Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states adjacent to India's North West Frontier Province.

In 1893 Mortimer Durand negotiated with Abdur Rahman Khan, the Durand Line Treaty for the demarcation of the frontier between Afghanistan, the FATA, North-West Frontier Province and Baluchistan Provinces of Pakistan the successor state of British India.

Frequently referred to as " Canada's birthday ", particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces ( the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec ) on July 1, 1867.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

The Royal Danish Army with the British Army have been involved in clashes with the Taliban in the Helmand Province.

It was said that this was in preparation for a tour of duty in Afghanistan, where Canadian and British forces were participating in the NATO led Afghan War ; rumours that were confirmed in February the following year, when the British Ministry of Defence revealed that Harry had secretly been deployed as a Forward Air Controller to Helmand Province in the Asian country.

It immediately laid claim to the Shatt al-Arab waterway, Iran's oil rich Khuzestan Province, and the British protectorate of Kuwait, since Kuwait had been part of Mesopotamia prior its takeover by the British in 1899.

* 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

* 1897 – Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10, 000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.

John Hanson, Jr. was born at " Mulberry Grove " in Port Tobacco Parish in Charles County in the British Province of Maryland.

After the Northern Frontier District ( North Eastern Province ) was handed over to Kenyan nationalists at the end of British colonial rule in Kenya, Somalis in the region fought the Shifta War against Kenyan troops to join their kin in the Somali Republic to the north.

Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan ) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution and the founding of the Republic of China.

May Day is celebrated in some parts of the Province of British Columbia.

The British later seized control of the region, naming it the Province of New Jersey.

As part of British Columbia's 1871 agreement to join Canadian Confederation, the government had agreed to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, a transcontinental railway linking the Pacific Province to the eastern provinces.

The Province of Canada, United Province of Canada, or the United Canadas was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867.

Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).

The Province of Canada ceased to exist when the British North America Act passed by the British Parliament was proclaimed July 1, 1867.

There is also The Province, which is a tabloid in British Columbia, and has no connections to Sun Media.

The distinction between the Letters Patent forming Dartmouth versus those documents founding William & Mary or Kings College ( Columbia ) is that the seal of the Province of New Hampshire appears on the Dartmouth document, while the Great Seal of the Realm appears on the William & Mary and King's documents.

The Province of British Columbia enacted representative recall in 1995.

McVay's efforts in combatting Holocaust denial with truth instead of censorship won him praise among many activists, and in 1995 he was awarded the Order of British Columbia by the Province of British Columbia.

* British Columbia: A History of the Province – 1990

Usually, the municipality passes a by-law to adopt the code, so the same book applies across that whole territory or Province, etc .. Alternatively, a municipality may elect to issue its own version, such as The City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which typically makes its own changes to the British Columbia Building Code ( BCBC ), and then issues its own Vancouver Building By-law, rather than to simply adopt the BCBC, as all other municipalities in British Columbia do.

One of the most remarkable features of the Intermediate Province is seen in the temporary course taken by the Columbia River across the plains, while its canyon was obstructed by Pleistocene glaciers that came from the

Amiskwia is a large, soft-bodied invertebrate of unknown affinity known from fossils of the Middle Cambrian Lagerstätten both in the Burgess shale formation in British Columbia and the Maotianshan shales of Yunnan Province, China.

Province of British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks.

The Province is a daily, tabloid format newspaper published in British Columbia by Postmedia.

There was often a push to depict activists as extremists in order to prevent boycotts against British Columbia wood products, which could become detrimental to the Province ’ s revenue.

Instead, Stukus decided that the team name should represent and embrace the entire Province of British Columbia.

Bringhurst won the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in 2005, an award which recognizes British Columbia writers who have contributed to the development of literary excellence in the Province.

* Message relative to the terms of union with the Province of British Columbia, ( sent to Senate and Commons ) publ.

* Provincial Emergency Program, the emergency preparedness program in the Province of British Columbia, Canada

This redevelopment was opposed by the public and in 1976 after much lobbying ; the cathedral was named a Class A Heritage building in the municipality of Vancouver and The Province of British Columbia.

In June 2011, the Canadian Province of British Columbia announced they had officially become the first provincial / state jurisdiction in North America to achieve carbon neutrality in public sector operations: every school, hospital, university, Crown corporation, and government office measured, reported and purchased carbon offsets on all their 2010 Greenhouse Gas emissions as required under legislation.

Because both Canada and Australia are federations, there are also Crowns in right of each Canadian province and each Australian state ; for example, there is the Crown in Right of the Province of British Columbia and Crown in Right of Western Australia.

*** Province of British Columbia

The Order of British Columbia, which evolved out of and replaced the earlier Order of the Dogwood, is intended to honour any current or former longtime resident of British Columbia who has demonstrated a high level of individual excellence and achievement in any field, demonstrating the " greatest distinction and excell in any field of endeavour benefiting the people of the Province or elsewhere.

* Two further suffragans, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet and the Bishop of Richborough, are provincial episcopal visitors for the whole Province of Canterbury, licensed by the archbishop as " flying bishops " to visit parishes throughout the province who are uncomfortable with the ministrations of their local bishop who has participated in the ordination of women.

Private bailiffs are licensed by the Province of Ontario's Ministry of Consumer Services under the Bailiffs Act.