While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While en route to the Shi ' ar home world, Xavier is abducted and is later thrown into the M ' Kraan Crystal by Vulcan.

While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.

While accounts of the return journey are not entirely consistent, Allen apparently suffered an apoplectic fit en route, and was unconscious by the time they returned home.

While there were debates over the specifics, especially the route to be taken, there was a public consensus that such a railroad should be built by private interests financed by public land grants.

While on route to exile in Obdorsk, Siberia, in January 1907, Trotsky escaped at Berezov and once again made his way to London, where he attended the 5th Congress of the RSDLP.

* 1998 – While en route from Adana to Ankara, a Turkish Airlines flight with a crew of 6 and 33 passengers is hijacked by a Kurdish militant who orders the pilot to fly to Switzerland.

While the Panama route was short it was also labor intensive and expensive because of the loading and unloading and laden-down trek required to get from the one coast to the other.

While acknowledging that the Norwegian's base was closer to the pole and that his experience as a dog driver was formidable, Scott had the advantage of travelling over a known route pioneered by Shackleton.

While working on the uranium route, Mehmood took different approaches for the enriched uranium.

While her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad.

While en route, he learned of Trent's retreat.

While OSPF is natively built to route IP and is itself a Layer 3 protocol that runs on top of IP, IS-IS is natively an OSI network layer protocol ( it is at the same layer as CLNS ).

While the other " Spider-Friends " perform so well that Jameson triples their route, Spidey finally beats the level boss that had been blocking his progress in the video game — that boss being a giant, pistol-wielding Ms.

While this doesn ’ t quite make complete sense, Lewis wished to stress its implicit point: that even within the attempt to prove that the concept of omnipotence is immediately incoherent, one admits that it is immediately coherent, and that the only difference is that this attempt if forced to admit this despite that the attempt is constituted by a perfectly irrational route to its own unwilling end, with a perfectly irrational set of ' things ' included in that end.

While en route to Italy, Caesar hears that Mark Antony has already been elected as augur, and the townspeople give Caesar a generous and celebratory welcome.

While a route remains in Passive state, the FD is updated only if the actual distance to the destination decreases, otherwise it stays at its present value.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

While many Aboriginal people made a determined effort to avoid contact with the people the stock route brought into their Country, the route became a path out of the desert for others.

While en route to Cuba, Crane's ship sank off the coast of Florida, leaving him adrift for several days in a dinghy.

While carrying out trials The Caledonia was challenged to a race by their competitors for the London to Gravesend route, the Sons of Commerce.

While en route to his assigned unit, Slovik and a friend he met during basic training, Private John Tankey, took cover during an artillery attack and became separated from their replacement detachment.

* 1938 ( 33 ) While driving along Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and stopping in front of Schwab's Drug Store came up with the song " Over the Rainbow "

While Will Rogers made Beverly Hills his home in late twenties, in 1922, he bought a large plot of almost of land above Sunset to build a weekend cottage.

While living in the hills above Sunset Boulevard, Collins collected the knowledge and experience to write her most successful novel, Hollywood Wives, which was published in 1983.

While undertaking auditions-including for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, she worked as a real life barmaid at her local pub, The Royal Oak in Loughton, Essex.

While it has come to symbolize worldwide turbulence and confrontational feelings arising from events during the 1960s ( particularly the Vietnam War ), Stills recounts writing the song in reaction to escalating unrest between law enforcement and young club-goers on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles County, California.

While many streetcar lines were converted to bus lines after World War II, the N Judah remained a streetcar line due to its use of the Sunset Tunnel.

While We Shall All Be Healed focused on Darnielle's years as a teenager involved with other methamphetamine users, The Sunset Tree focuses on his childhood, and a recurring theme is domestic violence.

While visiting the company's recording studios on Sunset Boulevard, Crosby was asked to provide guide vocals for Meat Loaf, who was recording " I'd Do Anything for Love ".

While stripping at Chuck Landis ' Largo Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, she met gangster Mickey Cohen and became his girl.

While visiting the label's recording studios on Sunset Boulevard, Crosby was asked to provide guide vocals for Meat Loaf, who was recording the song " I'd Do Anything for Love ( But I Won't Do That )".

