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... tomake the voyage, and on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, the Santa Maria (sahn'tah mah-ree'ah), the Pinta(peen'tah), and the _Ni a_ (neen'yah) set sail from Palos (pah'los), ... wanted was a directwestward passage through America to Cathay. This John Verrazano, an Italian sailing under the flag of France, attempted to find, and came to what is now the coast of North Carolina. ... greatwork was training seamen. Many men afterward famous as discoverers and navigators, as Dias (dee'ahss), DaGama (dah gah'ma), Cabral (ca-brahl'), Magellan, and Columbus, served...
... afterwards confined to Canada. CARTIER (kar-te -a) ascended the River St. Lawrence (1535) to the Indian village of Hochelaga (ho-she-lah-ga) the present site of Montreal. The town was pleasantly ... Iroquois.—Schoolcraft's Memoirs of Residence Among the Indians, and other works bythe same author. —Foster's Prehistoric Races ofthe United States of America. —Bancroft's Native Races—Matthew's ... probably occasionally visited Virginia. [Footnote: TheEnglish ships were at that time accustomed to steer southward along the coast of Spain, Portugal, and Africa, as far as the Canary Islands,...
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... description ofthe missionary period is also an admirable piece of work, but he had not the advantage ofthe stores of material which are now available. Through the indefatigable enthusiasm ofthe late ... Museum I have to thank the Board of Governors of Canterbury College; and for the loan ofa rare and valuable pamphlet on the death ofthe Rev. C. S. Volkner I am The character ofthe man thus ... Ruatara as a high chief was able to afford, Marsden could never have gained a footing in the land; and without the sustained labour ofthe civilised European, the work ofthe Maori innovator,...
... on a totally separate system. The variants ofthe Microsoft Windows operating system cannot export the display of an individual application to be viewed on a separate machine. If an application ... is because you are attaching to one end of the ssh tunnel. The other end ofthe tunnel is on Machine A, which is where the appli-cation is actually displayed. The authority and display are now ... WindowSometimes application owners may need root access on a system, such as when applica-tions that are owned and managed by someone other than the administrator need to run as root because of their...
... are not teaching it for immediate active accurate production; this awareness-raising is therefore only the first stage ofa series of stages by which the language item, and the language awareness ... idea of using the classroom to gradually raise students’ awareness about the target language rather than imagine that teachers can teach it for active reproduction by endless practice; what ... phrases are actually part ofa memorised store of pre-fabricated ‘chunks’ which, once learnt, each native speaker has automatically at their disposal; when speaking, they said, we appear to use these...
... of engrossing. Their land was taken away from them and added to the acreage of some large farm; and the farmer's land-hunger was so greatthat in many places even the cottage-gardens were ... with at least a subsistence level of income.16 The total wage bill16 Under the typical labor rate, the wage an individual laborer received was determined by the laborer's age and marital ... An Economic Historyof the English Poor Lawexcess ofthe marginal product of labor, the effect of poor relief onmigration was small.Chapter 7 examines the effect ofthe New Poor Law on the...
... assured that the smaller the number of actual traitors the less was the risk of discovery. They were also aware, that all, or, at all events, most ofthe Roman Catholics would jointhem, when the design ... to an attempt, on the part of the Romanists, at the commencement ofthe session, to obtain a toleration for their worship, and the relaxation of some ofthe penal laws.Various attempts have ... a treatise licensed by Garnet and Blackwall. Certain instances are given in the workas illustrations ofthe doctrine. The following is one of these cases. A man arrives at a certain place, and...
... and “Abstract/modern design”. It also agreed that the only words to appear on the banknotes would be the name ofthe currency and the initials ofthe ECB in the different languages. A Feature ... each denomination were produced and these then set the standards for the subsequent large-scale production. In addition, a catalogue of acceptable and unacceptable banknotes (defective and ... played by the Euro 2002 Information Campaign, conducted by the ECB and the 12 national central banks in the euroarea. Governments, public institutions as well ascommercial and voluntary organisations...
... Kindgom of Granada and Popayan, and by Carthagena and the Urabae, they directed their course toCalisium, and several other Tyrants of Carthagena assault Quito, who joyn'd themselves in an intire ... rehearsed in New Spain and other places, there came another Rabidand Cruel Tyrant to Panuco, who acted the part ofa bloody Tragedian as well as the rest, and sent away manyShips loaden with these ... the sameMansion with so Sanguinary and Bloody a Nation. And thus God and the Holy Catholick Faith are Praisedand Reverenced bythe Practices ofthe Spaniards in America. A Brief Account of the...
... months of their official debut, Led Zeppelin wereat the top ofthe bill at the Playhouse Theater in London, and the PopProms at the Royal Albert Hall in London. On October 17, '69, a year andtwo ... today. The lasting impression of their music is obvious, and can be heard in anyRock band of today.Unfortunately, the machine that was Led Zeppelincame to a screeching halt on the morning of ... Denmark, Eva von Zeppelin,relative ofthe designer ofthe airship, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, threatenedto sue the band if they used the name in the country. Led Zeppelinplayed under the alias The Nobs....