A small exhibit in the museum indicates that the famous Breaker Morant of the Boer War does not appear in the Roll of Honour, not because he was dishonoured, but rather because he was not actually a member of the Australian armed forces.

Mature Boer bucks weigh 110-135 kg ( 240-300 lb ), and mature does weigh 90 – 100 kg ( 200-220 lb ).

After the first time, Boer does normally make excellent mothers.

While purebred bucks are usually preferred for breeding purposes, it is common to use crossbred does for kid production, with the resulting offspring being 7 / 8 or more Boer.

Certainly there does not seem to have been any of the overt sympathy for the Boer cause that had been such a strong feature of the years of Aylward ’ s editorship.

It does not seem the place after which the Battle of Driefontein ( Second Boer War, 10 March 1900 ) was named.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

The Boer nation has revealed a distinct Calvinist culture and the majority of Boers today are still members of a Reformed Church.

In contemporary South Africa and due to Broederbond propaganda, Boer and Afrikaner have been used interchangeably despite the fact that the Boers are the smaller segment within the Afrikaner designation as the Afrikaners of Cape Dutch origin are larger.

Two territorial areas are being developed as settlement exclusively for Boer / Afrikaners, Orania in the Northern Cape and Kleinfontein near Pretoria.

Further purification is effected by a chemical transport reaction developed by Arkel and de Boer: In a closed vessel, hafnium reacts with iodine at temperatures of 500 ° C, forming hafnium ( IV ) iodide ; at a tungsten filament of 1700 ° C the reverse reaction happens, and the iodine and hafnium are set free.

* 1900 – Second Boer War: Having already sieged the fortress at Ladysmith, Boer forces attack it, but are driven back by British defenders.

* February 8 – Second Boer War: British troops are defeated by the Boers at Ladysmith.

The Second Boer War and the earlier, much less well known, First Boer War ( December 1880 to March 1881 ) are collectively known as the Boer Wars.

According to an often-told story, during one of the earliest of the royal couple's repeated encounters with the crowds, a Boer War veteran asked Elizabeth, " Are you Scots or are you English?

Although Afrikaner and Boer Calvinism was united during much of the 20th century, recently it has become increasingly clear that these are two separate forms of Calvinism.

* The first Africans take part in the Olympics: two Tswana tribesmen who are involved with a Boer War exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis run in the marathon

In an interview with World Trademark Review, António Campinos, president of the Portuguese IP office, who has been appointed to succeed de Boer as OHIM President from 1 October 2010, said: " It's curious to note that the less sophisticated offices are those that have no financial autonomy.

The British Army adopted cotton webbing to replace leather after the Second Boer War although leather belts are still worn in more formal dress.

Other building of interest are the Siege Museum, originally built in 1884 as a marketplace and the Town Hall, damaged by Boer artillery during the Second Boer War.

The number of Civil War photographs that are available contrasts sharply with the scarcity of pictures from subsequent conflicts such as the Russian wars in Central Asia, the Franco-Prussian War, and the various colonial wars before the Boer War.

* Paul Kruger ( Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger ), a Boer leader, for whom are named

Three Australian Army officers of the Bushveldt Carbineers serving in South Africa during the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) are on trial for murder.

Lieutenants Harry " Breaker " Morant, Peter Handcock, and George Witton are accused of the murder of one Boer prisoner and the subsequent murders of six more.

* Sarah Bracknell Bannerman ( played by Nicole de Boer ) — Johnny's former fiancée, and the mother of his son, J. J. Sarah married Walt Bannerman during Johnny's coma, and the two are raising J. J. together.

The very large and ornate School Hall and School Library ( by L K. Hall ) were erected 1906-8 across the road from Upper School as the school's memorial to the Etonians who had died in the Boer War.

The Jameson armed column first encountered resistance very early on 1 January when there was a very brief exchange of fire with a Boer outpost.

During the negotiations that proceeded the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, feelings were running very high at the Cape.

He did not take a very active part in the First Boer War, but as field cornet in the western Transvaal, he took over Piet Cronje's Potchefstroom siege ( 1880-1881 ) when Cronjé fell ill.

The Boers, well defended in their positions, poured a terrible fire into the attacking British, causing very heavy casualties, with the battle ending in a defeat for the British who had battled bravely against the Boers, and ending the attempts to relieve the town of Kimberley which was besieged by Boer forces ; the siege would not to be lifted until February 1900.

The Boer troops had very advanced, modern weapons which helped them win battles where they were greatly outnumbered.

Not only is the account very well written and an important source for the Second Boer War, but his family connections ( his father was State Secretary of the Transvaal ) and sheer luck provide for a unique account because he was present at virtually every major event of the War.

Higgins also opposed Australian involvement in the Second Boer War, a very unpopular stand at the time, and as a result, he lost his seat at the 1900 Victorian election.

Although it did not see any real action they trained very hard to go to war during the Louis Riel rebellion in 1885, and also sent several troops to Africa during the Boer war in 1900.

Although the band theory of solids had been very successful in describing various electrical properties of materials, in 1937 Jan Hendrik de Boer and Evert Johannes Willem Verwey pointed out that a variety of transition metal oxides predicted to be conductors by band theory ( because they have an odd number of electrons per unit cell ) are insulators .< ref > Nevill Mott and Rudolf Peierls then ( also in 1937 ) predicted that this anomaly can be explained by including interactions between electrons.

Meanwhile, the Boer executive drafted a new proposal which prompted Schreiner to write a letter on 7 July to the South African News, in which while referring to his own government, he said: " While anxious and continually active with good hope in the cause of securing reasonable modifications of the existing representative system of the South African Republic, this government is convinced that no ground whatever exists for active interference in the internal affairs of that republic ".

The Transvaal Boers became more and more concerned, but King Cetshwayo's policy was to maintain good relations with the British in Natal in an effort to counter the Boer threat.

The sharp lessons the British learned during the First Boer War which included Boer marksmanship, tactical flexibility, and good use of ground had largely been forgotten when the second war broke out 18 years later, which also led to heavy casualties as well as many setbacks for the ultimately victorious British.

The entire case was based on the testimony of one trooper, and there is good reason to suspect that Heese may in fact have been killed by a Boer sniper, since he was shot once, from the front, apparently while driving his wagon.

In 1899 he left his seat in parliament for good in protest against the Boer War, visiting South Africa to lend support to the Boer cause.

He even entertained a peace treaty proposed by Botha and the other Boer leaders that would have maintained the sovereignty of the South African Republican and the Orange Free State while requiring them to sign a perpetual treaty of alliance with the UK and grant major concessions to the UK such as equal rights for English with Dutch in their countries, voting rights for Uitlanders, and a customs and railway union with the Cape Colony and Natal, although he knew the government in the UK would reject the offer.

Fearful of the Transvaal's losing independence and becoming a British colony, the Boer government adopted policies of protectionism and exclusion, to include restrictions ' requiring Uitlanders to be resident for many years in order to obtain the franchise, or right to vote.

A later paper ( den Boer, 1988 ) describes an attack requiring 100 – 10000 chosen plaintexts, and Sean Murphy ( 1990 ) found an improvement that needs only 20 chosen plaintexts.