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* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.
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For hotels with 1000 rooms, the increased license fee would mean an expense of $5000 a year, Goodis said.
They lived in 100 cantons ( 4. 1 ) from which 1000 young men per year were chosen for military service, a citizen-army by our standards and by comparison with the Roman professional army.
Map showing the historical retreat and expansion of Basque within the context of its linguistic neighbors between the year 1000 and 2000
The Correlates of War, a dataset widely used by scholars of conflict, classifies civil wars as having over 1000 war-related casualties per year of conflict.
Based on the 1000 casualties per year criterion, there were 213 civil wars from 1816 to 1997, 104 of which occurred from 1944 to 1997.
Smoothed historical measurements of ΔT using total solar eclipses are about + 16800 s at the year − 500 ( 501 BC ), + 10600 s at 0 ( 1 BC ), + 5700 s at 500 ( AD ), + 1600 s at 1000, and + 180 s at 1500.
Recent Polish diggings show burned beams and ashes and many 1000 year old artifacts on an area about 20 hectares.
The islands were converted to Christianity around the year 1000, with the Diocese of the Faroe Islands based at Kirkjubøur, southern Streymoy, of which there were 33 Catholic bishops.
By the year 1000, Fujiwara no Michinaga was able to enthrone and dethrone emperors at will.
Muslim interest in the peninsula returned in force around the year 1000 when Al-Mansur ( also known as Almanzor ) sacked Barcelona in 985.
The spindle whorl itself is dated from the year 1000 to 1100 AD.
A study of the German Department of Science shows the following spread of ISDN-channels per 1000 inhabitants in the year 2005:
In addition, the environment is unique in that it is the only known place where wolves and moose coexist without the presence of bears There are usually around 25 wolves and 1000 moose on the island, but the numbers change greatly year to year.
Brabham also drove for the works Matra team during the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season and won the final race of the season and his final top level race at the Paris 1000 km in October that year.
Around the year 1000, when the area was under Polish rule, the stronghold became seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg.
The Germanic language declined beginning in the 7th century, but may have been in scattered use until as late as about the year 1000.
In the thirteenth century, chess had been played in Europe for almost two hundred years, having been introduced into Europe by Arabs around the year 1000.
Around the year 1000, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kraków was created, and its borders covered whole area of Lesser Poland.
Funding varies depending on which country within the UK the student is located, students are eligible for NHS bursaries in addition to a £ 1000 grant per year, neither are repaid.
As of 2009, the world production of neptunium-237 by commercial power reactors was over 1000 critical masses a year, but to extract the isotope from irradiated fuel elements would be a major industrial undertaking.
Other famous pieces include the Boecis, a 258-line-long poem written entirely in the Limousin dialect of Occitan between the year 1000 and 1030 and inspired by Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy ; the Waldensian La Nobla Leyczon ( dated 1100 ), la Cançó de Santa Fe ( ca 1054 – 1076 ), the Romance of Flamenca ( 13th c .), the Song of the Albigensian Crusade ( 1213 – 1219?
The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to Stephen I of Hungary by Sylvester in the year 1000 ( hence the reign title ' Apostolic King ') is noted by the 19th century historian Lewis L. Kropf as a possible forgery of the 17th century.
About 7 per 1000 people in the United States have a seizure in a given year.
year and Leif
In the same year the sailing expedition of Christopher Columbus resulted in what is usually claimed to be the first European sighting of the New World, although Leif Ericson is often regarded as the first European to land in the New World, 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Around the year 1001 CE, the Sagas then refer to Leif Ericson landing in three places to the west, the first two being Helluland ( possibly Baffin Island ) and Markland ( possibly Labrador ).
For the one hundred year anniversary of the first official immigration of Norwegians to America, President Calvin Coolidge stated at the 1925 Minnesota State Fair, to a crowd of one hundred thousand people, that Leif had indeed been the first European to discover America.
In 1929, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a bill to make October 9 " Leif Erikson Day " in the state ; the bill was signed by Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr. in May of the same year.
In 1964 the United States Congress authorized and requested the president to proclaim October 9 of each year as " Leif Erikson Day ".
It was also during this time in the lead-up to the millennium that Newfoundland undertook an aggressive tourism marketing campaign which focused on important anniversaries such as the 500th year since John Cabot's voyage of discovery ( 1997 ), as well as the 1000th year since Vikings, such as Leif Ericson, made landfall on the province's shores ( 2000 ).
The Saga of the Greenlanders tells that Leif Eriksson set out in the year 1002 or 1003 to follow the route first described by Bjarni Herjólfsson.
** Leif Eriksson, who landed in North America ( Newfoundland, Canada ) around the year 1000.
Leif Tronstad, then a lecturer at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and Jomar Brun, head of the hydrogen plant put forward a proposal in 1933, the year heavy water was first isolated, for a project, which was accepted by Norsk Hydro and production started in 1935.
Tyrker ( or Tyrkir ) is a character mentioned in the Norse Saga of the Greenlanders and German historical legend He accompanied Leif on his voyage of discovery around the year 1000, and is portrayed as an older German male servant.
One year after Lovelorn, Leaves ’ Eyes released the follow-up album Vinland Saga in 2005, inspired by Viking Leif Eriksson.
In 1996, Jannetty teamed up with Leif Cassidy ( later to be known as Al Snow ) to form The New Rockers but the team never achieved much success in the WWF and ended later that same year.
year and Ericson
Magnus, whose birth year has never been confirmed in modern times, was probably the second son of Birger Jarl ( Birger Magnuson, 1200 – 66 ) and Princess Ingeborg, herself the sister of the childless king Eric Ericson of Sweden, thus a daughter of king Eric the Survivor and his queen, Richeza of Denmark.
year and was
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.
He was not enthusiastic over the newly acquired Claude Lorrain, but reminisced with pleasure over a Poussin exhibit he had been able to see in Paris a year ago.
After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.
A year ago, when I met with you, the nation was emerging from an economic downturn, even though the signs of resurgent prosperity were not then sufficiently convincing to the doubtful.
`` Don't forget, here was a man who had been accusing his colleagues for almost a year of willfully attempting to present an incorrect report.
It was a merry if somewhat soggy Christmas for me that year.
Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.
Alexander Vasilievitch Suvorov, now in his fifty-ninth year ( ten years Potemkin's senior ), was a thin, worn-faced person of less than medium height who looked like a professor of botany.
He rose at 4:00 A.M. the year round and was apt to stride through camp crowing like a cock to wake his men.
So persistent were these attacks that in March of the following year, Woodruff was finally moved to action, and Pike was to learn his first lesson in frontier politics, the subtle art of diversion.
But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.
Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.
But he was happy to tell her that his finances were now in such condition that he could go back to Harvard for a third year with Professor Baker.
It was in the spring of the year when he took to his bed and Tessie and Alfred found out that they didn't know each other.
In spite of this catastrophe the final mortality figure from disease in the American Army during World War 1, was 15 per 1,000 per year, contrasted with 110 per 1,000 per year in the Mexican War, and 65 in the American Civil War.
As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.
Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.
Nothing was going to be done this year to celebrate Garibaldi's bold and unsuccessful defense of Rome.
Until the last year or so the profession of friendship with the United States had been an article of faith with Trujillo, and altogether too often this profession was accepted here as evidence of his good character.
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