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 Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the battlefield, the Ottomans were beginning the process of gradually falling behind Christian Europe in military technology as religious and intellectual conservatism began to act as an anchor to the spirit of innovation that had been a signal aspect to the empire's forceful expansion.
The Sipahi cavalry was becoming a dated force and, most seriously, relaxations of recruitment policy and ill-considered growth in numbers in the Janissary corps engendered chronic defects in discipline and the ability to perform as an elite.
—and thus establishing him as the ethnarch of the Millet of Rum; that is, the Orthodox Christian subjects of the empire, regardless of their ethnicity.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ottoman_Empire   (8797 words)

  
 TWiT.tv
The pixel corps guys could animate them and have them nod and turn and shake their head or whatnot.
They could even replace those images with images of those hosts with certain emotions on their faces like confusion shock or smugness.
Now that i take it all in, it might take a while for the corps to release it, but like Alex said, they get to try out new and exciting things that they might not get to try otherwise.
www.thisweekintech.com /35   (2209 words)

  
 Culture of Sydney - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Early Sydney was a convict colony, with a military government.
The "New South Wales Corps" was notoriously corrupt and self seeking and was known as the "Rum corps" Early Sydney was molded by the hardship suffered by early settlers, the penal nature of the settlement, the corruption of the military and an understandable lack of respect for authority.
MacArthur was an important figure in the Rum Corp and in the rebellion against Governor Bligh.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Culture_of_Sydney   (219 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - 1808 - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
February - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France, Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.
26 January - Rum Rebellion: On the twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New South Wales, disgruntled military officers of the New South Wales Corps (the "Rum Corps") overthrow and imprison Governor William Bligh and seize control of the colony.
February 2 - French troops occupy Papal States (Vatican)
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /1808.htm   (698 words)

  
 short facts
He continued to rob the settlers, but when he managed to kill Permulwy, an Aborigine who had murdered a gamekiller in 1791 and who had continued to terrorise settlers, they briefly acclaimed him a hero.
In January 1796 Governor Hunter put a price on Cesor's head of five gallons of spirit [rum or spirit became an accepted form of currency in the 1790's under the auspices of the New South Wales (or Rum) Corps].
Yet more probably arrived as sailors on American sealing and whaling ships, which operated in Australian waters for many years (one of the first American ships, the 'Hope', arrived in December 1792 with a cargo of provisions and 7,500 gallons of rum, which subsequently became accepted as currency in the colony).
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