Robin Hood and his merry men may have been a group of Kent archers who fought a guerrilla war during a French occupation, a historian has claimed.
Despite growing urbanisation, fishing by traditional methods remains a vital occupation, a key part of the country's economy - and just as important, a way of life.
After a 24-year Indonesian occupation, a referendum in East Timor had voted four-to-one in favour of independence.
Who'da thunk it a few years back: a once seemingly Jurassic-era occupation commanding a high salary?
She was walking across America, an odd occupation for a woman of 89.
The people gathered in Zuccotti Park began their occupation as a scream of pain that fell on deaf ears.
The occupation is a latecomer, having started on Oct. 15, with a rally more than 400 strong at its peak, according to Chuck Kettering Jr.
The separate Climate Camp in the City, an occupation of a major road, was entirely peaceful - but highly disruptive for anyone in the area.
Goldman Sachs has a long history in lower Manhattan, from Marcus Goldman providing short-term financing to the nineteenth-century rag trade on the Lower East Side to signs carried around the present occupation of a park at Broadway and Cedar Street.
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It is a function of social class and occupation as to why a man's capacity to stand and deliver, as it were, is reduced as youthful Romeos are dragged by Time's relentless claws of age into the abyss of the yawning grave.
But it doesn't take a particularly fervid imagination to come up with a scenario involving a long and costly occupation of Iraq accompanied by a prolonged rise in oil prices.
Airplane pilots have the third most dangerous occupation, with a death rate of 101 per 100, 000.
By doing so, he argues, American Jews who support Israel but not the occupation would clarify a vital distinction.
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The occupation began in a conference room in Bramber House on 7 February following a 300-strong staff and student protest.
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The occupation came only a few weeks after Cairn announced it had begun drilling at two wells off the coast of Greenland.
Many opponents of the occupation have demanded a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal and the issue is being heatedly debated in the United States.
With no cellular service in the area, AES managers in the country struggled to communicate with their staff as the occupation dragged into a second day.
"Heart problems forced me to look for a less stressful occupation, " he says as he lights a cigarette, inhales deeply, and coughs.
Thailand says the dispute arose from the fact that the Cambodian government used a map drawn during the French occupation of Cambodia -- a map that places the temple and surrounding area in Cambodian territory.
The novelist who introduces a character by way of occupation, rather than simply as a person, runs the risk of being unable to make the character compelling to readers.
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The villa, owned, occupied and modified by several entities after Napoleon, including being used as a headquarters during German occupation in WWII, was restored before being opened as a museum.
David (David Wissak), who is some sort of location scout, and Katia (Katia Golubeva), a French-speaking Russian girl with no apparent occupation or interests, drive in a red Hummer through the sinister high desert of California.
The United States has consistently said it does not want to be a formal occupation force.
Second, the security effort might seem less like a triumphal occupation if it were more diverse.
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Sitting reading is a sedentary occupation, and yet no-one is suggesting you should avoid "War and Peace" or the later, over-long Harry Potter novels.
Of course as cities get larger and larger, the challenge of dealing with mega-scale, overcoming its dehumanising effects and avoiding over-building becomes a central occupation.
The MST, who had occupied the land for six years before being moved by police in 2006, staged a second occupation in November in an attempt to pressure the courts into speeding up their decision.
Mr Oswald finds that in many countries high levels of owner-occupation (and hence a small rental sector) are partly to blame for high rates of unemployment, on top of factors such as over-generous social-security benefits and high minimum wages.
NATO's opening position is that it must lead and dominate a post-war occupation force in Kosovo, while Serbia (and its Russian friends) insist, for a start, that those who ran the air war would be the least suitable keepers of Kosovo's peace.
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