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	Maldives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following the introduction of Islam in 1153, the islands later became a Portuguese (1558), Dutch (1654), and British (1887) colonial possession.
		The Indian paratroopers landed at Hulule and secured the airfield and restored the Government rule at Malé within hours.
		The absence of land mass against which waves could be built up reduced the destructive impact, preventing the waves from reaching much more than 1.2 - 1.5 meters (4–5 ft) in height [2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maldives (2856 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
		Although separated from the communion of Rome since the schism of Michael Cærularius (1054), the emperors of Constantinople implored the assistance of the popes; in 1073 letters were exchanged on the subject between Michael VII and Gregory VII.
		Tancred took possession of the towns of Cilicia, whilst Baldwin, summoned by the Armenians, crossed the Euphrates in October, 1097, and, after marrying an Armenian princess, was proclaimed Lord of Edessa.
		By lavish distribution of lands and franchises, Guy de Lusignan succeeded in attracting to the island colonists, knights, men-at-arms, and civilians; his successors established a government modelled after that of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm (14213 words)

	Luis Vaez de Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alvaro, named the group of islands the Solomons with the deliberate purpose of alluring other Spaniards to settle there since the Spaniards, supposing them to be those isles from whence Solomon fetched gold to adorn the temple at Jerusalem, might be the more desirous to go and inhabit the same.
		Torres, therefore, after satisfying himself that the land whereat they had been lying was an island, and not a portion of a continent, sailed till he fell in with the southern coast of New Guinea.
		Her captain returned in the belief that the south coast of New Guinea was joined to the land along which he coasted, and Dutch maps reproduced this error for many years to come.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /pages/torres.html (1009 words)

	EARLY - Online Information article about EARLY
		Classical Writers.—Greek and Roman writers seem to have possessed very little definite information about the island, though much of what they relate corresponds to the state of society disclosed in the older epics.
		Fir Galeoin, landed at Inber Slangi, the mouth of the Slaney, and occupied much of Leinster.
		The latter either dwell in the sid, and this is probably the earlier conception, or in islands.out in the ocean where they live a life of never-ending delight.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/EARLY.html (6383 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Star-Spangled Banner
		Admiral Alexander Cochrane, the British naval commander, prepared to attack U.S. coastal areas, and General Robert Ross sought to capture towns along the East Coast to create diversions while British army forces attacked along the northern boundaries of the United States.
		On the morning of September 12, General Ross’s troops landed at North Point, Maryland, and progressed towards the city.
		Sometime before his death in 1818, Lieutenant Colonel George Armistead acquired the flag that was immortalized in Key’s poem as the “Star-Spangled Banner.” While there exists no documented evidence as to how Armistead came to possess the flag, it is generally understood that he simply kept it as a memento of the triumphant battle.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/starflag.htm (2914 words)

	Card Games: Commercial Games
		Each player has a supply of money cards which are used to bid for cards representing luxury possessions; these possessions are worth from 1 to 10 points in the final scoring.
		Among the cards to be bid for there are also recognition cards, which double the value of possessions, and misfortune cards, which reduce your score for possessions.
		The player with least money at the end is eliminated and cannot win; the winner is the player with the greatest number of possession points among those who remain.
	www.pagat.com /com (12188 words)

	Universals [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		After all, a fundamental tenet of Extreme Realism is that possession of a quality always results from participation in a Form.
		Another Nominalist strategy is to collect individuals into sets based on resemblance relations, and then account for qualitative identity and resemblance by appeal to commonalities of set membership.
		Red is not a property the trope has; rather, the red trope is the red itself.
	www.iep.utm.edu /u/universa.htm (6461 words)

	Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Take, for instance, what happens if you ask H-Bot when aliens landed in Roswell or when Stalin was poisoned, two common rumors in history.
		More broadly, however, the problem reflects the reality that even the “facts” in history can be a matter of contention.
		After all, lots of people genuinely and passionately believe that aliens did land at Roswell in 1947.
	www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue10_12/cohen (8395 words)

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