Most inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.

Most of the city's heritage was destroyed during the construction of basements in the 19th century or during World War II, but the backyards and latrines of the houses were not changed and provide information on the city's history.

Most of the county's territory became part of an independent Belgium in 1830, and during the 19th and 20th centuries, it became increasingly commonplace to refer to the entire Dutch-speaking and northern part of Belgium as " Flanders ", including the Belgian parts of the Duchy of Brabant and Limburg.

Most Japanese people traveled on foot until the later part of the 19th century.

Most of the commercial maps of the second half of the 19th century were lithographed and unattractive, though accurate enough.

Most histories of M & A begin in the late 19th U. S. However, mergers coincide historically with the existence of companies.

Most countries of Europe adopted a national flag in the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, often based on older ( medieval ) war flags.

Most Seychellois are descendants of early French settlers and East Africans who arrived in the 19th century.

Most borders had been stabilized and demarcated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in accordance with treaties forced on Thailand and its neighbors by Britain and France.

Most of those that did in the 19th century were the newly-admitted western states, which suffered from " inexperienced legislatures and weak party discipline ... as western legislatures gained experience, deadlocks became less frequent.

Most intentional communities attempting to create an economic utopia were formed in response to the harsh economic conditions of the 19th century.

Most of these domestic duties of the Department of State were eventually turned over to various new Federal departments and agencies that were established during the 19th century.

Most Czech sources since the 19th century — encyclopedias, general histories, materials of the University itself — prefer to give 1348 as the year of the founding of the university, rather than 1347 or 1349.

Most vineyards were destroyed by phylloxera in the 19th century, and very slowly were reconstituted.

Most historians now agree that at least 12 million slaves left the continent between the 15th and 19th century, but 10 to 20 % died on board ships.

Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.

Most of the buildings which can still be seen on the island date from the 19th century, but the so-called Biały Spichlerz ( the White Granary ) recalls the end of the 18th century.

Most of Kew developed in the late 19th century, following the arrival of the District Line of the Underground, and is characterised by large detached or semi-detached houses.

Most of his poetry follows the Post-Romantic aesthetics, and is influenced by 19th century Slovene lyrical and patriotic poetry of Simon Jenko, Simon Gregorčič and Anton Aškerc.

Most of the old buildings on the square today ( north and east sides ) date from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Most of the buildings date from the 19th century.

Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th century.

Most of the Muskogee fled westward with the arrival of European settlers, many of them organizing themselves into armed resistance units, which fought government forces and British militias to protect their native territory well into the early 19th century.

Most of the 19th and early 20th century residents of Highwood were of Irish or Scandinavian descent.

Most of the rear-lot service buildings are either small 19th century carriage barns converted to garages or 20th century auto garages, depending upon the age of the house.

Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was in most places in the 17th century.

* In 1999, Time Magazine named Fleming one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

Most churches have long expressed ideals of being reconciled with each other, and in the 20th century Christian ecumenism advanced in two ways.

Most Chinese numerals of later period were descendants from Shang dynasty oracle numerals of 14th century B. C.

Most of the official documents and private reports, however, which bear upon the council, were made known in the 16th century and since.

Most linguists remains committed to the hypothesis of medieval ( 11th to 12th century ) immigration, to explain the presence of small German-speaking communities in the north of Italy.

Most of the ruins that survive today date from the most intense period of activity at the site in the 6th century BC.

Most scholars date it to the early 2nd century, and distinguish in it two separate Eucharistic traditions, the earlier tradition in chapter 10 and the later one preceding it in chapter 9.

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period ( early centuries AD ) and China until the 17th century.

Most only became public in the last decades of the twentieth century, in his collected works.

Most scholars agree that the Iliad and Odyssey underwent a process of standardisation and refinement out of older material beginning in the 8th century BC.

Most of Greece gradually became part of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century.

In 1999, Keller was listed in Gallup's Most Widely Admired People of the 20th century.

Most of the region was a part of the Kingdom of Sweden from the 13th century to 1809, when the vast majority of the Finnish-speaking areas of Sweden were ceded to the Russian Empire ( excluding the Finnish-speaking areas of the modern-day Northern Sweden ), making this area the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

* Most of the moai of Easter Island were toppled during the 18th century in the iconoclasm of civil wars.

A feast of the Conception of the Most Holy and All Pure Mother of God was celebrated in Syria on 9 December perhaps as early as the 5th century.

Most scholars believe the Liber Pontificalis was first compiled in the 5th or 6th century.

Most tanks and infantry fighting vehicles ( IFVs ) of the 21st century have specially designed nuclear, biological and chemical protective systems that make them internally air-tight and sealed ; they are well protected from vapors, gases, and liquids.

Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert ( 1656 ), Guynaud ( 1693 ) and Bareste ( 1840 ), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention.

Most nursery rhymes were not written down until the 18th century, when the publishing of children's books began to move from polemic and education towards entertainment, but there is evidence for many rhymes existing before this, including " To market, to market " and " Cock a doodle doo ", which date from at least the late 16th century.