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- Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
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- question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the ... of the United States and southern British Columbia, Canada. Both nations ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- to the burning of Washington, D.C., by British forces in 1814, during the ... the White House when it was ransacked by British troops, only two have been ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- Vancouver Island is located off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is named in ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- In 1780 the British plundered his plantation and carried off all of ... took an active role in opposition to British rule and served on the Committee ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 21:17, 30 April 2023
- the Faculty of EducationUniversity of British Columbia, [http://www.educ.ubc ... Literacy EducationThe University fo British Columbia, [http://www.lled.educ ...14 KB (1,916 words) - 23:35, 2 December 2022
- are part of the Canadian province British Columbia. The Gulf Islands are ... and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is approximately ...22 KB (3,191 words) - 03:09, 23 December 2022
- the American Fur Company in response to British Fur trading dominance in ... , in order to control fur trading in the Columbia River and Great Lakes area. ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- he returned to his place of birth in the British Virgin Islands in 1786 where ... Thornton was born on Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, West Indies ...12 KB (1,857 words) - 20:42, 13 May 2023
- the colonists—the Chickasaw joining the British and the Choctaw the French ... Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, The Columbia Guide to the American Indians ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:20, 10 December 2023
- Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, the westernmost province of Canada. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, Victoria ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- The Cascade Range is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from Canada's British Columbia through the U.S. states of ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- 039;la in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, British Columbia, (aka Mungo Martin House ... States and the Canadian province of British Columbia, such as the Haida, ...10 KB (1,450 words) - 05:54, 30 November 2022
- (right) at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia.]] ... the Pacific Coast to the tribes of British Columbia and northern Washington ...22 KB (3,451 words) - 04:43, 1 May 2023
- | deathplace = [[Image:Flag of British Columbia.svg|25px]] Vancouver ... While at a friend's house in Vancouver, British Columbia, Flynn ...9 KB (1,222 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- vancouverensis Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada ... is restricted to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. In 2002, only ...12 KB (1,722 words) - 16:05, 6 November 2022
- |image = [[Image:Earl Hall Columbia University NYC.jpg|200 ... |name = Columbia University inthe City of New York ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- prepared for an expedition to follow the Columbia River to the Pacific. In ... take up a position as a surveyor for the British American Land Company to ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- located on Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver, British Columbia. One of twelve children of the tribal chief, Dan George served as chief of the Tsleil ...18 KB (2,892 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It stretches from the Canadian province of British ...40 KB (5,864 words) - 22:44, 7 January 2024
- role of "Jungle Jim" (1948) for Columbia Pictures. He made 13 Jungle ... for Screen Gems, a film subsidiary of Columbia Pictures. The show ran for ...18 KB (2,678 words) - 14:44, 15 April 2023
- than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) from British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States forming the Continental Divide sometimes ...17 KB (2,479 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- (November 22, 1898 - May 15, 1984) was a British economist, famous for his ... a key figure in the advancement of the British system of university education ...12 KB (1,648 words) - 04:20, 29 October 2022
- a history major at the University of British Columbia, where he also worked ... 1942 and attended basic training in British Columbia, nominally as a reinforcement ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- to secure favorable peace terms from the British and French. He co-wrote ... In 1794, he negotiated the Jay Treaty with the British. ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- activity is the Ilgachuz Range in British Columbia, which was created by ... The Yellowstone hotspot emerged in the Columbia Plateau of the US Pacific ...11 KB (1,444 words) - 16:21, 25 January 2023
- |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia and the southernmost ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- 's 1917 poster, based on the original British 1914 Lord Kitchener Wants ... War. The female personification "Columbia" has seldom been seen ...8 KB (1,272 words) - 01:35, 3 May 2023
- transferring from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. In 1968, Kirkpatrick ... wasn't easy to find the YPSL in Columbia, Missouri. But I had read ...14 KB (1,976 words) - 01:05, 9 February 2023
- development of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and wrote with great ... The town of Lytton, British Columbia, Canada is named after the author ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 18:21, 12 February 2024
- |19,694Columbia University, [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/enrol ... League institutions; there were also some British graduates—more from the ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- England; the Sullivan mine of British Columbia; and Broken Hill, Australia. Galena also occurs at Mount Hermon in Northern Israel. In the United ...5 KB (708 words) - 03:50, 18 April 2024
- Mill played a great part also in British politics, and was, more than ... of John Stuart Mill, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. p. 3-4). ...11 KB (1,705 words) - 08:37, 1 April 2024
- 1909, Johnson moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and continued her writing ... Johnson died of breast cancer in Vancouver, British Columbia on March ...17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 23 November 2022
