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	Twelve Colonies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Twelve Colonies of Man or Twelve Colonies of Kobol constitute the main human civilization in the fictional universe of the original 1978 science fiction film and television series Battlestar Galactica, and in the subsequent miniseries (2003) and series reimagining (2004).
		All Colonial planets were depopulated by the Cylons during The Destruction of the Twelve Colonies.
		The Quorum of the Twelve (sometimes called the "Council of the Twelve") is the main governing body of the Twelve Colonies.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Twelve_Colonies (1479 words)

	Colonial History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Twelve were described as great leaders with supernatural powers who brought our ancestors to the twelve worlds, each one founding a colony (literal translation "made to live") and endowing our ancestors with knowledge to prosper in their new home.
		Colonial industry and population across all Twelve Colonies had reached critical mass in the second mid-century BU (~150 BU); industrial strength was now growing ever faster and faster, fed by the demands of a rapidly expanding population base (estimated at between ten and twenty billion across all twelve worlds).
		The Colony, while an avid supporter of the Articles which was seen as the guarantor of their security from further Piscean aggression, failed to achieve the spectacular growth seen in the other eleven Colonies.
	www3.telus.net /public/akamyot/history.htm (9450 words)

	GEORGIA--COLONIZATION-THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
		The object in founding the colony was threefold: to afford an opportunity to the unfortunate poor to begin life over again, to offer a refuge to persecuted Protestants of Europe, and to erect a military barrier between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida.
		Georgia was the only colony of the thirteen that received financial aid by a vote of Parliament--the only one in the planting of which the British government, as such, took a part.
		To the end of the colonial era Georgia was essentially the southern frontier of South Carolina, as North Carolina was of Virginia.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/book/chap4_5.html (1541 words)

	History of the Twelve Colonies - GalacticaBBS
		Such was the extent to which the Colonies had invested their military power in the Cylons that when they chose to rebel against their masters, the Colonials found themselves well-matched.
		The Colonials were forced to abandon networked computers and wireless devices in favor of more secure and durable technologies, able to withstand both Cylon infiltration and the powerful nuclear weapons used by the warring parties.
		While the Cylon War had a lasting effect on the government of the Twelve Colonies, the population as a whole, much of it born after the war, had relegated it to a historical note in textbooks.
	galacticabbs.com /index.php?showtopic=386 (1176 words)

	The Twelve Colonies (RDM) - Battlestar Wiki
		The mining colony of Troy, destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion (Flesh and Bone) is located near Aerelon, and may have been operated by natives of that world.
		Robin Wenutu is the Canceron Representative to the Quorum of Twelve.
		Marshall Bagot is the Virgon Representative to the Quorum of Twelve.
	en.battlestarwiki.org /wiki/The_Twelve_Colonies_(RDM) (1353 words)

	History of the Declaration of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By the 1st of July all the colonies except New York had granted the necessary authority to their respective delegations, and on that morning Lee's resolution was taken up.
		On the afternoon of the 2nd the resolution was passed by the unanimous vote of twelve colonies, New York not voting.
		This document was now taken up, and, with a few slight changes, was adopted by the vote of the twelve colonies on the evening of the 4th; and this day became the recognized national holiday of the newly founded nation.
	www.flagco.com /declaration.shtml (1386 words)

	Battlestar Galactica \| The Worlds of the Galactica Universe
		Apparently named for the twelve signs of the Zodiac, their nomenclature were derived from an unlikely mix of Greek and Latin roots (Greek and Latin are both Indo-European languages, but they come from different branches of the family).
		The Zodiac connection was never fully explored, but it implied that the twelve colonies might be distributed in a circular group.
		Coming out of the pilot episode, the viewing audience was left with the impression that the Twelve Colonies represented the extent of human civilization in that distant region of space.
	www.sf-worlds.com /galactica/worlds.html (1306 words)

	RichardHatch.com: Home of Richard Hatch Enterprises
		Twelve (12) worlds in a multi-star system are home to the Twelve Colonies of Man. According to the ancient writings, the Twelve Colonies were settled by those who journeyed from a mother world, Kobol.
		The Colonial fleet is gathered as a peace envoy under a joint Cylon/Colonial truce.
		The Twelve Colonies of Man (Twelve Tribes; Colonials) are destroyed in a Trojan Horse gambit by their 1,000-yahren old enemies, the Cylons.
	www.richardhatch.com /battlestar_galactica/episode_guide.html (3183 words)

	Battlestar Galactica \| Time and Chronology in Galactica's world
		It is highly unlikely the Twelve Colonies were supposed to have similar orbital distances and periods from their various stars.
		Common sense dictated that the twelve colonies, each apparently orbiting its own star (except for a reference to twin worlds in one system), must have had their own orbitational and rotational periods.
		Ronald Moore's Cylons were built by the humans of the Twelve Colonies, and they appear to have been a recent development.
	www.sf-worlds.com /galactica/time-chronology.html (1329 words)

