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  Encyclopedia: Colon, Panama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Col n is a sea port city on the Caribbean Sea coast of Panama.
The city is the capital of Panama's Col n Province.
In 1953 Col n was made a Free Trade Zone.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Colon,-Panama   (259 words)

  
 Kentucky guard unit kills 26 insurgents in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
n An Iraqi solider died and four were wounded when their vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in western Baghdad.
n Another Iraqi soldier was killed in Sherqat, 160 miles north of Baghdad, when a mortar shell struck his army camp.
n The head of the police force in Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood, Col. Mou'yad Farhan, escaped unhurt when gunmen shot at his car, but his driver suffered serious injuries.
www.messenger-inquirer.com /news/usworld/8245648.htm   (697 words)

  
 Today on Adobo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Julieto Ando, spokesman for the Army 6th Infantry “Kampilan” Division, disclosed Thursday that all military units under its control are on a red alert because of the attacks staged by the rebels in the different parts of the country.
He said the rebels should not be allowed to roam the area and that the communists’ presence must be reported to the authorities to prevent them from sabotaging the peace and order condition of the area.
In a related development, the military forces operating in the provinces of Sarangani and South Cotabato also expressed its readiness in case the rebels launched an attack in its area of operation.
www.adobo.com /news/today/print.asp?articleID=38847&newssec=145   (543 words)

  
 ZULULAND - LoveToKnow Article on ZULULAND   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Province of Zululand, as it was officially styled from 1898 to 1910, lies between 26 50 and 29 15 5.
of the mission station of the same name in which Col. Pearson was besieged by the Zulus in 1879, and was laid out in 1883.
After he had left, the camp, in charge of Col. Durnford, was surprised by a Zulu army nearly 10,000 strong.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Z/ZU/ZULULAND.htm   (6634 words)

  
 Lewis: Co. Kildare
Thomas Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and are now the property of Col. Conolly of Castletown.
This venerable mansion was the favourite retreat of several of the viceroys, of whom Lord Townsend usually spent the summer here; it is at present the residence of the Hon.
Conolly intended to build a pump room and an hotel, but dying before they were commenced, the design was abandoned for the more fashionable spa of Lucan, which is nearer to Dublin.
www.trainweb.org /i3/lewis_kid.htm   (821 words)

  
 Paul (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was a native of Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, a Roman province in the southeast of Asia Minor.
That city stood on the banks of the river Cydnus, which was navigable thus far; hence it became a center of extensive commercial traffic with many countries along the shores of the Mediterranean, as well as with the countries of central Asia Minor.
Leaving this province, Paul passed into Achaia, "the paradise of genius and renown." He reached Athens, but quitted it after, probably, a brief sojourn (17:17-31).
christiananswers.net /dictionary/paul.html   (2849 words)

  
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GARVAGH, a market and post-town, in the parish of ERRIGAL, barony of COLERAINE, county of Londonderry, and province of ULSTER, 8 miles (S.) from Coleraine, and 11O½ (N. by W.) from Dublin, on the road from Armagh to Coleraine: the population is returned with the parish.
After keeping possession of it for some time, he was attacked by a party of forces commanded by Sir Phelim O‘Nial who, making themselves masters of the place, put the Colonel and many of the inhabitants to death, burnt the town, and plundered the country to the very gates of Coleraine.
Adjoining the town is the parish church, a small neat edifice; and there is a meeting-house for Presbyterians in connection with the Synod of Ulster, of the second class, built in 1746, rebuilt in 1790, and enlarged in 1830; another in connection with the Seceding Synod, and a third for Separatists from that synod.
www.4qd.org /bann/books/Lewis/Garvagh.txt   (326 words)

  
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www.library.ucsf.edu /tobacco/batco/OCR/7300/7350.txt   (2225 words)

  
 U.S. bombs suspected Taliban hideout - Boston.com - Asia - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From U.S. and U.N. officials down to Afghan villagers, there is growing fear that this country may be at a seminal moment with three years of state-building in danger of succumbing to the barrage of violence.
The operation came after fighting in the region left 25 people dead earlier this week, including nine tribal elders whom Taliban rebels kidnapped and then killed, apparently in retaliation for the deaths of their own.
A roadside bomb exploded on the main road in Paktika province on Saturday as a convoy of about 20 vehicles, including cars from the United Nations, drove by, said U.N. spokesman Adrian Edwards.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/07/02/us_bombs_suspected_taliban_hideout   (788 words)

  
 Society of the First Infantry Division - The Big Red One - About Us - Press Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He pleaded to the governors to urge people in their provinces to help coalition forces flush out the insurgents.
Abdulla Rasheed Aljubori, who represented the Diyala province, said he also was pleased with the conference.
Aljubori represented the Diyala province during the inaugural Iraqi Government and Coalition Provisional Authority conference held on Operating Base Danger March 31.
www.bigredone.org /about/pressreleases/040404.cfm   (765 words)

