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The top team advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Americas Zone Group II for the next year.
When Cross River State was created in 1976, the Association changed its name to The Association of Student of Cross River State of Nigeria in the Americas.
Because of Britain's long association with the Americas, there is also a history of comment and analysis of the geography, culture and peoples of America, from Sir Walter Raleigh and Charles Dickens to Rudyard Kipling and Alistair Cooke.
In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.
Americas Quarterly has attracted contributions from leading figures in the region such as Bill Gates, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Ricardo Lagos, José Antonio Ocampo, Richard Feinberg, and Admiral James Stravidis.
In October/November 2005, the II Indigenous Summit of the Americas was held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza, with the assistance of the government of Canada and organizational support from the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.
During the late 1840s he became aware of the Americas while attending a George Catlin exhibition in Paris.
He also trained with Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany and with Alison Becker Chase of the Pilobolus Dance Company, and travelled through to Europe, Americas, Japan and Indonesia.
Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, along with 16 others, co-sponsored a bill asking the 110th Congress to place the Braille flag as a monument to Americas' blinded veterans, blind service members, and other blind Americans at the Arlington National Cemetery.
She used the pseudonym Eve Raleigh in her writing, possibly referencing to Eve, the first female, and Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh) the English explorer of the Americas.
The Museo del Oro in Bogotá displays the most important collection of pre-Columbian gold handicraft in the Americas.
In the navy he saw much of the world, particularly the Americas (he was, for example, in the city of New Orleans when the American Civil War came to an end, and he was in Mexico during the revolution of 1867 when the Emperor Maximillian was dethroned and executed).
For over 30 years, Schueftan has served as "a consultant to Israeli decision-makers and to the top echelon of Israel's foreign policy and defense establishments," also briefing European and American political leaders and senior officers.
Sheila Browne, RSM, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, West Midwest Community, Burbank, CA
Uruguay pioneered universal, free, and compulsory primary education in the Americas under the influence of José Pedro Varela, whose writings convinced the government to pass the 1877 Law of Common Education (which was implemented by his brother Jacobo Varela, Orestes Araújo and others).
The SW1001 locomotive type was used in a number of countries outside the USA: in the Americas 4 units were bought by Canadian businesses; 2 by Saskatchewan Power, and 2 by the National Harbours Board.
The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International (CACI).
But Leif Ericson probably discovered America "first" (forgive me for not counting the native Americans, who of course really discovered it "first").
It has been suggested that Brendan arrived in the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus but this has not been proven.
Dental morphology provides clues to prehistoric migration patterns, with Sinodont dental patterns occurring in East Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, and the Americas.
Beginning in 1991, Helen Mack Chang pursued prosecution in Guatemala of those suspected of the crime, which included several men trained at the US Army School of the Americas (later renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).
Vegetables of the Americas were also introduced to the interior of the continent through trade; slaves (most often the losers in various conflicts) were travelling to Loango, the mouth of the river and south of the Kongo Kingdom.
Several instances of kidnapping for transportation to the Americas are recorded and this falls more clearly into the category of "white slave".
Aside from academics, Jacob Kirkegaard collaborates with various artists on installations and resonances and has performed in Asia, America and Europe.
Observers such as journalist Karel van Wolferen, have concluded that Japan's political system is empty at the center, lacking real leadership or a locus of responsibility: "Statecraft in Japan is quite different from that in the rest of Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For centuries it has entailed the preservation of a careful balance of semiautonomous groups that share power… These semiautonomous components, each endowed with great discretionary powers, are not represented in one central ruling body."
After Harvard, he was hired by Guinness Brewery as head of strategy for Guinness Americas and Caribbean.
These include honorary doctorates from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (1984), the Universidad Veracruzana (2004), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2007) and the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Casa de las Américas in Havana (2008).
La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.
Madia sativa, the coast tarweed or Chilean tarweed, a flowering plant species native to the Americas
The Sutro sisters, however, had asked Bruch for a concerto specifically for them, which he produced by arranging this suite into a double piano concerto, but only to be played within the Americas and not beyond.
There were also some borrowings from Spanish (casque) and German (reître) and from the Americas (cacao, hamac, maïs).
These moths are species of the genus Urania in the Americas, and of the genus Chrysiridia in Africa.
Lignum vitae, heartwood of tree species of the genus Guaiacum, native to subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas
The Panama hake (Merluccius angustimanus) is a merluccid hake of the genus Merluccius, found off the west coast of the Americas from Del Mar, California, to Ensenada de Tumaco, Colombia.
In 1788, a British trader bought 30 persons held in pawnship in Bimbia, in present-day Cameroon, for transport to the Americas.
His "Allgemeine Geschichte der katholischen Missionen" (1846 and 1850) was the first treatment of this subject in German; the second volume of the work treats mainly of the conversion of the Indian tribes in America.
He made his first voyage to the Americas in 1720, and in 1721 he was involved in the suppression of smuggling in Cartagena and Portobelo.
Tavarez's artworks are shown at museums, art galleries and permanent collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo, Casa de Las Americas in Havana, Cuba, The Housatonic Museum of Art in Connecticut, the Gallery of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC, and the Museums of Modern Art in London, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela.
For many years Simon McKeon was involved with the International Catamaran Challenge Trophy (more commonly known as the "Little Americas Cup").
General Six-Principle Baptists, the oldest Baptist denomination in the Americas, dating to the 17th century.
It was founded by the journalist and author Samuel Logan in 2004, and it now has a network of investigators that operate across the Americas.
In 1997, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of mainland America, SMRT students were invited to follow the progress of a replica of Cabot's ship, which the BBC filmed as it recreated the voyage of the Matthew from the area in which it was built.
In February 1998, singing from the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the chorus represented the Americas when Seiji Ozawa led the Winter Olympics Orchestra with six choruses on five continents, all linked by satellite, in the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to close the Opening Ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Cinderella: Masks, Magic and Mirrors (Sept. 2 - Mar. 31 2008) which included materials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
Chamorro was the first elected female head of state in the Americas, the second in the Western Hemisphere after Iceland's Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and the fifth in the world after the elections of Agatha Barbara in Malta, Elisabeth Kopp in Switzerland and Corazon Aquino in the Philippines.
Major initial shareholders of the company were Grupo Televisa (the world's biggest Spanish-language media conglomerate), Inbursa (an insurance company owned by billionaire Carlos Slim), Avianca (then TACA Airlines) and the Discovery Americas Fund.
Tribal chief during wartime, particularly among indigenous peoples of the Americas
This is one of many native dog breeds in the Americas and it is often confused with the Peruvian Hairless Dog.
The Australian geographer Professor Victor Prescott states that the structure at Bittangabee is considered by local archaeologists to be early 19th century and that Menzies misinterpreted the Waldseemüller map which he used as evidence for a visit by Zhou Man to the Americas.