jungles

) the Veddas procured the necessary minerals from the jungles.

His communist government, the Khmer Rouge, forced people out of the cities to clear jungles and establish a radical, Marxist agrarian society.

* November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.

Between 1915 and 1917, the IWW's Agricultural Workers Organization ( AWO ) organized more than a hundred thousand migratory farm workers throughout the Midwest and western United States, often signing up and organizing members in the field, in rail yards and in hobo jungles.

According to experts interviewed by W Radio Colombia, the animals could survive in the Colombian jungles.

British commanders had trained on the lessons of the Crimean War, and were adept at battalion and regimental set pieces with columns manoeuvring in jungles, deserts and mountainous regions.

Inhabiting the jungles and Underdark in the continental isle of Xen ' drik, the drow in Eberron have a much more tribalistic culture than their other Dungeons & Dragons counterparts.

* Malayan Tiger, a subspecies of tiger that live in the jungles of the Malay peninsula, Borneo and Thailand

Attempts to subject them by the royal army was unsuccessful, because the Maroons had learned to master the South American jungles.

However the LRA fled Uganda and were pushed deep into the jungles of the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( principally Orientale Province ).

/ Foul are her flooded jungles, / Crawling with unclean death.

Material used include whole logs of precious Phoebe zhennan wood () found in the jungles of south-western China, and large blocks of marble from quarries near Beijing.

* In the Bible Solomon set up a trade with Tarshish and received ivory, apes, and peacocks (, ) from Tarshish which are all native to the jungles in India.

Several of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Tarzan novels happen in and around the lost city of Opar, deep in the African jungles — with Opar evidently being another name for Ophir.

" He later recalled how he turned against the war: " I found out that we couldn ’ t win the war with the limitations that we had, which I thought were correct limitations, and I thought all we were going to do was just waste the lives of our men and our treasure out in the jungles of North and South Vietnam.

The Red River valley formed a natural geographic and economic unit, bounded to the north and west by mountains and jungles, to the east by the sea and to the south by the Red River Delta.

* Peru: The communities of Oxapampa, Pozuzo, and Villa Rica in the high jungles of the Peruvian Amazon basin were settled in the middle of the 19th century by Austrian and Prussian immigrants.

Due to their off-road capabilities, Unimogs can be found in jungles, mountains and deserts as military vehicles, fire fighters, expedition campers, and even in competitions like truck trials and Dakar Rally rally raids.

The climax of the story features the Phantom and Moriarty falling down a waterfall in the Bangalla jungles.

Although the estate regulations stipulated that the gardens must be maintained in order, more than a few degenerated into virtual jungles.

In Hinduism, Budhi Pallien is a fearsome goddess of forests and jungles, who roams northern India in the form of a tiger.

Allard fakes his death in the South American jungles, then returns to the United States.

The Itza land was separated from Spanish Yucatán to the north and Spanish Guatemala to the south by thick jungles with little population.

In the early days of settlement, Singapore was the recipient of Indian convicts, who were tasked with clearing the jungles for settlement and early public works.

In jungles and other areas of lush plant growth, decomposed vegetative sediment can result in layers of soil deposited over remains.