The company was unsuccessful, selling fewer slaves in 21 years than the British sold during a 10-month occupation of Havana in 1762.
The World According to Garp sold over three million copies in its six-month occupation of the American bestseller lists and was awarded the 1980 National Book Award.
That building has a contentious past, including several failed development efforts and a three-month occupation by advocates for the homeless.
A London borough will not enforce until after the bank holiday a high court ruling to end the seven-month occupation of Finsbury Square as an extension of the Occupy movement camp at St Paul's.
Alcatraz Island, which sits in a picturesque spot in San Francisco Bay opposite the Golden Gate Bridge, in the National Park system since 1972 after an 18-month occupation by disenfranchised American Indian tribes ended.
Five months after French troops liberated Timbuktu from Islamist fighters, the ancient desert town, like much of northern Mali, is struggling to recover from the effects of the nine-month occupation as well as longer-term security and development problems.
The words "Gràcia is not for sale" scrawled on the side of the building are now the only remnants of their three-month occupation to protest against the effects of rampant tourism on the city.
So began the 10-month occupation of Timbuktu, first by Tuareg separatist rebels, then by their fellow-travellers Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith), a jihadist affiliate of al-Qaida.
Not the Haitian government, a group of penniless, powerless, provisional appointees; nor the United States government, whose military forces are pulling out after a three-month occupation, having landed hours after the fall of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's first and only freely elected leader.
But the announcement, months after the warrant was secretly approved, seemed timed to coincide with a new American military offensive -- and to bolster American authority at a time when it has been jolted as never before in the 12-month occupation.
