On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

On 12 July 1960 France agreed to the Central African Republic becoming fully independent.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

On the African continent, the cannon was first used by the Somali Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of the Adal Sultanate in his conquest of Ethiopia in 1529.

On June 2, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies ( meaning the Caribbean ) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the African slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

On 29 June, he ordered XXX Corps — South African 1st, Indian 5th and 10th Infantry Divisions — to take the coastal sector on the right of the front and XIII Corps — New Zealand and Indian 5th Divisions — to be on the left.

On July 4, 1958, the Ghanaian government established Ghana Airways to replace the operations of the West African Airways Corporation within Ghana and connecting Ghana with other countries.

On 15 September 2008, the leaders of the 14-member Southern African Development Community witnessed the signing of the power-sharing agreement, brokered by South African leader Thabo Mbeki.

On the other hand, ultra-rapid metabolizers ( up to 7 % of Caucasians and up to 30 % of Asian and African populations ) may have increased toxicity due to rapid conversion.

On 3 July 1935, it was announced that Ribbentrop would now head the efforts to recover Germany's former African colonies.

Kabir ’ s has had extensive roles on American television-primetime and daytime, series and miniseries-including Hallmark ’ s African epic Forbidden Territory, and Ken Follett ’ s On Wings of Eagles and also Red Eagle.

On 28 February 1948, police fired on African ex-servicemen protesting the rising cost of living, killing or injuring sixty eight.

' Forever Changes ' unlocked a new musical palette for African American musicians to utilize, which paved the way for future song cycles like Marvin Gaye's ' What's Going On ' and Sly Stone's ' There's a Riot Going On ,' classics by other African Americans that also chronicled the increasingly despondent state of the American dream.

On October 24, 1946 three Frenchmen, Jean Sauvy, Pierre Ponty and moviemaker Jean Rouch, former civil servants in the African French colonies, set out to travel the entire length of the river, as no one else seemed to have done it previously.

On 15 January 1910 the colony again was renamed to French Equatorial Africa ( Afrique Equatoriale Française or AEF ), this time it also included Chad and Oubangui-Chari, nowadays the Central African Republic.

On 21 November 1945, Tchicaya became one of the first African leaders elected to the French parliament, giving him great prestige in his native country.

On Bartholomew's 1949 tresillo-based " Oh Cubanas " we clearly hear an attempt to blend African American and Afro-Cuban music.

On the British side, the monopoly of trade with Africa was granted to the Royal African Company in 1698.

On the opposite side of the continent,

On the continent of Europe among some civil law systems ( i. e. those deriving from Roman law or the Napoleonic Code ), the inquisitorial system may be used for some types of cases.

On the European continent, there are often fewer restrictions on the use of supporters.

On the continent, the process was somewhat different.

On the continent all mineral deposits belonged to the crown, and this regalian right was stoutly maintained ; but in England it was pared down to gold and silver ( of which there was virtually none ) by a judicial decision of 1568 and a law of 1688.

On April 26 the expedition flew back to the continent.

On the continent the French pressed the English as the French army invaded English Plantagenet Aquitaine.

On the continent, Hans Kelsen was the most influential, where his notion of a Grundnorm or a " presupposed " ultimate and basic legal norm, still retains some influence.

On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him ( March 1756 ) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.

On the northeast side the narrow Strait of Malacca separates the island from Malay Peninsula, an extension of Eurasian continent.

We can thus understand the localisation of sub-genera, genera, and families ; and how it is that under different latitudes, for instance in South America, the inhabitants of the plains and mountains, of the forests, marshes, and deserts, are in so mysterious a manner linked together by affinity, and are likewise linked to the extinct beings which formerly inhabited the same continent ... On these same principles, we can understand, as I have endeavoured to show, why oceanic islands should have few inhabitants, but of these a great number should be endemic or peculiar ; ...

On the continent, the British and Portuguese remained restricted to the area around Lisbon and to besieged Cadiz.

On this second voyage Cook crossed three times into the Antarctic Circle to determine whether the fabled great southern continent existed.

On November 9, 1972, Canada's first geostationary satellite serving the continent, Anik A1, was launched by Telesat Canada, with the United States following suit with the launch of Westar 1 by Western Union on April 13, 1974.

On the continent, the British and Portuguese remained restricted to the area around Lisbon ( behind their impregnable lines of Torres Vedras ) and to besieged Cadiz.

On this slender foundation he constructed his circum-Antarctic continent to which, for reasons that he does not explain he gave an annular, or ring shape.

On this scrap of information, united with the concept of the Antipodes inherited from Graeco-Roman antiquity, Schöner constructed his representation of the southern continent.

On his second voyage he circumnavigated the globe at a very high southern latitude, at some places even crossing the south polar circle, showing that any possible southern continent must lie well within the cold polar areas.

On 2 June 1537, Paul III promulgated the papal bull Sublimus Dei against the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the continent of America.

On Earth, the only continent where the ice cap polar climate is predominant is Antarctica.

On 29 December 1724, Peter I of Russia asked Bering to command a voyage east, probably to map the lands ( and possibly seas ) between Russia's eastern boundary and the North America continent.

On a map, it looks like a long ribbon reaching from the middle of South America's west coast straight down to the southern tip of the continent, where it curves slightly eastward.

On the southern margins of the European continent shallow seas formed limestone deposits, that would later be ( in the Alps ) incorporated into the Helvetic nappes.

On the continent, while the nobles were acquiring a taste for Church plunder, there was the added element of mass discontent against ecclesiastical power and wealth among common people and the lower levels of clergy and civil society.