A more popular explanation of the breed name concerns 18th -
century trading ships of the British Empire.
Not exact matches
It started with «negative screening»; he gives the example of Quakers,
centuries ago, vetoing the use of their funds to finance
ships involved in the slave
trade.
Researchers were stunned to find an 18th -
century ship that had been unearthed by construction workers at the World
Trade Center where the Twin Towers once stood.
Given the cities» historical
trade networks, researchers believe that this high incidence of the normally rare mutation resulted from a few polydactyl merchant -
ship cats taking shore leave as far back as the mid-18th
century.
The quarter kilometer long Tonquin Beach (named after an early 18th
century fur
trading ship) is often referred to as Tofino's town beach because it is located within walking distance of downtown Tofino.
It's a dreamy story that reaches well into the pond's past in the 19th
century when the entrepreneur Frederic Tudor managed to create an empire in the ice
trade,
shipping frozen blocks from the pond to distant, sweltering climes.
These two - masted sailing
ships were used by the skilled Bugis seafarers who, for
centuries, plied the waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi,
trading in spices, gold and sandalwood.
Phuket has a very rich history, because it is in the middle of a historic
trading route from India to China it was used as a stop off point for
trading vessels for
centuries and as such appears in
ship logs and journals of many old school traders.
In the 9th
century, an Arabian
trading ship, or dhow, sailed out from the Middle East to China laden with expensive spices and incense.
Another related installation is a large glass disc, titled Lotus (2007) that refers to the Buddhist symbol but also to the slave
trade: etched in glass, the filigree pattern contained in each petal of the lotus flower is made up of diagrams of the placement of human bodies in the cargo hold of an eighteenth -
century slave
ship.
Titus said:» I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a
shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th
century.
Titus you say «I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a
shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th
century.
I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a
shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th
century.
By a
century later, the act of venturing abroad in a multimasted
ship, even to
trade, had become a criminal offense in China.
It tells of the Russians, in the early part of 20th
century, building towns along the northern sea board and
ships sailing and establishing a sea
trade.
World
trade has been operating for many
centuries; Queen Elizabeth I was responsible for many laws that still make the cogs of industry and
shipping turn smoothly today.