While jamming at the Central Club on LA's Sunset Strip, he came to the attention of Rod Stewart band members Robin Le Mesurier and Jim Cregan, who later suggested Zavala when Stewart required a sax player.

Earthdawn Player's Compendium ( RedBrick Limited ) While RedBrick tried to remain faithful to FASA's vision and also tried to keep the visual style, they revised almost everything, and introduced some new material to fill the gaps.

While Oldsmobile only sold 725 Limiteds in its three years of production, the car is best remembered for winning a race against the famed 20th Century Limited train, an event immortalized in the painting " Setting the Pace " by William Hardner Foster.

While the low metal prices of the 1990s led to the failure of miner Pasminco Ltd, the recent resurgence in metal prices has returned the sole existing operator, Perilya Limited, to profitability and prompted Consolidated Broken Hill Limited to advance development of the untouched Western Lodes and Centenary Lodes.

* Michael Dell, an American business magnate and the founder and chief executive officer of Dell ( formerly Dell, Inc .) While a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin, Dell started an informal business ( originally called PC's Limited ) by upgrading computers in room 2713 of the Dobie Center residential building.

While many people still receive their television via the over-the-air networks, run by RTÉ Network Limited more than half subscribe to multichannel television networks.

While it was an independent company Channel had continued to offer compliance alongside ITV plc ) dealing with programmes for ITV Network Limited.

While it continues to own the rail network, the network is operated by the MTR Corporation Limited under a 50-year service concession, for which the MTR Corporation Limited makes annual payments to KCRC.

While the ruling does not dispel the future possibility of the privatization of Sears Canada, it does pose a significant obstacle by ruling three major shareholding blocks ineligible to vote as the blocs were given extraordinary privileges by Sears Holdings Limited.

While George Metcalf remained head of Loblaw Companies Limited, Chairman W. Garfield Weston began making changes to senior executive ranks, including the appointment of Leon Weinstein, former head of Power Supermarkets, as president of Loblaw Groceterias Co. Limited in 1968.

While in stagflation, the government banned cigarette advertising on television, including both TVB and Rediffusion Television, which was later called Asia Television Limited.

While Ted Rogers was an articling student with Tory, Tory, DesLauriers & Binnington, he started Rogers Radio Broadcasting Limited, which acquired Canada's pioneer FM station, CHFI-FM.

While ratings and rankings are maintained for this category, only Limited and Constructed format rankings are used for invitations to major tournaments, like Pro Tours or World Championships.

While this was going on, the NHA's suit to recover $ 3, 500 from the Toronto 228th hockey team's insurer, the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Limited, was heard and dismissed.

While playing with Angels & Airwaves Kennedy is often seen playing his Gibson Memphis Custom Shop ES-335 Diamond Limited Run Electric Guitars, in all three colors in which they are available.

While Mohali houses many state-local companies like PTL ( Punjab Tractor Limited ), ICI Paints, and the Godrej Group, its reputation as a home for large, multinational corporations is growing.

While it was priced in the lower end of its Fleetwood series price point, the Limited almost equaled Cadillac's factory built Imperial Sedan ( Limousine ), which cost almost four times as much as the Buick, in its appointments.

While Loblaw Groceterias ’ innovative self-serve format produced rapid growth throughout its early years, by the 1970s Loblaw Companies Limited was struggling to revitalize its operations and recapture market share.

While The Atlantic Limited name was only used officially after 1955 on the Montreal-Saint John service, the name, or a variation of it, has possibly seen use for a service which operated on CPR and CPR-subsidiary Soo Line between Minneapolis, Minnesota, via Sault Ste.

While Garry maintained the company's prominence in the European foods market, ABF's growth has been eclipsed by the phenomenal performance of George Weston Limited in North America.

While Metra does not explicitly refer to any of its lines by color, the timetable accents for the Metra Electric District are printed in bright " Panama orange " to reflect the line's origins with the Illinois Central Railroad ( IC ) and its Panama Limited passenger train.

While the CRTC did not take any actions against CHOM-FM, it is generally believed that owner CHUM Limited feared other projects could be hampered by them having such a controversial host on one of their stations.