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1 Significantly , it was the consul with a Greek surname , Q. Publilius Philo , who was entrusted with the drive into Campania which led to this pact in 326 .
2 The first ship to discharge at the new facility was the S.S. Ebbrix , a small vessel owned by T. R. Rix & Sons Ltd. of Hull which arrived on 23rd August .
3 by a more or less intense ‘ re-coalification ’ in those parts of northwestern Germany which subsided by varying amounts during the Mesozoic and Cainozoic
4 A number of isolated events occurred throughout November and December which culminated in massive displays of ‘ student power ’ on the streets of major cities .
5 The next major event in Blackpool which called for illuminated cars , was the opening of the new Promenade in 1905 .
6 One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films .
7 Initially at least , NHS resources were not being passed across to the local authorities and the voluntary organizations active within the Riverside DHA which had by this stage succeeded Victoria DHA in another reorganization .
8 Within the year , however , there were very sharp movements resulting from the self-reinforcing effects of a mild depression in the USA , short-term stock piling adjustments in the UK which resulted in high imports , speculative expectations of devaluation and short-term measures to safeguard reserves .
9 No sign of Franklin was found , despite a number of prodigious sledge journeys , including one by Richards which lasted for ninety-three days .
10 Another Southern Region service axed was that between Tunbridge Wells Central and Eridge which finished on 6 July 1985 .
11 By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 .
12 West Germany 's first contract with the USSR caused a considerable furore with the US which objected on strategic grounds .
13 Thus the generation 1690–1720 saw a considerable transference of real power from the King to Parliament , partly as a result of specific acts of legislation and partly because of the enormous changes in the country 's fiscal system and relationship to Europe which occurred in these years .
14 The United Kingdom had consistently expressed reservations over intervention , in contrast to the stance of the USA which called for preventive bombardment of Serb positions ; however , on Dec. 20 outgoing US President George Bush and UK Prime Minister John Major agreed in Washington to support a UN resolution enforcing the flight ban .
15 When this department was located near a public library in London which specialised in regional statistics that were unavailable elsewhere , significant use was made of that library .
16 There was nothing in the section or elsewhere which prohibited different courts on different occasions from making orders which in aggregate exceeded 240 hours , and there was nothing in Evans which conflicted with that conclusion .
17 The oldest known tree was a bristlecone pine in Nevada which lived for 5100 years .
18 ‘ A fifth-century Greek poet named Tryphiodorus composed an epic poem on the voyages of Ulysses which ran to 24 books .
19 Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany .
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