The Nazis invaded The Netherlands.

A lot of tourists invaded the island.

In 452, the Huns overran the city.

In 1845, Ireland was hit by a potato blight.

On January 6, the rebels overran the home where we were staying in Freetown.

The Plague in SwedenIn the middle of 14th century, Sweden was struck by the Black Death.

But 10 months later, on July 14 2005, another hurricane, Emily, hit Grenada.

I've been thinking about all the times violence has swept into my life, and mentally inserting a gun into my hand.

I want to write about a tornado that comes into our house and blows all the windows out and ruins all the furniture and kills everybody.

Dramatically, the Arab world has been swept by a revolutionary spring, though one that is rapidly becoming a chilly winter.

With support from the civilian population, as well as from the Mukti Bahini, an irregular army of Bengali rebels, the Indian army swept into East Pakistan.

In 1519 and 1520, before the arrival of the Spanish in the region, a number of epidemics swept through southern Guatemala.

Millions of people from all walks of life marched across Egypt today, calling on president Hosni Mubarak to step down.

The Nepali news site Pahilopost, reported that the animal rampaged through Hetauda, a city of about 85,000 people.

In the first incident, approximately one fifth of the Samoan population died in the influenza epidemic of 1918 1919.

Like many countries, Mauritania hoped to benefit from the winds of democracy that have blown across the world since the beginning of the 1990s.

The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.

FLORENCE The term globalization first swept the world in the 1990 s and reached its highpoint of popularity in 2000 and 2001.

As a result, central banks failed to see the oncoming financial tsunami, and even after it arrived they continued to fight the last war against inflation.

Since 2012, an invasive weed known as the water hyacinth has been subsuming tens of thousands of acreage of the surface of Lake Tana, as well as adjacent wetlands and ranches surrounding the lake.

Early last week there was a flood of sensational rumors on Chinese microblogs alleging political unrest and splits among the Party s top leadership.

Hurricane Ivan, the most powerful to hit the region in 10 years, caused damage to 90 per cent of the homes in Grenada, leaving some 60,000 people homeless.

Everyone who believes in and supports the democratic tide that swept Latin America following the fall of communism in Europe must affirm their commitment to monitoring the weak state of freedom of expression and democratic governance in Venezuela.

Ten days later, protesters overran the base of Ansar al Sharia, the Islamist militia suspected of masterminding the attack, as part of a sweep of raids on militia compounds throughout the city.

On 14 December 1287, St. Lucia's flood affected the Netherlands and Germany killing more than 50,000 people in one of the most destructive floods in recorded history.

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666.

On April 7, 2012, a deadly avalanche hit a Pakistani military camp in the Gayatri Sector, 30km west of the Siachen glacier, killing over 130 people, most of them military personnel.

The tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean region in late 2004 demonstrated that space based technologies are increasingly being made available to be used for early warning and emergency response.

But one has to wonder, now that we've had this financial sector collapse upon us in Iceland and by the way, Europe looks pretty bad right now, and many would say that you in America are heading for some more trouble as well.

The President of the General Assembly, on behalf of the General Assembly, extended his deepest sympathy to the Government and the people of the United States of America for the tragic loss of life and material damage that have resulted from the recent hurricane in the Gulf States.

A Cholera pandemic devastated Europe between 1829 and 1851, and was first fought by the use of what Foucault called social medicine , which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc.

Mr. Ali is a member of the Rahanweyn minority clan of Somalia. He grew up in the city of Baidoa with his family, until clan violence and internal war devastated the country, and many of his family members were killed by armed militias.

But at the start of the 19th century, a wave of interest in ancient Egypt swept Europe, giving rise to the science of Egyptology and drawing increasing numbers of visitors to see the civilization's remains.

In Georgia, after years of stalemate, we saw a full scale resurgence of violence This quickly escalated into a five day war between Russia and Georgia, leaving Georgia ever more divided.

Hajloui accused the army of passivity in dealing with post election riots that swept Sidi Bouzid when the independent commission for the election disqualified a number of seats won by an electoral list called the Popular Petition, over campaign finance violations.

A number of non governmental organizations, including Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, Pax Romana and Interfaith International, argued that national disasters such as the recent tsunami in Asia should also be included in a discussion of international humanitarian law.

Dramatically, the Arab world has been swept by a revolutionary spring, though one that is rapidly becoming a chilly winter. Indeed, for the most part, the new regimes are combining the old authoritarianism with Islamism, resulting in further social stagnation, resentment, and instability.

BEIRUT Hezbollah s armed insurrection in May, which overran Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, has dealt a further blow to hopes of true state sovereignty in the country, strengthening Hezbollah and weakening the Western backed government.

As dangerous as Syria s chemical weapons stockpile is, it pales in comparison with another risk that became evident in late February, when Syrian rebels overran a Scud missile base in Al Kibar, in the country s remote northeastern desert.

According to experts who spoke to government media, the water hyacinth has grown nearly 100 percent from 2012 to about 155 square miles, though a relatively dry winter season in 2016 slowed its expansion.

His own region of the Pacific had not been spared the small island of Niue had been literally devastated by Cyclone Heta in January and a typhoon had lashed the Micronesian island of Yap in April.