Years of practice with his near-indestructible shield make him able to aim and throw it with almost unerring accuracy.

The German lands saw armies marching back and forth, bringing devastation ( albeit on a far lower scale than the Thirty Years ' War, almost two centuries before ), but also bringing new ideas of liberty and civil rights for the people.

* 1340 – Hundred Years ' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.

* September 12 and 13 – Eighty Years ' War: A Spanish fleet carrying an invasion force is intercepted and almost completely destroyed by a Dutch fleet in the Battle of the Slaak.

In terms of human costs, the Thirty Years ' wars many economic, social, and population dislocations caused by the hardline methods adopted by Ferdinand's strict counter-reformation measures and almost continual employment of mercenary field armies contributed significantly to the loss of life and tragic depopulation of all the German states, during a war which some estimates put the civilian loss of life as high as fifty-percent overall.

France occupied the Duchy for almost thirty years, only giving it up in the Treaty of Ryswick which ended the Nine Years ' War in 1697.

With the end of the Seven Years ' War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), France ceded almost all of its territory in mainland North America, except for fishing rights off Newfoundland and two small islands where it could dry that fish.

Years later, Bonanno wrote in his autobiography that he didn't know about the plan to kill Maranzano, but this is highly unlikely ; Luciano would have almost certainly had him killed as well had he still been loyal to Maranzano.

They followed this up in 1988 with an album composed almost entirely of Jimmy Webb songs, Light Years.

The worst time in regional history was the Thirty Years ' War, which depopulated the area almost completely.

The decline of Anklam began with the Thirty Years ' War, when Swedish and Imperial troops battled almost twenty years for Anklam.

The town was almost completely destroyed in 1634 during the Thirty Years ' War, and its citizens either killed or deported.

Years later she is set free again but almost immediately after her release she is run over by a carriage ( whose driver does not stop ).

The few and miserable triumphs of Sweden during the Seven Years ' War were due almost entirely to young Sprengtporten, and he emerged from it with a lieutenant-colonelcy, a pension and the reputation of being the smartest officer in the service.

The best interests doctrine is an aspect of parens patriae, and in the United States it has replaced the Tender Years Doctrine, which rested on the basis that children are not resilient, and almost any change in a child's living situation would be detrimental to their well-being.

The outcome of the revolt against Spain, better known as the Eighty Years ' War, that had been fought over religious freedom and economic and political independence, and ended in total independence of the reformist northern provinces ( see also Dutch Republic ), almost certainly would have boosted national morale.

In the Thirty Years ' War the Ries was almost completely devastated and depopulated.

In the narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the town grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with the outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up.

Years later they added a " high-end " word processor from Ann Arbor Softworks, who were in the midst of a rather public debacle while trying to release FullWrite Professional which was now almost a year late.

The need to control trade routes, monopolies, and slavery, which lay primarily in the hands of the French during the 17th century, created an almost endless cycle of wars between the colonial powers: the French religious wars, the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 and 1648 ), Franco – Spanish War ( 1653 ), the Franco-Dutch War ( 1672 – 1678 ), and so on.

In addition, bands of English, Gascon, German and Spanish routiers — unemployed mercenaries and bandits employed by the English during outbreaks of the Hundred Years ' War — were left uncontrolled, to loot, rape and plunder the lands of Northern France almost at will, the States General powerless to stop them.

His later dream of becoming an actor has met with modest success ; he has had small parts as an extra ( almost always playing a cabbie ) in several TV programmes since 1986, including Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years, The Bill, and twice in EastEnders, most recently in 2003.

Mann's almost lifelong passion for the best-known field-marshal of the Thirty Years War culminated in 1971 with the release of the monumental biography Wallenstein.

He acquired it because of the Altmünster Convent ’ s fourth of the tithes that were tied to it, of which sometime earlier – the exact circumstances are still unclear – Heidesheim ’ s parish priest had been stripped by the Convent, which was furthermore towards the end of, or just after, the Thirty Years ' War – as almost always – in need of money.

After disbanding for almost eight years, they had a reunion show on News Years of 2007.

Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.

On 9 August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that includes Fusion – Live in London ( 1976 ) along with never before released live performances at Brunel University ( 1973 ) and on a German TV show Rockpalast ( 1974 ).

Years later, when Henry was in love with Anne Boleyn and seeking to replace Katharine as his Queen, Henry would cite that the union had been consummated, and that the dispensation should never have been issued.

Years later, Wilhelm Canaris said he had obtained photocopies proving Heydrich's Jewish ancestry, but these photocopies never surfaced.

The song never made it to the album, but instead made the compilations Playback ( 1995 ) and Anthology: Through the Years ( 2000 ).

Years later, she told an audience: " I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.

" Years later Karl Freund dismissed Murnau's contributions to the films that they made together, claiming that Murnau had no interest in lighting and never looked through the camera, and that " Carl Mayer used to take much more interest than he did in framing.

While robber barony never entirely ceased, especially during the Hundred Years ' War, the excesses of their heyday during the Interregnum never recurred.

Hatshepsut's highest official and closest supporter, Senenmut, seems either to have retired abruptly or died around Years 16 and 20 of Hatshepsut's reign and, was never interred in either of his carefully prepared tombs.

Years later Cherrill said " I never liked Charlie and he never liked me.

The other Los Cycos track " A Little Each Day " which never made it to the album, was re-recorded for the 1987 Suicidal Tendencies release " Join the Army " and again on " Still Cyco After All These Years " released in 93.

Stone presented a speech she had prepared entitled " The Progress of Fifty Years " wherein she described the milestones of change, and said " I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

The first extended description of Skull and Bones, published in 1871 by Lyman Bagg in his book Four Years at Yale, noted that " the mystery now attending its existence forms the one great enigma which college gossip never tires of discussing.

* The First Four Years ( 1971 ), unedited and published posthumously, possibly intended as a book in the series, possibly intended as a separate novel for adults — Ingalls Wilder never developed the manuscript beyond a first draft, and her ultimate intent is not known.

" Entertainment Weekly named it the 22nd greatest action movie of all time in 2007, and the 14th among " The Best Rock -' em, Sock -' em Movies of the Past 25 Years " in 2009, saying " Arnold Schwarzenegger has never been as manly as he was in this alien-hunting testosterone-fest.

Years later, all of the implicated players said that Jackson was never present at any of the meetings they had with the gamblers.

Years later, the other players all said that Jackson had never been involved in any of the meetings with the gamblers, and other evidence has since surfaced that casts doubt on his role.

Hall suffered severely during the Thirty Years ' War, though it was never besieged or scene of a battle.

He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled " a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets ".

Years earlier, upon their conversion to the gospel of Christ, the Anti-Nephi-Lehies had made an oath to God that they " never would use weapons again for the shedding of man's blood ".

" Years later Madden wrote, " No matter how many times I watch the films of the ' immaculate reception ' play, I never know for sure what happened.