	Battlestar Galactica (television series) [2003]
		In the series I believe the Colonies are joined in a kind of loose confederal system, cooperating mainly in defense and otherwise enjoying near-total autonomy--and even that modest degree of centralization is in the series' timeline a recent development.
		A colony that correspond to the earth constellation of Capricorn.
		A colony that correspond to the earth constellation of Taurus.
	flagspot.net /flags/fic^bgl2.html (675 words)

	Revolutionary War Time Line
		Throughout the colonies, a network of secret organizations known as the Sons of Liberty was created, aimed at intimidating the stamp agents who collected Parliament's taxes.
		Twelve of the thirteen colonies sent a total of fifty-six delegates to the First Continental Congress.
		When North Carolina and Virginia empowered their delegates to vote for American independence, Virginian Richard Henry Lee offered a resolution stating that the colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States." A committee was appointed to draft a declaration of independence, and Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write it.
	www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/Constitutional/Time_Line.htm (4354 words)

	The Fourteen Colonies
		Things in the 14th Colony were as peaceful as they had ever been, and with the Redcoats gone the quiet settlers heaved a sigh of relief and read the fiery pamphlets sent out of Boston.
		Thus the quiet of the 14th colony was soon replaced with rebellion and behind the scenes sabotage.
		The statue of the Indian was a symbol used by the original colony as early as 1629.
	www.myhartt.com /families/fourteen_colonies.htm (4576 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| Battlestar Galactica
		A truce between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons lasted for 40 tense and silent years.
		Then, on the 40th anniversary, a stunning blonde — a Cylon in human form — met the human envoy … moments before the Cylons vaporized the station and launched a genocidal attack on the Twelve Colonies.
		Meanwhile, the annihilation of the Colonial government on Caprica resulted in the succession of Laura Roslin, the Secretary of Education, to the presidency.
	www.scifi.com /battlestar/about (303 words)

	Military History of the Twelve Colonies of Man
		Owing to the length of the conflict and the relative stagnancy of the frontlines, Colonials became accustomed to the war as an everyday way of life.
		Some in the military continued to advocate for her construction in order to bargain her away at the negotiation table during the arms limitation talks to be held at a later date after the armistice accords were formally signed; but their pleas fell on death ears.
		It was his intention to use this battlestar without the knowledge of the Quorum of the Twelve and launch offensives deep into Cylon territory, thereby taking the war to the Cylons for the first time in ages.
	www.msu.edu /~stacey/Galactica/gal-military.htm (863 words)

	12 Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In that time the colonies expanded beyond their religious roots and have come to occupy the entire sector.
		With a growing military presence the main goal of the 12 Colonies will be to protect its boarders from the scourge of piracy and involvement in the Galactic Civil War.
		Their stance would be to stay out of the growing galactic conflict, but to protect their borders from the ever expanding piracy that plagued the surrounding sectors.
	www.t12c.com (526 words)

	Phil 105 Notes: Founding
		The colonies were united in their support of the Bostonians and sent both food and money to relieve them from the blockade.
		All of the colonials felt threatened by the Coercive Acts and, consequently, it was clear that individual colonial governments would not provide a suitable forum for discussion, especially since colonial governors owed direct allegiance to the crown.
		It is important to observe that the colonies had existed as separate units for more than a century and that their reason for unification, so far as it went, was wholly one of countering English abuses.
	www4.hmc.edu:8001 /humanities/beckman/PhilNotes/federal.htm (1990 words)

	Background of the Revolution : Correspondence and Inquiry
		This was an important approach to union; however by July of 1773 only four colonies in New England and one in the South had followed Virginia's lead.
		Colonial unanimity came later, after the decision by Parliament to dump a large quantity of excess tea on American importers, at prices including a tax.
		News of the so-called "Tea Act" reached the colonies in the fall of 1773, and was followed by the tea itself, arriving in shiploads at each principal American city.
	www.burlco.lib.nj.us /county/history/revolution/background.html (585 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Colony of Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is generally believed that lawyers were not allowed in the colony, but no legislation has been found to prove it.
		Alcohol was allowed into the colony because it was thought that the importation of alcohol would improve trade.
		The English church was the state church after Georgia became a royal colony, but religious freedom was granted to all protestants.
	www.historywiz.com /georgia.htm (708 words)

	Review Concepts 1
		The use of colonies as supply depots for the home economies, and the exclusion of colonies from trade with other nations produced such reactions as the American Revolution, in which the colonists asserted their desire for freedom to seek economic advantage wherever it could be found.
		In a dramatic, rhetorical style, the document asserted that the American colonies received no advantage from Great Britain, which was exploiting them, and that every consideration of common sense called for the colonies to become independent and establish a republican government of their own.
		About 50 delegates designated principally by the colonial assemblies represented twelve colonies in the First Continental Congress; Canada and Georgia were not represented.
	members.tripod.com /ap_history_online/apushmid1a.htm (1899 words)

