Sentences with phrase «early colonial day»

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

The Brooklyn Historical Society offers educators unique resources for grades 4 — 12 on a range of fascinating topics that will enliven your teaching about the borough from its earliest colonial days to the present.

Connecticut claims the honor nonetheless, but most people know it as the Nutmeg State because the spice was expensive in early colonial days and some from Connecticut sold fake spices carved of wood.

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.

Their ancestors may have been Spanish herding dogs that originated in the Basque region of Spain and France and were brought to the United States with herds of Merino sheep during the early colonial days.

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Recalling the blunders that led to the island's defeat in early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.»

Such traditions of the union of Church and State has had existed in colonial days were early officially dissipated.

This classy, open - air restaurant had mahogany accents and delightful prints of the early days of sugar production and colonial Bridgetown on the walls.

Cooper is known for his historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days of Colonial America.

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.

In the past century in the colonial era, conflict were between the people and the ruler (colonial government) and in the early days of independence dominated by high levels of conflict between political groups.

But historically, getting an education has often been difficult for many African American children in this country from early colonial times to present day.

The story begins with Cameron's earliest days in colonial Calcutta and her upbringing in Versailles.

Architect George P. Turner designed many of the new homes in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, which had become fashionably linked with the glamour of Hollywood, California in the early days of the motion picture industry there.

Day 6 City tour of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique on the Indian Ocean, a blend of African, Portuguese and early colonial traditions.

Many fine colonial buildings from the town's early days still grace its streets.

Featuring exhibits documenting the full spectrum of the country's history, visitors can see artifacts from the long millennia of Maya rule, items from the early days when Belize was a pirate haven, cats o» nine tails and chain balls from colonial times when the building was a prison, and special displays about the distinct cultures and peoples in modern Belize.

Some cite getting the game a day or so early as their reason for pre-ordering, but is an extra few hours of time really worth ending up with something like Aliens: Colonial Marines or the crippling problems of Battlefield 4?

High Water Marks: Art and Renewal After Katrina May 1, 2010 - September 19, 2010 From New Orleans» earliest days, the work of Black artisans made the city a colonial prize and distinguished it from other ports.

18 For a thorough history of the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools, see Romantz, supra note 5, at 127 — 36 (tracing the evolution of legal writing instruction in law schools from the early days of moot court exercises under Dean Langdell at Harvard Law School, through the ABA's formal recognition of legal writing as a law school subject in 1947, and through the widespread adoption of legal writing programs in American law schools); Jeffrey D. Jackson & David R. Cleveland, Legal Writing: A History from the Colonial Era to the End of the Civil War, 19 Leg.