Sentences with phrase «from early settlement»

Altogether these tours (most lasting one or two hours) cover more than 150 years of state and local history, from early settlement by Swiss immigrant John Sutter to civil rights activist Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.

David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University and Graeme Ruxton of the University of St Andrews, both in the UK, used population estimates from the early settlement of Polynesia to model the likely success of island settlement attempts in human prehistory.

Reflecting the general historical trend of religious persecution of minority sects since time immemorial, from the earliest settlements, the colonists who fled religious persecution in Europe began persecuting those who didn't march lock step and threatened their new clerical hegemony (See Anne Hutchinson).

published materials, images, maps, and manuscripts relating to Delaware history and genealogy, dating from earliest settlements to the present.

Historical records from early settlements reveal glacier boundaries, as does ice core data taken by drilling down into the annual layers of ice that make up glaciers.

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Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

Attorneys from Samsung and Apple met earlier this month to «discuss settlement opportunities,» according to court filings reviewed by Reuters.

Canada Review investigating harassment allegations against Newfoundland politician Eddie Joyce, Globe and Mail Ottawa's «gay purge» settlement expanded to include all who suffered as early as 1955, Toronto Star An 83 - year - old convicted killer who walked away from a B.C. prison is back in custody, National Post

From the earliest days of European settlement of the Pilbara in the 1860's, Yindjibarndi people provided labour for the pearlers of Cossack and the owners of the sheep stations.

And earlier this year, a court approved a $ 57 million settlement from Boeing Co. in a 401 (k) suit Schlichter filed, which included $ 19 million in attorney fees and $ 1.8 million in expenses.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

From the early days of the settlement, efforts were made by some Christians to reach out to the Aboriginals, whose numbers were drastically reduced in the nineteenth century.

Earlier this month, both parties signed off on a $ 300,000 settlement payment from the district, putting an end to the dispute.

Attorneys representing all current and former NCAA student - athletes announced date changes made by the court, affecting the concussions settlement that will provide a 50 - year medical - monitoring program for student - athletes to screen for post-concussion syndrome and early - onset neurodegenerative disease that may have resulted from concussions or the accumulation of subconcussive hits while playing NCAA sports.

But reporting by the New York Times revealed that an earlier allegation from two other women was made to disappear with a hushed settlement — $ 103,080 of which came quietly from taxpayers.

=========== I posted earlier this week that NY will be getting close to $ 5 billion from big bank settlements / fines; and Cuomo, and Schneiderman could send out a $ 600 check to every State taxpayer just before election day.

By analyzing DNA obtained from these elongated skulls, Professor Joachim Burger's team revealed that these women likely migrated to early Bavarian settlements from eastern Europe.

HSUS invoked both the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and a settlement of the earlier suit that it reached with the agency in 2009, under which USDA agreed to promptly and publicly post a number of the reports that it has now removed from the website.

Earlier this month, the cleanup got a boost from a bankruptcy settlement with Oklahoma City - based chemical company Tronox Inc., which will give federal and Navajo Nation officials $ 14.5 million to address the reservation's uranium contamination.

Kotsonas says that this exploration revealed considerable growth in the size of the settlement during the early Iron Age and also growth in the quantity and quality of its imports coming from mainland Greece, Cyprus, the Near East, Egypt, Italy, Sardinia and the western Mediterranean.

«Even at this early stage in detailed analysis, it appears that this was a nucleated, rather densely occupied settlement extending over the core of the Knossos valley, from at least the east slopes of the acropolis hill on the west to the Kairatos River, and from the Vlychia stream on the south until roughly midway between the Minoan palace and the Kephala hill.»

The forests vanished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the settlement of the relatively treeless Great Plains, where houses and fences were constructed largely from those once - grand woods.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

Besides metal tools, a variety of pottery, beads of semi precious stones, terracotta, paste and other antiquarian material is known from such early settlements.

Featuring remarkable performances from Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) and Shirley Henderson, it detailed the hard actualities of settlement and early exploration in the U.S. through the eyes of women.

