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Once this islands were covered with savanna on the plains and arid shrubland on the mountainsides, but over 500 years of human habtitation, since colonisation by the Portuguese in the 15th century, nearly all the original vegetation has been cleared by widespread agriculture including the grazing of goats, sheep and cattle and the planting of imported crop species.
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Once Allied ground forces had captured islands sufficiently close to Japan, airfields were built on those islands ( particularly Saipan and Tinian ) and B-29s could reach Japan for bombing missions.
Once the Russians reached the islands in the 18th century they found an etymology from Russian kurit (" курить "-" to smoke ") due to the continual fumes and steam above the islands from volcanoes.
Once captured by the Allies, the islands in the Gulf became bases for the B-29's that bombed Japan in 1945.
Once they reached the islands, the ancestors of Oceania's present flora and fauna adapted to life on the islands.
Once the most widespread of Asian rhinoceroses, the Javan rhinoceros ranged from the islands of Java and Sumatra, throughout Southeast Asia, and into India and China.
Once the midstream islands were secured, General Kuroki ordered a feint on the lower Yalu River when Japanese gunboats engaged Cossack detachments at the river mouth.
Once captured, the islands of Saipan and Tinian were used extensively by the United States military as they finally put mainland Japan within round-trip range of American bombers.
Once the perimeter was finished, work began on the of the three artificial islands.
Once the Japanese home islands were unified in the early 17th century, the Tokugawa Shogunate launched an effort to solidify the power of the feudal samurai class and banned the use and manufacture of all firearms ( as well as repairs to feudal castles ).
Once they opened the Gambia River, Cadamosto and Usodimare led the next great leap of Henrican discoveries in Africa-Cape Verde islands, the Casamance River, Cape Roxo, Cacheu River and finally the Geba River and Bissagos Islands.
Once among the Caribbean islands, that began to change.
Once under the jurisdiction of Azad Hind, the islands formed the government's first claims to territory.
Once again, the islands became a port for merchants.
Once Russian and Spanish claims to the Haida Gwaii were given up in treaties with Britain and the United States, the islands continued to be claimed by the United States until the British claim to them was formalized by the creation of the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1853.
Once upon a time in a bid to look for greener pasture, a group of Malaysian traders boarded a vinta sailing across many islands and accidentally landed in an island what is now Tandubas Island.
Once the laws of Nicaragua became common law, all these communities, which were ruled from Bluefields until the autonomous laws were enacted in the 1980s with U. S. acquiescence and the Nicaraguan government directed the local administration of the islands.
Once and were
Among the musicals, Camelot came from T. H. White's The Once And Future King, and novels were the sources of the less than momentous Tenderloin and Do Re Mi.
Once, they were at Easthampton for the summer ( again, Fritzie said, a good place, even though they were being robbed ).
Once on the road ( and especially if the passengers were all regulars and masculine ), the schedule meant nothing.
Once again, both anti-A and anti-B activities were found in the insoluble material precipitated during dialysis.
Once more, Juet's complaints were the loudest.
Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.
Once they were gone, Abd a-Rahman and Bedr immediately set off westwards.
Once " stand off " nuclear weapon designs were developed, bombers did not need to pass over the target at high altitude to make an attack ; they could fire and turn away to escape the blast.
Once the keys had been pressed they were locked down until mechanical contacts in a distributor unit passed over the sector connected to that particular keyboard, when the keyboard was unlocked ready for the next character to be entered, with an audible click ( known as the " cadence signal ") to warn the operator.
Once the account exceeded its quotas, it was automatically disabled, but the messages were still saved as they arrived.
Once the price of inkjet printers dropped to the point where they were competitive with dot matrix printers, dot matrix printers began to fall out of favor for general use.
Once the toads were established, a 1963 study concluded, as the toad's diet included both harmful and beneficial invertebrates, it was considered " economically neutral ".
Once the bombardment had disordered the infantry formation, cavalry were able to rout and pursue the scattered foot soldiers.
