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Twenty-eight years later, Bartolomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the " Cape of Good Hope.
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Twenty-eight years later, as a result of a March 17, 1964 election, Sacramento City College separated from the Sacramento City Unified School District to join the newly organized Los Rios Junior College District, which took over the operation of American River College and Sacramento City College.
Twenty-eight years of an occupation which takes a tremendous physical toll on the body began to come to an end in 1983.
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Twenty-eight days later, Xeno Auxiliary Module 047 lands on the planet to investigate the loss of contact with the team.
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Twenty-eight people were killed during the same weekend, with 26 of the 28 incidents believed to be gang-related.
Twenty-eight of these were conducted during previous missions and were to be continued, repeated or completed during Foale's stay.
Twenty-eight said they had difficulty in finding employment following the disaster ; it appears that some offshore employers regarded Piper Alpha survivors as Jonahs – bringers of bad luck, who would not be welcome on other rigs and platforms.
Twenty-eight poems make up The Making of Collateral Beauty beginning with the introductory “ A Note on the Notes ” where promises are made that none of this “ is necessary in order to be entertained, instructed, or mauled by the apodictic poems in Mr. Yakich ’ s book.
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Twenty-eight Labour MPs eventually joined the new party, along with one member of the Conservative Party, Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler.
Twenty-eight cartloads of sacred bones were said to have been removed from the Catacombs and placed in a porphyry basin beneath the high altar.
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Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes.
Twenty-eight artificial isotopes of zirconium have been synthesized, ranging in atomic mass from 78 to 110.
** Twenty-eight nations sign an agreement creating the World Bank.
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Twenty-eight of the album's 30 tracks (" Revolution 1 " and " Revolution 9 " being the only exceptions ) exist in official alternative mono mixes.
Twenty-eight research grants are awarded.
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Twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia, and Guam have enacted statutory protections against SLAPPs.
Twenty-eight nations and 2, 408 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports.
Twenty-eight performers died in the course of their tours, from plane crashes, illness, or diseases contracted while on tour.
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To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.
Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Certainly no other seven American statesmen from any later period achieved so much in so concentrated a span of years.
Then, not many years later, the Un-American Activities Committee, under the leadership of Martin Dies, pilloried hundreds of decent, patriotic citizens.
today, these many years later, after all the temptations resisted or yielded to, the weasel satisfactions and the engulfing dissatisfactions since endured, I call it corrupting still.
Some years later the bank handling the Mercer liquidation received a check for $300,000, enough to clear up the debt.
But fifty years later the trilogy still maintains a firm place in the list of standard works on the unification of Italy, a position cautiously prophesied by the reviewers at the time of publication.
First The Life Of John Bright appeared and seven years later Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill.
Some of these thoughts -- not all of them -- have taken organized form in later years.
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.
He had not yet undertaken the great exploit of his later years, the rediscovery of the ancient Inca highway, the route of Pizarro in Peru, but he had climbed to the original El Dorado, the Andean lake of Guatemala, and he had scaled the southern Sierra Nevada with its Tibetan-like people and looked into the emerald mines of Muzo.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.
That breach was healed 20 years later by merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
It can manifest itself before discharge from service, or it can come out years later.
Now, more than five years later, I cannot in any realistic sense be called a trained soldier.
Competitors came to receive higher percentage of General Motors business in later years, but it is `` likely '' that this trend stemmed `` at least in part '' from the needs of General Motors outstripping Du Pont's capacity.
The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.
The books and records with respect to each project shall be maintained for the duration of the project, or until the expiration of three years after final disbursement for the project has been made by the United States, whichever is later.
That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.
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