When Snodgrass and Heller visited Clipperton in 1898, they reported that " no land plant is native to the island ".

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

When he first encounters the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, Davros is the chief scientist of the Kaleds, one of two native sentient races of the planet Skaro.

When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun ' yomi and Chinese-derived on ' yomi pronunciations, for example in Kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese ones are written in katakana.

" When the Gershwins teamed up to write songs for Lady, Be Good, the American musical found its native idiom ".

When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.

When they entered Italy, some Lombards retained their native form paganism, while some were Arian Christians.

When recently flooded the lake is almost fresh and native fresh water fish, including bony bream ( Nematolosa erebi ), the Lake Eyre Basin sub-species of golden perch ( Macquaria ambigua ) and various small hardyhead species ( Craterocephalus spp.

When the Mandarin group is taken as one language, as is often done in academic literature, it has more native speakers ( nearly a billion ) than any other language.

When these officials had completed their terms in the capital and returned to their native provinces, most of the chefs they brought along often remained in Beijing.

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When a spelling for in a native word is needed, a spelling from the native alphabet, such as V, U, or OU, can be used instead.

When an operating system with a native windowing system hosts X in addition, the X system can either use its own normal desktop in a separate host window or it can run rootless, meaning the X desktop is hidden and the host windowing environment manages the geometry and appearance of the hosted X windows within the host screen.

When an outbreak of yellow fever would occur in an African village with colonists, it would wipe out nearly all the Europeans, while leaving the native population with usually nonlethal symptoms resembling influenza.

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

When he reappeared in his native Shiraz he was an elderly man.

When approaching Rome ( where Tarquin was heading to try his luck in politics after unsuccessful attempts in his native Tarquinii ), an eagle swooped down, removed his hat, flew screaming in circles, replaced the hat on his head and flew away.

When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos drove Sarpedon and his people, the Termilae, into exile.

When the functions of political ruler and religious leader are combined in this way, deification could be seen to be the next logical stage of his or her social advancement within his or her native environment, as is found in the case of the Egyptian Pharaohs.

When the farmland around their villages became less productive — crop rotation was not practiced — the native people would abandon the site and move to another location.

When Cato was a very young man, the death of his father put him in possession of a small hereditary property in the Sabine territory, at a distance from his native town.

Notes: When emulating an Apple IIe, only a full-screen mode is available and all native Macintosh functions are suspended while running.

When American and naval military forces decided to occupy California in the late-1840s, representatives of the Mexican Governor Pio Pico broke with the tradition of " granting " land and, instead, sold it, without the usual area limitations to Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain.

When a Kyoto native asks if a guest wants to eat bubuzuke, it really means that the person has overstayed and is being politely asked to leave.

When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

When Westerners speak of Chinese food, they usually refer to Cantonese cuisine.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When it was established, it was based entirely on the Chinese Kuomintang and was pro Chinese.

When they arrived, they were confronted with Chinese assertions that the Japanese had invaded unlawfully, while the Japanese claimed they were acting to keep peace in the area.

When Portugal conquered Malacca in 1511 and committed atrocities against the Malay Sultanate, the Chinese responded with violent force against Portugal.

When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà ( 官话 / 官話 ), or " language of the officials ".

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

When the Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese, the concubines of others were added to the list of inappropriate partners.

When enemies attempted to dig tunnels under walls for mining or entry into the city, the defenders used large bellows ( the type the Chinese commonly used in heating up a blast furnace for smelting cast iron ) to pump smoke into the tunnels in order to suffocate the intruders.

When Madame Chiang was 103 years old, she had an exhibition of her Chinese paintings in New York.

When the Chinese begin losing the war, U. S. forces begin to target their strategic assets.

When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar should be reformed in 123 to adopt certain apocryphal teachings, Zhang opposed the idea.

Jurchen script | Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin (" 明王慎德. 四夷咸宾 ": " When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests ")

* When the Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the Tang Dynasty's capital of Chang ' an in this year to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong of Tang discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants.

* When a Chinese prince ( later to be Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ) is made crown prince, his lavish palatial mansion in Chang ' an is converted into a Daoist abbey.

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

When a house accidentally burnt down, military and impoverished citizens started slaughtering and pillaging the Chinese community.

When the Chinese prefectural government officials traveled to the capital in the year 643 to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts, Emperor Taizong discovered that many had no proper quarters to rest in, and were renting rooms with merchants.

When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.