At its height, the British Empire covered a quarter of the Earth's land area and comprised a quarter of its population.

Desperate for cash because of heavy debts incurred in London in the early postwar period, the Colorados lacked a source of funds except through the sale of the state's vast holdings, which comprised more than 95 percent of Paraguay's total land.

They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.

On June 19, 1967 President Johnson declared the five principles, including land for peace, that he believed comprised the components of any United Nations settlement of the Middle East crisis.

The land comprised the southern portion of the Oneida reservation.

Aircraft ( in particular transport aircraft ) comprised about a quarter of the shipments to Britain, followed by food, land vehicles and ships.

The land originally comprised most of the independent Boer South African Republic, which had existed since 1856, despite two previous failed attempts by the British to establish supremacy.

The land surrounding the village comprised several estates with tenant farms, amongst them Barloch, Clober, Craigton, Craigdhu, Dougalston, Douglas Mains and South Mains.

The land area of the county is completely comprised from the Omaha and Winnebago Indian reservations.

Local prophets took up his spiritual call, and the Creek split into two factions, roughly conforming to their settlement patterns: the Red Sticks, mostly from the Upper Towns, which comprised the majority of population, opposed the settlement of their land by whites.

Upon incorporation, Dyer was divided into three wards: The first ward consisted of all land within town limits lying west of Hart Street ; the second ward comprised the section east of Hart Street and south of Lincoln Highway ; and land north of Lincoln Highway and east of Hart Street formed the third ward.

The township was organized on December 30, 1837, the second to be organized in Kent County, and initially comprised all of the land in the county north of the Grand River.

By 1758, his Rockaway Valley plantation within the Penn Lot comprised < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 672 acres ( 2. 7 km² )</ span >, and it was on this land that the large Stickle, Bott and Kincaid farms were to prosper in the far distant future.

Once the Province of West Jersey purchased the land from the local Lenape Native Americans, the original County of Morris was created and comprised all of what is now Morris, Sussex and Warren Counties.

Some of this expenditure was supported by the demesne manor attached to the castle, which comprised of land and 5, 000 days of serf labour under feudal law.

The original Elizabeth Township comprised the entire triangle of land between the Monongahela and Youghiogheny Rivers.

The Fire District comprised all of the land in Beaufort County south of the Broad River except Jenkins Island, Hilton Head Island and Daufuskie Island.

A proposed new state of Auralia ( meaning " land of gold ") would have comprised the Goldfields, the western portion of the Nullarbor Plain and the port town of Esperance.

These suspicions were further aroused when imperial officials ordered Protestants to stop erecting Protestant churches on the land of the prince of the church or Stifts, which the Protestants claimed to be comprised under the term " royal land " ( the Stifts did not belong to the Bohemian Estates ) which was open to them due to the Letter of Majesty – a very disputed legal interpretation of which the government disapproved.

From time to time Trounson gifted additional land, until what is known as Trounson Park comprised a total of 4 km².

This property comprised the old homestead, ' Booloominbah ', together with several other buildings and 74 hectares of land.

West Florida comprised the land between the Mississippi and Apalachicola Rivers, with Pensacola designated as its capital.

In France before the French Revolution, representatives of the clergy — in practice, bishops and abbots of the largest monasteries — comprised the First Estate of the Estates-General, until their role was abolished during the French Revolution.

Each series was set in a different period of British history, beginning in 1485 and ending in 1917, and comprised six half-hour episodes.

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

The Second Military Region was located in Daloa and comprised one infantry battalion.

Many years later in a letter to Davis ( ca 1965 ), Gödel would confess that " he was, at the time of these lectures, not at all convinced that his concept of recursion comprised all possible recursions ".

The 5th Congress ( held in April – May 1927 as the KMT was cracking down on communists ) comprised 80 voting delegates representing 57, 968 members.

The wealth held by the top 10 % rose considerably over the two decades, but there was little improvement in the wealth levels in rural areas, which comprised the great majority of the population.

In APG II system, of 2003, this order was placed in the clade monocots and comprised the families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae and Nartheciaceae.

Under the APG system of 1998, the order was placed in the clade monocots and comprised the families Burmanniaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Taccaceae, Thismiaceae and Trichopodaceae

Under the Dahlgren system, Dioscoreales was placed in the superorder Lilianae in subclass Liliidae ( monocotyledons ) of class Magnoliopsida ( angiosperms ) and comprised the families Dioscoreaceae, Petermanniaceae, Rhipogonaceae, Smilacaceae, Stemonaceae, Taccaceae, Trichopodaceae and Trilliaceae.

The programme comprised a series of sketches, often bizarre and surreal, frequently satirical with a disjointed style which was to become more famous in the more daring Monty Python's Flying Circus, which followed five months later.

The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 370 million Chinese characters in 11, 000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 remain today.

East Berlin comprised the eastern regions of Berlin and consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945.

Confusingly, END was both a Europe-wide campaign that comprised a series of large public conferences ( the END Conventions ), and a small British pressure group.

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

It comprised four volumes and was ten times larger than the first edition of 1883.

At the beginning of the 10th century a Duchy of Franconia ( German Herzogtum Franken ) was established within East Francia, which comprised modern Hesse, Palatinate, parts of Baden-Württemberg and most of nowaday's Franconia.

Fans of the literary detective Sherlock Holmes are widely considered to have comprised the first modern fandom creating some of the first fan fiction as early as 1887 and holding public demonstrations of mourning after Holmes was " killed " off in 1893.

The political left, comprised mainly of Social Democrats, covering a wide spectrum from moderate to revolutionary socialists ; the political right was even more diverse, ranging from social liberals and moderate conservatives to rightist conservative elements.

In 2004, Guyana's road network was approximately long, 24 percent or 940 kilometers of which comprised primary roads in the coastal and riverine areas serving the agricultural sector, while the road to Linden serves the mining and forestry sectors.

In Roman times, the country was divided into Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprised the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three regions under the tetrarchy.

Germany was the leader of the Central Powers, which included Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and later Bulgaria ; arrayed against them were the Allies, comprised chiefly of Russia, France, Britain, and in 1915 Italy.

On June 1, 2004, the peacekeeping mission was passed to MINUSTAH and comprised a 7, 000 strength force led by Brazil and backed by Argentina, Chile, Jordan, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Uruguay.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.