  
 Yale Study Finds Evidence of Genocide in Indonesia Papua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
December 11, 2003 – (AP) A U.S. university study released Thursday alleges Indonesia is violating U.N. genocide rules in Papua province with abuses that appear aimed at the destroying the region's indigenous people.
Col. Agus Mulyadi, the military commander for central Papua, rejected the study - the latest in a series that criticize his troops in the province.
Indonesia seized the resource-rich province in 1963 and formalized its occupation in 1969 following a U.N.-sanctioned ballot that rights groups have labeled a sham.
www.peacewomen.org /news/International/Dec03/Papua.html   (439 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
KINSHASA, Congo—Gunmen killed nine U.N. Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops Friday in an ambush in northeastern Congo, the deadliest assault on the six-year-old mission trying to shepherd the nation out of the chaos of a civil war that left about 3 million dead.
The attack occurred near the town of Kafe as 21 Bangladeshi peacekeepers were patrolling in the area of a camp housing families displaced by persistent fighting in Congo's lawless Ituri province, said a spokesman for the United Nations, Mamadou Bah.
The assailants are believed to have been hiding in the thick grass along the roadside and pounced on the patrol as it drove past, said Col. Dominique Demange, head of U.N. troops in Congo.
www.nwherald.com /print/307175885949152.php   (153 words)

  
 Lefty's Operation Iraqi Freedom Tribute & Memorial: Our Fallen Heroes
Lance Cpl. Travis A. Fox, 25, of Cowpens, S.C., died due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Gadsden, 21, of Charleston, S.C. died at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Fla., from injuries as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq on Aug. 21.
Morgen N. Jacobs, 20, of Santa Cruz, Calif., died in Tikrit, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Aaliyah on Oct. 6 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle.
www.iraqifreedom.colleenmcgarry.com /heroes2004/october.html   (2638 words)

  
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Jean Arnault said that a wave of violence - including recent deadly attacks on foreigners and relief workers - showed increased "volatility" ahead of the polls, and said "the time is now" for NATO to boost its presence.
Early Monday, attackers fired three rocket-propelled grenades at the registration office in the main town of Logar province, about 35 miles south of Kabul, damaging the building but hurting no one.
Meanwhile, electoral teams have come under repeated attack in the lawless south and east, where the Taliban and al-Qaida rebels are strongest, leaving two British U.N. contractors dead in May and several Afghans wounded.
www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=68465   (525 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Fighting erupts in Baqouba and surrounding province
The attacks occurred in Diyala province, a religiously and ethnically mixed area with a Sunni majority.
If two-thirds of the voters in any three of the 18 provinces reject the charter, it would be defeated.
Sunnis form the majority in four provinces, although they comprise only 20 percent of Iraq's population of 27 million and their margin in two of those provinces is not overwhelming.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20050903-0715-iraq.html   (924 words)

  
 Northwest Herald - Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
KABUL, Afghanistan – A blast hit a U.N. vehicle carrying election workers in eastern Afghanistan, and two foreign men were beaten to death in the capital, officials said Sunday, adding to security fears ahead of the landmark vote in September.
Meanwhile, hundreds of U.S. forces were sweeping through an insurgency-hit southeastern province and had arrested 35 Taliban militants, a senior Afghan official reported.
A U.S. Marine also died in a firefight on Saturday, but the military insists it had insurgents on the defensive and that it is safe enough for the vote to go ahead.
www.nwherald.com /print/288159891969884.php   (527 words)

  
 British consider partial pullout - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Col. Williams called the security situation in Maysan "serious," but added that local forces are on track to take over security this year.
His superiors at British army headquarters in Northwood, near London, decline to discuss dates, saying any drawdown of the 8,500 British troops in Iraq is contingent on Iraqi forces taking on greater responsibility for the country's security.
Maysan province, with nearly 1 million people and few major industries, is one of the poorest of Iraq's 18 provinces.
washingtontimes.com /world/20050607-115828-7402r.htm   (409 words)

  
 tribuneindia... World
Led by Col Guru Batabyal, a 617-member contingent of Indian troops took over the key assignment at the UNIFIL which has been in place since 1978 to ensure an Israeli pullout from Lebanon’s south.
The handing-taking over ceremony was attended by the Norwegian Defence Minister Dag Jostein Fjaervoll at a UN base in the village of Ebel Al Saqi.
The mass execution was carried out on November 21 in the Shandong province capital of Jinan, the Qilu Wanbao daily said.
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98nov30/world.htm   (2606 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alonzo Sanchez
Sánchez now asked to be allowed to return to the Philippines, but was sent instead as visitor to some of the Spanish provinces of the Society of Jesus, where serious domestic and external troubles menaced the well-being of the entire Society.
The singular tact of Sánchez gained the day; he expelled some influential but turbulent members from the Society, and won over the king, the Inquisition, and prominent personages, so that they became better disposed towards the Society than ever before.
Sánchez was elected one of the representatives of the Province of Toledo to the Fifth General Congregation of the Society, but he remarked that he had a more important journey to make than the one to Rome.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13426b.htm   (637 words)

