Almost all Dominicans are descendants of African slaves brought in by colonial planters in the 18th century.

Almost 70 years after Copernicus's death and building on his theories, astronomer Johannes Kepler from Stuttgart was a leader in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Almost as soon as Jerusalem had been captured, and continuing throughout the 12th century, many pilgrims arrived and left accounts of the new kingdom ; among them are the English Saewulf, the Russian Abbot Daniel, the Frank Fretellus, the Byzantine Johannes Phocas, and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderich.

Almost the whole brunt of official corruption is borne by the Muslim masses .” For almost a century until the census, a small Hindu elite had ruled over a vast and impoverished Muslim peasantry.

Almost a century later later, this decision would see Sergius ’ name removed from the Diptychs by Patriarch Sergius II of Constantinople.

Almost half the children born in Britain throughout the 19th century died before the age of 5, and in the crowded living conditions of early 19th century Lyme Regis, infant deaths from diseases like small pox and measles were particularly common.

Almost every keyboard until the 15th century had naturals to each octave.

Almost sixty of these had erupted in the twentieth century by the early 1990s.

Almost all them closed in the late 19th or 20th century.

Almost from the invention of the telescope in the 17th century the advantages of mounting two of them side by side for binocular vision seems to have been explored.

Almost a century later Matthew Flinders surveyed the Gulf of Carpentaria in 1802 and 1803.

Almost all of the prizes have been created in the twentieth century, and only two prizes were awarded before 1780.

Almost surely it is of later origin, and scholars agree in assigning it to the middle of the 4th century.

Almost immediately, the project of a legislative union between the British and Irish parliaments, which had been from time to time discussed since the beginning of the 18th century, was taken up in earnest by Pitt's government.

Almost the whole valley was clearfelled and converted to pasture or market gardens before the urbanisation of the 20th century.

Almost a century later, the Association of Religion Data Archives ( relying on World Christian Encyclopedia ) estimated some 15, 700 Bahá ' ís in 2005 while the CIA World Factbook estimated about 12, 000 Japanese Bahá ' ís in 2006.

Almost a century later in 1649, in the first known attempt to argue for jury nullification, a jury likewise acquitted John Lilburne for his part in inciting a rebellion against the Cromwell regime.

Almost a century later, in 1984, there was a brief constitutional crisis.

Almost a century later ( 609 – 610 ) the 3rd Council of Dvin was convened during the reign of Catholicos Abraham I of Aghbatank and Prince Smbat Bagratuni, with clergymen and laymen participating.

Almost all major personages of the French aristocracy and literature of the time frequented it, and its reputation was at its height in the second quarter of the century.

Almost a century later it became a city on July 10, 1959.

Almost a century later, George Russell, a 53-year-old horticulturalist from UK York started to breed the famous Russell hybrids ( Lupinus X russellii hort ).

Almost no secular work remains above ground, although the Anglian Tower in York has been controversially dated to the seventh century.

Almost three decades ago Bertha Reynolds undertook a study of short-contact interviewing because of her conviction that short-term casework had an important but neglected place in our network of social services.

Almost the first step in the corruption of Pip's values is the unworthy shame he feels when Estella cruelly remarks the coarseness of his hands: `` They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages ''.

Almost immediately after, however, Joab, who had been sent away, perhaps intentionally returned and slew Abner at the gate of Hebron.

Almost at once, therefore, Phillip had to appoint overseers from among the ranks of the convicts to get the others working.

Almost universally, home computers of the 1980s had a ROM-resident BASIC interpreter, allowing the machines to boot directly into BASIC which therefore constituted a significant and visible part of the user interface of many home computers ' rudimentary operating systems.

Almost lifeless, the tired entertainers of the night clubs and their friends straggle to their rooms, taximen compare notes and earnings, the vast street scene has had its curtain call, the play is over .</ p >

Almost simultaneously the Senate had declared Galba, then governor of Hispania Tarraconensis ( modern Spain ), as Emperor of Rome.

Almost all of these " esperantido " s were stillborn, but the very first, Ido (" Offspring "), had significant success for several years.

Almost 60 years later, the thief admitted that the cup had been melted down to make counterfeit half-crown coins.

Almost two years after Boyer had consolidated power in the west, in 1821, Santo Domingo declared independence from Spain and requested from Simón Bolívar inclusion in the Gran Colombia.

Almost all of Haganah's armoured vehicles had been destroyed, the blockade was in full operation, and hundreds of Haganah members who had tried to bring supplies into the city were killed.

Almost immediately, however, a controversy, which had been begun ten years before and been temporarily silenced, broke out more violently than ever.

Almost immediately after his election, Eugene was forced to deal with the heresy of Monothelitism, i. e., that Christ had only one will.

Almost immediately he toured Australia and New Zealand with The Beach Boys and returned again to the UK and Ireland, where he was so besieged by teenage girls that the Irish police had to halt his performances to pull the girls off him.

Almost immediately, Peckinpah realized he was working on a low-budget production, as he had to sink $ 90, 000 of his own money to hire experienced crew members.

Almost all of this territory consisted of nations that Russia had absorbed by conquest during the prior several centuries and correspondingly non-Russian speaking population groups.

Almost all primitive cultures had a type of fipple flute and is most likely the first pitched flute-type instrument in existence.

Almost 100 years after Governor Parke had expressed his views, one of his successors would speak in similar terms.

Almost immediately, he suppressed the revolts in Egypt and Babylon that had broken out the year before, and appointed his brother Achaemenes as governor or satrap ( Old Persian: khshathrapavan ) over Egypt.

Almost immediately after the procession began, mourners had engulfed Nasser's coffin shouting " There is no God but Allah, and Nasser is God's beloved ... Each of us is Nasser.

Almost all indigenous peoples in Taiwan have traditionally had a custom of sexual division of labor.