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Six thousand years ago a village, evidently thriving, occupied this farmland, but traces of habitation came to light only in the 1950s, when workmen were digging the foundations for a new factory.
When D305 of TrpEb_1 is not occupied with K167, it forms an alternative salt bridge with R141, as shown in Figure 5.
During World War II the Japanese occupied Guangzhou.
An editorial in the Syrian state-controlled newspaper Tashrin called the Netanyahu regime a "three-year nightmare" and said Barak should "make drastic changes in Israel's positions regarding a full withdrawal from occupied Arab lands and a just and inclusive peace based on U.N. resolutions."
Yet while the 9/11 project occupied the bulk of KSM's attention, he continued to consider other possibilities for terrorist attacks.