Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.

Twenty years ago, she would have been known as a golf widow, and the sum of her manner was perhaps one of bereavement.

Twenty years ago her daughter Betsey Long, then 13 years of age, won the Grand Challenge Trophy, Children's Handling Class ( as they were called then ) at Westminster.

Twenty years earlier, Paul Gordan had demonstrated the theorem of the finiteness of generators for binary forms using a complex computational approach.

Twenty years after Tatian's harmony, Irenaeus expressly proclaimed the authoritative character of the four gospels.

Twenty years later, throughout the Middle East a severe famine occurred like none other that lasted seven years.

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

Twenty years after World War I was over, libertarian socialists were still strong enough to spearhead the social revolution that swept across Republican Spain in 1936 and 1937.

Twenty years later Landshut University was moved to Munich.

Twenty years ago Michael Rogers would have had to persuade a newspaper or other media outlet to risk legal action by reporting his allegations about Congressman Ed Schrock.

Ten years and Twenty Days.

He conducted more than 2, 500 case studies over a period of 40 years and published twelve books, including Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect.

Twenty years later, they are still being used widely in recent conflict areas such as Chechnya, Iraq, and Sri Lanka.

Twenty radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being silicon-32 with a half-life of 170 years, and silicon-31 with a half-life of 157. 3 minutes.

Twenty five years of civil war has slowed economic growth, diversification and liberalization, and the political group Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna ( JVP ) uprisings, especially the second in the late 1980s, also caused extensive upheavals.

Twenty years later, the same could be said about the growing popularity of kebab and falafel, as many small restaurants specialise in such dishes.

Twenty years later, in 1994, a light plane crashed on the White House grounds, and the pilot died instantly.

Twenty years after he had received a similar windfall from the Marlborough legacy, Sir William Pynsent, a Somerset baronet to whom he was personally quite unknown, left him his entire estate, worth about three thousand a year, in testimony of approval of his political career.

Twenty years later, William was incapacitated by abdominal colic, supposedly caused by the bow of his saddle.

Twenty to thirty years later she wrote a theological exploration of the meaning of the visions, known as The Long Text.

Twenty years later, the first Cyrillic printing house was founded at Kraków by Schweipolt Fiol for Eastern Orthodox Church hierarchs.

According to the archivist of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, " Twenty years after its production as a lyric opera in Vienna, Mahler raised the artistic status of Strauss's work by producing it at the Hamburg Opera House [...] all the leading opera houses in Europe, notably Vienna and Munich, have brightened their regular repertoire by including it for occasional performance.

Some have even theorized that Hagbard Celine is, in fact, Captain Nemo, but that seems physically impossible, or at least very unlikely, as Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is set in the second half of the nineteenth century, which would make Hagbard Celine, if the same character and person as Nemo, over a hundred years old.

Twenty minutes later she was at the desk of the Grafin's pension, her tears dried, signing a hotel form and asking for a bath.

Writing in 1972, John C. Masterman ( who would later head the Twenty Committee ) said that by 1941 MI5 " actively ran and controlled the German espionage system in United Kingdom.

Twenty minutes later, his son, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, who had nominally succeeded as Louis XIX, also abdicated, having lasted what is believed to be the shortest reign on record.

Twenty years later, as the amnesiac private is released from the hospital, Adenoid Hynkel ( also played by Chaplin ), the ruthless dictator of Tomainia, has undertaken to persecute Jews throughout the land, aided by Minister of the Interior Garbitsch ( Henry Daniell ) and Minister of War Herring ( Billy Gilbert ).

Twenty years later, Barrymore finally confessed to his deception, but by then, he was so famous that the world merely smiled indulgently at his admission.

Twenty years later, on August 5, 1886, Congress re-created the Southern District of California.

Twenty years later, his son, the Earl of Argyll, was also imprisoned in the castle for religious Nonconformism.

Twenty years later, the Impressionists would largely overthrow this philosophy, banning black and brown as " forbidden colors " and emphasizing color over form.

Twenty years later, when many details of Radner's eating disorder were reported in a bestselling book about Saturday Night Live by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Saltman realized she had been in a quandary over the French cuisine, but had no one with whom she could discuss her situation.

* 1851 Twenty Mormon families under the leadership of Lyman Wight establish a colony at Hamilton Creek, later to be known as Morman Mill.

Twenty years later, Averill is passing through the booming town of Casper, Wyoming on his way north to Johnson County where he is now a Marshal.

Twenty years later, Adolf II had the castle on the island rebuilt, but soon had it moved to the present hill of Schlossberg (" castle hill ").

Twenty years later George Rogers Clark overran the British, claiming the land for the new and independent country known as the United States of America.

Twenty years later Isabel of Castile negotiates the Holy Roman Empire, will buy every centimeter of the present province of Almeria, by 0. 10 mrs, the 8774 km2 which forms the province of Almeria earned a total of 87, 740, 000 mrs.

Twenty years later, in 1225, a man appeared in Flanders claiming to be the presumed dead Baldwin.

Twenty years later, when Finland was at war with the Soviet Union during 1939 – 1944, Mannerheim successfully led the defence of Finland as commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces.

Twenty years later, in 1972, the Ryukyus were returned to Japan.

Twenty times on the original Star Trek, McCoy declares someone or something deceased with the line, " He's dead ", " He's dead, Jim ", or something similar ; the phrase is considered a catchphrase of the character, although actor Kelley disliked repeating such lines, and refused to say it on The Wrath of Khan when Spock is near death ; James Doohan as Montgomery Scott says " He's dead already " instead.

* Twenty Rules for the New Escribitionist Columbine's April 2000 essay offering advice to someone looking to start an online journal.