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then and Victorian
But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.
This was then followed by a new puritanism from the late Victorian era to the mid-1900s.
The Town Hall ( converted first to an arts centre, then a bar, and now empty ) is a Victorian blend of Italian and Flemish influences set in a small market square.
Nevertheless, the tradition of eating Christmas pies in December continued through to the Victorian era, although by then its recipe had become sweeter and its size reduced markedly from the large oblong shape once observed.
Around 1929 the party's Robert Menzies, then member of the Victorian Parliament, joined with Wilfrid Kent Hughes to form the Young Nationalists Organisation.
When the Victorian state government ( controlled by the Australian Labor Party ) announced plans to end this grazing, the then federal government, controlled by a coalition of conservative parties who are the ALP's traditional opponents, floated the idea of using national cultural heritage powers ( on the basis of the cultural place given to the mountain cattleman, notably through The Man from Snowy River ) to override the state decision.
The road was the scene of frequent hold-ups during the Victorian gold rush by bushrangers, mostly former convicts from Tasmania ( then known as Van Diemen's Land ), which collectively became known as the St Kilda Road robberies.
The Australian Football League ( which was then known as the Victorian Football League ) was the first league to introduce regular finals when the league was established in 1897.
The surviving parts of the castle were restored in Victorian times and then in 2004 ; the rest of the grounds are a pleasant public garden.
He was furthermore a man whose tastes and interests were, according to the prevailing standards of Victorian era Anglo-American culture, rather feminine, and who was shadowed by the cloud of prejudice that then and later accompanied suspicions of his homosexuality.
And ... up till then the music had been kind of based on the blues and slavery, and we thought it was time to update it to at least Victorian times — you know, the Industrial Revolution ".
The site became an inn and was then rebuilt on a grander scale from the 18th century by the Vere Barker family in a neo-gothic Victorian style.
The completion of the Victoria line and redevelopment of Angel tube station created the conditions for developers to renovate many of the early Victorian and Georgian townhouses, and build developments of luxury apartments, popular with City professionals who could then walk or cycle to the nearby City.
They brought science into British railways, an industry that from its quantum leap in innovative technology in the Victorian times, had progressed at a slow pace since then in comparison to other countries.
In 1852 Giles went to the Victorian goldfields, then became a clerk at the Post Office in Melbourne, and later at the County Court.
Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then — almost a miniature education in Victorian life.
During the early Victorian decades, voluminous skirts held up with crinolines, and then hoop skirts, were the focal point of the silhouette.
Since loggers had already taken the largest trees from the most accessible Victorian forests, finding very tall trees then would have demanded an arduous trek into remote wilderness and at considerable altitude.
In Victorian Britain, campaigning journalist William Thomas Stead, ( editor of the Pall Mall Gazette ) procured a 13 year-old girl for £ 5, an amount then equal to a labourer's monthly wage ( see the Eliza Armstrong case ).
The NSW and Victorian Governments then withdrew from the proposed sale of their respective 58 per cent and 29 per cent shares in the company.
The deaths of Latimer, Ridley and later Cranmer — now known as the Oxford Martyrs — are commemorated in Oxford by the Victorian Martyrs ' Memorial which is located near the actual execution site which is marked by a cross in Broad Street, ( then the ditch outside the city's North Gate ).
He went to live in the country at East Ilsley and started work on a book then called Victorian Silhouettes containing miniature biographies of a dozen notable Victorian personalities.

then and Colony
The first president ( Henry Dunster ), the first benefactor ( John Harvard ), and the first schoolmaster ( Nathaniel Eaton ) of Harvard were all Cambridge University alumni, as was the then ruling ( and first ) governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop.
In 1893, he accepted a year-long contract from Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm, to a post in the Colony of Natal, South Africa, then part of the British Empire.
However, whilst the New South Wales Police Force was established in 1862, it was made up from a large number of policing and military units operating within the then Colony of New South Wales and traces its links back to the Royal Marines.
In 1858, Morse introduced wired communication to Latin America when he established a telegraph system in Puerto Rico, then a Spanish Colony.
* December ( early ) – Captain John Smith of the Jamestown Colony is captured by Opechancanough and then sent to Chief Powhatan for execution ; Pocahontas rescues him.
Renamed the United Colony of Demerara and Essequibo, the area then came under the direct control of the Dutch government.
The Dutch then still held some key positions in the European trade with Asia, such as the Cape Colony, Ceylon and Malacca.
The Woodstock Art Colony in Woodstock, New York began as two colonies: first Byrdcliffe, founded in 1902 by Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Hervey White, and Bolton Brown, and then the Maverick Colony, founded by Hervey White after seceding from Byrdcliffe in 1904.
Buchan entered into a career in diplomacy and government after graduating from Oxford, becoming the private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Governor of Cape Colony, and colonial administrator of Transvaal and the Orange Free State, putting Buchan in what came to be known as Milner's Kindergarten.
In the eighteenth century, slaves became the major source of agricultural labor in the Virginia Colony, then devoted to tobacco plantations.
The first permanent settlement, Holderby's Landing, was founded in 1775 in what was then the Colony of Virginia.
It then became part of the Illinois Country of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia.
The first colonial owner of the Woodmore site was Thomas Spriggs, who in 1698 acquired of what was then known as the forest of Prince George's County in the Crown Colony of Maryland.
This and other considerations urged by Lord Charles Somerset, then governor of Cape Colony, led the British government to authorise the islands being taken possession of as dependencies of the Cape.
Sir George Simpson then instructed Alexander Ross to organize and lead a party of Red River Colony settlers over the Rockies into the Columbia District, to settle on the HBC farms.
Many of the white farmers in this district, unlike their fellows dwelling farther north, were willing to accept British rule, and this fact induced Mr Justice Menzies, one of the judges of Cape Colony then on circuit at Colesberg, to cross the Orange and proclaim ( October 1842 ) the country British territory, a proclamation disallowed by the governor, Sir George Napier, who, nevertheless, maintained that the emigrant farmers were still British subjects.
British troops were moved up to support the Griquas, and after a skirmish at Zwartkopjes ( 2 May 1845 ) a new arrangement was made between Kok and Sir Peregrine Maitland, then governor of Cape Colony, virtually placing the administration of his territory in the hands of a British resident, a post filled in 1846 by Captain H. D. Warden.
This proposition received the strong support of Sir George Grey, then governor of Cape Colony, but his view did not commend itself to the British government, and was not adopted.
The Colony of Virginia ( also known frequently as the Virginia Colony, the Province of Virginia, and occasionally as the Dominion and Colony of Virginia ) was the English colony in North America that existed briefly during the 16th century, and then continuously from 1607 until the American Revolution ( as a British colony after 1707 ).
# Cecil Rhodes, then Prime Minister of the British Cape Colony ( part of modern South Africa ) was expanding his British South Africa Company's charter lands from the south and threatening to occupy Katanga ( southern Congo ) by exploiting the ' Principle of Effectivity ' loophole in the Berlin Treaty, supported by Harry Johnston, British Commissioner for Central Africa who was London's representative in the region.
The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after this nation first occupied ( 1900 ) and then annexed ( 1902 ) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.

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