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  List of Lists
List of Ceremonial counties of England by Population
List of Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
List of Chancellors of the University of Mississippi
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 Delaware Chapter XIII
Their first, second and third colonies, which arrived out in 1638 and 1640, and the fifth colony also, which came between those of Printz and Risingh, contained a good many Dutch, and were indeed partly recruited and fitted out in the Netherlands, with Dutch capital and under Dutch management.
This "listing" process was found excellently well suited to the low, flat lands of the peninsula, as, besides saving labor, it afforded a sort of easy drainage, the bottom of every furrow being a small ditch, and this enabled the farmers to plant their corn much earlier than they otherwise could have done.
Governor Printz was expressly instructed to encourage all sorts of domestic manufactures and the propagation of sheep.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Australia
On his arrival in Sydney, Governor Macquarie bluntly informed him that no "Popish missionary" would be allowed to intrude within the settlement, and that every person in the penal colony must be a Protestant.
This colony had been founded in 1836 as a free and "socially superior" Protestant settlement, from which "Papists and pagans" were to have been rigidly excluded.
For a time all the colonies of the Australasian group followed the example initiated by New South Wales in according State aid to the clergy and the denominational schools of the principal religious bodies, Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, and Methodists.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Whyte and the colonial treasurer, Charles Meredith (q.v.) were the first to go on ministerial tours, and as a result vigorous efforts were made to open up the country by constructing roads and bridges.
The colonial office was unable to understand that convict labour could not be made to pay its way, and Wilmot was made responsible for the faults of a system he had no power to amend.
He was also in the forefront of the struggle with Gipps concerning generally the powers of the council and the governor on the land question, and in 1846 moved and carried an address to the governor acquainting him that the council could not entertain a bill he had originated.
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 Good News on the Frontier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Roman Catholics led in the settlement of Maryland which was the first colony established in America in which all religious groups were to have freedom to worship God as they chose.
William Warren Sweet lists the following as the main causes for division among the churches in America since the achievement of independence: (1) revivals, (2) slavery and secession, (3) doctrine, (4) church rites and practices, and (5) church government.
List some particular contributions the various denominations have made to the religious life of people without which the community would have been spiritually poorer.
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 United Kingdom: Colonial Flags
The governor flew the Union Jack with the badge of the colony in a laurel wreath in the centre of the St George's cross.
Vessels employed by the government of the colony flew a Blue Ensign bearing the badge in the centre of the fly.
We further submit that the Governors of Your Majesty's Dominions in Foreign Parts, and Governors of all ranks and denomination administering the Governments of British Colonies and dependencies be authorised to fly the Union Jack with the Arms of the Badge of the Colony emblasoned in the centre thereof.
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 1888 - Biocrawler definition:1888 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar).
In Germany, 1888 is known as the 1888 Year of Three Emperors.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1888: Democrat incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the overall popular vote, but is voted out of office because he loses in the Electoral College to Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison.
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 The Frontier In American History: Chapter III
Riots occurred when the colonial authorities attempted to assert possession, and the matter was at length compromised in 1719 by allowing Litchfield to be settled in accordance with the town grants, while the colony reserved the larger part of northwestern Connecticut.
The diplomacy of New York governors during this period of the Old West, in securing a protectorate over the Six Nations and a consequent claim to their territory, and in holding them aloof from France, constituted the most effective contribution of that colony to the movement of American expansion.
Among the objects of the colony, as specified in the charters, were the relief of the poor and the protection of the frontiers.
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 ipedia.com: Slavery Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The first imported slaves brought to the English colonies on the rest of continent were landed at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619.
Slavery was legal in most of the 13 colonies in the 18th century, and was ended in many Northeastern and Middle Atlantic "Free States" only after the turn of the 19th century.
In the slave-holding colonies of British North America slavery was first abolished in Upper Canada (now the southern part of Ontario; slavery was officially abolished there in 1810, although slavery had probably disappeared before then (see John Graves Simcoe).
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 Untitled Document
All of these were native representatives were elected by skhod, and their election as starshina was to be confirmed by the local governor and the starosta by the local police inspector.
In addition, the fact that representatives of specific families are charged with caretaking responsibilities for the sacred shrines and images of the individual river system patron deities suggests that historically certain families had significant leadership roles in each local residence group.
There is, nevertheless, a tension between the individual heads of extended families and community leaders rooted in the Khanty strong individualism and their reluctance to accede to decisions made by others, even elected representatives.
