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  New Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, has Rabaul as its principal city.
In 1915 the Australians superseded these improvised stamps of New Britain with stamps of the "North West Pacific Islands".
Because of the short period of use of the New Britain issues, they occur quite rarely, and command high prices; the most common denominations cost at least $15 US apiece, and the five-shilling overprints fetch prices of over $10,000 on the rare occasions when they come up for sale.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Britain   (444 words)

  
 New Britain on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Visited and named by the English explorer William Dampier in 1700, New Britain became part of German New Guinea in 1884.
In 1920 it was mandated to Australia by the League of Nations and in 1947 was made a UN trust territory under Australian control.
New [pounds sterling]422m NHS centre of excellence opens its doors.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NewB1ritI1.asp   (442 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on New Britain [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Britain is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea.
In 1915, these improvised stamps of New Britain were superseded by stamps of the "North West Pacific Islands".
Because of the short period of use of the New Britain issues, they are rather uncommon, and expensive to collect; the most common denominations are at least $15 US apiece, and the five shilling overprints fetch prices of over $10,000 on the rare occasions when they come up for sale.
encyclozine.com /New_Britain   (365 words)

  
 Visiting New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain's business community is a rich mix of manufacturing, medical, high-tech industry and small to mid-sized businesses, which fuel our regional economy.
New Britain offers in-town connections to major interstates and routes leading to the northern reaches of Boston and Canada, and south to New York City.
New Britain extends a warm welcome to any company looking to grow its business and join the success of a diverse, manufacturing-based community poised for the 21st century.
www.new-britain.net /visiting.html   (386 words)

  
 New Britain Downtown District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Downtown District of New Britain is a unique partnership with the property owners and the Chamber of Commerce, which makes locating in New Britain an easy task.
New Britain offers the quality of rural New England life, in conjunction with a small urban setting with abundant cultural, recreational and natural resources.
New office buildings for both the State of Connecticut and private firms as well, have been erected in recent years.
www.newbritaindd.com   (320 words)

  
 NEW BRITAIN EMS HOME   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Britain EMS is authorized to function as a Certified Ambulance Service by the State of Connecticut Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS).
New Britain EMS is the designated 911 ambulance service for the City of New Britain.
As a certified ambulance provider, New Britain EMS is limited to providing emergency services only and is restricted by State Regulation from providing other formats of medical transportation.
www.nbems.org   (463 words)

  
 New Britain News
NEW BRITAIN REGION In August 1955, hurricanes Connie and Diane swept through Connecticut and unleashed a devastating flood, the worst natural disaster in the state's recorded history.
New Britain Golden Hurricanes fans were pleased Friday as they witnessed their football team edge the host Windsor Warriors, 28-24 in a non-league game.
An elderly man from New Britain has died after being infected with the West Nile virus, the second human death from the virus in Connecticut since it first appeared in the state in 1999, state officials...
www.topix.net /city/new-britain-ct   (1181 words)

  
 West New Britain Bibliography
Circular migration in Papua New Guinea: a study of the sociological aspects of migration with the Kilenges on West New Britain.
A bibliography of the Kandrian and Gloucester Districts of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.
Sulfur in the agriculture of Papua New Guinea.
arts.uwaterloo.ca /ANTHRO/WNB/WNBBiblio.html   (12324 words)

  
 The Herald - Sports
NEW BRITAIN -- Central Connecti-cut men’s soccer coach Shaun Green could hardly contain his excitement this summer.
As the New York Yankees scatter into the offseason, here are five things that $208 million of George Steinbrenner’s money couldn’t buy against the Angels in the American League Division Series and during the 2005 season at large.
NEW BRITAIN -- The city’s all-Democratic City Council has challenged Mayor Timothy Stewart’s assertion that the common council prevented him from doing a good job as mayor.
www.zwire.com /site/news.asp?brd=1641&nav_sec=3227   (198 words)

  
 Food Not Bombs: New Britain
The New Britain chapter has not been bothered by the police; however, we have considered the possibility of that.
We are serving food in New Britain because there are no soup kitchens open on Sundays in the city.
Connecticut is the wealthiest state in the nation, and yet 71.5% of students in New Britain are eligible to receive free or reduced school lunches.
newbritainfnb.blogspot.com   (1026 words)

  
 Tavurvur, Rabaul Caldera, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea
Tavurvur, Rabaul Caldera, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea
The New Britain Island trading port is surrounded by six volcanoes.
New Ireland, the cloud covered area in the foreground, lies just east of Rabaul harbor.
volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/img_rabaul.html   (685 words)

