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  First Barbary War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The First Barbary War (1801–1805, also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War) was one of two wars fought between the United States of America and the North African states known collectively as the Barbary States.
They began a new identity as the "Knights of Rhodes" and began to engage the Barbary Pirates in naval warfare, as part of their greater war on the Ottoman Empire.
Distracted by the preludes to the War of 1812, the Americans were unable to respond to the provocation until 1815, with the Second Barbary War.
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 Red O'Dell Barbary -- Went from textile baseball to the major leagues
In the 21st inning, Barbary returned to the mound, but his bad knee, the one that he hadn't told many about, was beginning to hurt.
Barbary made it to spring training with the team in 1943, but he would only make one pinch-hit appearance in the major leagues.
Barbary had suffered a stroke a few years ago and had spent the time since then at his home in Simpsonville that is located just across the street from the Simpsonville Mill where both he and his wife worked until they retired.
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 Barbary pirates - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
This port was so much the most formidable that the name of Algerine came to be used as synonymous with Barbary pirate, but the same trade was carried on, though with less energy, from Tripoli and Tunis - as also from towns in the empire of Morocco, of which the most notorious was Salli.
In the 18th century British public men were not ashamed to say that Barbary piracy was a useful check on the competition of the weaker Mediterranean nations in the carrying trade..
She was also engaged in pressing the other European powers to join with her in the suppression of the slave trade which the Barbary states practised on a large scale and at the expense of Europe.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Tripolitan War
The First Barbary War (1801–1805, also known as the Barbary Coast War or the Tripolitan War) was one of two wars fought between the United States of America and the semiautonomous North African city-states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, known collectively as the Barbary States.
Since the 17th century, the Barbary States of North Africa were run independently from the Ottoman Empire.
For them, the First Barbary War was one in a series of punitive wars that signalled their weakened status and foreshadowed eventual colonialization by France, starting in the 1830s.
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 Definition of Barbary Macaque
The Barbary Ape (Macaca sylvanus) is a tail-less macaque; despite its name, it is a true monkey and not an ape.
Barbary Apes are gregarious monkeys, forming mixed groups of several females and males; the troop of 10-30 individuals is matriarchal, with its hierarchy determined by lineage to the lead female.
A popular belief holds that as long as Barbary Apes exist on Gibraltar the territory will remain under British rule; it is said that during World War II Winston Churchill specifically ordered the dwindling population to be replenished for this reason.
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 Barbary Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
It also evokes the Barbary pirates, based on the North African coast, who attacked shipping in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic.
However, from a European perspective its "capital" or chief city was often considered to be Tripoli, in modern-day Libya, although Algiers, in Algeria, and Tangiers, in Morocco, were also sometimes seen as its "capital" by Europeans of the era.
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 Barbary Sheep
The Barbary Sheep is still located in very isolated mountainous areas in North Africa, but it was introduced to the United States in the early 1900s, at first only raised in zoos and private sanctuaries.
Barbary Sheep are grazers and can get moisture from unlikely places, such as early-morning dew and the woody plants and grasses that they eat.
Barbary Sheep can live up to 15 years in the wild, and their natural predators are man, coyotes, and mountain lions.
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 Barbary Dove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Barbary Dove, Ring Dove, or Ring-necked Dove, Streptopelia risoria, is a small domestic dove.
Dove fanciers have bred them in a great variety of colours; the number of colours available has increased dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, and it is thought that this has been achieved by interbreeding with S. roseogrisea.
Feral populations of Barbary Doves establish themselves readily as a result of escapes from captivity, but they will merge with local populations of Collared Doves if they exist.
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 Ladywildlifes Barbary Sheep Page
Both male and female barbary sheep have large, curving horns and manes of long, soft hair on the throat, chest, and forelegs.
Barbary sheep have been crossbreed with domestic goats; their offspring were bred with chamois.
Barbary sheep that have escaped from national parks and private herds in the United States have established small but healthy wild flocks.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: First Barbary War
The Second Barbary War (1815, also known as the Algerian War) was the second of two wars fought between the United States of America and the semi-autonomous North African city-states of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, known collectively as the Barbary States.
