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After arriving at the island of Antigua in early October 1739, Edward Vernon sent three ships under the command of Captain Thomas Waterhouse to intercept Spanish merchant ships that made the route between La Guaira and Portobelo.
Shortly after this favourable result, France's mediation in the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire led to the Treaty of Belgrade ( September 1739 ) which favoured the Ottoman Empire, beneficiary of a Franco-Ottoman alliance against the Habsburgs since the early 16th century.
One source says that the township was named after the university in England, and was formed in either 1753 or 1755, but another source claims that the township was named after an early settler named John Axford, who came to settle in the area with others between 1735 and 1739, and affirms that the township's creation was in 1755.
The early schools of the township were connected with the two Jordan churches for many years, possibly extending back to 1739.
In the early part of the reign the edge of the coin was milled diagonally, but from 1739 following the activities of a particularly bold gang of guinea filers for whom a reward was posted, the milling was changed to produce the shape of a chevron or arrow-head.
In the early part of the reign the edge of the coin was milled diagonally, but from 1739 following the activities of a particularly bold gang of guinea filers for whom a reward was posted, the milling was changed to produce the shape of a chevron or arrow-head.
In 1739, he earned his BA from Trinity College, Dublin and he went on to earn his MA from Trinity in the early 1740s.
It is known from letters to Voltaire that Frederick began to ruminate on the project early in 1738 ; his draft of the brief work was completed by the end of 1739.
Paul Daniel Longolius ( November 1, 1704 – February 24, 1779 ) was the main editor of volumes 3 through 18 of Johann Heinrich Zedler's Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon ( an early encyclopedia ) from 1733 to 1739, replacing Jacob August Franckenstein, who had edited the first two volumes.
As early as 1739, the French reported that the Houma, Bayougoula, and Acolapissa were merging into one tribe.

early and began
As it began raining at around eight o'clock on December 26th, I retired into my tent early, somewhat tired and discouraged, my body reacting sluggishly because of the continued exposure.
But a few days after Fred's return he began hemorrhaging and that was the beginning of early and complete disintegration.
As head of the firm Darling & Swartz, Mr. Darling began by challenging Brown & Sharpe to its keenest competition during the 1850's and early 60's.
In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.
Voter registration began in late November 1959 and continued until early January, 1960.
Synthetic Cubism began with Picasso alone, late in 1913 or early in 1914 ; ;
Both these types, and those in between, are in existence by reason of a legislative interest in libraries that began at Albany as early as 1950, with the creation by the legislature of county library systems financed by county governments with matching funds from the state.
As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change.
With the increasing production of talking pictures in the early 1930s, film narrators like Heigo began to lose work, and Akira moved back in with his parents.
The traditional culture of farming, cheesemaking, and woodworking still exists in Alpine villages, although the tourist industry began to grow early in the 20th century and expanded greatly after World War II to become the dominant industry by the end of the century.
The tourism industry began in the early 19th century when foreigners visited the Alps, traveled to the bases of the mountains to enjoy the scenery, and stayed at the spa-resorts.
Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.
England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.
Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.
The Assyrians began to convert to Christianity from Ashurism during the period between the early 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
In the early 1970s, following the revival of Asatru in Iceland, Stephen McNallen, a former U. S. Army Airborne Ranger, began publishing a newsletter titled The Runestone.
Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".
Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.
He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Although Housman's early work and his sphere of responsibilities as professor included both Latin and Greek, he began to focus his energy on Latin poetry.
According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.
In the early 1990s, the army began to undergo a generational change.
Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.
Botany began with early human efforts to identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making it one of the oldest branches of science.
According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

