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Yet as an evocation of time past, there are few such successful portraits in English historical literature.
Even English has general, albeit complex, rules that predict pronunciation from spelling, and these rules are successful most of the time ; rules to predict spelling from the pronunciation have a higher failure rate.
He turned the settlers into foragers and successful traders with the Native Americans, who taught the English how to plant corn and other crops.
It was not until the 19th century that other European languages began to use the word " Czechs " ( in English – Tschechen in German, Tchèques in French ) in a deliberate ( and successful ) attempt to distinguish between Bohemian Slavs and other inhabitants of Bohemia ( mostly Germans ).
A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.
Champlain's settlement at Saint Croix Island, later moved to Port-Royal, survived where the ill-fated English settlement at Roanoke did not, and pre-dated the more successful English settlement at Jamestown by three years.
His most successful poem, The True-Born Englishman ( 1701 ), defended the king against the perceived xenophobia of his enemies, satirising the English claim to racial purity.
Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.
Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".
Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.
One result was the creation by the American company MGM of an English studio MGM-British in Hertfordshire, which produced some very successful films, including A Yank at Oxford ( 1938 ) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1939 ), before World War II intervened.
William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne as William III of England jointly with his wife Mary II of England.
William feared that even English neutrality would not suffice and that control over the Royal Navy was a prerequisite for a successful naval campaign against France.
Zuylestein was sent in part to see how successful, or amenable, James's packed Parliament would be, and have discussions with English statesmen, with Zuylestein sending back to William letters from them.
Handel was only partly successful with his performances of English Oratorio on mythical and biblical themes, but when he arranged a performance of Messiah to benefit the Foundling Hospital ( 1750 ) the critique ended.
The most successful of the Savoy Operas was The Mikado ( 1885 ), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting.
Several attempts were made in the 19th century to naturalise the dactylic hexameter to English, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur Hugh Clough and others, none of them particularly successful.
The first successful English daily, the Daily Courant, was published from 1702 to 1735.
Junior and Pitbull have been successful with rhymes in Spanish and English as well.
Although successful in terms of uniting the Welsh against their oppressors, the uprising eventually ran out of pace due to key home ground lost whilst chasing the English army towards London — Glyndŵr was last seen in 1412 and was never captured nor tempted by royal pardons and never betrayed.
By 1407 this strategy was beginning to bear fruit, even though by this point Owain's rebel soldiers had concluded successful battles with the King ’ s men as far as Birmingham, where the English were in retreat.
Owain remained free but even though his campaign had been successful, and the English armies feared both him and the French — he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince.
In 1127, William Clito, a potential claimant to the English throne, seemed likely to become the Count of Flanders ; Stephen was sent by the king on a mission to prevent this, and in the aftermath of his successful election, William Clito attacked Stephen's lands in neighbouring Boulogne in retaliation.

successful and settlement
Ships may be lost if the attack is unsuccessful, but after three successful attacks, the pirate fortress is converted into a settlement.
After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.
During the Hohenstaufen period, German princes facilitated a successful, peaceful eastward settlement of lands previously sparsely inhabited by West Slavs or uninhabited, by German speaking farmers, traders and craftsmen from the western part of the Empire, both Christians and Jews.
With the help of lawyers in August 1937 he was successful in claiming a pension ; he received a cash settlement for his house, which had been taken over by the city of Cologne ; his unpaid mortgage, penalties and taxes were waived.
The first successful settlement of São Tomé was established in 1493 by Álvaro Caminha, who received the land as a grant from the crown.
The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement ( after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 ) and later the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement in what was to become the United States of America.
A number of English colonies were established under a system of independent Proprietary Governors, who were appointed under mercantile charters to English joint stock companies to found and run settlements, most notably the Virginia Company, which created the first successful English settlement at Jamestown and the second at St. George's, Bermuda.
Victoria's first successful British settlement was at Portland, on the west coast of what is now Victoria.
Their settlement proved successful, and the Vikings in the region became known as the " Northmen " from which " Normandy " and " Normans " are derived.
The Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region.
Too much dissension and discontent prevented a successful settlement.
Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America.
The first successful settlement was established at the present site of Ypsilanti about 1809 by French traders.
Five years later, a second attempt was successful, and the settlement incorporated as a city in 1878.
His recommendations to traders led to the successful settlement of Mankato, away from flood areas, and the Chief eventually settled his people near the lake now known as Sleepy Eye Lake.
After the Dutch arrival to the region in the 1620s, the Lenape were successful in restricting Dutch settlement to Pavonia in present-day Jersey City along the Hudson until the 1660s and the Swedish settlement to New Sweden ( 1655-The Dutch defeat the Swedes on the Delaware ).
Difficulties in successful settlement and the War of 1812 led to a partial abandonment of the town.
Originally overshadowed by the nearby white settlement of Belzoni, Oklahoma, Rattan did not become economically successful enough to merit its own United States Post Office until December 12, 1910.
With the help of the railroad, his attempts to create a settlement were successful.

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