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The English colonies were divided in the middle by the Dutch at New Amsterdam and the Swedes on the Delaware.
All of the colonies were taxed at the same time by this scheme, which was contrary to their belief that they should be taxed only by their legislatures; although the proceeds of the taxes were to have been devoted to the defence of the colonies.
Thus it happened that Velasquez, the Spanish Governor of Cuba, designed to send a fleet to explore the mainland, to gain what treasure he could by peaceful barter with the natives, and by any means he could to secure their conversion.
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 Princeton Alumni Weekly: Memorials 1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wil’s father was a respected former governor of Michigan and Eisenhower’s Secretary of the Army, but Wil’s continuous, diverse public-service activities were essentially apolitical — motivated by a devout, compelling belief that one’s abilities should be used to make the world a better place.
He served on the Board of Governors of Wayne State U. in inner-city Detroit for 11 years; he was active in Habitat for Humanity; and was an elder and Stephen Minister of his church.
So would a list of those who came to love him, for he truly enjoyed meeting and learning from people of all backgrounds, ages, and lifestyles, and was never heard to speak ill of anyone.
www.princeton.edu /~paw/memorials/memorials_1940s/memorials_1947.html   (16921 words)

  
 Tyler, Education in Colonial Virginia. V: Influence of William and Mary College
This may be best done, perhaps, by analyzing the memberships of the representative bodies which in the formation and development of Virginia and the Union made American history.
The Supreme Court, as organized in 1778, consisted till 1788, of the three judges of the High Court of Chancery, the three judges of the General Court, and the three judges of the Admiralty Court.
In the above list the first four were judges of the High Court of Chancery.
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 New York State Library: Annotated Bibliography of Selected New York State Maps: 1793-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the colonial period, and during the Revolution, the vast majority of North American maps were published in Europe, mainly by the British and French.
The situation for these nineteenth century maps is particularly complex, for the copyright for some maps was sometimes purchased from the author by the publisher, and some publishers also controlled printing, or bought a copyright for subsequent reprinting.
Lists of steamboat mileage from New York City to Albany, Philadelphia, Niagara.
www.nysl.nysed.gov /msscfa/mapsbibl.htm   (10868 words)

  
 Princeton University Eating Clubs | Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The sign-in system is a lottery, in which you make a list of clubs in order of preference that you would like to join and then you are put into one of the clubs of your choices.
Cannon Club, Colonial Club, Court Club, and Quadrangle Club are the most well documented with Cannon Club having the most extensive material.
Colonial Clubs and Ivy Club both have histories that span one hundred year periods.
libweb.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/eat-club.html   (2877 words)

  
 African Forum
The invention of the half-tone grid-system put photos in newspapers and books in 1888, and began the "10ยข magazine revolution." Pictures froze images of "primitive" people who were supposed to be disappearing in the path of the very universalizing and homogenizing forces in which viewers were safely enmeshed.
The equivalence of individuals within groups derived concretely from the manipulation of people in the mechanics of colonial administration, just as museums of African art derived from the possibilities of thievery in discrete periods of conquest, and animal "families" in natural history museums were assembled from kills made within particular safaris.
Colonial personnel in Africa prided themselves on interior knowledge, but they took their general orders from metropolitan officials living far away, whether in Mafeking and Cape Town, or the Foreign Office in London and the colonial ministry in Paris.
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 MARYLAND - Online Information article about MARYLAND
governor, as well as lunatics or those who have been convicted of See also:
Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
veto power whatever was given to the governor until 1867, when, in the present constitution, it was provided that no See also:
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 A School History of the United States, by John Bach McMaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
%45.  The Year 1643.%—­The year 1643 is thus an important one in colonial history.  It was in that year that the New Haven colony was founded; that the league of The United Colonies of New England was formed; and that Roger Williams obtained the first charter of Rhode Island.
was restored to the throne of England, and a new era opens in colonial history.  In 1661 the little colony of Connecticut promptly acknowledged the restoration of Charles II.
But his work was far from ended.  The valley he had explored, the territory he had added to France, must be occupied, and to occupy it two things were necessary:  1.  A colony must be planted at the mouth of the Mississippi, to control its navigation and shut out the Spaniards.
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 Georgia's Gilded Age
With the election of James Smith as governor (list of Georgia governors) in January, 1872, the Democrats once again had an iron grip on the state's political process.
