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Over the first century and a half after Columbus's voyages, the native population of the Americas plummeted by an estimated 80 % ( from around 50 million in 1492 to eight million in 1650 ), mostly by outbreaks of Old World diseases but also by several massacres and forced labour ( the mita was re-established in the old Inca Empire, and the tequitlequivalent of the mitain the Aztec Empire ).
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Over the weeks, America's first Star Route Air Mail settled into a routine pattern despite the vagaries of weather and the lack of ground facilities and aids to navigation.
Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.
Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.
Over two-thirds of the members, and all the serving MPs, of the Liberal Party joined this party, led first jointly by Steel and the SDP leader Robert Maclennan, and later by Paddy Ashdown ( 1988 – 99 ), Charles Kennedy ( 1999 – 2006 ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( 2006 – 07 ) and Nick Clegg ( incumbent ).
Over 400 PDP-15's were ordered in the first eight months of production, and production eventually amounted to 790 examples in 12 basic models.
Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres led to many permutations in its overall style.
The band released their second album, ELO 2 in 1973, which produced their first US chart single, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic " Roll Over Beethoven ".
The first full-length feature produced under the BFI's new scheme was Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo's Winstanley ( 1975 ), while others included Moon Over the Alley ( 1975 ), Requiem for a Village ( 1975 ), the openly avant-garde Central Bazaar ( 1973 ), Pressure ( 1975 ) and A Private Enterprise ( 1974 ) -- the last two being, respectively, the first British Black and Asian features.
Over the course of the 20th century it became increasingly common for first ladies to select specific causes to promote, usually ones that are not politically divisive.
Over the next three years, Hawks directed his first eight films ( six silent, two " talkies ").
Over the course of his career, he demonstrated a higher-than-average fielding percentage and range at first base.
Over the course of the first millennium BC the Greeks, Romans, and Carthaginians established colonies on the Mediterranean coast and the offshore islands.
The Institute helped develop, and was the first entity to implement, Voice Over Internet Protocol ( VOIP ).
Over the course of the next decade, his experimentation ( and a considerable injection of capital from his marriage to a richly-endowed distant cousin ) transformed the sleepy artisan works into the first true pottery factory.
Over the course of several years, he changed an original project for a symphony in D minor into his first piano concerto.
Over time, the club has become a symbol of the nation's culture and italianità (" Italianness "), due to their tradition of success, some of which have had a significant impact in Italian society, especially in the 1930s and the first postwar decade ; and the ideological politics and socio-economic origin of the club's sympathisers.
Over the course of his career Niven has added to this first law a list of Niven's Laws which he describes as " how the Universe works " as far as he can tell.
Over subsequent centuries, the strings were doubled to courses, and eventually ( in Europe ) frets were added, leading to the first lute appearing in the thirteenth century.
In 1913 — the year of Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Niels Bohr's quantized atom, Ezra Pound's founding of imagism, the Armory Show in New York, and, in Saint Petersburg, the " first futurist opera ," Victory Over the Sun — another Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working in Paris for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, composed The Rite of Spring for a ballet, choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky, that depicted human sacrifice.
Stephen White authored the first MOO Server and language in 1990 using C. Over the course of the year, Pavel Curtis joined the project, releasing the first version of the LambdaMOO Server.
Over time, these subgroups might diverge radically to become different species, either because of differences in selection pressures on the different subgroups, or because different mutations arise spontaneously in the different populations, or because of founder effects – some potentially beneficial alleles may, by chance, be present in only one or other of two subgroups when they first become separated.
The first film distributed under this deal is Over the Hedge.
Over the first few albums their style remained essentially hard rock, with heavy influences from The Who and Led Zeppelin but also became increasingly influenced by bands of the British progressive rock movement.
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Over the later 20th century this assumption was increasingly challenged.
Over the last half of the 20th century, historical and archaeological research has increasingly supported the theory that the remnants of the Celtic Boii were absorbed into the Roman Empire and later intermingled with other Germanic peoples who chose to stay ( or were stationed by the Romans ) in the area.
This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.
Over the course of the 20th century, Domitian's military, administrative and economic policies were re-evaluated.
Over the course of the twentieth century, the population of the country grew by a factor of fourteen.
Over the next century, the island was seized several times by the British.
Over the course of the 20th century, the UK gradually implemented tighter regulation of the civilian ownership of firearms through the enactment of the 1968, 1988, 1994 and 1997 Firearms ( Amendment ) Acts < ref >
Over the course of subsequent centuries, the term persisted and developed into its 21st century meaning of " recreational " or " leisurely pursuit ".
Over the next century, half of the estimated 200, 000 Spanish Jews converted to Christianity ( becoming " conversos ").
Over the past few decades, some scholars have argued for a 7th century BC date.
Over the course of the 18th century, the Authorized Version supplanted the Latin Vulgate as the standard version of scripture for English speaking scholars.
" Over the last century, research on the nature of human mating has generally found this not to be true when it comes to character and personality — people tend to like people similar to themselves.
Over the next 50 years many Mormons entered into plural marriages as a religious duty, with the number of plural marriages reaching a peak around 1860, and then declining through the rest of the century.
Over the rest of the sixteenth century further protectionist measures were introduced.
Over a century later, in 1645, Horacio Carochi defined macrons to mark long vowels ā, ē, ī and ō, and short vowels with grave (`) accents.
Over the last two millennia, physics was a part of natural philosophy along with chemistry, certain branches of mathematics, and biology, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century, the natural sciences emerged as unique research programs in their own right.
Over the past century, people studying rhetoric have tended to enlarge its object domain beyond speech texts.
Over the 20th century, with the influence of social constructionism and pragmatism, this tradition began to change.
Over the 19th century, bullet design also evolved, the bullets becoming gradually smaller and lighter.
Over the course of the 19th century that gradually changed: the British and Creoles in the Freetown area increased their involvement in — and their control over — the surrounding territory by engaging in trade, treaty making, and military expeditions.
Over the next century, the region was studied by scientists from a number of countries, including Russia ( geologist Alexander Karpinsky, botanist Porfiry Krylov and zoologist Leonid Sabaneyev ), England ( geologist Sir Roderick Murchison ), France ( paleontologist Edouard de Verneuil ), and Germany ( naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, geologist Alexander Keyserling ).
Over time, the general view in the Jewish community came to be one of acceptance of Moses de Leon's claims, with the Zohar seen as an authentic book of mysticism passed down from the 2nd century.
Over half a century since their last short film was released, the Three Stooges remain wildly popular with audiences.
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