up in costumes and the streets close down for a parade featuring colorful floats.

Thousands of cartoonists have since taken up the challenge.

Thousands of people were estimated to have been killed by Cuban and MPLA troops in the aftermath over a period that lasted up to two years, with some estimates claiming as high as 70, 000 dead.

Thousands showed up for the event, read a " prophecy of a declaration of independence " written by Cohen, after which many placed a tab of acid on their tongues and swallowed in unison.

Thousands of pictures were displayed, hung from just below eye level all the way up to the ceiling in a manner now known as " Salon style.

Thousands of bowstring trusses were used during World War II for holding up the curved roofs of aircraft hangars and other military buildings.

Thousands of the small birds, up from ' wintering ' in Argentina, have built their mud nests in the eaves of the Vellano Country Club, with community buildings situated around a golf course in the Chino Hills.

Thousands of black refugees poured into St. Louis, where the Freedmen's Relief Society, the Ladies Union Aid Society, the Western Sanitary Commission, and the American Missionary Association ( AMA ) set up schools for their children.

Thousands of people travelled up the mountainside and faced the bulldozers, forcing the drivers to leave.

Thousands of slaves in the fertile Nord Department region rose up to take vengeance on their masters and to fight for their liberty.

Thousands of slaves and free-colored people in Cuba ended up in dark dungeons, were tortured and executed in what became known as the ' year of the lash '.

Thousands of Neurons clung and piled up together are just like the Mail Art network, I believe.

Thousands of small explosions occur each year, throwing ash to heights of up to a few kilometers above the mountain.

Thousands of the small birds, up from ' wintering ' in Argentina, have built their mud nests in the eaves of the Vellano Country Club, a community situated around a golf course in the hills.

Thousands of Irish and French Canadian immigrants used the Old Canada Road ( now a scenic byway ) section of U. S. Route 201 during the 19th century to find seasonal or project employment, and later make the Kennebec River Valley region their home.

Thousands of people walked around the quiet city streets and frozen Charles River, some on cross-country skis.

Thousands of people gather near Yagi's Oi River Bridge to watch the fireworks show, the largest of its kind in Kyoto Prefecture.

Thousands of miles of State Highways were built in this time period, together with new factories, such as Henry Ford's River Rouge Plant, and many docks, ports, buildings, and grain elevators.

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 people from all walks of life tube down the Comal River in the spring & summer to enjoy the river's natural beauty.

Thousands of people watching from the new Boston Embankment ( the early Charles River Esplanade ) which took the place of the former tidal flats.

Thousands of pilgrims gathered on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, India to experience the eclipse as a religious or spiritual event.

Thousands of Cape Gannets and dolphins were seen in a continuous line of about 6km between Brazen Head and just north of the Umtata River.

Thousands of Muslims from many countries comes here and stay for 3 days just beside the River Turag.