Although imperialist practices have existed for thousands of years, the term " Age of Imperialism " generally refers to the activities of nations such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States in the early 18th through the middle 20th centuries, e. g., the " The Great Game " in Persian lands, the " Scramble for Africa " and the " Open Door Policy " in China.

* 1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

He established the Open Door policy in China.

His contributions included the adoption of an Open Door Policy in China ( announced on January 2, 1900 ) which may have been a contributing factor in the Boxer Rebellion, and the preparations for the Panama Canal.

Initial success in China led to an extended effort by the President to effect the Open Door Policy, particularly in Manchuria ; this was not successful due in large part to the President's reliance on the inexperienced Knox, who failed to properly assess the objections of Japan and Russia.

** U. S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.

* 2005: The Door Stands Open, Irish Writers Centre

This area was damaged by an F5 tornado on April 8, 1998 including the non-denominational Open Door Church.

Though there are several theater groups in Acton, the two eldest are Theatre III and Open Door Theater.

Open Door Theater is a community theater group which was founded to provide an inclusive theater experience.

Open Door produces one large musical each year which features a large number of performers ranging in age from 9 to adult including people with special needs.

* The VERNIER Scale Open Door Web Site reference source for both students and teachers.

* Open Door Baptist Church

* 1631-Dutch missionary Abraham Rogerius ( anglicized as Roger ), who authored Open Door to the Secrets of Heathendom, begins 10 years of ministry among the Tamil people in the Dutch colony of Pulicat near Madras, India

Open Door Christian Academy is a private school.

This was followed by the similarly-styled " The Door is Still Open to My Heart ", which reached number six later that year.

Townshend's solo breakthrough, following the death of Who drummer Keith Moon, was the 1980 release Empty Glass, which included a top-10 single, " Let My Love Open the Door ".

* Open the Door Richard ( 1945 )

* I Ain't Gonna Open That Door ( 1949 )

In 1900, several powers agreed to the U. S .- backed scheme, giving rise to the " Open Door " policy, denoting freedom of commercial access and non-annexation of Chinese territory.

* " Hannah, Won't You Open That Door " w. Andrew B.

# A Lucky Man / Open Door ( 1: 41 )* ( does not include the final orchestral outburst as the " bear " bursts through the door, which only lasts for a few seconds )

On November 2, 1917, the Lansing-Ishii Agreement noted the recognition of Japan's interests in China and pledges of keeping an " Open Door Policy " ( 門戸開放政策 ).

In the published text of the Agreement, signed by United States Secretary of State Robert Lansing and Japanese special envoy Ishii Kikujirō, both parties pledged to uphold the Open Door Policy in China, with respect to its territorial and administrative integrity.

However, the United States government also acknowledged that Japan had " special interests " in China due to its geographic proximity, especially in those areas of China adjacent to Japanese territory, which was in effect, a contradiction to the Open Door Policy.

Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion.

The only proposed modern standard, GKOS ( or Global Keyboard Open Standard ) can support most characters and functions found on a computer keyboard but has had little commercial development.

It currently has dependencies on non-free software, as it requires either the proprietary Motif widget toolkit, or the alternative royalty-free ( but not free software ) Open Motif toolkit.

* Open enrollment is the process of allowing parents to choose which public school their child attends instead of being assigned one ( provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students ).

The FSF also notes that " Open Source " has exactly one specific meaning in common English, namely that " ou can look at the source code.

The think tank Open Europe has estimated the total cost of Galileo from start to completion, and then running it over a 20 year period, at a € 22. 2 billion, which will be borne entirely by taxpayers.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

As of version 9. 0 ( starting with the first test release after Alpha. 09 ), C-Kermit has an Open Source license, the Revised 3-Clause BSD License.

He then moved to the Open Source Development Labs, which has since merged with the Free Standards Group to become the Linux Foundation, under whose auspices he continues to work.

Open content has also been used to describe these works, but it has come to be used to describe works with any added permissions over the copyright status quo.

Release of an Open Source version was planned for Q4 of 2011, after code review has been finished.

For similar reasons, the Free Software Foundation describes the Open Content License as a non-free documentation license and the Copyfree Initiative has rejected it for certification as a copyfree license.

The Treaty on Open Skies entered into force on January 1, 2002, and currently has 34 States Parties.

Some critics have claimed that its BanksterUSA site has received $ 200, 000 in funding from the Open Society Institute, the charity with ties to investor George Soros, but its BanksterUSA project was not funded by OSI.

Open enrollment also refers to educational policies which allow residents of a state to enroll their children in any public school, provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students, regardless of the school district in which a family resides.

The open Squeak implementation has an active community of developers, including many of the original Smalltalk community, and has recently been used to provide the Etoys environment on the OLPC project, a toolkit for developing collaborative applications Croquet Project, and the Open Cobalt virtual world application.

Open circuit demand scuba is a 1943 invention by the Frenchmen Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but in the English language Lambertsen's acronym has become common usage and the name Aqua-Lung, ( often spelled " aqualung "), coined by Cousteau for use in English-speaking countries, has fallen into secondary use.

Sutton has released the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010 under the SIL Open Font License.

The city has a limited student culture due to its lack of an actual university, although the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and The Royal Academy of Art is located there, as well as The Hague University, a vocational university and a branch of The Open University of the Netherlands.

Of the Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open and Australian Open use hard courts ( though both used grass courts in the past, and the US Open used clay courts from 1975 through 1977 ), the French Open is played on clay ( though it too was played on grass before 1928 ), and Wimbledon has always been played on grass.