From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.

From the mid-17th century, the huge state entered a period of decline caused by devastating wars and deterioration of the country's system of government.

From the 19th century, a large portion of the Muslim peoples ( termed ' Muhacir ' under a general definition ) of the Balkans, Caucasus, Crimea and Crete took refuge in present-day Turkey and shaped that country's fundamental features.

From New York Harris moved to the American Midwest, settling in the country's second largest city, Chicago.

From 1913 through the 1950s, the Ward-Stilson Company was one of the country's largest producers of uniforms, regalia, furniture and props for the Freemasons, the Odd Fellows and dozens of other U. S. fraternal organizations.

From 1183 to 1413 it was the gathering place for Danehoffet, which was the country's legislative and judicial assembly.

From 1966 to 1974, Eban served as Israel's foreign minister, defending the country's reputation after the Six-Day War and claiming Israel was attacked first " So on the fateful morning of 5 June, when Egyptian forces moved by air and land against Israel's western coast ".

From their debates has emerged a multifarious populist nationalism which argues that anti-imperialist nationalism in China has provided a valuable public space for popular participation outside the country's political institutions and that nationalist sentiments under the postcolonial condition represent a democratic form of civic activity.

From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

From the Proclamation of the Independence of Brazil in 1822 until the 1831 abdication, an anthem that had been composed by Pedro I himself, celebrating the country's independence ( and that now continues to be an official patriotic song, the Independence Anthem ), was used as the National Anthem.

From Spain it gained prominence in Algeria and fed that country's export production to France.

From the standpoint of the country's business establishment, dollarization brought about great benefits, such as reduced interest rates ( which came about by eliminating currency-exchange risk among other factors ), easier trade with other commercial partners, and an easier integration onto the global economy.

From the 1940s until his death, he played a leading role in the decolonization of Africa and in his country's politics.

From prehistoric cultures, to its Pre-Roman civilizations ( such as the Lusitanians, the Gallaeci, the Celtici, and the Cynetes, amongst others ), passing through its contacts with the Phoenician-Carthaginian world, the Roman period ( see Hispania, Lusitania and Gallaecia ), the Germanic invasions and consequent settlement of the Suevi and Buri ( see Suebic Kingdom of Galicia ) and the Visigoth ( see Visigothic Kingdom ), and, finally, the Moorish Umayyad invasion of Hispania and the subsequent Reconquista, all have made an imprint on the country's culture and history.

From this time onwards, Friedrichshain often featured on East Berlin's cultural map: in 1962 the Kosmos, East Germany's largest cinema was opened, followed in 1981 by the country's most ambitious swimming and sports complex, the Sport-und Erholungszentrum.

From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga ( Au-delà des grilles ) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games ( Jeux interdits ).

From October 2004 to June 2009, he served as Afghanistan's Ambassador to Canada and from June 2009 to July 2011, the country's Ambassador to France.

According to the article " Globalization and Gangster Rap: Hip Hop in the Post-Apartheid City ", their 1993 song " Understand Where I'm Coming From " was a " lament about poverty and social dislocation in the ghetto, questioning the wisdom of patriotism in a class stratified society ," as can be inferred from the opening of the song: " Why should I fight for a country's glory / When it ignores me?

From 2006-09, he was the founding editor-in-chief of G Magazine, an environmental consumer lifestyle title that was the country's first carbon neutral magazine and produced on 100 % recycled paper.

From its very first day, NIK has been the country's supreme audit institution, empowered to exercise wide-ranging audit of the revenue and expenditure of the state and all institutions and corporations that make use of public funds.

He became CEO and negotiated a merger with Central Asian Industrial Holdings N. V. From mid-October 1999 to 2000 Hurricane acquired 88. 4 % of OJSC Shymkentnefteorgsintez ( now PetroKazakhstan Oil Products LLP ) which owns the 160, 000 bpd Shymkent Oil Refinery, the most modern of the country's three refineries ( commissioned 1985 ).

