Piles of rubble stood at the site of Netzarim, once a settlement of some five hundred Israelis.
It began in January 1788 as a small settlement of some 1,000 people clustered around the foreshores of Sydney Harbour, near what is now the city of Sydney.
A typical one is Yabu, an agricultural settlement of some 26,000 inhabitants set in the mountains of deepest rural Hyogo prefecture.
It's hard to think of a counterinsurgency in the modern media era that has ended without a political settlement of some sort.
The prosecutors noted the public statement last fall of Samuel Mullet Sr., the 66-year-old leader of the settlement of some 18 large families, that the attacks were "all about religion".
The story of Dimbaza, a settlement of some 30,000 people in the Eastern Cape, on the road towards Nelson Mandela's ancestral home in the Transkei, offers a partial explanation.
To that end it sued Bowman, eventually winning a legal settlement of some $84,456£53,50000) against him for infringing the firm's patent rights.
Tom Watson is understood to have welcomed McCluskey's comments, which are seen as a sign that a "negotiated settlement" of some sort may still be possible.
"I did pretty good," said Willard Laird, lifting his day's catch of soft-shell crabs onto this pristine Colonial island, the historical settlement of some of America's original watermen.
It's really not any different from the multistate tobacco settlement of some years ago, which imposed some minor reforms on the tobacco industry along with a giant financial penalty.
