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... The Gregorian calendar was controversial in Protestant countries. Britain and its colonies adopted it only in 1752. They had to drop 11 days from ... ...ulian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the economic situ... ...colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the economic situation was dire. The colonies, immersed as they were in the 1847 global depression, c... ...e after the war to the Conservative Party. By 1877 they have regained power in all formerly Confederate states. http://dmoz.org/Society/History/... ...xtended the debate on the Civil Rights Act for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" ... ...dess Flora on May Day. May 1 is still celebrated throughout the countries of the former communist bloc and in many other places in Europe and Asi... ...ost narcissists (75%) are men. NPD is one of a "family" of personality disorders (formerly known as "Cluster B"). Other members: Borderline PD, An... ... emerged as a leader in the cable industry in Continental Europe by purchasing the Dutch cable company NKF. During the 1990s the consolidated g... ...31 by Electric and Musical Industries (EMI). RCA refined its own system, as did the Dutch Philips. Not until 1951 were the standards for public broa...

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...in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, built on land bought from the Nawab by the Dutch, who were the first European Power to acquir... ...a tray of iced drinks under one of these portraits, which Helen learned, subsequently, was of the Dutchman who had erected this building. Isabel de ... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ...g skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. This was the... ...n wives and borne children of mixed blood in the early years of the Company. She recalled that a former Resident to the Court of Hyderabad, Lt. Col.... ...ve left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A farewell d... ...nie des Indes Orientales. Their rivalry with the British was more fierce and bitter than with the Dutch and Portuguese, because their respective cou...

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...de IV. Russia’s Stealth Diplomacy V. Losing the Iraq War VI. Germany’s Rebellious Colonies VII. The Disunited Nations The War in Iraq – Coalitio... ...q as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administr... ... customs is a bad thing." Admittedly, we typically devalue most that which we have formerly idealized and idolized. To the liberal-minded, the Unit... ... latter and to molest Iraq for the second time in order to force the removal of the former. The Kosovo Liberation Army, an American anti- Milosevic ... ...s of love and loyalty to their abuser, the King of Britain. The inhabitants of the colonies defended against their perceived helplessness and very ... ... was the failure that dissuaded them and others besides. The West lost its former colonies not when it lied egregiously, not when it pretended to ... ... retaliation, Atomic Energy Minister, Alexander Rumyantsev, exposed an Anglo-German-Dutch deal with the Iranians, which, he said, included the sale ... ...the pending contracts are with Russian firms ($52 billion) but the French, Chinese, Dutch, United Arab Emirates and Egyptians have also inked agreem...

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...resented to the Minister of Labour and Social Policy By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Formerly Economic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia ... ...r will get increasing participation in the wage costs of the newly hired formerly unemployed workers – more with every year the person remains empl... ...ployer gets increasing participation in the wage costs of the newly hired formerly unemployed workers – more with every year the person remains empl... ... models and inventing the “Poldermodel”, a Third Way. Wim Duisenberg, the Dutch Banker (currently Governor of the European Central Bank), attributed... ...fits and transfers Flexible labour markets Stable exchange rate. The Dutch miracle started in 1982 with the Wassenaar Agreement in which employ... ...ion of unemployment emerges, not ameliorated by labour mobility. The Dutch model sought to battle all these rigidities: The Dutch reduced soc... ...n in Western and better governed countries, such as Greece. In the former colonies of the British Empire, trade unions have to be approved by a regi...

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... sea once every century -- Wandering islands -- The Phantom Ship -- The Flying Dutchman -- The crimes for which he suffers -- In pursuit of the spectr... ...ly ship -- Real spectres of the sea -- Why the spectre ship was commanded by a Dutchman -- Dying superstition 81-89 CHAPTER VII. Marco Polo's visit to... ...of the Grand Alliance -- The ex-bandit becomes Judge Morgan -- He punishes his former compatriots with merciless severity -- How he rebuked his partne... ...inventions, ambitions, occupations, disappeared with scarcely a relic of their former existence. Not only are changes, violent, destructive, epochal, ... ...n. As ruins of what were once great cities give indisputable evidence of their former existence, though history may not tell us how they were destroye... ...nd, and sailed in quest of new lands. They soon also distributed themselves in colonies on the islands that were then known as the Faroes, Hebrides, O... ...e of the several vessels which he had laden with provisions for trade with the colonies was driven by a storm so far south-westerly out of its course ... ...rosperous intercourse with both Iceland and Vinland, there is no record of the colonies after the close of communication with those who had settled in... ...he commonly accepted version of the story is that given by Jal: An unbelieving Dutch captain, endeavoring to double Cape Horn against the force of a h...

