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 African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Thousands of Maoists were arrested in the Hua Guofeng period after 1976.

Thousands of other Buddhists were arrested throughout the country.

Thousands of activists and farmers were arrested, but Patel was not.

Thousands were arrested, sentenced to jail and many hundreds were forced to leave for West Germany.

In a White House statement President Bush said: " Monks have been beaten and killed .... Thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been arrested ".

Thousands of people were arrested ; members of PFA became victims of political terror.

Thousands of people were forced to leave there homes, and many people were arrested for looting in the days after the flood.

Thousands of people, including several freedom fighters like Jaya Prakash Narayan and Jivatram Kripalani who were against the Emergency were arrested.

Thousands of Portuguese were arrested and tortured in PIDE's prisons.

* Thousands of African Americans, many of them children, are arrested while protesting segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.

Thousands of Russians were killed in these religious riots in Bukhara and the surrounding areas ; many Young Bukharans were arrested and executed ; the main railway and communication links from Bukhara to Chardjui and Samarkand were destroyed.

Thousands of Kievites ( mostly intellectuals and party activists ) were arrested in the night, hurriedly court-martialed, shot and buried in mass graves.

** Thousands riot in Algiers, Algeria against the National Liberation Front government ; by October 10 the army has killed and tortured about 500 people in crushing the riots.

Thousands were tortured or abused.

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 victims were tortured and murdered.

Thousands were thrown into prison, tortured, and burned, until a project was formed to sweep all Spain clean of unbelievers.

Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at West German diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals, most notably in Prague.

Thousands more Kazakhs tried to escape to China, although most starved in the attempt.

Thousands of East Germans also tried to reach the West by staging sit-ins at West German diplomatic facilities in other East European capitals.

" Sometimes I get enquiries ( sic ) concerning my marriage to a man who treated me with complete lack of consideration, tried to take credit for my work and appropriated all my earnings ", Loos wrote in Cast of Thousands, " The main reason is that my husband liberated me ; granted me full freedom to choose my own companions.

Thousands of people have already tried to push down Heundeulbawi, but nobody gets further than waggling the rock.

Thousands of combinations of fuels and oxidizers have been tried over the years.