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  • 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 ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to secure favorable peace terms from the British and French. He co-wrote ... In 1794, he negotiated the Jay Treaty with the British. ...
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  • activity is the Ilgachuz Range in British Columbia, which was created by ... The Yellowstone hotspot emerged in the Columbia Plateau of the US Pacific ...
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  • |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... Prince Rupert, on the north coast of British Columbia and the southernmost ...
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  • 's 1917 poster, based on the original British 1914 Lord Kitchener Wants ... War. The female personification "Columbia" has seldom been seen ...
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  • transferring from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. In 1968, Kirkpatrick ... wasn't easy to find the YPSL in Columbia, Missouri. But I had read ...
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  • development of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and wrote with great ... The town of Lytton, British Columbia, Canada is named after the author ...
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  • |19,694Columbia University, [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/enrol ... League institutions; there were also some British graduates—more from the ...
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  • England; the Sullivan mine of British Columbia; and Broken Hill, Australia. Galena also occurs at Mount Hermon in Northern Israel. In the United ...
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  • 1909, Johnson moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and continued her writing ... Johnson died of breast cancer in Vancouver, British Columbia on March ...
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  • 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). ...
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  • systems exerted great influence on other British anthropologists. Through ... *Hatch, Elvin. 1974. Theories of Man and Culture. New York: Columbia ...
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  • irishstatutebook.ie/isbc_bps1881.html British Public Statutes Affected ... * HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal ...
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  • Eocene of the Princeton Chert of British Columbia (Stockey and Wehr 1996 ... Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils. Vancouver ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • continue to live in south-eastern British Columbia, southern Alberta and ... === In British Columbia === [[Image:Dukhubours in Canada.jpg|thumb ...
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  • of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he influenced ... D. from Harvard. He joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1963, serving ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • |popplace=Canada (British Columbia), United States (Alaska) ... are in Masset and Skidegate, British Columbia; and in Hydaburg, Alaska ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the Beebo Brinker series by Ann Bannon. British school stories also provided ... and Modern Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, ...
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  • Space Shuttle to fly into space was the Columbia, followed by the Challenger ... *Reaction Engines Skylon and the earlier RR/British Aerospace HOTOL ...
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  • doing graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University, he produced ... era. He lived in England, studying British folk music under a Guggenheim ...
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  • Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in the British-founded town and military ... Road.Frances Pritchett, [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedk ...
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  • on Alberta's western border with British Columbia. Banff is about an ... and into Yoho National Park in British Columbia. The Banff townsite ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of a concession that acknowledged the British Parliament’s right to ... and to prepare defenses in case of a British attack.Hartley, 296-297. ...
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  • Jade is the official gemstone of British Columbia, where it is found in ... the jade itself is now imported from British Columbia and elsewhere. ...
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  • as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. His 1835, Minute ... be loyal to Britain; instead, appalled at British hypocrisy, they rebelled ...
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  • Sabretooths, and Hominids. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231116403 ... * British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). 2007. [http://news.bbc.co ...
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  • Laurence Johnston Peter was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada ... the faculty of the University of British Columbia in 1965. In 1967 Peter ...
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  • system shared proximate sources with the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest ... as evaluate the potential interference of British and French Canadian hunters ...
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  • Discovered by the legendary Columbia Records producer John Hammond ... jazz. Sometimes referred to as her "Columbia period" (after her ...
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  • Oxford University, Heidelberg University, Columbia University, the University ... ). Papyrus: Structure and Usage. London: British Museum Press. London: British ...
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  • two subsidiary gold rushes in Atlin, British Columbia and Nome, Alaska as ... present. As well, the government of British Columbia did propose to take ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of jadeite include Kazakhstan, Russia, British Columbia, Alaska, and Turkestan. == Characteristics == Jadeite is composed of monoclinic crystals ...
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  • created by Richard Mulcaster in 1592.The British Library, [http://www.bl ... also added American words that were not in British dictionaries like "skunk ...
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  • first post-secondary institutions in British Columbia to provide degree programs ... * Coleman, Brian. "McGill, British Columbia." McGill Journal ...
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  • century, after whom Vancouver, British Columbia is named. ... and Wy'east, traveled down the Columbia River from the Far North ...
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  • Emerson Howland Swift, Hagia Sophia (Columbia University Press, New York ... Templon or Iconostasis? The Journal of the British Archaeological Association ...
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  • is an abbreviation for the District of Columbia, the federal district coextensive ... (on its western side). The District of Columbia has three major natural ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • upon entering King's College (now Columbia College) because he was ... During this time, anti-British sentiment was growing in the American ...
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  • Saxon dynasty and thus a union of the British and Norman lines. Their ... Category:history of the British Empire Category:history ...
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  • (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, ... Of Tamil Indian heritage, he was born in British India and later became a ...
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  • During his time in Europe, he read British tabloid newspapers, and ... London, Patterson began reading the flashy British tabloids, and believed that ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Province of Canada was one of six British colonies. Conversation ... In 1871, Britain added British Columbia to Confederation, making it ...