early and acquiring
Smith made his mark early on in the 2009 NFL Draft by acquiring talent such as Eugene Monroe, Terrence Knighton, Derek Cox, Eben Britton and Mike Thomas, who all made significant contributions in their rookie years.
One example is acquiring the grenade launcher in an early level, an act that slows down the time for that level over the best possible, but speeds up the overall game time by allowing the runner to bypass a big area in a later level that they could not otherwise do.
As early as March 1905, the City of Los Angeles began secretly acquiring water rights in the Owens Valley.
Prelingually deafened-individual who is either born deaf or who lost his or her hearing early in childhood, before acquiring language.
The Tribune has been a leader on the Internet, acquiring 10 percent of America Online in the early 1990s, then launching such web sites as Chicagotribune. com ( 1995 ), Metromix. com ( 1996 ), ChicagoSports. com ( 1999 ), ChicagoBreakingNews. com ( 2008 ), and ChicagoNow. com ( 2009 ).
In the 19th and early 20th century, Omsk became the administrative center of Western Siberia and the Steppes ( Kazakhstan ), acquiring a few churches and cathedrals of various denominations, mosques, a synagogue, the governor-general's mansion, and a military academy.
Gary ' Magic ' Marker ( the " Magic " added by Beefheart ) was involved in early session work for this release, and his involvement with Rising Sons was also instrumental in acquiring the skills of Cooder, upon an unfulfilled suggestion that Marker might produce the album.
By the 1980s, Asper seemed eager to grow his chain of stations, launching two stations in Saskatchewan and winning a legal battle for a station in Vancouver during that decade, and acquiring a fledgling system in the Maritimes in the early 1990s.
The early Spurs were led by ABA veteran James Silas, and the team would get stronger as the season went on as they twice took advantage of the Virginia Squires, acquiring Swen Nater, who would go on to win Rookie of the Year, in November, and " The Iceman " George Gervin in January.
After Abdul-Jabbar and Johnson's retirement, the team struggled in the early 1990s before acquiring Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant in 1996.
The colonists ' accounts of interaction at Werowocomoco during the early days of Jamestown emphasized Powhatan's interests in acquiring numerous English objects, particularly copper, which the Indians used to create their own precious objects.
In early 1990, Aldus bought Silicon Beach Software, acquiring a number of consumer titles for the Macintosh, including SuperPaint, Digital Darkroom, SuperCard, Super3D, and Personal Press ( later renamed Adobe Home Publisher ).
Tippett spent vacations with them, learning French and Italian and acquiring at an early age an easy familiarity with European people and manners.
In the early 19th century " academy " took the connotations that " gymnasium " was acquiring in German-speaking lands, of school that was less advanced than a college ( for which it might prepare students ) but considerably more than elementary.
Bryne spent the majority of their early years playing on a small, rented field next to Bryne Mill, before acquiring the site of their current home ground, Bryne Stadion, at the end of the 1930s.
In early 2002, Dictaphone emerged from bankruptcy as a privately held organization, with Rob Schwager as its Chairman and CEO, while the remaining assets were broken up and sold individually, with ScanSoft, now known as Nuance Communications, Inc., acquiring core businesses such as Dragon Systems and voice recognition research personnel in the U. S.
In the early years of the 21st century, a partnership with the Transdev group resulted in RATP acquiring a minority shareholding in that group, with its many worldwide transport operations.
When it was later leased, one opposition MPP claimed that Ontario had spent $ 100 billion since the early 1970s acquiring the land that it sits on.
In early July 2003, Platon Lebedev, a Khodorkovsky partner and second largest shareholder in Yukos, was arrested on suspicion of illegally acquiring a stake in a state-owned fertilizer firm, Apatit, in 1994.
The Western Pacific Railroad was an early adopter of the type, building their own bay window cars starting in 1942 and acquiring this style exclusively from then on.
In this state, which Joseph Jordania calls battle trance, hominids and early human were losing their individuality, and were acquiring a new collective identity, where they were not feeling fear or pain, and were religiously dedicated to the group interests, in disregard of their individual safety and life.
Although successful in his political ambition of acquiring the highest political office of the state, the unstable political atmosphere of Bulgaria in the early inter-war years ultimately led to Stamboliyski ’ s demise.
The BRT was incorporated January 18, 1896, and took over the bankrupt Long Island Traction Company in early February acquiring the Brooklyn Heights Railroad and the lessee of the Brooklyn City Rail Road.
Early area landowners included the Bischof family, who held the increasingly residential settlement in the late 16th century and early 17th century, and the Köhne family, which started acquiring possessions in the Langfuhr area in 1616 AD.
SBC continued to grow in the early decades of the 20th century, acquiring weaker rivals.

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