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Among the notables buried in the cemetery are explorer-surveyor Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Major Edmund Lockyer and Mary, Lady Jamison ( widow of the colonial pioneer landowner, physician, constitutional reformer and ' knight of the realm ', Sir John Jamison ).
Among the new colonial forces were specialist Forest Ranger units, which embarked on lengthy search-and-destroy missions deep into the bush.
Among his neighbors in Lincoln were the Pownalls, who had one son ( John ) serving in the colonial office, and another, Thomas, who went to the North American colonies in 1753 and was appointed governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1757.
Among his colonial Yankee ancestors was Thomas Hastings, who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634, and Deacon Thomas Parker, who came from England in 1635 and was one of the founders of Reading.
Among the many important aspects of Postclassic and early Spanish colonial period Maya life at Lamanai is shown by the presence of significant numbers of copper artifacts.
Among his ancestors were Thomas Welles, a colonial Governor of Connecticut, and Increase Sumner, Governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799.
Among the colonial slave societies, the United States was nearly unique in developing the one-drop rule ; it derived both from the Southern slave culture ( shared by other societies ) and the aftermath of the American Civil War, emancipation of slaves, and Reconstruction.
Among colonial minded circles he was feted as a national hero.
Among the significant causes of this movement were colonial oppression, exemplified by the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh massacre, economic hardships to the common man due to a large chunk of Indian wealth being exported to Britain, ruin of Indian artisans due to British factory-made goods replacing handmade goods, and popular resentment with the British over Indian soldiers dying in World War I while fighting as part of the British Army, in battles that otherwise had nothing to do with India.
Among them are a world-class collection of Hudson River School paintings, including major works by Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church ; iconic genre and history paintings including works by William Sidney Mount and Eastman Johnson ; a vast range of American portraits, including paintings by Rembrandt Peale and Gilbert Stuart ; all 435 of John James Audubon ’ s extant preparatory watercolors for Birds of America ; and an encyclopedic collection of more than 800 works documenting the full range of representational sculpture in America from the colonial period to the present day.
Among its collections are far-ranging materials relating to the founding and early history of the nation ; one of the best collections of 18th-century newspapers in the United States ; an outstanding collection of materials documenting slavery and Reconstruction ; an exceptional collection of Civil War material, including Ulysses S. Grant ’ s terms of surrender for Robert E. Lee ; collections relating to trials in the United States prior to 1860 ; American fiction, poetry, and belles-lettres prior to 1850 ; a broad range of materials relating to the history of the circus ; and American travel accounts from the colonial era to the present day.
In The Artist Among the Missing ( 1949 ), Manning illustrates the racial tensions that are created when imperialism and multiculturalism mix, and, as in her other war novels, evaluates the political bind in which the British seek to defeat racist Nazism while upholding British colonial exploitation.
Among the nine stories it contains, the long title story describes the narrator's brutalized childhood and youth in colonial Rhodesia in a style that is emotionally compelling and verbally pyrotechnic.
Among his more notable works were a biography of Queen Mary for which he was rewarded by being created a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1960, Verandah ( 1964 ) a biography of his grandfather, the Irish colonial governor John Pope Hennessy and Sins of the Fathers ( 1967 ), an account of the Atlantic slave traffickers.
Among these reforms was the deputizing of the Royal Navy's Sea Officers to help enforce customs laws in colonial ports.
Among them were Auguste d ' Arenberg and Eugène Étienne, future founders of what was called the " parti colonial ".
Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: Abroad ( 1980 ) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism ; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds ( 1990 ) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures ; Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing ( 1991 ) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel ; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women ’ s Travel Writing by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the 19th century ; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation ( 1992 ), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing ’ s dissemination of a colonial mind-set ; and Belated Travelers ( 1994 ), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.
Among the first colonial residents of Rustenburg were settlers of Indian origin.
Among the incidents it depicts is the eradication of Praying Town Indians in the colonial period, despite their recent conversion to Christianity, because it was assumed that all Indians were the same.
Among his favorite subjects were Arab life and figures in the costume of the colonial period.
Among its provisions it establishes that newly independent post-colonial states are subject to the " clean slate " rule, such that the new state does not inherit the treaty obligations of the colonial power ( article 16 ).
Among historical works the library has is the first book printed in Lima in 1584 along with other historical books dating back to colonial times.
Among his instructions were the acquisition of an extension to the colonial charter to include the territory of present-day Rhode Island.