Once at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.
* The songs " A Very Strange Agony " and " To Die Only Once " of the Spanish symphonic metal band Döxa were inspired by " Carmilla ".
Once the round has ended, surviving players retain their equipment for use in the next round ; players who were killed begin the next round with the basic default starting equipment.
Once Chuck Peddle had taken over engineering at Commodore, he convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were already a dead end and that they should turn their attention to home computers.
Once again his spirits were raised when the unit under his command received orders overseas to France ; this time his wishes were thwarted when the armistice was signed, just a week before departure.
Once in office, when the Chinese began a buildup in the Kaesong sanctuary, he threatened to use nuclear force if an armistice were not concluded.
Once captured, he was humiliated by Hernando Pizarro and his requests for appeals to the King were ignored.
Roger Ebert approves of the use of the label in unsuccessful films that had been tampered with by studio executives, such as Sergio Leone's original cut of Once Upon a Time in America, and the moderately successful theatrical version of Daredevil, which were altered by studio interference for their theatrical release.
Once and covered
Once Todman thought he had spotted a tank and went down to investigate while Greg covered him.
Once the victims were no longer able to move, the soldiers covered their bodies with fuel and set the barns on fire.
Once an excavation in one section of the cemetery was full, it would be covered over and another opened.
Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft — both when unpropelled and when under propulsion — is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics.
Once, it is said, when pursued by him she fled to Letrini in Elis, and here she covered her face and those of her companions ( nymphs ) with mud, so that Alpheius could not discover or distinguish her, and was obliged to return.
Once, the area around Lüneburg was covered in lush woodlands.
Once the position is covered, the short seller will not be affected by any subsequent rises or falls in the price of the securities, as he already holds the securities required to repay the lender.
Once in space, the motion of a spacecraft — both when unpropelled and when under propulsion — is covered by the area of study called astrodynamics.
Once the plate is completely covered with a thin layer, a tarlatan cloth is used to wipe away excess ink, and paper ( typically pages from old phone books ) may be used for a final wipe of the lightest areas of the image.
Once the fire has been covered thoroughly with sand, all water that can be spared should be poured on it, and the sand stirred into the ash.
Once the spirit has appeared and been constrained, the pentacle is covered again, but is uncovered whenever demands are made of the spirit or when it is compelled to depart.
Once again, O ’ Hara ’ s body turned up flecks of industrial paint which, incredibly, were traced to a covered transformer just yards from where she ’ d been discovered.
Once the wound is cleaned, it should be covered with moist gauze.
* The Queen appears in the Once Upon a Time episode " Hat Trick ", played by Jennifer Koenig although at that time she did not have any speaking lines and her face was covered.
Once covered in dense forest, much of the Indonesian landscape has been gradually cleared for permanent fields and settlements as rice cultivation developed over the last fifteen hundred years.
The unfortunate consequence is that parts of The Book of Merlyn appear to be rehashing things White has already covered earlier in the collected version of The Once and Future King.
Once part of a vast inland sea that covered a large area of Southern California, the endorheic Salton Sink was the site of a major salt mining operation.
Once a storage facility is filled and completed, the surface can be covered with topsoil and revegetation commenced.
Once a determination of whether or not the proposed action is covered under NEPA is made, there are three levels of analysis that a federal agency may undertake to comply with the law.
Once inside the craft, Boas said that he was stripped of his clothes and covered from head-to-toe with a strange gel.
Once the fixed costs of developing, editing, typesetting, etc., have been covered by the first sales revenue, any additional sales revenue tends to add to the profit margin ( minus, of course, the costs of the additional materials, printing, binding, and distribution ).
Once aboard, they discover the slaves only have two feet six inches headroom, and the ones who are sick from dysentery are found lying near the hawseholes, covered in their own excrement.
Once the screen is covered, it is now a blue sphere.
* Non-interactive policy enforcement: Once a policy has been trained, automatic policy enforcement can be used to deny all system calls not covered by the current policy.
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