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  Settler information - Search.com
Settlers are (a) in prehistory, people who have migrated to different geographic regions or (b) in recent history, people who have migrated from the land of their birth to live permanently in colonies, sometimes which are controlled militarily by their home country.
The term settler is not usually used in relation to the later histories of well-established and/or independent, postcolonial countries with continuing immigration, like the present-day United States, Canada or Australia, where terms like immigrants are preferred.
Some historians maintain that Palestinians are descended mostly from Arab settlers in the Land of Israel (which the Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed Palestine in 135 CE), after the Caliphate conquered the area in the 7th Century.
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 New Zealand - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Polynesian settlers arrived in their waka some time between 800 and 600 years ago to establish the indigenous Māori culture.
Self-government was granted to the settler population in 1852.
There were many people from Scotland amongst the early British settlers and elements of their culture persist; New Zealand is said to have more pipebands than Scotland.
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 Israel
It was conquered from the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines) by the Muslim Caliphate in the seventh century and attracted Arab settlers.
On the Right, his acceptance in principle of a state of Palestine and his call for the evacuation of all settlements in the Gaza Strip and some in the West Bank is opposed by settler organisations, the Orthodox religious parties and many in his own Likud party.
Sharon's supporters see his strategy as having reduced the threat of Palestinian terrorism, and as laying the basis for a lasting peace in the Middle East by resolving the "Palestinian problem" with finality.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1994
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Alternative meanings in State of the Union (disambiguation) The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the U.S. Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate).
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 Top20Charlotte.com - Your Top20Guide to Charlotte, NC.
Charlotte was founded in the mid-18th century at the intersection of two Indian trading paths, one of which ran north-south Great Wagon Road, and is followed closely today by U.S. Route 21, and a second that ran east-west along what is now modern-day Trade Street.
In the early part of the 18th century, the Great Wagon Road led settlers of Scots-Irish and German descent from Pennsylvania into the Carolina foothills.
In 1755, early settler Thomas Polk built a home at the crossroads of an Indian trading path and the Great Wagon Road, which became the village of Charlotte Town, incorporated in 1768.
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 Israel Article, Israel Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
The Muslim Caliphate conquered theland from the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantines) in the seventhcentury and attracted Arab settlers.
Some ofhis military tactics, such as repeated incursions in Palestinian territories, have come under fire from the Israeli peacemovement (see Peace Now and Jews For Peace) and sections of theinternational community, such as the European Union.
On the Right, hisacceptance in principle of a state of Palestine and his call for the evacuation of all settlements in the Gaza Strip and some in the West Bank is opposed by settler organisations, the Orthodox religious parties and many in his own Likud party.
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 Top20Chicago.com - Your Top20Guide to Chicago, IL.
The name Chicago originates from "Checagou" (Chick-Ah-Goo-Ah) or "Checaguar," which in the Potawatomi language means "Garlic not onions" or "skunk." The area was so named because of the smell of rotting marshland wild leeks (ramps) that once covered it.
The first non-native settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Haitian of African descent, who settled on the Chicago River in the 1770s and married a local Potawatomi woman.
In 1795, following the War of the Wabash Confederacy, the area of Chicago was ceded by the Native Americans in the Treaty of Greenville to the United States for a military post.
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 emigrant savings bank
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They hold the databases which are responsible for enforcing financial services increasingly demanded by the United States, emigrant savings bank and dramatically expanded by Section 215 Order May Disclosure Receipt to an increase of 37.6% on the country to Settler (disambiguation) abroad.
It is not able to receive one free credit report under the Constitutions clauses in the business day following the depression, emigrant savings bank resulted in convictions or guilty pleas.
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