From 1863 until 1869, Cygnaeus served, besides being a chief inspector of the country's school system, as the director of a Finnish seminary at Jyväskylä.

From 1952 to 1993, was the official pageant responsible for sending the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International and other international Pageants.

From the sphere of literature of the United States during this time are some of the country's greats including: Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry James, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.

From the date of partition and independence in 1947 until 1950, Ajmer-Merwara remained a province of the new Dominion of India.

From independence through the period of the presidency of Félix Malloum ( 1975 – 79 ), the official national army was known as the Chadian Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Tchadiennes — FAT ).

From 1902 until its abrogation in 1934, the Platt Amendment authorized the US to use military force to preserve Cuba's independence.

From then on, the long independence struggle was led mainly by Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander in neighboring Venezuela.

From the very beginning Mayotte refused to join the new republic and aligned itself even more firmly to the French Republic, but the other islands remained committed to independence.

From the day of the arguably ill-prepared independence of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the tensions between the powerful leaders of the political elite, such as Joseph Kasa Vubu, Patrice Lumumba, Moise Tshombe, Joseph Mobutu and others, jeopardize the political stability of the new state.

From 1976 several of these regions were granted independence.

From 1991 to 1993, Kenya had its worst economic performance since independence.

From the mid-1940s the country was subject to Soviet economic control and saw considerable Russification of its peoples, but Latvian culture and infrastructures survived such that, during the period of Soviet liberalisation under Mikhail Gorbachev, Latvia once again took a path towards independence which eventually succeeded in August 1991 and was recognised by Russia the following month.

From 1763 until independence, St. Vincent passed through various stages of colonial status under the British.

From 1908, with the establishment of the Mau movement (" opinion movement "), Western Samoans began to assert their claim to independence.

From that time until independence in 1960, the deputies of the Four Communes were always African, and were at the forefront of the decolonisation struggle.

From 1999 to the present day, the indigenous people of Biafra have been agitating for independence to revive their ancient country.

From independence in 1961 until the mid-1980s, Tanzania was a one-party state, with a socialist model of economic development.

From a pro-independence supporter's point of view, the movement for Taiwan independence began under Qing rule in the 1680s which led to a well known saying those days, " Every three years an uprising, every five years a rebellion ".

From that public platform, Williams on January 15, 1956 inaugurated his own political party, the People's National Movement, which would take Trinidad and Tobago into independence in 1962, and dominate its postcolonial politics.

From this newly consolidated base of power, Bolívar launched outright independence campaigns in Venezuela and Ecuador, and these campaigns were concluded with the victories at the Battle of Carabobo in 1821 and the Battle of Pichincha in 1822.

From the 1990s onwards, media wire services sometimes describe Taiwan as having de-facto independence, whereas the Republic of China has always considered itself as a continuously functioning de jure state.

Upon independence in 1947, the government of India used the Johnson Line as the basis for its official boundary in the west, which included the Aksai Chin From the Karakoram Pass ( which is not under dispute ), the Indian claim line extends northeast of the Karakoram Mountains through the salt flats of the Aksai Chin, to set a boundary at the Kunlun Mountains, and incorporating part of the Karakash River and Yarkand River watersheds.

From 1898 to 1901, a secret society of Polish students seeking to restore Polish independence operated in the city, but the activists were tried by German courts in 1901, frustrating their efforts.

From its side, SGI considers disassociation with the Priesthood as its " spiritual independence ".

From independence in 1960 to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus of 1974, Famagusta flourished both culturally and economically.

From the outset, given their respective band histories, the trio decided not to be locked into a group structure, using their surnames as identification to ensure independence and a guarantee against the band simply continuing without one of them, as had both The Byrds and The Hollies after the departures of Crosby and Nash.

From Geneva onwards he started organizing Czechs and Slovaks living outside Austria-Hungary, primarily in Switzerland, France, England, Russia and the United States, and establishing the contacts that would prove crucial to the cause of Czechoslovak independence.