	Battlestar Galactica (New Series) - A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page
		Cylons, the robotic enemies of the humans, were actually created by the humans (as opposed to being an alien race in the original series), had rebelled and were exiled, and had evolved into a race of highly sophisticated beings.
		The original colonial emblem on the uniforms was the symbol currently used by U.S. Army military intelligence officers with the interior of the rose petals colored in blue.
		The Colonials themselves are clearly far more politically diverse, having previously experienced both political and even military conflicts between the different Colonies, and there are clear suggestions during the 2004 series that the Colonial society is riven by deep class divisions.
	www.thebucklist.com /battlestargalactica.html (2906 words)

	Battlestar Galactica: Colonial Movers
		Colonial Movers Corporation owned one of the largest transport fleets in the colonies.
		Dedicated to moving freight from one planet to another these midrange transports were common place amongst the Twelve Colonies and many a Space Trucker worked or flew these transport vessels for a living.
		Following the destruction of the Colonies the Colonial Movers Corporation deployed every ship they had in their service fleet in an effort to save lives and help refugees relocate to Earth, living up to their company slogan "Colonial Movers...
	www.tecr.com /galactica/miscships/movers.htm (99 words)

	Billie Doux: Reviews and Articles
		And then, of course, there was the genocide of the human race on the twelve colonies.
		And twelve colonies reminded me of the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles.
		There are twelve that are associated with each planet of the twelve colonies: Galactica is Caprica's.
	www.billiedoux.com /bsgpilot.html (2069 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		Hence, by general necessity and by common consent, the second Continental Congress assumed control of the ``Twelve United Colonies'', soon to become the ``Thirteen United Colonies'' by the cooperation of Georgia.
		It became a de facto government; it called upon the other colonies to assist in the defense of Massachusetts; it issued bills of credit; it took steps to organize a military force, and appointed George Washington commander in chief of the Army.
		Twelve States agreed to such an amendment, but Rhode Island refused her consent, thereby defeating the proposal.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/prelim5.html (2347 words)

	Erin Mooney's Senior Thesis - 1998: IDH Molecular Biology Lab Course
		Twelve white colonies were chosen for screening and grown overnight in 2 ml LB-ampicillin cultures.
		Colonies containing the recombinant plasmid were grown in 100 ml liquid cultures of LB-ampicillin overnight and the plasmid DNA was isolated using a Qiagen plasmid purification kit and stored at -20° Celsius.
		Twelve white colonies were chosen for restriction digestion analysis with BamHI and HindIII.
	www.bio.davidson.edu /Courses/Molbio/MolStudents/ermooney/ABTweb.htm (4086 words)

	Kobol / The Battle of Kobol - Nephrites Citadel
		Kobol is the homeworld of humanity, from which twelve "colonies" of man were founded in deep space, and a thirteenth, which colonised the planet Earth.
		After the human inhabitants of Kobol fled the planet and founded the colonies, they deliberately destroyed all of their technology and spacecraft; it took several centuries to rebuild even the most primitive ships for exploring the stars.
		Twelve of these groups traveled through the magnetic void and eventually settled a group of inhabitable planets in a common solar system.
	www.rustaz.com /forum/showthread.php?t=9548 (1623 words)

	“Battlestar Galactica” 101--A Viewing Guide to the Original Series - SciFi TV
		In the original, the humans of the twelve human colonies (named after star signs, like Capricorn) have been at war with the robotic Cylons for 1000 years.
		But the Council of Twelve, in the first of many bad decisions, overrules Adama and decides to leave their colonies and ships relatively unprotected.
		Though the Galactica has left its position in a last-ditch attempt try to save the colonies (thus spurring its warriors to erroneously think Adama is a coward), it is too late and most of the population of the twelve worlds has been wiped out.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art27629.asp (1390 words)

	Battlestar Zone Battlestar Galactica Concordance: A
		Apparently the Colonials do not require their military leaders to abstain from politics, although they do have a principle of civilian control of the military, which seems a contradiction in terms.
		Robber is descended from an Aerian robber sentenced to the penal colony on Proteus.
		Ambrosa was the sole product of the penal colony on the planet Proteus after they stopped making munitions 700 yahrens ago, and the prisoners each received a bottle per day.
	www.geocities.com /sjpaxton/glosa.html (2374 words)

	FREEDOM IS BORN - First and Second Continental Congresses
		Twelve Colonies responded (with Canada and Georgia abstaining), and the 50 delegates met and unanimously elected Virginia Delegate Peyton Randolph as president.
		This concession to the desires of many of the delegates to avoid confrontation with Britain and reconcile the Colonies to the king was forwarded to Britain where Colonial agents attempted to persuade Lord Dartmouth to pass it on to King George.
		Congress had authorized a new flag for the 13 Colonies and, on New Years Day of 1776 General Washington's troops raised their new flag on the liberty pole at Prospect Hill near the General's headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.homeofheroes.com /hallofheroes/1st_floor/birth/1bc1a.html (2162 words)

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