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.

Thousands of specimens were obtained, some of them being added to Christy's collection.

* 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 ago, the Black Sea became disconnected from the Aegean Sea.

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.

Thousands of schoolchildren from Southern California and elsewhere visit the lab every year.

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Thousands of people were displaced from their homes as a result of the conflict.

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 hikers reach the top each year by following an trail from the valley floor.

Thousands of Tutsi were forced to resign from such positions, and many were forced into exile.

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.