Twenty-seven bulldozers were put into service, but they had severe difficulties moving in the mud near the dams, so dykes had to be constructed with shovels.

Twenty-seven people died that I know of, and I can only guess that the others fled with whatever they could carry away.

Twenty-seven counties elected one member each ( this included Orkney and Shetland, which were strictly speaking not counties but fiefs of the Crown, but were treated as if they were a county ).

Twenty-seven fans were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and were extradited to Belgium in 1987 to face trial.

* September 24, 1959: New York City, New York Twenty-seven men and boys and an arsenal were seized in the Bronx as the police headed off a gang war resulting from the fatal shooting of a teenager Monday at Morris High School.

Twenty-seven delegates from nine colonies were the members of the Congress and their responsibility was to draft a set of formal petitions stating why Parliament had no right to tax them.

Twenty-seven of the 28 members of Texas City's volunteer fire department and three members of the Texas City Heights Volunteer Fire Department who were on the docks near the burning ship were killed.

Twenty-seven state legislators ( one-third of the General Assembly ) were arrested and jailed in September 1861.

Twenty-seven were soon melted and the remaining 12 were on board Space Shuttle Columbia for the July 1999 STS-93 mission.

Twenty-seven search warrants, resulting in three arrests, were issued and executed on May 7 and 8, 1990.

Twenty-seven percent of households were made up of individuals and 13 % had someone living alone at pensionable age.

Twenty-seven stores, some of which were of mixed use, along Broadway had burned ( Goodman 104 ).

Twenty-seven episodes of the show were released to DVD by Cinerio Entertainment in partnership with Noreen Young in 2006, following a long wait for expiration of ownership rights.

Twenty-seven material processing and medical experiments were carried out by the visiting crew.

Twenty-seven integral current samples ( requiring about 4. 3 s ) were taken in an energy-per-charge window from 80 to 2850 eV.

Twenty-seven of these locomotives were built in 1955 and used for working freight and mixed trains on short branch lines.

Twenty-seven years after Murphy's death, in July 1920, the rules for the Victoria Cross award were changed to exclude forfeiture.

Twenty-seven years later, Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant were tried in London for publishing Knowlton ’ s Fruits of Philosophy there.

Twenty-seven Hands were alive when Shoghi Effendi died in 1957.

Twenty-seven western Virginia counties were represented.

Twenty-seven congregations were represented by delegates, of whom only two or at most three were in clerical orders.

Twenty-seven Republican Representatives opposed the FMA ; thirty-four Democrats voted in favor of the FMA and one Independent voted against the FMA in the vote on July 18, 2006 in the House.

Twenty-seven years after it became a number one hit for Cliff Richard, " Living Doll " was re-recorded by The Young Ones and Cliff Richard for Comic Relief and spent another three weeks at Number One.

* Twenty-seven Sermons ( 1651 ), for the summer half-year

Hijikata's period as a public performer and choreographer extended from his performance of Kinjiki in 1959 to his famous solo work, Hijikata Tatsumi and Japanese People: Revolt of the Body ( inspired by preoccupations with the Roman Emperor Heliogabalus and the work of Hans Bellmer ) in 1968, and then to his solo dances within group choreography such as Twenty-seven Nights for Four Seasons in 1972.

Twenty-seven A3s were built from new, until 1935, with little variation except for a new type of boiler with a " banjo dome ", an oval steam collector that was placed on top of the rear boiler ring.

Twenty-seven African countries signed the act, which provided for establishing a wide variety of institutions, including the Pan-African Parliament ; Court of Justice ; African Central Bank ; African Monetary Fund ; and African Investment Bank.

Twenty-seven men were arrested, but in the end, the majority of them were released ( perhaps as a result of bribes ), and only eight were tried and convicted.

Twenty-seven owners, a banker, fifty three jurists and lawyers, six graduates, twelve professors, two writers, twenty-one doctors, one pharmacist, six engineers, five employees, two merchants, nineteen military officers, one prior and one monsignore.

Twenty-seven years later in 1858 the body was re-interred to the President's Circle at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.

Twenty-seven countries and the European Union have ratified the treaty and a further nine have signed but not yet ratified.

Twenty-seven amendments have been ratified and made part of the Constitution.

Twenty-seven issues later, Detective Comics introduces Batman.

* June 21 – Thirty Years ' War: Twenty-seven Czech lords are executed on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.

Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar.

* Twenty-seven tonnes of jasmine are now harvested in Grasse annually.

Twenty-seven Meskwaki, then 16 % of Iowa's Meskwaki population, enlisted in the U. S. Army together in January 1941.

* 12 August: Twenty-seven LVF prisoners in the Maze Prison began a riot which caused severe damage to C and D wings of H-Block 6.

Twenty-seven inscriptions to Rosmerta are listed by Jufer and Luginbühl, distributed in France, Germany and Luxembourg, corresponding mainly to the Roman provinces of Gallia Belgica and Germania Superior.

Twenty-seven percent of the county claimed that a high school diploma was their highest level of educational attainment, compared with 24. 8 percent statewide ; 16. 1 percent had a Bachelor ’ s degree or higher, compared with 23. 2 percent statewide.

Twenty-seven springs watered the land, giving rise to the name of Union Springs.

Twenty-seven native orchid species have been recorded in the area.

Twenty-seven residents hold commercial fishing permits.

Twenty-seven percent of Kemp Mill residents hold a graduate degree.