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When Sultan Murad V began to show signs of paranoia, madness and continuous fainting and vomiting even on the day of his coronation and threw himself into a pool yelling at his guards to protect his life, they were afraid the public would become outraged and revolt to bring the former Sultan back.

When the country was still part of the former Yugoslavia, joint ventures and cooperation played a large role here ( motor industry, metal processing, textile industry / contract processing work, steel and chemicals ).

When former President Kolingba attempted a coup d ’ état in 2001 ( which was, according to Patassé, supported by France ), the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) of Jean-Pierre Bemba in DR Congo came to his rescue.

When read backwards, they read as Nicolaus Venator, the Latinized name of Palermo Observatory's former director, Niccolò Cacciatore.

When the Province of New Jersey was separated from the Province of New York in 1674, it was argued that Staten Island belonged to the former.

When Sally sees Ben, her former lover, she greets him self-consciously (" Don't Look at Me ").

When the World Cup began, Banks was in goal as England got through their group containing Uruguay, Mexico and France, drawing 0 – 0 with the former and clinching 2 – 0 victories over the latter.

When the war ended in May 1945, as many as two million former Russian citizens were forcefully repatriated into the USSR.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When the watchman grows weary, he stands up and prays ; and then he sits down again and courageously takes up his former task.

When the former Australian Federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, raised the notion of intelligent design being taught in science classes, the public outcry caused the minister to quickly concede that the correct forum for intelligent design, if it were to be taught, is in religious or philosophy classes.

" Beware, you dogs ," he wrote to his former " friends of the left ": " When the Devil is loose in me you will not curb him again.

When Arsinoe IV, Egypt's former queen, was paraded in chains, the spectators admired her dignified bearing and were moved to pity.

When the former Vardar province was established in 1944, most of its territory was transferred into a separate republic while the northernmost parts of the province remained with Serbia.

When compared to the opioids hydromorphone, fentanyl, oxycodone, and pethidine / meperidine, former addicts showed a strong preference for heroin and morphine, suggesting that heroin and morphine are particularly susceptible to abuse and addiction.

When she was sixteen years old, the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917 destroyed Mitchell's former Jackson Hill home.

When Napoleon rose to power in 1799, there was no ancient base from which to draw his staff, and he had to choose the people he thought best for the job, including officers from his army, revolutionaries who had been in the National Assembly, and even some former aristocrats such as prime minister Talleyrand.

Reagan describes lunching with former Democratic National Committee chairman Robert Strauss, wherein Strauss said to her, " When you first came to town, Nancy, I didn't like you at all.

When Ronald Reagan took office, he augmented the direct support to an anti-Sandinista group, called the Contras, which included factions loyal to the former dictatorship.

When Rudolph III, King of Burgundy died on 2 February 1032, Conrad II successfully claimed also this Kingship on the basis of an inheritance Emperor Henry II had extorted from the former in 1006, after having invaded Burgundy to enforce his claim after Rudolph attempted to renounce it in 1016.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

When the Treaty of Versailles granted most of former Royal Prussia to the Second Polish Republic as the Polish Corridor in 1920, Pomesania remained in Germany as part of the exclave and province of East Prussia.

When the prototype electric pickup they were developing finally worked to his satisfaction, Beauchamp asked former National shop craftsman Harry Watson to make a wooden neck and body to which the electronics could be attached.

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

When the North enthusiastically rallied behind the national flag after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, Lincoln concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war effort.

When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full-time at the restaurant.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out, Allen and the Boys seized the initiative and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

When she died, Tubman was buried with military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn.

When it was clear he would not have time to mount an expedition across Lake Ontario to Fort Ontario, Shirley left garrisons at Oswego, Fort Bull, and Fort Williams ( the latter two located on the Oneida Carry between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek at present-day Rome, New York ).

When Johnson was seen as the larger threat, Vaudreuil sent Dieskau to Fort St. Frédéric to meet that threat.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

When the James Sinclair expedition of almost 200 men women and children reached Fort Vancouver later that year, McLoughlin took his time settling them on Hudson's Bay farms and encouraged them to settle south of the Columbia River.

When the main defenses became ready for use, the fort was armed with cannons hauled from Montreal and Fort St. Frédéric.

When the pioneers were told at Fort Hall by agents from the Hudson's Bay Company that they should abandon their wagons there and use pack animals the rest of the way, Whitman disagreed and volunteered to lead the wagons to Oregon.

When the general in command of the Verdun sector showed up to inspect Fort Douaumont in January 1916, he was refused entry because he did not carry the necessary authorizations emanating from Paris.

When he arrived in New York to join General Washington and the main part of the Continental Army, Washington chose to show his appreciation of General Lee ( who was a very popular general officer among not only the army, but Congress ) by changing the name of Fort Constitution, which was located on the New Jersey side of the Hudson opposite Fort Washington, to Fort Lee.

When he began to link certain Fort Worth businessmen with property in the Acre and announce their names from his pulpit, the battle heated up.

When oil began to gush in West Texas in the early 20th century, and again in the late 1970s, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.

When the fleet fired cannonballs, the explosives failed to penetrate Fort Sullivan's unfinished, yet thick palmetto log walls.

When based in Fort Wayne, Indiana:

When Fort Sumter was forced to surrender at the beginning of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered Lee command of the federal army.