The Barbary Treaties refer to several treaties between the United States of America and the semi-autonomous North African city-states of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, known collectively as the Barbary States.
The turning point in the war came with the Battle of Derna (April-May 1805), after a remarkably daring overland attack on the Tripolitan city of Derna by a combined force of American Marines and Arab, Greek and Berber mercenaries under the command of ex-consul William Eaton and Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
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 Barbary Wars
The Barbary War -- the first American war against Libya -- was the first war waged by the United States outside national boundaries after gaining independence and unification of the country.
By the end of the 18th Century the effectiveness of Tripoli's corsairs had long since deteriorated, but their reputation alone was enough to prompt European maritime states to pay the tribute extorted by the pasha to ensure safe passage of their shipping through Tripolitanian waters.
In 1805 Marines stormed the Barbary pirates' harbor fortress stronghold of Derna (Tripoli), commemorated in the Marine Corp Hymn invocation "To the Shores of Tripoli." First Lieutenant O'Bannon is remembered for heroism in the battle for Derna.
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 Barbary Lion News
Barbary lions, extinct in the wild since the 1920s, may make a comeback thanks to scientists in Britain.
Saffi's father is Kabir, known to descend from the Barbary lions owned by the king of Morocco when the last known Barbary in the wild was shot in the 1920s.
Barbaries, also known as Nubian lions, used to prowl widely in North Africa, which was then forested terrain.
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 Pirate Encyclopedia: Barbary Coast Pirates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Barbary Coast Pirates preyed upon ships and coastal settlements for several hundred years, from the time of the Crusades until the early nineteenth century.
This was an end to a pirate empire which took no less than 466 vessels between 1609-1616, then 27 more in 1625 and a printed report in London in 1682 said that 160 ships were captured between 1677-1680 during their height.
However two hundred years of reign by the Barbary Coast pirates had a lasting impact on the lives of people and the economies of Western countries.
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 Barbary Macaque (Macaca sylvanus)
The barbary macaque is found in the countries of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, and in Gibraltar.
During the winter when food is scarce the barbary macaque forages for bark and evergreen needles.
The barbary macaque is a quadrupedal species (Fleagle, 1988).
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 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Barbary ape, Barbary macaque
Barbary macaques live in multi-male, multi-female groups with matrilineal hierarchies (females head the troop).
Barbary apes differ from other macaques in that the males help to care for the young.
Barbary apes are listed as Vulnerable by the 2000 IUCN Red List, and their habitat is threatened by logging.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/218.shtml   (265 words)

  
 Barbary lions: roaming back from the brink of extinction
Aiming to be ready by springtime, the fingerprint is being developed by scientists at Oxford University, who are using ancient DNA extracted from Barbary lion bones to create a distinct genetic profile of the animal.
The task of deciding which lions are Barbary and which are not will be made easier when the DNA fingerprint becomes available.
The most obvious Barbary marker is the presence of a dark mane that extends down covering the belly.
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 The Thomas Jefferson Papers - America and the Barbary Pirates - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)
The focus of the United States and a proposed international coalition was the Barbary Pirates of North Africa.
Tripoli, the least considerable of the Barbary States, had come forward with demands unfounded either in right or in compact, and had permitted itself to denounce war, on our failure to comply before a given day.
However, it was not until 1805, when an American fleet under Commodore John Rogers and a land force raised by an American naval agent to the Barbary powers, Captain William Eaton, threatened to capture Tripoli and install the brother of Tripoli's pasha on the throne, that a treaty brought an end to the hostilities.
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 The Barbary Lion
Another feature that distinguished the Barbary lion from the rest was that it preferred to dwell in mountainous regions and not in the savanna or open expanses and grassy plains of Africa, or the heavily protected environs of western India.
The last Barbary lion in the wild was killed in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains in 1922.
The Barbary lion joined the pantheon of evil predators when they were graphically described in the writings regarding the Roman Empire.
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 Barbary Coast 1-800-868-9218 Las Vegas discount hotel
Located at 3595 Las Vegas Blvd. in Las Vegas, Nevada, Barbary Coast is a 3.0 Star Mid-Price Hotel with discount room rates from $43.95 to $286.95, a lowest rate guarantee and discounts typically from 25% to 65% off standard rates.
