With both the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the two predecessors of the United States Congress occupying Independence Hall from 1775 to 1783, the state legislature considered proposals for moving the seat of the state government.
Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images 6.34pm GMT Passing the time with a game of cards, Ukraine's pro-european supporters continue to occupy Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine.
Several thousand protesters are continuing to occupy Independence Square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
The conflict of loyalty arising from his father's support of Russian imperialism and his own desire for Poland's independence occupies a central position in Krasiński's thought.
Kiev calls the uprising a blatant repeat of the seizure of Crimea, where armed pro-Russian partisans also occupied buildings, declared independence and proclaimed themselves in charge of state bodies.
In 1820 the country was occupied by Brazil, but independence was finally achieved in 1828 by Juan Antonio Lavalleja, with the help of British diplomats.
"We want to think of our writers as geniuses occupying positions of absolute independence in relation to a tediously conventional society.
For the first few decades after independence, Virginia occupied the geographical and political centre of America, producing four of the first five presidents.
The court called on his government to protect hundreds of farmers whose land has been occupied by self-styled independence war veterans since February.
Between 50,000 and 60, 000 people gathered in Samsun, the city where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey's revered secular founder, began the war of independence against occupying powers in 1919.Spain has repatriated more than 750 African migrants who tried to enter the Canary Islands.
P.S. 234 started as an annex, but it will soon have a building of its own, which is under construction nearby; for now, it occupies a wing of Independence Plaza, a highrise apartment building that looks out on the Hudson a few blocks north of Battery Park City.