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...iably tied to the firms' market capitalization, management strives to maximize the former by manipulating the latter. Very often, the only way to a... ...ers are fundamental: these models rely on the company's performance and assets. The former models are applicable mostly to companies whose shares ar... ...holding companies whose only purpose was to hide losses and disguise leverage. The former president of NYSE, Richard Whitney was arrested for larce... ...es. Probably the closest comparisons to the USA are found in the UK and its former colonies. Q: Can you briefly compare the advantages and disadva... ...nd price - auction the winner pays an amount equal to the second highest bid. In a Dutch auction, the auctioneer announces a series of decreasing p...

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.... At every split, every new Condition of Splitness retains within it all the former Conditions which it split out of. No Conditions are lost. Lit... ...e call Time, Space and Energy are merely Trialistic fractions of the previous former basic Conditions of Totality and The Path of Splitness Chapte... ...Because both are trying to curve around a flat 2-dimensional Condition of the former 2-dimensional Universe that is Infinite in Length and Width. T... ... families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for themselves comes from? Onl... ...ery major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the ... ...lates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coin... ...he exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… In fact ... ... they reduce the cost of their gas until the profits go up again. This has a Dutch origin. It’s principle in Dutch is called: Tanstaffl… or loosely... ...re frustrated because their Age of Imperial Colonization was dying out. Their colonies had failed.. Their colonies were dwindling. Their power and...

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...seemed to have got it right once more. The web's own virtual mall and the former darling of Wall Street has diversified into micropayments. The I... ...ey do on the their print books. The latter are here to stay alongside the former. With the proper pricing and a modicum of trust, e- books may even e... ...and philosophical differences between physical and virtual libraries. The former are based on the tried and proven technology of print. The latter on... ... infringers of emerging intellectual property rights. Later, the American colonies became the world's centre of industrialized and systematic book pi... ... Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("Index of Prohibited Books"). A few (mainly Dutch) publishers even went to the stake (a habit worth reviving, some cur... ...rman, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old Frenc... ...n pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardware manufacturers are liv...

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...in a judging God, but act quite differently in real life. Some have cited former U.S. Congressional; leader Tom DeLay who in 2006 resigned his congr... ...logy of their research, much of the reasoning seems to revolve around the former required atheism of the USSR, which when it ended allowed some of t... ...ort for religions and work done by religions. Its co-presidents include a former fundamentalist minister who became an atheist. ―It makes ... ...quality. We‘re going to get into that dichotomy when we get to the United Colonies. We are scheduled to meet Dr. Kelsi Konnor there. Do you know her... ...s a year, Norwegians average 1380, Swedes 1580, and Germans 1445. And the Dutch work the least. On the other end of the working scale, Koreans work... ...? —―Of course you have to question how much freedom is actually good. The Dutch allowed prostitution and many drugs, but that freedom, or license we... ...zens. We are going more into exploring equality when we get to the United Colonies and speak with Dr. Konnor. It is 231 generally popular with t... ...d negatives?‖ From a self centered point of view it is immoral. —―A Dutch friend of mine was complaining that while he was working and paying ...

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...vantaged, and embellished by such deriving; and doth it drive our noblest Colonies upon the rockes of ruine? And did they well? and prooved they wel... ...he French, the sharpe state of the Spanish, the strong signifacncy of the Dutch cannot from heere be drawne to life. The sense many keepe forme; the... ... great pleasure at it, that hee wept for joy, and forthwith converted that former inexorable rage, and mortall hatred he bare the Duke, into so milde... ...ffered himselfe to be so far transported, that quitting and forgetting his former resolution, he so abandoned himselfe to all manner of sorrow and gr... ...ecause this last displeasure may be manifested by weeping whereas the two former exceed by much, all meanes and compass to bee expressed by teares.'... ...l of Montfort had gained against the faction of Charles de Blois, for the Dutchy of Britanie) the victorious conqueror met with the bodie of his enem... ...am our last Duke of Guienne, father to that Eleonore who transferred that Dutchy unto the houses of France and England, the last ten or twelve yeare... ...there in to plant habitations, and as Plato and Plutarch doe, erect their colonies for our use. And to make of our knowne earth a bright shining plan... ...f such a remooving alteration. The Romanes, by such meanes, erected their Colonies; for, perceiving their citie to growe over-populous, they were wo...