  
 New Britain Girl Scouts Make a Difference
The New Britain Girl Scout Service Team and Finance Committee meet the first Wednesday of each month at the North Central Girl Scout Service Center at 313 East Street in Plainville.
New Britain Girl Scouts are part of a larger organization:
New Britain Girl Scouts will be selling cookies in January 2002.
www.angelfire.com /ct/GSNewBritain   (408 words)

  
 Britain Proposes New Anti-Terror Powers (washingtonpost.com)
The measures were designed to address legal challenges to a post-Sept. 11 law under which the government has kept 11 foreign nationals imprisoned without charges for as long as three years for allegedly posing a threat to national security.
Under the new proposal, the power to impose what officials called "control orders" would apply to British citizens as well as foreigners living in Britain.
Under the law used to lock up the 11 men, foreign citizens living in Britain who were suspected of terrorism but who faced the prospect of torture or execution if they were deported to their home countries could be held indefinitely.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A39703-2005Jan26.html   (694 words)

  
 New Britain Baptist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As the interim pastor of the New Britain Baptist Church it is my privilege to extend a warm welcome to all who seek a place of worship.
We seek not to be judgmental, we desire a family of diversity, and we acknowledge that in Christ there is no male or female we are one in the Lord.
The congregation of the New Britain Baptist Church is a member of the American Baptist Churches, USA.
www.newbritainbaptist.org   (111 words)

  
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New Britain is the home to over ten thousand students annually, and the numbers continue to rise
hese students can be found in the public school system of New Britain which includes one high school, three middle schools, and ten elementary schools.
he mission of the Consolidated School District of New Britain is to create an educational system which will facilitate the development of students so that they may reach their fullest potential as productive human beings and be prepared to function effectively in a changing society.
www.new-britain.k12.ct.us   (290 words)

  
 The New Britain Symphony Home Page
The New Britain Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit organization whose professional orchestra has been performing in the greater New Britain area since 1950.
The orchestra serves the youth of the area by sponsoring and performing enrichment programs and young people’s concerts free to schoolchildren in New Britain, Berlin and Plainville.
The New Britain Symphony Orchestra also sponsors free outdoor concerts at Walnut Hill Park, recently in association with the New Britain Museum of American Art “Arts and Crafts Fair”.
www.newbritainsymphony.org   (125 words)

  
 Landscape Archaeology in West New Britain
A large international team of specialists in geomorphology, palaeobotany, geology, and physics from universities in Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea as well as local and overseas volunteers are important collaborators.
The research has provided much new information about the early periods of settlement in the region, which were very poorly studied previously.
More information about the West New Britain archaeological research can be found in the ARC final report for 1996 - 1998, the 1999, 2000, and 2001 illustrated field reports, and the list of reports and publications.
www.amonline.net.au /anthropology/research/wnb.htm   (668 words)

  
 Welcome to New Britain, Connecticut
It has been my goal as mayor to make New Britain an even better place to live, work and to raise a family.
With a full range of services for our residents and a determination to expand economic development opportunities, I believe that New Britain truly is the place to be.
I have been working hard to control City spending and to cut taxes in order to make New Britain a better place to live and to do business.
www.new-britain.net   (175 words)

  
 The Boston Camerata: New Britain
Congratulations to Erato for this recent recording with Joel Cohen and his Boston Camerata, "New Britain." which, via Elizabethan ballads, French Renaissance chansons, and troubador songs, shows us the "roots of American folksong." As is usual with these performers, their effort, both musical and linguistic, is very serious, and completely successful.
Yet those who know and love American folk traditions are aware that the "newness" of the new world is sometimes more apparent than real.
New Britain Probably the best known of the white Southern folk-hymns.
www.bostoncamerata.com /cd/titles/newbrit.htm   (7159 words)

  
 The Herald - News - 02/19/2005 - Start of firefighters acting at first responders undetermined   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NEW BRITAIN -- The city’s firefighters will not start acting as first responders on Feb. 21, as previously reported in The Herald.
A new start date is yet to be determined, he said.
The city’s Emergency Medical Services personnel will still be transporting patients to New Britain General Hospital.
www.newbritainherald.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=13994289&BRD=1641&PAG=461&dept_id=10110&rfi=6   (144 words)