Among those involved, to varying degrees of corruption, were governor Alfred Colquitt (a former Ku Klux Klan leader), Senator John Gordon, Western and Atlantic Railroad President Joseph Brown and Atlanta Constitution editor/owner Henry Grady.
Atkinson is one of those governors who is under-recognized for his achievements in office (1894-1898), specifically promoting both primary and secondary education, make more high-level government positions elected instead of appointed and vetoing a bill that would have made football illegal in colleges.
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 Spanish and Portuguse Colonial Possessions
Like Hong Kong, the colony was a Chinese window on the larger world and a good source of foreign currency.
The list of Governors of Macao is from a page at the World Statesmen site.
Cuba, whose governors are at right, was one of the earliest Spanish colonies, and one of the last.
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 Campus Heritage Grant Recipients (Getty Press Release)
Lake Forest's North and Middle campuses are listed on the National Register of Historic Places; a Getty grant of $150,000 will allow the college to preserve this heritage as it prepares for future growth.
Established in 1888 before New Mexico became a state, New Mexico State University (NMSU) is the state’s oldest public institution of higher learning and the only land-grant institution in the nation classified as Hispanic-serving by the federal government.
The list of designers engaged by Pratt included some of the most notable 19th-century architects of the day, including Lamb and Rich, and McKim, Mead, and White.
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 New Zealand
The titles premier and first minister were variously applied to each of the principal ministers until 1869, when premier became customary.
Although the title prime minister was first used formally in the Schedule of the Civil List Act of 1873, no one used the title officially until Richard John Seddon, beginning in 1893.
Note: The first two kings were leaders of the revolt against the colony; after the second king's surrender he and his successors maintained a symbolic and prestigious community leadership to this day.
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 History
For details of current coverage, click here, and click on "List all periodicals." Full text is searchable, with high accuracy for 19th century materials, less accuracy for 18th century materials.
This database incorporates the listings in STC I, 1475-1640 (Pollard and Redgrave); STC II, 1641-1700 (Wing); the Thomason Tracts; and The Eighteenth Century, as well as other items discovered to be in scope.
The listings in the ESTC typically, but not always, include reel numbers and item numbers for items that have been filmed as part of these collections.
www.lib.uchicago.edu /e/su/hist   (7213 words)

  
 CD-ROM Collection List
Also, prior to the census of 1850, ONLY the name of the "HOH" is listed; all other members of the household were enumerated by age group and gender only.
Keep in mind that most of the disks listed below containing census information DO NOT contain the actual census records; they have only lists of the names of the "Heads Of Household" with a page number where additional information about that individual's household members may be found in the actual census records.
This index is unique in that it not only lists the "Head of Household", but every member of the household as well for every county in the state.
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 Church Leadership Must Have a Vision of the Interneting Potential as a Church Ministry
This could incorporate announcements, listing of new members, biblical education, study guides, calendars of events, computer, and Internet training for children two years and up.
The sending of missionaries and colonial governors conveyed the idea that European political and religious ideas of Europe would conquer the remaining unchurched areas of the world.
In 1888 the London Conference of denominations divided up the world to teach everyone the principles of Christianity, leading to increased missionary budgets and the recruiting of missionaries.
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 Master List of Finding Aids in Manuscript and like Collections in the Princeton University Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Master list is in two parts A to LM to Z
Consists of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts of James Alexander, the bulk of which relate to the allocation of land, primarily in New Jersey, or to the legal and government problems arising from its ownership during the period Alexander was surveyor-general of New Jersey and, later, New York.
In addition, there are letters and documents signed by colonial governors of New York and New Jersey, including William Burnet, Robert Hunter, Edward Hyde Cornbury, Cadwallader Colden, and Jonathan Belcher, as well as letters by David Ogden, and Richard Stockton.
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 Who's Who
The foremost consideration in determining who will be listed is either the position of responsibility held or the level of achievement attained in a career of noteworthy activity.
Individuals to be profiled are requested to include a listing of one's avocations, thus providing additional insights into their personal lives and interests.
He is listed in Marquis' WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA (2000 Edition).
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 Encyclopedia: List of colonial governors in 1888   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Governors of New York as colony and State prior to 1900
______________________________________________ NEW YORK STATE--LIST OF GOVERNORS The following is a list of the Governors of New York as a colony and a State.
(New York, 1900) ; Flagg and Jennings, "Bibliography of New York Colonial History," in New York State Library Bulletin of Bibliography, vol.
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