Sentences with phrase «ago by the occupation»

As things now stand, foreigners in Tokyo must grope their way around town by looking for weather - beaten wooden arrows erected years ago by the occupation forces when they made a stab at sorting out the main streets by letters and numbers.

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Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago.

This period includes the overlapping occupation of Europe by Neandertals, who show up about 130,000 years ago and disappear no later than 30,000 years ago, and modern humans, who arrived in Europe between 45,000 and 40,000 years ago and stayed for good.

First inhabited by native peoples 20,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.

First inhabited by native peoples who arrived more than 10,000 years ago, the island was recognized for its strategic value as a military fortress in the Civil War era, and later catalyzed the Native American Red Power movement with the revolutionary 18 - month occupation by the Indians of All Tribes from 1969 to 1971.

Anacapa Island has a history of human occupation by the Chumash people, who «camped on the islands thousands of years ago»; shell middens make up part of the evidence of them.

Accordingly, a variety of consequential injuries were held not to constitute takings... Nor was government held liable for the extra expense which the property owner must obligate in order to ward off the consequence of the governmental action... But the Court also decided long ago that land can be «taken» in the constitutional sense by physical invasion or occupation by the government, as occurs when the government floods land permanently or recurrently.