  
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New Britain, CT (9/26) - The New Britain Rock Cats have released their 2006 Eastern League Schedule, and it includes more home games (13) against Portland - the Boston Red Sox EL affiliate than any other Club in the League.
New Britain, CT (8/28) - The New Britain Rock Cats lowered the curtain on the home portion of their 2005 Regular Season schedule this afternoon, after having warmly welcomed - and thoroughly entertained - a grand total of 337,687 fans during the current campaign.
This final number - representing a new All-Time Single Season Attendance Mark for the club - was reached this afternoon at New Britain Stadium after a total of 4,915 stalwart fans turned out under overcast skies to support their favorite Eastern League team.
www.rockcats.com   (432 words)

  
 New Britain, island, Papua New Guinea
in 1700, New Britain became part of German New Guinea in 1884.
WHATEVER: Unless Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Cook Islands, The Bahamas, St Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, Barbuda, Belize, St Vincent and The Grenadines, the Solomon Islands, Antigua, Grenada, and Britain alter a law..
Cultural landscapes on Garua Island, Papua New Guinea.
www.infoplease.com /id/A0835371   (314 words)

  
 The Herald
NEW BRITAIN -- A local woman with psychological problems purposely drove her car into the water at A.W. Stanley Quarter Park in an attempt to re-enact a scene from the blockbuster film, "The Passion of the Christ," police said.
An anonymous caller notified New Britain police early Saturday morning after seeing a womandriving a Chevrolet Lumina into the brook at A.W. Stanley Quarter Park.
Police said the woman, whose name has not been released, is in her 40s, married, and has children.
www.zwire.com /site/11051984.html   (345 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - New Britain, island, Papua New Guinea (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - New Britain, island, Papua New Guinea (Pacific Islands Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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New Britain, island, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Islands Political Geography
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NewBritI.html   (260 words)

  
 New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT Memory is a Painter: The Art of Grandma Moses
The exhibition includes twenty prime examples of the art of Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses's paintings, including her famous scenes of farm crafts, winter views, and rural seasonal celebrations, and comes to New Britain, Connecticut after traveling from the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi, California and the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Located in a turn-of-the-century house since 1937 and since expanded to nineteen galleries, the New Britain Museum of American Art traces its beginnings to1903 when private citizens began a public art collection for the enjoyment and education of the public.
www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m45.htm   (914 words)

  
 History: Review of New Books: Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia.(Review)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia.(Review)
Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia New York: Garland Publishing 871 pp., $125.00, ISBN 0-8153-0396-3 Publication Date: September 1997 This is a mammoth reference book for a mammoth subject.
Jeremy Black, a contributor and professor of history at the University of Exeter, states: "Britain between 1714 and 1837 became the most powerful state in the world, best able to project its strength around the world; the leading maritime, colonial, and economic force in world affairs" (261).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_hb141/is_199901/ai_n5663073   (273 words)

  
 New Britain Arts
The purpose of the Greater New Britain Arts Alliance is to promote the creative, performing and visual arts, to provide a unified voice for the arts organizations, to serve as a catalyst for arts-related collaborations,
Founded in 1976, the Greater New Britain Opera Association is a professional company that showcases emerging talent in principal roles and introduces youth to opera via performance and work-study.
Approximately 100 singers from every faith in the greater New Britain area join together in a strong bond of fellowship and service through music for an annual performance in April.
www.newbritainarts.org   (1621 words)

  
 British High Commission, New Zealand Home
The world’s most travelled museum, which voyaged twice across the world before reaching its intended destination, was opened by Pitcairn’s Governor and British High Commissioner to New Zealand Richard Fell on the tiny Pacific island of Pitcairn on 26 August.  more...
Britain 4 Kiwi Kids has been put together by the British High Commission in Wellington, New Zealand.
The aim is to help connect kiwi kids with kids in Britain and also to provide information on the UK for fun and school.
www.britishhighcommission.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1082828862591   (239 words)

  
 New Britain CT Chess Club - Main Page
In second place was Joe Bihlmeyer of Southington at 6.5/9, and tied for third with 5/9 were Mark Bourque of Stafford Springs, John Baclawski of New Britain, and Joe Mansigian of New Britain.
The 2003 New Britain City Champion is NM Rick Bauer, who gave up one draw (to John Baclawski) and one loss (to Aquilino Pena).
Draws were earned by Arkadijs Strazdins of New Britain, Robert Milardo of Cromwell, and Alan Cabot of East Longmeadow MA.
www.geocities.com /wgrzesiak   (2261 words)

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