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  GOLD COAST - LoveToKnow Article on GOLD COAST
Physical features.Though the lagoons common to the West African coast are found both at the western and eastern extremities of the colony (Assini in the west and Kwitta in the east) the greater part of the coast-line is of a different character.
At this period, however, the home government, disgusted with the Gold Coast by reason of the perpetual disturbances in the protectorate and the trouble it occasioned, determined to abandon the settlements, and sent instructions for the forts to be destroyed and the Europeans brought home.
The purchase of the Danish Pu ase forts in 1850, and of the Dutch forts and territory in 1871, led to the consolidation of the British power along the coast; and the Ashanti war of 187374 resulted in the extension of the area of British influence.
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 Lists of office-holders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Colonial Heads of São João Baptista de Ajudá
Colonial Heads of Djibouti (French Somaliland)/FTAI (Afars and Issas)
Colonial Heads of Port Cresson and Bassa Cove
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Gold and other metals are there in abundance, and there are good signs of diamond, ruby, and sapphire.
On the Gold Coast of Western Africa, whence came the good old 'guinea,' not a washing-cradle, not a pound of quicksilver was to be found in 1862; in 1882 five mining companies are at work; and in 1892 there will be as many score.
Seen from Funchal, the profile of Garajáo is that of an elephant's head, the mahaut sitting behind it in the shape of a red-brown boss, the expanded head of a double dyke seaming the tufas of the eastern face.
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 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
A 19th century gold rush was followed by prosperity brought on by the opening in 1924 of an oil refinery.
Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.
British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783.
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 Sulphur history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Colors of the Colonial Spanish Horse vary widely, and it is through the Spanish influence that many other North American horse breeds gain some of their distinctive colors.
Coronado was struck on the head and slightly injured.
There were no cities of gold here either, but they were told of a rich province still further north, where on the shores of a great lake called Copalla lived a people of great wealth where the mines of gold and silver were plentiful.
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The Chinese emperorThe king or wang (王 wang2) was the Chinese head of state from the Zhou to Qin dynasties.
The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.
Britain and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules of modern marriage.
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 BBC NEWS | Africa | What is an Olympic gold medal worth?
By winning a gold medal, an athlete's 'market value' goes up and he or she brings a lot of money into the country from every competition he or she takes part in thereafter.
Literally and metaphorically, one of the gold standard currencies of modern times is the Olympic gold medal, and the medals tally remains the only list comparing nations of the world.
An olympic gold medal is the pride of a nation.
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 Coastal West Coast :: Along the California Coast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The hundred miles of coast stretching south from San Francisco hold numerous remnants of the Spanish and Mexican eras, exemplified by the town of Monterey and the beautiful mission at Carmel.
Evolving into a lively artists’ colony from its roots as a fairly gritty and industrial port, Eureka was well known to fur trappers and traders long before it became a booming lumber and whaling port in the 1850s.
One of the coast’s most popular new restaurants, Pangaea (which is the geographical name for the earth’s continents, all joined together back before plate tectonics pushed them apart) serves international "fusion" cuisine made from local organic produce—everything from beefy burgers to crab cakes with Thai curry sauce.
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 To the Gold Coast for Gold - By Richard F. Burton [Authorama]
The Appendix discusses at some length the various objections made to the Gold Coast mines by the public, which suffers equally from the ’bull’ and the ’bear’ and from the wild rumours set afloat by those not interested in the speculation.
Their chief stations were Goree of Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Cape Mount, the Kru or Liberian coast, then called ’of Grain,’ from the ’Guinea grains’ or Malaguetta pepper (Amomum granum Paradisi), and, lastly, the Gold Coast.
I find a better episkopos at Ponta da Atalaia, ’Sentinel Point.’ Head, profile, and shoulders are well defined; the hands rest upon the knees, and the plaited folds of the dress are well expressed by the basaltic columns of the central upheaval.
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 To the Gold Coast for Gold   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
In 1471 Joao de Santarem and Pedro Escobar reached a place on the Gold Coast to which, from the abundance of gold found there, they gave the name of 'Sao Jorje da Mina,' the present Elmina.
Seen from Funchal, the profile of Garajao is that of an elephant's head, the mahaut sitting behind it in the shape of a red-brown boss, the expanded head of a double dyke seaming the tufas of the eastern face.
It is broken by the Ponta da Oliveira, where there is ne'er an olive-tree, and by the grim ravine of Porto de Canico o Bispo, the 'bishop' being a basaltic pillar with mitre and pontifical robes sitting in a cave of the same material.
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1871 Federal Colony of the Windward Islands 1 Jul 1956 Territory of the Windward Islands 1 Jan 1960 dissolved Governors 1833 - 1885 the governors of Barbados 1885 - 1888 Sir Walter Joseph Sendall (b.
1926) (Head of State to 14 Jan 1922; acting to 4 Mar 1922) 26 Sep 1926 - 2 Jan 1931 Lázaro Chacón (b.
21 Jul 1831 colonies of Demerara-Essequibo and Berbice united as British Guiana 26 May 1966 independence (Guyana) 23 Feb 1970 Cooperative Republic of Guyana Governors 21 Jul 1831 - 26 Jun 1833 Sir Benjamin D'Urban (s.a.) 26 Jun 1833 - 27 Jun 1838 Sir James Carmichael Smyth (b.
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 The Food Timeline: history notes--soup
The two which provide vegetables for human consumption...All these cultivated forms are descended from the sea beet, 'Beta maritima', a wild seashore plant growing around the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and North Africa.
Versions of la chaudree, (cauldron) are common along the coast from just north of Bordeaux well up to Brittany...Mrs.
The Apician minutal is made as follows: oil, broth wine, leek heads, mint, small fish, small tidbits cock's fries or capon's kidneys and pork sweetbreads; all of these are cooked together.
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 America & Britain in Prophecy -- Chapter 2: A Great Mystery of History
This colonial spirit is explained later in Isaiah 49.
They built the great cities of Tyre and Sidon (on the modern Lebanese coast) and, as they spread abroad, far-flung outposts like Carthage (in what is now Tunisia in North Africa).
During the reign of Solomon and subsequent kings, it is more than likely that a number of Israelite colonists left Israel for other coastlands--just as Phoenician colonists emigrated from their homeland.
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 Articles - Colonial Heads of Dutch Gold Coast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Articles - Colonial Heads of Dutch Gold Coast
List of Colonial Heads of the Dutch Gold Coast Settlements
Gold Coast Settlements sold to Britain and incorporated into the Gold Coast Colony
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 Articles - Lists of office-holders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
lists of people in various offices and positions, including heads of states or of subnational entities.
2 Heads of state or government (defunct entities)
3 Heads of state or government (modern entities)
www.lastring.com /articles/Lists_of_incumbents?mySession=48e0c58b7107a55d0d3e3a147da3d9da   (760 words)

  
 Gold Coast City Council Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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