Its costive deliberations were likened to those of the British courts of chancery mercilessly caricatured by Dickens in Bleak House.

The British Virgin Islands are located in the Caribbean, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico. Its geographic coordinates are.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

Its network of small colonies in Africa and the Pacific paled in comparison to the British and French empires.

Its existence was predicted in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly ( 1861 – 1939 ) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside ( 1850 – 1925 ).

Its intended purpose was as a more politically acceptable alternative to British Isles, which is disliked by many people in Ireland.

Its existence was predicted in 1902 independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin Kennelly ( 1861 – 1939 ) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside ( 1850 – 1925 ).

Its properties were explored in detail by the British meteorologist G. M. B. Dobson, who developed a simple spectrophotometer ( the Dobsonmeter ) that could be used to measure stratospheric ozone from the ground.

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

Its title song was named " One of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock " by music writers in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listing and is ranked as one of the all-time top-ten punk songs by a 2006 poll of original British punk figures, as reported in the Rough Guide to Punk.

Its judicial system is modeled on British practice and procedure and its jurisprudence on English common law.

Its stone was used to construct the pillars outside the British Museum in London, and to build London Bridge ( now in Arizona ).

Its objectives were to confirm the original French claim to the territory, determine the level of British influence, and impress the Indians with a French show of force.

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Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

Its goal, as stated in the Palestinian National Covenant was to create a Palestinian state in the whole British Mandate, a statement which nullified Israel's right to exist.

Its northern boundary follows the shoreline of Vancouver Island from Carmanah Point to Gonzales Point, then follows a continuous line east to Seabird Point ( Discovery Island ), British Columbia, Cattle Point ( San Juan Island ), Washington, Iceberg Point ( Lopez Island ), Point Colville ( Lopez Island ), and then to Rosario Head ( Fidalgo Island ).

Its first trip carried 600 containers between North Vancouver, British Columbia and Skagway, Alaska, on November 26, 1955 ; in Skagway, the containers were unloaded to purpose-built railroad cars for transport north to the Yukon, in the first intermodal service using trucks, ships and railroad cars.

Its unusual name, coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858, refers to an ear severed from Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship.

Its remnant was incorporated at the Yukon Territory after the part of it south of the 60th parallel was amalgamated to British Columbia.

Its nowadays unused twin 80-meter high cooling towers, built in the 1930s, were the tallest buildings built in the British Mandate period.

Its illuminations include an elaborate initial page for the Gospel of Matthew and portraits of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

Currier and Ives was the most prolific and successful company of lithographers in the U. S. Its lithographs represented every phase of American life, and included the themes of hunting, fishing, whaling, city life, rural scenes, historical scenes, clipper ships, yachts, steamships, the Mississippi River, Hudson River scenes, railroads, politics, comedy, gold mining, winter scenes, commentary on life, portraits, and still lifes.

Its frescoes feature 1000 portraits portraying all of the major themes of the New Testament.

Its twenty major cycles of fresco murals represent the largest preserved gallery of Serbian medieval art, featuring over 1000 compositions and several thousand portraits.

Its domain is the powerset of A ( with the empty set removed ), and so makes sense for any set A, whereas with the definition used elsewhere in this article, the domain of a choice function on a collection of sets is that collection, and so only makes sense for sets of sets.

Its permanent collection features more than 800 works of art, primarily by artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, including paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and mixed media.

Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

Its collection became the core of the later Basel Museum of Art.

Its collection includes over 371, 000 items including a special section of RPCNA historical documents.

Its collection boasts a large collection of 19th and early 20th century decorative arts, furnishings and material culture reflecting Iowa State and Iowa heritage.

Its most reliable manuscript is the 10th century Codex Colbertinus ( Paris ), in which the Martyrium closes the collection.

While in prison, he wrote at least four book-length manuscripts including a lyrical autobiographical novel, How It All Began, philosophical treatise Philosophical Arabesques, a collection of poems, and Socialism and Its Culture – all of which were found in Stalin's archive and published in the 1990s ).

Its 1975 manifesto stated that its goal was a " concentrated strike against the heart of the State, because the state is an imperialist collection of multinational corporations ".

Its collection of over 4000 objects ranges from Old Masters to Contemporary, and it also hosts ongoing special exhibitions.

Its mission is " to protect and enrich the flora of the Lake Baikal area and the world for people through public education, collection, propagation, research, and conservation of plants ".

Its collection spans the personal libraries of the Knights of Malta ( also the archives and treasury manuscripts of that order ), including archives from the medieval dei Giurati of Mdina and Valletta.

Its design has a spot in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.

Its permanent collection is considered one of the best and most important contemporary art in Basque and Spanish.

Its core idea is to describe a database as a collection of predicates over a finite set of predicate variables, describing constraints on the possible values and combinations of values.

Its collection spans 5, 000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day, in virtually every medium, from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.

Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection ( though not some special exhibitions ) is free of charge.

Its directors and curators have attempted to form a single collection that is not encyclopedic, but rather based on their unique visions.

Its picturesque setting and well-respected collection attract some 400, 000 visitors per year.

In November 2008, Westbound Records released Toys, a collection of Funkadelic outtakes and demos from the Free Your Mind and America Eats Its Young era.

Its growing and ever changing collection is acquired mostly through anonymous donations that are deposited inside a wooden box.

Its central character reappeared subsequently in the novel Trent's Own Case ( 1936 ) and the short-story collection Trent Intervenes ( 1938 ).