For NEW 2016 GCSE History Edexcel American West unit This lesson covers the following: Migration and early settlement The factors encouraging migration, including economic conditions, the Oregon Trail from 1836, the concept of Manifest Destiny US government policy: support for US westward expansion Looking at the reasons why the early Pioneers go West.

The cemetery, in Norfolk, was begun around AD 425 and provides evidence for the Anglo - Saxons in Britain over almost two hundred years from the earliest stages of settlement.

Those who want more money spent on child care now say their best hopes lie with a bipartisan proposal in the Senate to target funds from a tobacco settlement toward child - care subsidies and other early - childhood programs.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

Los Angeles brokered a settlement that allowed some schools to remain exempt from layoffs, but an attempt to avoid layoffs at some of San Francisco's lowest - performing schools ran into trouble earlier this month when an administrative law judge said in an advisory ruling that the practice was improper.

With the earlier settlements from the five publishers involved, one of the resounding statements they repeatedly made when signing to agree to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars to consumers for allegedly overcharging them for ebooks was that they were not at fault and did not admit any wrongdoing.

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Normally identification is part of the sale instruction («sell 100 shares from the lot purchased December 10,» for example), but the regulations permit identification any time until the earlier of the actual settlement date or the settlement date specified in the securities regulations.

In the event of divorce, property settlement can include a specific «early withdrawal penalty provision» called QDRO = from the court: «Qualified Domestic Relations Order» wherein the former spouse received $ $ in the event no other non-qualified money is available for the property settlement.

The U.S. had abundant free - roaming dogs from settlement times until the advent of motorized transportation in the early 20th century, which gradually drove working animals out of the streets, closely followed by the introduction of regularly scheduled urban garbage disposal, enclosed sewers, near - universal access to indoor plumbing in urban areas, and home refrigeration.

Located about halfway from La Paz to Cabo San Lucas on Hwy 19, this delightful spot is another one of the earlier settlements in Baja and has a long and colorful history.

The village was named San Pedro in honour of Saint Peter, the patron - saint of fishermen - an indication that from the early days of the settlement fishing formed the mainstay of the island's economy.

These earliest colonial settlements each come with their own wine route, making it easy to travel from one farm to the next sampling win...

This small country has a long history, with early settlements estimated to have been from 5200 BC.

The early «settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras» grew from a few habitations located at Belize Town and St George's Caye into a de-facto colony of the United Kingdom during the late eighteenth century.

Whilst we're on the subject of names, the name «Portugal» actually derives from the name of an early settlement located at the mouth of the Douro River, called Cale, which was renamed «Portus Cale» — The Port of Cale.

Day One — Travelling from Adelaide through Hahndorf an early German settlement, Strathalbyn and Langhorne Creek winery region, crossing the Murray, Australia's largest river system by ferry at Wellington where the Murray River enters Lake Alexandrina, before emptying into the Southern Ocean.

Discover sites from the Aboriginal Dreaming, ruins of early pioneering settlements, quiet waterholes and spectacular scenery.

History buffs will have plenty of places that will take them back in time from the early Taino culture, the Spanish settlements, to the plantations life of eras past.

As early as 1890, the Marin Headlands began to see U.S. Army settlements, placed here to protect San Francisco Bay from hostile ships and surprise attack.

Particularly fascinating are the household objects and jewellery carved from precious Kauri Amber which once belonged to local families, as well as the extraordinary wealth of information about the Kauri trees themselves, so important to the early settlement of New Zealand.

The settlement we wrote about earlier consists of two million dollars going from Bethesda parent Zenimax to Interplay, a move through which Bethesda gains all rights related to Fallout Online.

Already in Early Access, this player - vs - AI strategy game sees you charged with trying to build and protect a human settlement from thousands of zombies.

The earliest two of these seemed quite similar to a series of yours that I saw at the Tarpey Gallery last year, a show entitled From the Earth Wealth, paintings based on North West Leicestershire settlements.

««Khaffraria» comes from a settlement established by the British in the early 19th century for mostly Xhosa people,» he added.