During the late 1600's and early 1700's many countries first began to encounter different races from other countries due to colonial expansion, discovery, overseas exploration ( due to the advancement of ships ) and increases in trade routes.

General of the Philippines during the late 1700's.

Well-known late 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Van McCoy, Gloria Gaynor, The Village People, Chic, and The Jacksons — the latter which first dipped its toes into disco as The Jackson 5.

) By the late 1940s, head coach Earle " Greasy " Neale and running back Steve Van Buren led the team to three consecutive NFL Championship Games, winning two of them in 1948 and 1949.

That Friday morning, late at night, Dillinger and Van Meter took Warsaw, Indiana police officer Judd Pittenger hostage.

The timing of this reversion meant that the Ravenloft supplement Van Richten's Guide to the Mists did not see print ; instead, it was released as a free download in late September 2005.

* Van Dam, R., Saints and their miracles in late antique Gaul ( Princeton, 1993 )

A common misbelief is that in late 13th century Bruges commodity traders gathered inside the house of a man called Van der Beurze, and in 1309 they became the " Brugse Beurse ", institutionalizing what had been, until then, an informal meeting, but actually, the family Van der Beurze had a building in Antwerp where those gatherings occurred ; the Van der Beurze had Antwerp, as most of the merchants of that period, as their primary place for trading.

The early works of Marillion contained Fish's poetic and introspective lyrics melded with a complex and subtle musical tapestry to create a sound that reflected the band's influences, notably Queen, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator, Rush ( specifically from the late 1970s ), and Yes.

He was inspired by the music of many of the rock artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Yes, Van der Graaf Generator, The Kinks, T. Rex, David Bowie, Argent and The Alex Harvey Band.

" During this period, Van Vliet made two appearances on David Letterman's late night television program on NBC, and also performed on Saturday Night Live.

* Van ( band ), a Swedish musical group active in the late 1990s

The Russians finally relieved the Armenian defenders of Van in late May 1915.

Known as " Van the Man " to his fans, Morrison started his professional career when, as a teenager in the late 1950s, he played a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands covering the popular hits of the day.

Like many central San Fernando Valley neighborhoods, Van Nuys was a middle-class neighborhood as late as the 1970s, but the demographics of some sections in Van Nuys have changed considerably since then.

In late 2004, the San Fernando Valley's first historic preservation overlay district was established in an area of early 20th-century bungalows east of Van Nuys High School ( founded 1914 ).

Rudy Van Gelder recorded most Blue Note releases from 1953 until the late sixties, and his often-praised engineering was, in its own way, as important and revolutionary as the music.

Van Der Graaf, the late 1970s incarnation of Van Der Graaf Generator, had a song called " Ship of Fools " that was the opening track on the live album Vital and a studio version of the song was the B-side on the final single released by the band.

Van Buren is home of the King Opera House, a Victorian-style performance hall from the late 19th century, part of the old downtown historic area.

He was personal friends with the late Jimmy Van Heusen and gave him prime real estate in Yucca Valley to build his house which can still be seen atop the highest hill in the center of the town.

Public records show that this name prevailed as late as January 2, 1866, but, when application was made for a post office this name was refused because there already was a Milton in Van Buren County.

Mount Sterling was first settled in the late 1830s when George and Horace Wood established a sawmill and corn-cracker to serve the small farms of southern Van Buren County and the northern portion of nearby Scotland County, Missouri.

These ideas were found in a number of Kabbalistic works from the 13th century, and also among many mystics in the late 16th century.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

It deals with several specific themes that were the subject of poetical debate among late twelfth century troubadours and trobairitz.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

In the late 19th century, there was a great deal of speculation about who might have authored the creed, with suggestions including Ambrose of Milan, Venantius Fortunatus, and Hilary of Poitiers, among others.

It is also believed that Baltic languages are among the most archaic of the remaining Indo-European languages, despite their late attestation.

They later established paint manufacturer Alba ( 1925 ), chemical and fertilizer maker Compañía Química, and textile maker Grafa ( 1932 ), among others ; by the late 1920s, the company's annual export receipts alone reached US $ 300 million.

The late Medieval period saw the recitation of certain hours of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, which was based on the Breviary in form and content, becoming popular among those who could read, and Bishop Challoner did much to popularise the hours of Sunday Vespers and Compline ( albeit in English translation ) in his ' Garden of the Soul ' in the eighteenth century.

The term began to be widely used during the Chicano Movement, mainly among Mexican Americans, especially in the movement's peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Pole climbing and rope climbing were among the first exercises to be included in the origins of modern gymnastics in the late 18th century and early 19th century.

Teochew cuisine is also known for a late night meal known as meh siao () or da lang () among the Cantonese.

The unease and self-deception that characterized that period of colonial history would be revisited in many forms at political and social moments of crisis ( such as the Salem witch trials, which coincided with frontier warfare and economic competition among Indians and French and other European settlers ) and during lengthy periods of cultural definition ( such as the American Renaissance of the late 18th-and early 19th-century literary, visual, and architectural movements, which sought to capitalize on unique American identities ).

In the late 1890s, Arnold Dolmetsch revived clavichord construction and Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, among others, helped to popularize the instrument.

By the late 1970s, a strong anti-disco sentiment developed among rock fans and musicians, particularly in the United States.

Also notable is the tendency among late grammarians to thoroughly dissect the hexameters of Virgil and earlier poets.

In the late mid-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from Queen Mary I, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged.

* Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century

But just as quickly, late in 1580 he denounced a group of Catholics, among them Charles Arundel, Francis Southwell and Henry Howard, for treasonous activities and asking the Queen's mercy for his own, now repudiated, Catholicism.

The French film industry in the late 19th century and early 20th century was among the world's most important.

Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century.

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

These two tribes were among the Germanic peoples who clashed with the late Roman Empire during the Migration Period.

From late 2009, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed among investors concerning Greece's ability to meet its debt obligations due to strong increase in government debt levels.

Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.