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...ars ago? Ah, deception and illusion, do we dare recreate the past and its former hap- piness? Only in memory is it done successfully. Yet, here we we... ...nges...coral...kelp...sharks. 51 lcaeus has taken back his former secretary. I am glad for all our sakes: Alcaeus’, Gogu’s, mine. I h... ...emember the sea because it alters momentarily, making rainbows, spreading colonies of butterflies, floating celery stalks, turtles, heaving shells an... ... you’re fond of.” “I’m still partial to green. I suppose you bought the Dutch pigments...” Our horses, side by side, kept an even pace: both from ... ..., limp fringes. The unchained books are in Spanish, Latin, French, Greek, Dutch, and Hun- garian—collected by King Francis’ father. He loved this roo... ...uet in the château, again royalty. Three hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the major... ...s, to honor the Proclamation. Hymns and prayers. In Norfolk, two thousand former slaves paraded. I have gone through many newspapers to read of the ... ...well-balanced typeface became popular, and was introduced to the American colonies by Benjamin Franklin. Despite his considerable contribution to th...

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...ast continental possessions of Spain in America, and the loss of her great colonies. He had seen that these revolutions were accomplished almost witho... ...ty, but fear now extorts a larger tribute of obedience than that which was formerly paid by reverence and by love. I perceive that we have destroyed t... ...ich controls it, and his egotism is no less blind than his devotedness was formerly. If society is tranquil, it is not be- cause it relies upon its st... ...me of them attack it openly, and the remainder are afraid to defend it. In former ages slavery has been advocated by the venal and slavish-minded, whi... ...e Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Colonies were founded -Difference in the appearance of North and of South A... ...ndustry were made. The tongue of arid land was the cradle of those English colonies which were destined one day to become the United States of America... ...mselves in the colony. ****Slavery was introduced about the year 1620 by a Dutch vessel which landed twenty negroes on the banks of the river James. S... ... city of Leyden in 1610, where they abode, being lovingly respected by the Dutch, for many years: they left it in 1620 for several reasons, the last o... ... last of which was, that their posterity would in a few generations become Dutch, and so lose their interest in the English nation; they being desirou...

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...ns. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former pro motes our POSITIVEL Y by uniting our affections, the latter ... ... and our authority in the last; and as both disable us from reassuming some former state and privilege, it unanswerably fol lows that original sin a... ... “THEY WILL LAST MY TIME.” Should a thought so fatal and unmanly possess the colonies in the present contest, the name of ancestors will be re member... ...he argument, and inquire into some of the many material injuries which these colonies sustain, and always will sustain, by be ing connected with, and... ... I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain that the same connection is necessar... ... i. e. that Pennsylvania and the Jerseys, and so on for the rest, are sister colonies by the way of England; this is certainly a very round about way ... ...cordage are her natural produce. W e need go abroad for nothing. Whereas the Dutch, who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spa...

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...before, and thought she would like to sleep in it that night, and wake, as formerly, with her mother smiling over her in the morning: Then she thought... ...uaintances that he and William Dobbin were by no means so much together as formerly. George avoided him in public and in the regiment, and, as we see,... ... been so happy, as, during the past few months, his wife had made him. All former delights of turf, mess, hunting-field, and gambling- table; all prev... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe... ...eir own country. She must get him a place or appointment at home or in the colonies, and she determined to make a move upon England as soon as the way...

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... England, and should adopt all the manners, and ideas, and feelings of the Dutch. For this and other reasons, in the year 1620 they embarked on board ... ...now thought fit to speak of the progress that was made in settling several colonies. The settlement of Plymouth, in 1620, has already been mentioned. ... ... settlements to the north and to the south. In Canada and Nova Scotia were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch,... ... were colonies of French. On the banks of the Hudson River was a colony of Dutch, who had taken pos session of that region many years before, and cal... ...emselves, almost spontaneously, in Massachusetts and the other New England colonies. Democracies were the natural growth of the New World. As to Massa... ...the Old World. These misfortunes made them far less powerful than they had formerly been. For nearly half a century after the arrival of the English t... ...ow time for him to go whither his brethren had gone before him.” “Were the former governors all dead and gone?” asked Laurence. “All of them,” replied... ...r the King of Spain to drink his wine out of. Perhaps the bony hand of its former owner had been grasping the precious cup, and was drawn up along wit...

