Sentences with phrase «colonial days»

In Colonial days, women were subjected, by law and by custom, to the authority of men.

When oil came, we abandoned the old systems of tax collection that provided most of our infrastructure since colonial days.

In the early colonial day, only land owners were able to vote.

In addition to those games, activities, and recipes, Colonial Days includes a great deal of fascinating trivia.

Through 44 full - page paintings and a text told in the fictionalized, informal voice of an African American senior citizen looking back on her life, Nelson presents an intimate, powerful view of American and African American history, from colonial days through the civil rights movement.

Bayonne was later claims by the Netherlands, back in the old colonial days when countries ran around claiming any piece of land they could for themselves.

During colonial days in mission churches, Christians in good standing would give up the status symbol and send away all but one wife, said Kombo.

Get a taste of colonial days at the majestic Notre Dame Cathedral, see the beautiful central post office and get an insight into the horror of modern war at the War Remnants museum.

Illustrated with 44 full - page paintings and powerfully told in the informal voice of an African American senior looking back on her life, this is an accessible view of history, from colonial days through the civil rights movement.

Bayonne was later claims by the Netherlands, back in the old colonial days when countries ran around claiming any piece of land they could for themselves.

Consequently, my son produced a document two weeks before Colonial Day that required my signature.

In Against Love: A Polemic, Laura Kipnis brilliantly speaks to what marital compromise means when marriages are lasting 40, 50, 70 years or more (and let's not forget that marriages in colonial days lasted about 12 years — think about that!).

Maybe «until death» made sense when marriages lasted an average of 12 years or so, as marriages in colonial days did, according to historian Stephanie Coontz.

You and your family will have a chance to travel back in history at one of Rockland's most storied locations, the DeWint House, at the 28th annual Tappantown Historical Society's Colonial Day on September 29.

It's the school's first time running the paper quilling activity for Colonial Day and I've received many compliments for my set up I had about two weeks to prepare and I wish I -LSB-...]

Colonial Days gives its readers the opportunity to share one year of those lives, by participating in some of the activities that kept the Mayhew family busy from morning till night, from season to season.

With Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes, today's students can experience colonial America through the lives — and activities — of yesterday's families!

Don't let the title of David C. King's book Colonial Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes, fool you.

«Our fourth grade has a special Colonial Day where students work on crafts, play games, and eat foods typical of the Colonial period.

In American colonial days, Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense, which quickly catapulted the colonies into revolution.

This is a satirical dance where individuals don a pink mask and dress like slave masters from English Colonial days.

Wandering the cobblestone streets amid architectural treasures from Spanish colonial days is a fine way to delve into the past.

Graceful and stately as a Grande Dame, Settha Palace is an old world hotel that emanates the French colonial days.

From colonial days until now, this system has continued to develop to allow individuals and classes of persons who have been harmed by wrongdoing or negligence (i.e. «torts») to seek monetary compensation through a civil jury trial.

We in America have been haters of «different» religions since colonial days, when protestants who lived in most colonies would not allow catholics or quakers... and certainly no jews to live in their borders.

During early Colonial days in the United States families would set a fresh pineapple in the center of the table as a colorful centerpiece of festive meals, especially when visitors joined them in celebration.

During Mordecai Historic Park's Holiday Open House in Raleigh Dec. 9, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and Dec. 10, 1 - 4 p.m., tour the home as it would have been decorated for Christmas during colonial days through the World War II era.

Colonial Day at my 4th grader's school required a period character costume, researched and selected by the students four weeks in advance and was specifically billed as «student - driven, parent - enabled.»

The biggest news is the golf: Not since British colonial days has there been a real golf course in Belize.

Next came Colby, whose 8,000 - object collection spans art in America from colonial days to the present, spiced by small holdings of European, Asian, pre-Columbian and ancient art.

One boy wrote in his journal that as he was riding, he saw shacks and thought to himself that slaves must have lived there back in colonial days.

Man himself is determining that, having extended his average lifespan from the thirties in colonial days to nearly seventy now.

This holocaust, Butler argues, was more determinative of later American religious life than had been the importation of Puritanism and the rise of Evangelicalism in colonial days.

In the U.S., property tax exemption for churches began in colonial days and continued with the birth of the new nation.

«Outcastes» in India have been known by different names such as: «Harijan,» meaning children of Han (God) given by Gandhi; «Avarrias» meaning casteless; «Panchamas» meaning fifth caste; «Chandalas» meaning worst of the earth; «Depressed classes» given during British Colonial days, and Scheduled Caste given by the Indian Constitution.

The weekend curry lunch, a holdover from British colonial days, was still observed in some parts of East Africa well into the 1970s.

In a nod to early New England Thanksgivings, I use two regional pours: rum (big in the Colonial days) and cider.

So we come to the morning of Colonial Day, two children in the car and the third in shorts and a t - shirt, perched, one cheek on the chair, in front of a bowl of oatmeal, perusing «Diary of a Wimpy Kid.»

Colonial Day at my 4th grader's school required a period character costume, researched and selected by the students four weeks in advance and was specifically billed as...

Midwives have been around since colonial days and perhaps even before that.

Laws governing abortion in America have changed over time, from no laws in Colonial days — when it was considered a medical issue — to the various state restrictions seen today.

He says the closure of the nursing homes would be a break in a tradition that dates back to colonial days, when local governments provided alms houses and early hospitals for the needy.

«I only hope Nigeria is not being systematically returning to the colonial days when the law of sedition was used to jail many of those who fought for our independence or the era of Buhari's military regime, when the notorious Public Officers (Protection Against False Accusation) Decree 4 of 1984 was used to jail Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor, both of The Guardian newspapers for publishing what the government termed as false.

The drink dates back to colonial days, but it's healing powers are decidedly modern.