The Barbary Coast is also home to two award winning Gourmet Restaurants, Michael's and Drai's on the Strip.
The warm and inviting decor of the rooms is highlighted by textured wallpaper, original paintings, with handsome wood trim and etched mirrors.
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With the hard work and constant support of my husband and partner, Barbary Pines Farm was born.
Barbary Pines is located in rural southeastern Virginia, in the City of Suffolk, approximately 30 minutes west of downtown Norfolk.
At Barbary Pines we strive to preserve all the qualities for which Morgans are famous, along with the refinement of more modern bloodlines.
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 Ladywildlifes Barbary Ape Page
Barbary apes are sociable animals that can live peaceably among other species of ape.
Barbary apes are sociable and live in highly organized communities of up to 30 animals.
At night the Barbary apes sleep in trees or among rocks; during the day they roam their territory, jumping and climbing among the rocks nd trees.
www.ladywildlife.com /animal/barbaryape.html   (709 words)

  
 First Barbary War - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Since the 17th century, the Barbary States of North Africa, although nominally governed by the Ottoman Empire, had been largely independent kleptocracies, run by piratical military strongmen and financed by plunder, tribute, and ransom.
The nations of Britain and France had come to uneasy ententes with the pirates; a combination of military might, diplomacy, and under-the-counter payments had kept ships flying the Union Jack or fleur-de-lys more or less safe from attack.
In October of 1803, the fleet of Tripoli was able to capture the Philadelphia intact after the frigate ran aground while patrolling Tripoli harbor.
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 Re: Pierre Barbary & Francoise Pare
Pierre Barbary came from LaPécaudiere in Thiviers (not Tuyers), in the diocese of Perigueux, (province of Perigord, France); son of Pierre & Marguerite (nee Beloy).
Barbary; it is quite possible that Andre Dany (a soldier) had been billeted at Charmois's place and lived there with his wife.
This is done at the request of Pierre Barbary who has come back but being still under age (majority was 25) is not legally entitled yet to manage the family property.
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 barbary coast casino - virtual-gamblings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 BARBARY LION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Barbary (Atlas, Nubian) lion (Panthera leo leo) was the largest and was found throughout Northern Africa from Morocco to Egypt.
The mane of the Barbary is thick and lush, and extends down the chest through the front legs, down the back below the shoulder, and the length of the belly through to the groin.
The Barbary lion first became extinct in Tripoli in 1700, then in Tunisia in 1891, Algeria in 1899, and finally, the last Barbary lion in the wild was killed in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco in 1922.
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 The Barbary Coast Trail
This is also the heart of the Old Barbary Coast, a district that sprang up during the raucous, lawless days when gold dust was plentiful and sailors were scarce.
The next day he issued an open invitation throughout the Barbary Coast for all his friends to join him on a bay cruise to celebrate his "birthday." One hundred salivating sailors, who couldn't resist his generous offer of free grub, grog, and revelry, boarded the paddle wheeler Goliath.
The Barbary Coast Trail is strewn with amusing anecdotes, but it is also the site of a dramatic event that heralded a new era in the American West as much as "The redcoats are coming!" awakened the original thirteen colonies.
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 Barbary Coast Las Vegas Casinos: Hotels, Shows & Dining
Like many of the other casinos in town, the Barbary Coast is designed in a style reminiscent of turn of the century San Francisco.
The Barbary Coast's phenomenal location on the Strip makes it convenient to at least stop in and look around.
If you decide to stay in the Barbary Coast, you won't be disappointed with the rooms.
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 Barbary Coast Las Vegas - Directory and Online Resource
The BARBARY COAST Hotel offers contemporary lodging where guests are not only afforded the aesthetic pleasures of a modern hotel, but also the comfort and convenience of many hotel features, including Concierge, Maid Service, Parking, Lounge, Laundry Service, and Room Service.
BARBARY COAST Hotel guests can check in to their rooms any time after 3 PM, check-out time is 12 PM.
While staying at the Barbary Coast Hotel Las Vegas, you may be interested in all of the great events happening in and around the city of Las Vegas, and its great venues to watch concerts, theater or sports.
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 Barbary Coast Hotel Las Vegas : Discount Room Reservations
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