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...The US’s Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq was targeted by rockets earlier this week as well as the Al Tanf garrison in Syria....
...Terezín was a garrison town built in the 1780s with a central square, church and large barrack buildings surrounded by fortified walls....
...During Joseph Stalin’s ascendancy after Lenin’s death in 1924, Stalin kept a sharp eye on those who expressed concerns about him....
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
...It dominates billboards and signs in garrison towns ringing the capital....
...I grew up in a garrison town. I remember watching the [2000 inauguration] broadcast, and the atmosphere of anticipation, of my family waiting for change,” says Alexander....
...Job Moves Donald Trump is reportedly poised to nominate Joseph Simons — a longtime antitrust lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison — to be chairman of the Federal Trade Commission....
...He will be joined by fellow Cadwalader team members Jonathan Kanter, Joseph Bial and Andrew Forman....
...Peasants were Russia’s largest social group, and those serving as conscripts in Petrograd’s military garrisons welcomed the Bolshevik promise of land....
...Why During its long history, the castle has been used as a garrison during the English civil war and a sanctuary for Benedictine nuns escaping the French Revolution....
...“All the other things are significantly more important than the physical wall,” says Joseph Gaspar, Elbit’s chief financial officer....
...The score glitters gaily under Joseph Colaneri’s persuasive leadership. ‘Candide’ is a co-production with Opéra National de Bordeaux and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse....
...Joseph Oughourlian, managing partner at Amber Capital, an equity investor, is wryly positive about Mr Hollande’s policy shift. “I think things are going to stabilise. Hollande has got the message....
...But he begins his book in the fifth century BCE, 500 miles down the Nile, with the Jewish garrison at Elephantine....
...Joseph Tainter, the anthropologist, attributed the decline of civilisations to their inability to manage the complexity they accreted....
...The Labour party’s Joseph Muscat praised Mintoff for introducing social reforms including pensions, a minimum wage, free education and medical services, Reuters said....
...” … Joseph Shenker, chairman, Sullivan & Cromwell Joseph Shenker has been described as the archetypal Wall Street lawyer: he presides over one of the most respected firms in the US....
...“Ah, well,” you say, “it follows an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army before the first world war, stuck in a provincial border garrison doing nothing in particular except getting drunk on 180 per cent...
...A military prosecutor in Russia’s far east said this week that troops had been fed dog meat in a garrison in Vladivostok to cover up for the theft by officers of food....
...Why: The original “great house” of Joseph Bayley’s plantation, built between 1719 and 1738. In 1816 Bussa, head ranger of Bayleys, led Barbados’ biggest ever slave revolt and remains a local hero....
...Below the Schloss, cruise ships turn from placid waters of Griebnitzsee into the Glienicker Lake as they follow the boundary between the German capital and the former Prussian garrison town of Potsdam....
...I recently read a wonderful phrase by Joseph Conrad: “To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.” It sums up the theme of the brilliant film There Will Be Blood....
...In east Asia, his ship was the first to take over a Japanese-held island – he accepted the surrender of a Japanese general and his garrison. Later, he kept the sword at his home in Wimbledon....
...More than 50,000 students attend the region’s 10 engineering schools, including the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Université Joseph Fourier....
...A brutal irony of Joseph II’s achievements was that he was not only the architect of integration at this time, but he also built the military garrison at Theresienstadt, 60km north-west of Prague....
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