The statutes, similar in both the Bay State and Rhode Island and dating back in some instances to colonial times, severely limit the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath.

The works of the Sanusi family in pre-colonial times, and of Emir Abdelkader and Sheikh Ben Badis in colonial times, are widely noted.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

The bulk of the population originates from immigrants who came to the island since the colonial times, mainly of Bengali, Hindustani and Tamil backgrounds.

In colonial times, the main access was by road to Bangui, in the Central African Republic, then by river boat to Brazzaville, and onwards by rail from Brazzaville to Pointe Noire, on Congo's Atlantic coast.

In 1881, it signed a treaty with Argentina confirming Chilean sovereignty over the Strait of Magellan, but conceding all of oriental Patagonia, and a considerable fraction of the territory it had during colonial times.

During early colonial times there were gold exports to Perú from placer deposits which soon depleted.

Trade restrictions and monopolies established by the Spanish crown are credited for having held back economic development for much of the colonial times.

While the rail infrastructure dates from colonial and early republican times, passenger service along the principal Havana to Santiago corridor is increasingly reliable and popular with tourists who can purchase tickets in Cuban convertible pesos.

Capoeira has a long and controversial history, since historical documentation in Brazil was very scarce in its colonial times.

Existing in many parts of Brazil since colonial times, most notably in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, it's impossible to tell where and when Capoeira Angola began taking its present form.

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

In Spanish colonial times, Guatemala City was a small town.

The conflict in the countryside from 1952-1954 between the Ladinos and Indians was not a new occurrence, but rather a continuation of a dilemma fueled by a complicated mix of class, regional, political, and ethnic differences since the colonial times.

The office of Governor-General was previously used during colonial times in Australia.

Gold was mined by the Spanish in early colonial times.

He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in U. S. colonial times, before the American Revolution ( a war which offended his Anglophilia ).

A tobacco hogshead was used in American colonial times to transport and store tobacco.

An exhaustive analysis of diaries, letters, and travelers ' journals from colonial times up to the Civil War, undertaken by Dena J. Epstein and detailed in her book Sinful Tunes and Spirituals, yielded a surprising number of references to slave music that was primarily percussive.

As a result various laws were set in place to limit African Kenyans in their own land, for example, they had to walk around with ' Passes ' at all times, and free movement, schooling and entrepreneurial endeavors for Africans in Kenya was strictly enforced by colonial policebetween the late 1800's and

In Europe, his greatest success was Sandokan, the saga of a romantic Asian pirate during British colonial times ; an Italian-German-French TV series which broke viewership records across Europe .. Kabir also recently starred in a prime-time Italian television series, Un Medico In Famiglia, on RAI TV, the country's biggest broadcaster.

In colonial times, Lake Champlain provided an easily traversed water ( or, in winter, ice ) passage between the Saint Lawrence and the Hudson Valleys.

The northern tip of the lake at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec ( St. John in colonial times ) is a short distance from Montreal.

Forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point ( Fort St. Frederic ) controlled passage of the lake in colonial times.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

Cambodia's boundaries were for the most part based upon those recognized by France and by neighboring countries during the colonial period.

Responsible to the governor, town councils known as Cabildo administered local municipalities, the most important of which was Santiago, which was the seat of a Royal Appeals Court () from 1609 until the end of colonial rule.

Chile was the least wealthy realm of the Spanish Crown for most of its colonial history.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

The number of Comorians living abroad has been estimated at between 80, 000 and 100, 000 ; during the colonial period, most of them lived in Tanzania, Madagascar, and other parts of East Africa.

Smallpox was a serious threat in colonial America, most devastating to Native Americans, but also to Anglo-American settlers.

Surrogate colonialism involves a settlement project supported by colonial power, in which most of the settlers do not come from the mainstream of the ruling power.

In the colonial period before 1776, and for some time after, often only adult white male property owners could vote ; enslaved Africans, most free black people and most women were not extended the franchise.

Missions in the Oriente were abandoned, and many of the best schools and the most efficient haciendas and obrajes lost the key that made them outstanding institutions in colonial Ecuador.

Resulting in the deaths of 22 miners, it was the most significant conflict in the colonial history of Victoria.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies mounting massed attacks, including the Matabele, the Zulu, the Bedouins, and the Mahdists.

It might seem unusual that Hesiod's father migrated from Asia Minor westwards to mainland Greece, the opposite direction to most colonial movements at the time, and Hesiod himself gives no explanation for it.

After the war decolonization saw most of the French colonial empire become independent, while other parts were incorporated into the French state as overseas departments and collectivities.

In most areas colonial administrations did not have the manpower or resources to fully administer the territory and had to rely on local power structures to help them.

The end of the 19th century saw the dismemberment of most of the Muslim Ottoman Empire by non-Muslim European colonial powers.

Early in the 16th century Afonso de Albuquerque ( left ) emerged as the Portuguese colonial viceroy most instrumental in consolidating Portugal's holdings in Africa and in Asia.

For the most part, veterans did not participate in national politics, believing that their aspirations could best be achieved within the confines of colonial society.

Modern Islamic libraries for the most part do not hold these antique books ; many were lost, destroyed by Mongols, or removed to European libraries and museums during the colonial period.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies.

In most cases, the only avenue open to self-determination for colonial or national ethnic minority populations was to achieve international legal personality as a nation-state.

In most cases, their own existence and independence had been disputed, or opposed, by one or more of the European colonial empires.

" British colonial administrators advocated the spread of the system to the rest of the Commonwealth, the most " persistent " of which was Thomas Taylor Meadows, Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China.