The theme of the divine-human relationship is expressed, or managed, through a series of covenants ( meaning treaties, legally binding agreements ) stretching from Genesis to Deuteronomy and beyond.

By the late Bronze Age, however, a series of treaties had established safe passage for merchants around the Eastern Mediterranean, spreading from Minoan Crete and Mycenae in the northwest to Elam and Bahrain in the southeast.

Following the decisive Ethiopian victory at Adwa, Menelik II rapidly negotiated a series of treaties fixing Ethiopia's boundaries — with French Somaliland in March 1897, British Somaliland a few months later in June 1897, with Italian Eritrea in 1900, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1902, British East Africa in 1907, and Italian Somaliland in 1908 — which simplified this problem on one level.

When the extreme danger intrinsic to nuclear war and the possession of nuclear weapons became apparent to all sides during the Cold War, a series of disarmament and nonproliferation treaties were agreed upon between the United States, the Soviet Union, and several other states throughout the world.

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster.

The General Maritime Treaty of 1820 between the East India Company and the sheikhs of the coastal area — which became known as the Trucial Coast because of the series of treaties between the sheikhs and the British — was a way of ensuring safe passage.

Under a series of treaties concluded after World War I, Switzerland assumed responsibility for the diplomatic and consular representation of Liechtenstein, the protection of its borders, and the regulation of its customs.

Karl Peters, who formed the Society for German Colonization, concluded a series of treaties by which tribal chiefs in the interior accepted German " protection.

In 1822, the British signed the first of a series of treaties with Sultan Said to curb this trade, but not until 1876 was the sale of slaves finally prohibited.

A series of treaties with France fixed the country's current eastern border with Laos and Cambodia.

This concept was enshrined in a series of treaties between the United States and other countries ( the Bancroft Treaties ).

* Treaty of Utrecht, series of treaties signed in 1713, helped ending the War of the Spanish Succession

The two later settled their differences ; after a series of treaties culminating in the 1569 Union of Lublin, the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed.

From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or subdued much of continental Europe.

Eager to prevent the war spreading to Europe, Newcastle now tried to conclude a series of treaties that would secure Britain allies through the payment of subsidies-which he hoped, would discourage France from attacking Britain.

In the 1840s, the French concluded a series of treaties with local West African rulers that enabled the French to build fortified posts along the Gulf of Guinea to serve as permanent trading centers.

In a series of treaties, the basis for peaceful relations was established and the long wars with the Natives that occurred in the United States largely did not spread to Canada.

Between 1814 and 1840, the Five Civilized Tribes had gradually ceded most of their lands in the Southeast section of the US through a series of treaties.

* Beginning in 1783 the Choctaw signed a series of treaties with first the British and then the Americans.

From 1818 to 1825 a series of treaties reduced the Osage lands to the Independence, Kansas.

His critics charge that he was not significantly troubled when faced with the prospect of war and death for thousands, turned his search for undisputed rule into a series of conflicts throughout Europe and ignored treaties and conventions alike.

After a series of treaties starting in 1801, the Choctaw nation was reduced to.

On the lawfulness of armed resistance movements in international law, there has been a dispute between states since at least 1899, when the first major codification of the laws of war in the form of a series of international treaties took place.

Forced to sue for peace, they signed another in a series of treaties.

), Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890 – 1930 ( Penguin " Penguin Literary Criticism " series, 1978, ISBN 0-14-013832-3 ).

" It underwent a series of trials in 1889 and 1890, all in the Bay of Cádiz.

Bridgwater had a series of swimming pools from 1890 until 2009.

The initial agricultural endeavors were primarily cattle ranching, with some cultivation ; however, a series of harsh winters beginning in 1886, coupled with overgrazing followed by a short drought in 1890, led to an expansion of land under cultivation.

From about 1877 to 1890, the Loup valley enjoyed a series of wet years that attracted a wave of settlers, who homesteaded even marginal agricultural land.

In 1890, this ended with a series of drought years, lasting until about 1896.

Matthew Paris is sometimes confused with " Matthew of Westminster ", the reputed author of the Flores historiarum edited by Luard ( 3 vols., Rolls series, 1890 ).

In 1954, Patrick McGoohan played Parnell in " The Fall of Parnell ( December 6, 1890 )", an episode of the historical television series You Are There.

In 1890 the second series of The Legend of Briar Rose were exhibited by themselves, and won the widest admiration.

In Four Frenchwomen ( 1890 ), in the three series of Eighteenth-Century Vignettes ( 1892-1894-1896 ), and in The Paladin of Philanthropy ( 1899 ), which contain unquestionably his most delicate prose work, the accurate detail of each study is relieved by a charm of expression which could only be attained by a poet.

In 1890 he commissioned a series of stamps that were derided in the national media as the poorest quality stamps ever issued, both for printing quality and materials.

A moderately liberal theologian, he became best known as a New Testament critic and exegete, being the author of the Commentary on the Synoptics ( 1889 ; 3rd ed., 1901 ), the Johannine books ( 1890 ; 2nd ed., 1893 ), and the Acts of the Apostles ( 1901 ), in the series Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament.

In 1890, Monet started his series Haystacks.

Major redesigning, however, came only in 1890, when the American Bank Note Company issued a new series in which stamp-size was reduced by about 10 % ( the so-called " Small Bank Notes ").

For the postage issues of the 1894 series, the Bureau took over the plates of the 1890 small banknote series but modified them by adding triangles to the upper corners of the designs.

The best edition is the complete one edited with introduction by Henry Richards Luard for the Rolls series ( 3 vols., London, 1890 ).

It erupted in 1890, and was then dormant until July 1988, when a series of eruptions forced the temporary evacuation of the island's entire population, about fifteen thousand people.

They include six series of Etudes critiques ( 1880 – 1898 ) on French history and literature ; Le Roman naturaliste ( 1883 ); Histoire et Littérature, three series ( 1884 – 1886 ); Questions de critique ( 1888 ; second series, 1890 ).

The first volume of L ' Evolution de genres dans l ' histoire de la littérature, lectures in which a formal classification, founded on Darwinism, is applied to the phenomena of literature, appeared in 1890 ; and his later works include a series of studies ( 2 vols, 1894 ) on the evolution of French lyrical poetry during the 10th century, a history of French classic literature begun in 1904, a monograph on Honoré de Balzac ( 1906 ), and various pamphlets of a polemical nature dealing with questions of education, science and religion.

Original publication of the text of the John Brown Song, according to George Kimball, " Origin of the John Brown Song ", New England Magazine, new series 1 ( 1890 ): 371-76

See George Kimball, " Origin of the John Brown Song ", New England Magazine, new series 1 ( 1890 ): 371-76