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...ng brocards of law. [The Hall of the Parliament House of Edinburgh was, in former days, divided into two unequal portions by a partition, the inner si... ... a modern bazaar. From the old play of The Plain Dealer, it seems such was formerly the case with Westminster Hall. Minos has now purified his courts ... ...nd has hitherto been so. No long trial, you will say. He lays the blame of former inaccuracies on evil company—the people who were at the livery-stabl... ...t thine own indi- vidual self, with all thy motions, like those of a great Dutch doll, depending on the pressure of certain springs, as duty, reflecti... ...rm our separate destinies. I am doomed to see, act, and tell; thou, like a Dutchman enclosed in the same diligence with a Gascon, to hear, and shrug t... ...n jacket and trousers of the blue cloth commonly used by seamen, and had a Dutch case-knife, like that of a Hamburgh skipper, stuck into a broad buff ... ...ntry think about the dis- turbances that are beginning to spunk out in the colonies?’ ‘Excellent, sir, excellent. When things come to the worst; they ... ...rnestness upon the Stamp Act, which was then impending over the Ameri- can colonies, and upon other political subjects of the day, but said not a word...

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... now taught, besides, in the schools 9 Robert Louis Stevenson of Hawaii; and from the multiplicity of British ships, and the nearness of the States o... ...the living. Another superstition I picked up through the troubled medium of Tari Coffin’s English. The dead, he told me, came and danced by night arou... ...dent Polynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or ... ... most idle, invention in a race the least progressive, this grim, pagan salvation-army of the broth- erhood of Oro, the report of early voyagers, the ... ..., his eye timorous and dull: he seemed at once oppressed with drowsiness and held awake by apprehension: a pepper rajah muddled with opium, and listen... ...fforts have been even heroic. Like Nakaeia of Makin, he has owned schoo- ners. More fortunate than Nakaeia, he has found captains. Ships of his have s... ... passed us daily going afield; but they fetched a wide circuit round our tapu, and seemed to avert their looks. At times we went ourselves into the vi...

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...ad the cour- age; if George and Miss Sedley had remained, according to the former’s proposal, in the farther room, Joseph Sedley’s bachelorhood would ... ... late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward and claime... ...of Dobbin’s hand, acted over the scene, to the horror of the original per- former, and in spite of Dobbin’s good-natured entreaties to him to have mer... ...the heart, had been called into requisition—Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever. CHAPTER VII Cr... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe... .... She must get him a place or appointment at home or in the 373 Thackeray colonies, and she determined to make a move upon England as soon as the way... ...ery, but men of administrative talents to superin- tend the affairs of our colonies, and we have no doubt that the gentleman selected by the Colonial ... ...x of the carriage, Georgy made prodigious advance in the knowledge of High Dutch, and could talk to hotel waiters and postilions in a way that charmed...

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...d in many other businesses besides that of his trade; for, as I ob- served formerly, necessity arms us for all employments. My cargo, as near as I can... ... all acquainted with the persons engaged in it; I presently recollected my former circumstances, and what condition I was in when taken up by the Port... ...r my going away is so very remarkable, and has so many incidents which the former part of my relation will help to understand, and which will in most ... ...he several im- provements, plantings, and management of the several little colonies, the two men had so far out-gone the three, that there was no comp... ... and do the like for them; so that when I came to see the two Englishmen’s colonies, they looked at a distance as if they all lived like bees in a hiv... ...eir habitation to the same place; and so the island was divided into three colonies, and no more – viz. the Spaniards, with old Friday and the first s... ...here. After some time we got a mate, a boatswain, and a gunner, English; a Dutch carpenter, and three foremast men. With these we found we could do we... ...ARNED OF DANGER BY A COUNTRYMAN A LITTLE WHILE AFTER THIS there came in a Dutch ship from Batavia; she was a coaster, not an European trader, of abou... ... bargain. We picked up some more English sailors here after this, and some Dutch, and now we resolved on a second voyage to the south- east for cloves...

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...ther getting through or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the m... ...and would be the most convenient—while the war will still be going on. The Dutch conference would be in immediate contact by telephone and telegraph w... ... far they will prove able to get out of the habits and traditions of their former social state, how far they will be able to take generous views and m... ... and he is aware of a vigour of public criticism that did not exist in the former time…. How far will these men get out of the tradition of their birt... ...th who feels toward his country as a sheep-dog feels toward the flock. The former is the spirit of individualism, “business,” and our law, the latter ... ... German right to “expansion,” and babble about a return of her justly lost colonies. That seems to me not pacificism but patriotic inversion. This lar... ...kin to that of the “home country.” These used to be called by the British “colonies”—though the “colonies” of Greece and Rome were really only garriso... ...ish was in the same way very clearly done under compulsion, first lest the Dutch or French should exploit the vast resources of the pen- insula agains... ...ptist insurrection was no mean thing in rebellions, and the history of the Dutch, who are, after all, only the extreme expression of the Low Ger- man ...