  
 Daily developments | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Killed Friday: Lance Cpl. Nicholas H. Anderson, 19, of Las Vegas, died in a vehicle incident while conducting combat operations in Anbar province.
Camp Lejeune: Cpl. Kevin J. Dempsey, 23, of Monroe, Conn., was killed Saturday in Anbar province.
Foreign fighters: Only about 20 of the more than 1,000 insurgents detained by U.S. forces in Fallujah over the past week are foreigners, Col. Michael Regner, operations chief for the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, told reporters at the Pentagon in a conference call from Iraq.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041116/news_1n16develop.html   (246 words)

  
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The MEU has been training Iraqi forces in the province since arriving in late July.
Almost all of the security operations conducted by the MEU are combined operations with 50 percent Iraqi forces and 50 percent Marines.
And this week Johnson said some of the patrols and security operations in the province are under total Iraqi control.
www.marinetimes.com /print.php?f=0-292925-379325.php   (337 words)

  
 Honor the fallen: Marine Lt. Col. David S. Greene
Greene was activated in January and his Pennsylvania-based Marine Corps Reserve unit was assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775 of the Marine Aircraft Group 16, based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif.
“The aircraft he was flying in took ground fire” on Wednesday in Anbar province and Greene was hit, Parker said.
David Greene, 39, an AH-1 Cobra helicopter pilot, was killed Wednesday when he was hit by ground fire while flying in Iraq’s Anbar province.
www.militarycity.com /valor/282437.html   (737 words)

  
 Physiographic divisions of the conterminous U. S.
It was automated from Fenneman's 1:7,000,000-scale map, "Physical Divisions of the United States," which is based on eight major divisions, 25 provinces, and 86 sections representing distinctive areas having common topography, rock types and structure, and geologic and geomorphic history.
The primary use of this data is for regional and national data display rather than specific local data analysis due to the small scale (1:7,000,000) of this coverage.
Although this data set has been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data and related materials.
water.usgs.gov /lookup/getspatial?physio   (412 words)

  
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greatly by the fertility levels'of the soil, i~ whiCh tobacco Factors affecting the n n composit~on.of toba=o' is grown..
To determine the role of condensates in t1jo format-, oil u.Z normal cells and relationship of the colidensaZes to factors contributed by the host during the maliqzant pro- cess.
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www.library.ucsf.edu /tobacco/batco/OCR/9300/9301.txt   (3723 words)

  
 NATO: Criminals Halting Traffic In Western Kosovo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Local media have reported that a group calling itself "The Army for Kosovo's Independence" is setting up checkpoints in the west of the province and threatening U.N. and Kosovo officials with death and kidnapping if they stand in the way of the province's independence.
An increased number of NATO and police checkpoints have been set up in that part of the province following last week's sightings of the group, who were wearing balaclavas, carrying automatic rifles and handing out leaflets containing the threats.
The appearance of armed extremist groups at a time when this disputed U.N.-run province nears talks on its future is a worrying sign for security officials in Kosovo.
www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/oct05/hed7202.shtml   (298 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA - InterNetwork
REMAINS OF U.S. The remains of two American servicemen previously unaccounted-for from Southeast Asia have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial in the United States.
They are identified as Col. Paul G. Underwood, of Goldsboro, N.C.; and Capt. Donald B. Bloodworth, of San Diego, Cal., both U.S. Air Force.
The remains were repatriated to the U.S. ArmyÍs Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii and identified as those belonging to Col. Underwood.
www.aiipowmia.com /inter/indpmoup020498.html   (407 words)

  
 Norman Eaton, COL, Air Force, Weatherford OK, 28Jun78 35W082 - The Virtual Wall®
On 13 Jan 1969 Lt Col Norman Dale Eaton, pilot, and Capt Paul E. Getchell, bombardier, flying a B-57B (tail number 52-1561), were lost on a night interdiction mission about 10 miles south of the western end of the A Shau Valley in Savannakhet Province, Laos.
Lt Col Eaton was promoted to Colonel while in MIA status.
While there have been press reports regarding the excavation of the crash site, including mention of the recovery of possible human remains and Col Eaton's dog tag, as of 10 Apr 2005 the Department of Defense has not announced the positive identification of either Col Eaton's or LtCol Getchell's remains.
www.virtualwall.org /de/EatonND01a.htm   (724 words)

  
 Attack kills 9 U.N. peacekeepers in Congo - World News - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The attack occurred near the town of Kafe, 20 miles northwest of Bunia, capital of lawless Ituri province, U.N. spokesman Mamadou Bah said.
The slain peacekeepers were among 21 Bangladeshis patrolling Friday near a camp housing civilians displaced by persistent fighting in Ituri, Bah said.
Suspicion fell on militia of Ituri’s Lendu tribe, whose rivalry with the area’s Hema tribe has been fueled by the influx of arms from Congo’s devastating 1998-2002 war.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7030483   (521 words)

  
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NP KEPT ALL ITS PROMISES, SAYS DE KLERK THOHOYANDOU, N Province Sept 28 Sapa Deputy President F W de Klerk on Thursday said his National Party had kept its promises and scrapped all discriminatory laws.
Addressing NP local government election candidates at Thohoyandou in Northern Province, de Klerk said the NP had the experience of ruling the country.
The time had arrived for the needs of people, especially in Northern Province, to be looked at.
www.anc.org.za /locelect/lge0928.09h   (168 words)

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