About 1888 J. E. McNaughton of Barnumville and E. G. Bacon became proprietors of the `` Green Mountain Telegraph Company '', connecting all offices on the Western Union line and extending over the mountain from Barnumville to Peru, Londonderry, South Londonderry, Lowell Lake, Windham, North Windham, Grafton, Cambridgeport, Saxton's River, and Bellows Falls.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

The first Sheriff, Mr Samuel Smart, was wounded during the robbery, and on 2 May 1838 one of the offenders, Michael Magee, became the first person to be hanged in South Australia.

South Australia became a self-governing colony in 1856 with the ratification of a new constitution by the British parliament.

In South America the Annales approach became popular.

Instead, he left home and became a traveling salesman in the American South, peddling books and merchandise.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

As the President's leniency toward the South became more apparent, the former secessionists responded with more arrogance.

He became abbot of San Vicenzo on the Volturno in South Italy in the time of Desiderius, king of the Lombards.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

Protestant hymns written mostly by New England preachers became a feature of camp meetings held among devout Christians across the South.

In 1982, in a move that heralded big changes within the sport, one of the original VFL clubs and now struggling, South Melbourne, relocated to Sydney and became known as the Sydney Swans.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

* In 2007, Sampson Parker, a South Carolina farmer, cut off his own arm after it became stuck in a corn harvester.

It is claimed that the saloon, named after the nearby Black Stump Run and Black Stump Creek, was an important staging post for traffic to north-west New South Wales and it became a marker by which people gauged their journeys.

From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

An increasing percentage of the ranks are " long-service " volunteer professionals ; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks ; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps.

Established in 1927 near Panama City, on the Florida panhandle, Bob Jones College moved to Cleveland, Tennessee in 1933, and to its present campus in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, where it became Bob Jones University.

" After South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond switched his allegiance to the Republican Party in 1964, BJU faculty members became increasingly influential in the new state Republican party, and BJU alumni were elected to local political and party offices.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

The oldest roots of crokinole, from the 1860s, suggest the British and South Asian games are the most likely antecedents of what became crokinole.

As NVA / VC activity grew, the United States and South Vietnam became concerned, and in 1969, the United States began a 14 month long series of bombing raids targeted at NVA / VC elements, contributing to destabilization.

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighboring peoples.

Ghana's relations with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) date back to 1960 when President Nkrumah became one of Africa's first leaders to recognize the country.

In October 1999, Cronje became South Africa's highest Test run scorer during the first Test against Zimbabwe.

The estuary is one of the few good harbours on West Africa's surf-pounded " Windward Shore " ( Liberia to Senegal ), and also has a good watering spot ; it soon became a favourite destination of European mariners.

Under Omani Arabs Zanzibar became East Africa's main slave port, with as many as 50, 000 enslaved Africans passing through every year during the 19th century.

He became a vocal leader of the Non-Aligned Movement in the United Nations and while leveraging South Africa's seat on the Security Council, agitating for reform of that body.

Large parts of the New World became Spanish and Portuguese colonies, and while the Portuguese became the masters of Asia's and Africa's Indian Ocean trade, the Spanish opened trade across the Pacific Ocean, linking the Americas with Asia.

Nonetheless, the Plateau thereafter became an administrative, commercial, and residential district increasingly reserved for Europeans and served as model for similar exclusionary administrative enclaves in French Africa's other colonial capitals ( Bamako, Conakry, Abidjan, Brazzaville ).

As one of West Africa's principal slave states, Dahomey became extremely unpopular with neighbouring peoples.

It became one of South Africa's eleven official languages in 1994.

Under Emergency Powers, Special Branch became the principal internal security agency in the " phoney war " with Zimbabwean guerrillas 1966 – 72, serving as a model for and establishing strong links with South Africa's Special Branch.

He regretted the departure of the Irish republic from the Commonwealth, but was unhappy when India remained within it after it became a republic, fearing the example this would set South Africa's Nationalists.

Relations with the South Africa during South Africa's transition to multiparty state and the subsequent ANC rule became a challenge for Malawi's future.

The Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging ( PWV ) conurbation in the Transvaal became South Africa's economic powerhouse, a position it still holds today.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo, headed by the sweet soprano of Joseph Shabalala, arose in the 1960s, and became perhaps the biggest isicathamiya stars in South Africa's history.

Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.

They were formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960 and later became one of South Africa's most prolific recording artists, with their releases receiving gold and platinum disc honors.

The king protea as South Africa's national flower was chosen for this purpose, so that the national cricket team became known as the Proteas, for example.

* Likewise, " Die Stem van Suid-Afrika " (" The Voice of South Africa ") became South Africa's only national anthem and was also translated into English to appease the relevant population.

He became the most successful of all Africa's Francophone leaders, comfortably extending his political dominance into a fifth decade ".

Vic Toweel became South Africa's first world boxing champion, Jimmy Carruthers did the same for Australia, Pascual Pérez was the first from Argentina, Yoshio Shirai ( who was beaten by Pérez ), won Japan's first world title, and Hogan Bassey won the first belt for Nigeria.

The tower was constructed for what became Telkom, South Africa's government run and the country's largest telecommunications company.

Although born in the U. K. he was of Ghanaian descent and became Africa's first ' Chief of the Air Staff ' south of the Sahara.