Among and governors
Among John III's many governors of this region, were Vasco da Gama, Pedro Mascarenhas, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, Nuno da Cunha, Estêvão da Gama, Martim Afonso de Sousa, João de Castro and Henrique de Meneses.
Among other things, the Company provides more than half of the school's governors, including the chairman of the governing body, which meets at Fishmongers ' Hall.
Among LaGrange's alumni were several generals, Alabama governors Edward A. O ' Neal and David P. Lewis, Alabama Supreme Court justice William M. Byrd and U. S. Senator Jeremiah Clemens, who wrote the first American Civil War novel and the first western novel.
Among the alumni who have become elected officials, successful business owners, and other community leaders are two former governors, current Idaho governor C. L.
Among his clients after moving to Frankfort were former Presidents Madison and Monroe, future Vice-President Richard Mentor Johnson, and future governors James T. Morehead, John Breathitt, and Robert P. Letcher.
Among his many scholarly works was a translation into French of all Ottoman firmans, or edicts, sent to the governors and rulers of Egypt by the Sublime Porte from the Turkish conquest of Egypt in 1517 until the late 19th century.
Among its graduates are many Rhodes scholars, Jubilee scholars, two lieutenant governors, three chief justices, five archbishops and six regular Bishops.

Among and only
Among these languages, only Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status ( in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively ).
Among the first 101 elements in the periodic table, only francium is less stable.
Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.
Among the branchiopods, only some cladocerans are marine ; all the other groups are found in continental waters fresh water, including temporary pools and salt lakes.
Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.
Among all the alien peoples only the Hui-hui say “ we do not eat Mongol food ”.
The idea of non-biological self-replicating systems was introduced in Samuel Butler's article " Darwin Among the Machines " published only a few years after The Origin of Species.
Among canids, only the gray wolf has been known to prey on humans.
Additionally, according to Plutarch's essay on the meaning of the " E at Delphi "-- the only literary source for the inscription --- there was also inscribed at the temple a large letter E. Among other things epsilon signifies the number 5.
Among the Aztecs, the ancient Mexican theory of rhetorics, poetry, dance, and instrumental music, used the Nahuatl term In xochitl-in kwikatl to refer a complex mix of music and other poetic verbal and non-verbal elements, and reserve the word Kwikakayotl ( or cuicacayotl ) only for the sung expressions ( Leon-Portilla 2007, 11 ).
Among the Indo-European languages, its date of earliest written attestation is matched only by the now extinct Anatolian languages.
Among the longest single poems in American literature, Clarel, published in 1876, had an initial printing of only 350 copies.
Among his extant writings, Calvin only dealt explicitly with issues of contemporary Jews and Judaism in one treatise, Response to Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew.
Among the 1, 900 islands in the Maldives, only 198 are inhabited.
Among many Hasidic Jews, only hand-made shmurah matzah may be used, in accord with the opinion of Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, who ruled that machine-made matzoth were chametz.
Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.
Among Northwest Caucasian languages, only Abkhaz and Abaza have noun class, making use of a human male / human female / non-human distinction.
Among synthetic polymers, crystalline melting is only discussed with regards to thermoplastics, as thermosetting polymers will decompose at high temperatures rather than melt.
One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by the left / right axis, while in France, the T-axis was larger, and in the Middle East, the only dimension to be found was the T-axis: " Among mid-Eastern Arabs it has been found that while the tough-minded / tender-minded dimension is still clearly expressed in the relationships observed between different attitudes, there is nothing that corresponds to the radical-conservative continuum.
Among symmetric key encryption algorithms, only the one-time pad can be proven to be secure against any adversary-no matter how much computing power is available.
Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).
Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).
Among Catholic churches, St Ignatius Cathedral in Xujiahui is one of the largest, while She Shan Basilica is the only active pilgrimage site in China.
Among pluricentric languages, Serbo-Croatian was the only one with a pluricentric standardisation within one state.

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