- systems exerted great influence on other British anthropologists. Through ... *Hatch, Elvin. 1974. Theories of Man and Culture. New York: Columbia ...8 KB (1,075 words) - 16:31, 9 November 2022
- Eocene of the Princeton Chert of British Columbia (Stockey and Wehr 1996 ... Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils. Vancouver ...16 KB (2,329 words) - 01:24, 12 April 2023
- irishstatutebook.ie/isbc_bps1881.html British Public Statutes Affected ... * HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Dolley felt right at home in the District of Columbia society. Before ... Much of Washington, D.C. was burned by British troops on the night ...12 KB (1,850 words) - 16:36, 29 January 2024
- continue to live in south-eastern British Columbia, southern Alberta and ... === In British Columbia === [[Image:Dukhubours in Canada.jpg|thumb ...38 KB (5,415 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he influenced ... D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963, serving ...19 KB (2,870 words) - 23:50, 12 February 2024
- the areas of Montana, parts of Idaho, British Columbia, and Wyoming. During ... River in Eastern Washington and into British Columbia was given the name Kaniksu ...33 KB (4,861 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2023
- |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... are in Masset and Skidegate, British Columbia; and in Hydaburg, Alaska ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- York Yacht Club to sponsor a yacht against British competition for money. ... York bound for the course at Le Harve, the British opposition did not know ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- the Beebo Brinker series by Ann Bannon. British school stories also provided ... and Modern Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, ...16 KB (2,335 words) - 00:47, 7 March 2023
- Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger ... *Reaction Engines Skylon and the earlier RR/British Aerospace HOTOL ...18 KB (2,454 words) - 19:05, 7 February 2023
- doing graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University, he produced ... era. He lived in England, studying British folk music under a Guggenheim ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in the British-founded town and military ... Road.Frances Pritchett, [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedk ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- on Alberta's western border with British Columbia. Banff is about an ... and into Yoho National Park in British Columbia. The Banff townsite ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 03:27, 17 September 2023
- a fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River at Fort Astoria. ... Wyoming, and then down the Snake River to the Columbia River. ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- of the ‘60s were between the French and British dancing teachers, who supported ... There seems to exist an historical habit of American and British dancing ...13 KB (2,099 words) - 20:44, 20 August 2022
- of a concession that acknowledged the British Parliament’s right to ... and to prepare defenses in case of a British attack.Hartley, 296-297. ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- Jade is the official gemstone of British Columbia, where it is found in ... the jade itself is now imported from British Columbia and elsewhere. ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. His 1835, Minute ... be loyal to Britain; instead, appalled at British hypocrisy, they rebelled ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 18:39, 30 April 2023
- Sabretooths, and Hominids. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231116403 ... * British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 2007. [http://news.bbc.co ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 16:47, 7 November 2022
- Laurence Johnston Peter was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ... the faculty of the University of British Columbia in 1965. In 1967 Peter ...14 KB (2,060 words) - 17:51, 25 October 2022
- system shared proximate sources with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest ... as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters ...22 KB (3,473 words) - 22:21, 25 October 2022
- Discovered by the legendary Columbia Records producer John Hammond ... jazz. Sometimes referred to as her "Columbia period" (after her ...15 KB (2,388 words) - 17:35, 31 October 2023
- Oxford University, Heidelberg University, Columbia University, the University ... ). Papyrus: Structure and Usage. London: British Museum Press. London: British ...12 KB (1,870 words) - 07:37, 18 November 2022
- two subsidiary gold rushes in Atlin, British Columbia and Nome, Alaska as ... present. As well, the government of British Columbia did propose to take ...24 KB (3,529 words) - 21:38, 4 June 2023
- he began cooperation with the British. On March 27, 1945, he led ... his great uncle Bo Min Yaung fought the British annexation in 1886.Aung ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- of jadeite include Kazakhstan, Russia, British Columbia, Alaska, and Turkestan. == Characteristics == Jadeite is composed of monoclinic crystals ...7 KB (945 words) - 12:38, 6 November 2021
- created by Richard Mulcaster in 1592.The British Library, [http://www.bl ... also added American words that were not in British dictionaries like "skunk ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- first post-secondary institutions in British Columbia to provide degree programs ... * Coleman, Brian. "McGill, British Columbia." McGill Journal ...36 KB (4,859 words) - 09:30, 10 March 2023
- century, after whom Vancouver, British Columbia is named. ... and Wy'east, traveled down the Columbia River from the Far North ...26 KB (4,064 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- Emerson Howland Swift, Hagia Sophia (Columbia University Press, New York ... Templon or Iconostasis? The Journal of the British Archaeological Association ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 05:39, 27 February 2023
- is an abbreviation for the District of Columbia, the federal district coextensive ... (on its western side). The District of Columbia has three major natural ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- Vancouver is the largest city in the province of British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. It is ranked as one of the most beautiful cities in the world ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- upon entering King's College (now Columbia College) because he was ... During this time, anti-British sentiment was growing in the American ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- Saxon dynasty and thus a union of the British and Norman lines. Their ... Category:history of the British Empire Category:history ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 16:52, 7 November 2022
- (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, ... Of Tamil Indian heritage, he was born in British India and later became a ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- During his time in Europe, he read British tabloid newspapers, and ... London, Patterson began reading the flashy British tabloids, and believed that ...10 KB (1,527 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- types of colonies that existed in the British Empire during its height ... which were ruled more directly by the British. They were founded by trading ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 07:42, 13 January 2023
- received honorary doctorate degrees from Columbia University and Smith College ... of American Women Psychologists. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231051557 ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- The Province of Canada was one of six British colonies. Conversation ... In 1871, Britain added British Columbia to Confederation, making it ...20 KB (2,893 words) - 22:57, 23 April 2023
- modern use of the term was coined by the British magazine Punch, well known ... Abuse Of Editorial Cartoons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, ...17 KB (2,492 words) - 00:46, 29 November 2023
- Royal Army, Royal Navy, and the Royal British Legion, as well as the Battle ... Between 1937 and 1940, she also toured with the aristocrat of British ...44 KB (6,146 words) - 18:00, 3 May 2023
- assigned the chain-reaction patent to the British Admiralty to ensure its secrecy ( ... In 1938, Szilárd accepted an offer to conduct research at Columbia ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- interrupted by war service. He joined the British Communist Party while at ... In the winter of 1940, he decided that he should join the British ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- is Salishan language of southwestern British Columbia. ==Early Reports== ... In 1978, the University of British Columbia hosted a symposium, entitled ...28 KB (4,241 words) - 02:27, 21 April 2023
- Felix Adler graduated from Columbia University in 1870 and moved to ... chair of political and social ethics at Columbia University, which he held ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- Great, through the Roman Empire, to the British and Napoleonic empires saw ... that Spain and Portugal, followed by the British, the French, the Dutch, ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- *The Columbia Style was made by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor to ... author-date system) is recommended by the British Standards Institution and ...17 KB (2,468 words) - 22:25, 10 December 2023
- develop, and become more functional (Columbia 2005). When the fetal stage ... When I use a word...:Oe no!]. British Medical Journal 315(1). ...27 KB (3,955 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- of the Pacific, though in northern British Columbia and Alaska, stocks are ... the coastal waters of Alaska and British Columbia and up most clear-running ...27 KB (4,219 words) - 21:58, 17 April 2023
- States. In Canada, this mineral is found in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Minerals and Mining. 2005. [http://mmsd1 ...8 KB (1,054 words) - 21:52, 28 July 2023
- so eloquently by nineteenth century British poet, James Thomson, in ... evident; for example Bernard Martin of Columbia University, who translated ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- or Native American cultures in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon ... the modern-day cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle, Washington ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 22:14, 7 January 2024
- and antennae, have been found in British Columbia (Burgess Shale Cambrian ... #039;s Atlas Mountains, Utah, Ohio, British Columbia, and in other parts ...16 KB (2,412 words) - 17:20, 2 May 2023
- to speed up independence from the British Empire), in South Africa ... alcoholism and untouchability, and overall British indifference and hegemony ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- *Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada *Keelung, Republic of China (Taiwan) ... *Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada *Puerto Montt, Chile ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- 1922 to 1937 the Klan was active in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan ... by Chinese men until the 1930s in British Columbia, and 1946 in Saskatchewan ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- discovery expedition. It was named after a British admiral, Samuel Hood. 200 foot high landslide that crossed the Columbia River approximately 300 ...18 KB (2,745 words) - 01:45, 11 March 2023
- found in the Pardonet formation of British Columbia, reached as much as ... Late Triassic Pardonet Formation of British Columbia: bridging the Triassic ...16 KB (2,240 words) - 17:21, 10 February 2024
- Impulse!, Candid, Atlantic, Blue Note, Mercury, Columbia ... Mingus's onstage destruction of an $800 bass prompted British ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- harass the French and also contacted the British to see if an alliance against ... The Shehu chose to re-locate to the British Protectorate of Northern ...14 KB (2,148 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- They arrived in New York and Fermi began working at Columbia University ... Pont executive made a visit to see him at Columbia. Not finding him either ...25 KB (3,781 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- Second World War broke out, Firth joined British naval intelligence, where ... and served as a visiting professor at British Columbia (1969), Cornell (1970 ...14 KB (2,002 words) - 01:37, 8 December 2022
- Nitobe died in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in October, 1933 ... garden located at the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment ...16 KB (2,449 words) - 01:35, 16 November 2022
- being installed by an insulator, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.]] The major categories of plumbing systems or subsystems are: ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 01:54, 10 April 2023
- and was the first president not born a British subject or of British ancestry ... France was prepared and trade with the British West Indies colonies was ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- its southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate ... cities. Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River, was the first permanent ...35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