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  • received honorary doctorate degrees from Columbia University and Smith College ... of American Women Psychologists. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231051557 ...
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  • modern use of the term was coined by the British magazine Punch, well known ... Abuse Of Editorial Cartoons (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • assigned the chain-reaction patent to the British Admiralty to ensure its secrecy ( ... In 1938, Szilárd accepted an offer to conduct research at Columbia ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • is Salishan language of southwestern British Columbia. ==Early Reports== ... In 1978, the University of British Columbia hosted a symposium, entitled ...
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  • Felix Adler graduated from Columbia University in 1870 and moved to ... chair of political and social ethics at Columbia University, which he held ...
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  • Great, through the Roman Empire, to the British and Napoleonic empires saw ... that Spain and Portugal, followed by the British, the French, the Dutch, ...
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  • *The Columbia Style was made by Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor to ... author-date system) is recommended by the British Standards Institution and ...
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  • develop, and become more functional (Columbia 2005). When the fetal stage ... When I use a word...:Oe no!]. British Medical Journal 315(1). ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • States. In Canada, this mineral is found in British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. Minerals and Mining. 2005. [http://mmsd1 ...
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  • so eloquently by nineteenth century British poet, James Thomson, in ... evident; for example Bernard Martin of Columbia University, who translated ...
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  • or Native American cultures in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon ... the modern-day cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, Seattle, Washington ...
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  • to speed up independence from the British Empire), in South Africa ... alcoholism and untouchability, and overall British indifference and hegemony ...
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  • and antennae, have been found in British Columbia (Burgess Shale Cambrian ... #039;s Atlas Mountains, Utah, Ohio, British Columbia, and in other parts ...
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  • *Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada *Keelung, Republic of China (Taiwan) ... *Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada *Puerto Montt, Chile ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • discovery expedition. It was named after a British admiral, Samuel Hood. 200 foot high landslide that crossed the Columbia River approximately 300 ...
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  • found in the Pardonet formation of British Columbia, reached as much as ... Late Triassic Pardonet Formation of British Columbia: bridging the Triassic ...
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  • Impulse!, Candid, Atlantic, Blue Note, Mercury, Columbia ... Mingus's onstage destruction of an $800 bass prompted British ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Second World War broke out, Firth joined British naval intelligence, where ... and served as a visiting professor at British Columbia (1969), Cornell (1970 ...
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  • Nitobe died in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in October, 1933 ... garden located at the University of British Columbia in the University Endowment ...
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  • being installed by an insulator, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.]] The major categories of plumbing systems or subsystems are: ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Lord Hardwicke's Act, passed by the British Parliament in 1753, did ... In British Columbia and Nova Scotia you must cohabit for two years ...
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  • Minerva is also displayed in front of Columbia University's Low Library ... Minerva is also a section heading in the British Medical Journal, an obvious ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of the free would not have defeated the British, against whom it rose up ... and the burning of the city so that the British might not use it. He was ...
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  • helped to promote coeducation in the British colonies. Scandinavian countries ... Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think ...
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  • in manuscripts copied or owned in the British Isles during the Anglo-Saxon ... of the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedae. Columbia University Studies in English ...
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  • April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume ... He worked for the Intelligence department of the British Foreign Office ...
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  • a United World College near Victoria, British Columbia. ... *University of British Columbia in 1958 (LL.D) *University of Notre ...
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  • silver Buddhist reliquary, with content. British Museum.]] ... The British archaeologist Sir John Marshall conducted excavations ...
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  • 240px|A full grown bull moose from British Columbia with early (May) antlers.]] ... as large as the Canadian province of British Columbia, but the annual take ...
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  • Bell, which was cast in the same British foundry as the original ... representatives from each of the thirteen British North American colonies ...
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a ... Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. ...
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  • to the use of milled edges, many un-milled British sterling silver coins were ... are the result of coining presses.The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia ...
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  • On October 4, 1918, this boat was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken ... He remained a prisoner of war in a British prison camp until his release ...
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  • the Kwakiutl and other tribes of British Columbia. On his way back he ... groups on the northern coast of British Columbia, like the Tsimshian ...
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  • music became unmistakable following the British discovery of American blues ... record producers. He cut some tracks for Columbia which went unreleased at ...
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  • the Asia Center of the University of British Columbia, Canada, is interested ... of Korean tradition, vol. II. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0 ...
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  • and Darkness). He was also a scholar of British literature and a composer ... *Rimer, Thomas J. and Gessel, Van C., eds. 2005. The Columbia Anthology ...
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  • Indian independence movement against the British Raj. Bose was elected president ... to suppress independence movements. The British in India, even in response ...
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  • in favor of French surrealists and British and Irish poets of the 1890s ... got a job as a contract scriptwriter for Columbia Pictures and moved to Hollywood ...
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  • professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. ... From 1985 to 1988, while his wife was a graduate student at Columbia ...
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