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The Commissioner of the General Land Office was required to submit an annual report along with the reports of all of the surveyors general to his superior, the Secretary of the Treasury, after 1849 the Secretary of the Interior.
The act establishing the Territory of Minnesota authorized the Surveyor General to run and mark the northern boundary of Iowa, a boundary that would later be used as a baseline for the surveys west of the Mississippi.
United States, Congress, Senate, Report of expeditions and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4.
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  Kingdom Of Naples - LoveToKnow 1911
KINGDOM OF NAPLES, the name conventionally given to the kingdom of Sicily on the Italian mainland (Sicily beyond the Pharos), to distinguish it from that of Sicily proper (Sicily on this side of the Pharos, i.e.
The history of the kingdom of Naples is inextricably interwoven with that of Sicily, with which for long periods it was united as the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Fresh elections were held and the new parliament met on the 15th of July, but it had the king, the army and the mob against it, and anti-constitutionalist demonstrations became frequent.
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 United Kingdom - Search View - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The climate of the United Kingdom is mild relative to its latitude.
The United Kingdom is one of the most urbanized of the world’s larger nations: about 89 per cent of the population lives in cities and towns.
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 United States History - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
In it, the United States independently declared that further European colonization in the Americas would be considered an unfriendly act (which agreed with the British proposal).
General Zachary Taylor invaded northern Mexico from Texas, capturing the city of Monterrey in September 1846.
The ease with which the United States won and the arrogance with which it behaved created a distrustful and sometimes violent southern border area for the country.
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 Chapter VII. General View of the Remainder of My Life. Mill, John Stuart. 1909-14. Autobiography. The Harvard Classics
General society, as now carried on in England, is so insipid an affair, even to the persons who make it what it is, that it is kept up for any reason rather than the pleasure it affords.
The economic generalizations which depend, not on necessities of nature but on those combined with the existing arrangements of society, it deals with only as provisional, and as liable to be much altered by the progress of social improvement.
What was abstract and purely scientific was generally mine; the properly human element came from her: in all that concerned the application of philosophy to the exigencies of human society and progress, I was her pupil, alike in boldness of speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment.
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 United Kingdom general election, 2001 - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media.
The elections were also marked by apathy from the voting public, turnout being only 59%, the lowest since 1918.
Throughout the election the Labour party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.
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 United Kingdom general election, 1847 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1847 UK general election saw candidates calling themselves Conservatives win the most seats, in part because they won a number of uncontested seats.
However, the split among the Conservatives between Protectionists led by the Earl of Derby and free traders led by Sir Robert Peel left the Whigs, led by Prime Minister Lord John Russell, in a position to continue in government.
The Irish Repeal group won more seats than in the previous general election, while the Chartists gained the only seat they were ever to hold (Fergus O'Connor).
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 United Kingdom Did You Mean united?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The United Kingdom is the union of the Kingdom of England (which includes the principality of Wales) with the Kingdom of Scotland and later the Kingdom of Ireland to form a single state.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
At the April 2001 census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194-- the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and metropolitan France) and the 21st-largest in the world.
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 United Kingdom General Election results since 1832
UK General Elections since 1832 UK General Elections since 1832
Otherwise, links are to summary results on the Spartacus site and Adam Carr's Election Archive
1832: December 1835: January 1837: July 1841: June/July 1847: July 1852: July 1857: March 1859: April/May 1865: July 1868: November 1874: February 1880: April 1885: November 1886: July 1892: July
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 Ship Arrivals Quebec, Canada May 1847 part 2
General Scott is advancing on the capital, which is said to be incapable of defence.
The Governor General has authorised the Medical Superintendent to do everything possible for the comfort of the Emigrants, and 1000 tents have been sent down by his orders for the accommodation of the healthy landed from the shp-for the sake of purification-in which there was disease.
The last three are to charge themselves with the construction of the canal, and are to receive a tonnage duty until they are completely reimbursed for all their expenses; the execution of this work is not to be interrupted, even if war should break out between the contracting parties.
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 Holidays and Festivals - United States of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In the United States, Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus are considered one and the same unlike in some other countries.
Commemorates the raising of the United States flag on Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima by the Marines in 1945.
North Dakota is generally considered the thirty-ninth state, but actually no on knows for sure which of the Dakotas was signed first.
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 United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005.
The Conservative Party was seeking to regain seats lost to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats since the 1992 General Election, and move from being the Official Opposition into government.
In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
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 Hawaiian Kingdom Arbitration - Memorial of Hawaiian Kingdom Government
The United States of America, as a belligerent State, was already at war with Spain, and utilized Hawaiian territory as a staging ground for conflicts in the Spanish territories of the Philippines and Guam.
The Hawaiian Kingdom was governed until 1838, without legal enactments, and was based upon a system of common law, which consisted partly of the ancient kapu (taboo) and the practices of the celebrated Chiefs, that had been passed down by tradition since time immemorial.
In 1851, the Hawaiian Kingdom Legislature passed a resolution calling for the appointment of three commissioners, one to be chosen by the King, one by the House of Nobles, and one by the House of Representatives.
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 This Day In Military History... [Archive] - Armchair General Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
1951 General MacArthur dismissed from command in Korea MacArthur was dismissed from his command in Korea for the perception in Washington that he was too intemperate and likely to escalate the war.
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General Wenck embarks on the last German offensive to relieve Berlin, but only manages to reach Ferch on the 27th April, before the offensive grinds to a halt.
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