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• Her inquiries included evidence being laid before the judge at first instance of correspondence between herself and appropriate medical authorities in the prefecture that included Salonika and her village and areas.
• The two other plants where operations are suspended are the Takasaki plant in Gunma Prefecture and the Kofu plant in Yamanashi Prefecture, which together account for about 15% of the company's early-stage chip production capacity. Chip Maker Runs at Half Speed
• One of his first tasks after buying a dilapidated farmhouse in the Chiba prefecture, about 60 miles east of Tokyo, was to build a huge wooden bathtub.
• Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
• Two other prefectures — Kagoshima and Aichi — reported bird-flu outbreaks in January, with nearly 160,000 birds being culled in total. Bird Flu Spreads in Japan
• Transportation was handled by designated transportation commissioners, and mines were under local officials of prefecture (fu), subprefecture (zhou), county (xian), and subcounty (ting) where mines were located. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
• The operators of two nuclear-power plants in the northern prefecture of Aomori said they were running on emergency diesel power after the quake knocked out external power, but by Friday morning, all operations were normal and external power had been restored. Powerful New Quake Rattles Battered Region
• Mountain Climbing and Bicycle - cross Challenging Race at the Pearl River Headwaters, Zhanyi County , Qujing Prefecture.
• Having given the Brazilians permission to exercise all kinds of industrial manufacture, he established military and civil tribunals; councils of administration; a prefecture of police; a police force; a treasury; a council of finance; a bank; a royal printery; a powder factory. World’s Great Men of Color
• My post was on a circular prefecture, in some degree detached from the body of the hill, the brow of which continued in a straight line, uninterrupted by this projecture, which was somewhat higher than the continued summit of the ridge. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker