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9 unusual facts about Colony


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The United States also founded their own colonies in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions, such as Madisonville on the island of Nuku Hiva in 1813 and Monrovia in 1821.

Colony, Lexington

Its boundaries are Parkers Mill Road to the south and east, Versailles Road to the north, and New Circle Road to the west.

Eupatorium perfoliatum

It was introduced to American colonists by Indians who used the plant for breaking fevers by means of heavy sweating.

George Bent

Bent lived on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation near the town of Colony and worked as a U.S. government employee for most of the rest of his life.

Guillaume Logiest

Guillaume "Guy" Logiest (born 1912) was Belgium's special military resident (1959–1962) and High Representative (1962) of colonial Rwanda.

Henry Speldewinde de Boer

Captain Dr Henry Speldewinde de Boer, CMG, MC (1896–1957) was a Ceylonese born British colonial doctor.

Josh Clark

Clark currently resides in Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation nomination in 2012 for featured actor in "The Savannah Disputation" at the Colony theater.

Lucan Biddulph

This group of roughly 200 disenfranchised Blacks were granted refuge and land by the Canada Company and duly set up a colony named Wilberforce.

Ultrapure water

Bacteria are typically reported out in colony-forming units (CFU) per volume of UPW.


1628 in poetry

Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland

Acromyrmex heyeri

Studies using isoenzyme systems MDH, a-GPDH, and AMY show the occurrence of monogyny and polygyny associated or not with polyandry, which indicates that the social organization is colony-specific.

Alabama v. Georgia

In 1732, George II granted James Oglethorpe and other settlers a charter to all South Carolina Colony land west of the Savannah River.

Aniela Cukier

During those years she also frequented open air workshops in the Kazimierz Dolny art colony.

Auckland Anniversary Day

The New Zealand Government Gazette of 26 January 1842 (Volume 2, 4th Edition) carried a notice stating, "Saturday, the 29th instant, being the SECOND ANNIVERSARY of the establishment of the Colony, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that day to be held a GENERAL HOLIDAY, on which occasion the Public Offices will be closed."

August Engelhardt

Health reformer August Moritz Engelhardt :de:August Engelhardt wrote a book called A Carefree Future in 1898, which described a colony of fruit and vegetable eaters, specifically cocoivores (coconut eaters) he was founding in the then Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) in the South Pacific a place known for its headhunters.

Battle of Pharos

An expedition of 10,000 men in 300 ships sailed out from Zadar and laid siege to the Greek colony Pharos in the island of Hvar, but the Syracusan fleet of Dionysus was alerted and attacked the siege fleet.

Characters of seaQuest 2032

He was with the President in the attempted take over of the Nexus Colony, which was ultimately thwarted thanks to the return of seaQuest and the help of Nathan Bridger.

Christian Mathias Schröder

Among other financial colonization activities, Schröder sent his son Eduard Schröder to become the first manager of the Dona Francisca colony (today city of Joinville).

Elkland, Pennsylvania

In March 1811, came a colony from Elmira, New York and Southport, New York, consisting of Samuel Tubbs Sr., his sons, Samuel, James and Benjamin, and his sons-in-law, John Ryon Jr., David Hammond, and Martin Stevens.

Eurasian Spoonbill

It was extirpated from the United Kingdom but sporadic breeding attempts in the early 21st century culminated with the formation of a colony at Holkham in Norfolk in 2010.

Eva Bendien

However her family was forced to go underground and Eva spent time at diverse underground addresses in Amsterdam, Bergen, Haarlem, Sneek, Boekelo, and Bornebroek, with the last few months spent in the "Verscholen dorp" a colony of earthen huts housing 86 people in the woods between Nunspeet and Vierhouten.

Francis Farewell

Lieutenant Francis George Farewell (1784–1829), the founder of the Port Natal Colony in South Africa, was born at Holbrook House near Wincanton in the Blackmore Vale in 1784.

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

Great Gull Island

The dominant faunal feature of the island - during the summer months at least - is the active Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) colony spread across the flatter areas of the island that are not taken over by bittersweet (Celastrus) or common reed (Phragmites australis).

Henri de Buade

Henri de Buade de Frontenac (1596–1622) was a French aristocrat during the age of Louis XIII of France, best known as the father of Louis de Buade de Frontenac, the future Lieutenant General of the colony of New France in North America.

History of Guinea

France negotiated Guinea's present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau), and Liberia.

Hostin

The colony was established in the area of the today's cities of Ilhota and Gaspar.

Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

It was founded by Leopold II of Belgium to work for the then colony Congo; but it has broadened its scope to the tropics and low and mid-income countries.

James Maury

Maury opposed the colony's passage of the Two Penny Act of 1757, which proposed to pay clergy a set amount in cash rather than in tobacco, as had been the rule.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

John Saffin

Upon his arrival Saffin is known to have eventually settled in Scituate, in the northeastern part of Plymouth Colony.

Józef Warszewicz

In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Messrs. Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Her 2007 interpretation of the settlement of early Virginia, The Jamestown Project, argues that the activity of the Virginia Company and the establishment of Jamestown, Virginia must be viewed within the broader context of English expansionary efforts, and that the structure of a functional colony was evolved through trial and error.

Komal Jha

Komal jha and star Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni know each other well and are said to have lived in the same colony in ranchi.

Kosal

Dakshina Kosala Kingdom, a colony of Kosala kings identified to be the Chhattisgarh state and western Orissa region of India

Land reform in the Philippines

The American government—officially secular, hostile to continued Spanish control of much of the land of the now-American colony, and long hostile to Catholics—negotiated a settlement with the Church over its land.

Leopold Eidlitz

Mr. Dudley was a descendant of both Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), of the Massachusetts Bay Corporation, and second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; and Henry II of England (1133–1189) and Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122–1204).

Military history of Djibouti

Free French and Allied forces recaptured the colony's capital of Djibouti at the end of 1942.

Monarchy in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia's first monarchical connections were formed when Jacques Cartier in 1534 claimed Chaleur Bay for King Francis I, though the area was not officially settled until King Henry IV in 1604 established a colony administered by the Governor of Acadia.

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

Cuba was then still a Spanish colony and in all matters of administration, economy and interior and exterior policy dependent on Madrid.

Original Town of Fernandina Historic Site

During his invasion of north Florida, 1736–1742, the governor of the British colony of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, stationed a military guard of Scottish Highlanders on the site and named the island Amelia, after the daughter of King George II of Great Britain.

Otago Access Radio

Toroa, the Māori word for albatross, was chosen as being representative of the Dunedin area due to the location of a notable albatross colony within the city limits at Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula.

Philip Sheppard

In 1961 Sheppard started a colony of scarlet tiger moths by the Wirral Way, West Kirby, Merseyside, which were rediscovered in 1988 by Cyril Clarke, who continued to observe them in his retirement to study changes in the moth population.

Pierre Richier

Pierre Richier, also Pierre Richer, dit de Lisle, (circa 1506-1580) was a French Calvinist theologian, who accompanied Philippe de Corguilleray on a French expedition to Brazil in 1556, to reinforce the colony of France Antarctique.

Port Blair

In 1789 the government of Bengal established a penal colony on Chatham Island in the southeast bay of Great Andaman, named Port Blair to honor Lieutenant Archibald Blair of the British East India Company.

Port Vell

In the 1st century AD, the Romans founded a colony, Barcino, on Mount Tàber.

Princeland

The new colony was named after Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert and was to comprise the area west of Longitude 143°, part of the Wimmera and parts of South Australia near the Victorian border.

Río de Oro

A British protected cruiser attacked a German auxiliary cruiser off the small Spanish colony of Río de Oro.

Robert Jacob Gordon

During 1772/73 Robert visited the Cape Colony and met Carl Peter Thunberg and Francis Masson.

Sarlanagar

# Workers Colony (Hanthikund Colony), often called Bank Colony due to the branch of UCO Bank opened there

Sarojini Nagar

Named after the famous woman freedom fighter Sarojini Naidu, this colony is encircled by Safdarjung Enclave, South Extension, Laxmibai Nagar, Nauroji Nagar, Chanakyapuri and Netaji Nagar.

Satna

There are temples of Saibaba, located at Dhawari and Sindhi colony where hundreds of people gather every Thursday for worship.

Seal of Connecticut

The meaning of the motto was explained on April 23, 1775 in a letter stamped in Wethersfield, Connecticut: "We fix on our Standards and Drums the Colony arms, with the motto, Qui Transtulit Sustinet, round it in letters of gold, which we construe thus: God, who transplanted us hither, will support us".

Senigallia

Senigallia, spread out along the coast at the mouth of the river Misa, was founded in the 4th century BC by the Gallic tribe of the Senones and became the first Roman colony on the Adriatic shore.

Siege of Port Toulouse

The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2–10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse (present-day St. Peter's, Nova Scotia) in the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) from its French defenders during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

St. Peter’s Church, Karachi

The church will cater to the people of Akhtar Colony, Mahmudabad, Kashmir Colony and Manzoor Colony.

Swan River Colony

Karl Marx used the Swan River Colony to illustrate a point about a shortcoming of capitalism in Das Kapital.

USS Canonicus

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named Canonicus for Canonicus, a chief of the Narragansett Indians, who befriended Roger Williams, and presented him with a large tract of land for the Rhode Island colony.

VSSC Central School

It was founded to enable the residents of VSSC Housing Colony to send their children to a local school.


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