Because of Huskisson's fluency in French, Dundas appointed him in January 1793 to oversee the execution of the Aliens Act, which mostly dealt with French refugees.

Because Dundas Street bends at the square, it is not actually a square, but an irregular pentagon.

Because these two stations were built and exploited by two different railway companies in the 19th century, east-west lines terminate at Centraal Station, whereas north-south lines run through Hollands Spoor.

Because Rousseau was the preferred philosopher of the radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, he, above all, became tarred with the accusation of promoting the notion of the " noble savage ", especially during the polemics about Imperialism and scientific racism in the last half of the 19th century.

Because of its excellent harbour, Mindelo ( on the island of São Vicente ) became an important commercial centre during the 19th century, mainly because the British used Cape Verde as a storage depot for coal which was bound for the Americas.

Because of Essex County's rich history, which includes 17th century colonial history, maritime history spanning its existence, and leadership in the expansions of the textile industry in the 19th century, the entire county has been designated the Essex National Heritage Area by the National Park Service.

Because the stars were actually much further away than Greek astronomers postulated ( making movement extremely subtle ), stellar parallax was not detected until the 19th century.

Because of this, Geneva was a busy trading center for steam-powered riverboats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Because river valleys in the hilly areas were subject to cold air pockets and late frosts — especially during the Little Ice Age that persisted until the late 19th century — most early settlement was in uplands in and near South Quarter.

Because of the city's location on the Mississippi River, in the 19th century it built an extensive trade from the river's prodigious steamboat traffic.

Because of its beautifully landscaped streets and parks, and its man-made lake, Ridley Park became popular in the late 19th century and early part of the 20th century as a summer resort for wealthy Philadelphians who built most of the Victorian style homes still lived in today.

Because of this, the population rapidly increased to 1, 500 in the 1890s and peaked at over 2, 000 by the turn of the 19th to 20th century.

Because of the legend, a statue of John of Gaunt was placed in the empty niche in the 19th century.

Because the lyrics were sung on formal occasions, such as birthdays, there was no sheet music for it until 19th century.

Because of this combination of houses, employment and social services the original town is often seen as an important development in the history of 19th century urban planning.

Because of Austria's history as a multinational empire that included the largely Islamic Bosnia, Sunni Islam has been taught side by side with Roman Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox classes since the 19th century.

Because a legal entity with liability limited to the contributed capital was regarded in the 19th century as something dangerous, German law has many restrictions unknown to common law systems.

Because Blowers put the onus on slave owners to prove that they had a legal right to purchase slaves, slavery died out in Nova Scotia early in the 19th century.

Because of its pivotal role in providing independence and establishing democracy in the 19th century, the Norwegian parliament has been very reluctant to change the written constitution of 1814.

Because the theories of Fatio, Cramer and Redeker were not widely known, Le Sage's exposition of the theory enjoyed a resurgence of interest in the latter half of the 19th century, coinciding with the development of the kinetic theory.

Because the stronghold status had slowed down the city's development for many years, the citizens tried to abolish the stronghold status in the 19th century ; the fortifications were only moved to the east in 1873, and finally taken down in 1902, which allowed the city to develop.

Because of that, he was admitted to the Military Academy in 1874, ranked 19th.

Because of their belief in republicanism, that is, the “ common people are the rightful rulers of their own destiny ,” the founding members saw themselves as “ furious democrats in theory ” and declared their movement to be “ wholly and unequivocally democratic .” Being a democrat and egalitarian in the mid 19th century was tantamount to being a revolutionary, and was something to be feared by political establishments.

Because settlers from United States, Europe and other Pacific islands preceded ethnic Japanese residents, an English-lexified pidgin ( creole ), the Ogasawara Mixed Language ( OML ) emerged on the islands during the 19th century.

Because it had grown to become the largest town in Landkreis Friedland during the 19th century, the town was made the district capital in 1902.

Because of the extensive tanning industry that was located in the area during the 19th Century and early 20th Century, the area has earned the nickname of Leathertown.

Because of the lack of any physical evidence or antique swords from the Sengoku period to the Edo period ( 16th to 19th century ) matching the description of the ninjatō, the history of the weapon can only be reliably chronicled from the 20th century onwards.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Because the construction efforts on Veliki Brijun Island were jeopardized by malaria outbreaks which occurred during summer months, and even Austrian steel industrialist Paul Kupelweiser himself fell ill with the disease, at the turn of the century Kupelweiser invited in Koch, who at the time was studying different forms of malaria and quinine-based treatments.

Because the medical " silk manuscripts " dating from around 200 BC that were excavated in the 1970s from the tomb of a Han-dynasty noble in Mawangdui are undoubtedly ancestors of the received Neijing, scholars like Nathan Sivin now argue that the Neijing was first compiled in the 1st century BC.

) Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindness, a mother-goddess and patron of mothers and seamen, the representation in China was further interpreted in an all-female form around the 12th century.

A large part of this, especially in the late-19th century, was “ to be their brother ’ s keepers, or [...] their brother ’ s brothers .” Because of this sense of duty toward the other members of the church, many Methodists were personally temperate out of a hope that their restraint would give strength to their brothers.

Because parchment, prepared from animal hides, is far more durable than paper or papyrus, most palimpsests known to modern scholars are parchment, which rose in popularity in western Europe after the 6th century.

Because of its reputation, it was widely sought and was translated twice into Latin in the 12th century, once in Sicily and again in Spain.

Because the local governments did not officially receive the bull, it was not, technically, in force in those areas – an example of the interference of states in religious affairs common before the 20th century.

Because they do not have internal body cavities, for over a century, Platyhelminthes were regarded as a primitive stage in the evolution of bilaterians ( animals with bilateral symmetry and hence with distinct front and rear ends ).

Because of the expansion of form ( those elements pertaining to form, key, instrumentation and the like ) within a typical composition, and the growing idiosyncrasies and expressiveness of the new composers from the new century, it thus became easier to identify an artist based on his work or style.

Because of the penetration of Christianity in Scandinavia, serious conflict divided Norway for almost a century.

Because of the penetration of Christianity in Scandinavia, serious conflict divided Norway for almost a century.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

Because of this, after AD 610 the East Roman Empire is customarily referred to as the Byzantine Empire ( the term Byzantine is a modern term invented by historians in the 18th century ; the people of the Empire itself always referred to themselves as " Ρωμιούς " – in English, Romious ).

Because of the complexity of written English, more than a century of debate has occurred over whether English phonics should or should not be used in teaching beginning reading.

Because it is a good electrical insulator and fireproof, it was used to construct early-20th century electric switchboards and relay controls for large electric motors.

Because of continuous Turkish incursions, pestilence, and oppressive Spanish domination taxes, the power of Reggio began to decline during the 16th century.

Because of the economic decline from the 17th to the early 20th century, much of the 16th and 17th century town centre is still intact.

Because warfare had caused large numbers of the population ( mainly in the countryside ) to die or to flee, numerous immigrants arrived from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Lorraine, Savoy and other areas after 1648 and until the mid-18th century.

Because of social, political, and academic changes brought on by decolonization in the second half of the 20th century, creole languages have experienced revivals in the past few decades.

Because the area had been depopulated by plague in the early 18th century, King Frederick William I of Prussia invited Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Archbishopric of Salzburg to settle in Insterburg in 1732.