We have heard how you took ibis from the Nile to destroy the venomous serpents used against you when you laid siege to the city of Saba.

They had surrounded the encampment where members of the Mi'kmaq Warriors Society were staying.

What is being called the Siege of Homs is arguably the most intense war zone in all of Syria at the moment.

It is a reminder of the siege of Gaza. However, in Homs there are no secret tunnels to smuggle basic supplies, medical aid and injured and sick people.

Coercive Act, they essentially did a blockade of Boston, so things started to get really really really tense in the early 1770s, than if you fast forward to 1775 you have essentially the first conflicts of the American Revolutionary War and we're going to do a whole series of videos on really the whole Revolutionary War, 1776 you have the Declaration of Independence, this is them right here drafting the Declaration of Independence and thats really just saying

Indeed, in the very week that Putin was meddling in Ukraine s presidential election, he was threatening to blockade one of those statelets, Georgia s Abkhazia region, after it had the temerity to vote for a president the Kremlin did not like.

All this is now bound to change. It is inconceivable, for example, that an Egyptian democracy, in which the Muslim Brotherhood would be a legitimate political force, would persist in Mubarak s complicity with Israel s siege of Hamas controlled Gaza.