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Permanent settlement started by 1882, mainly by workers in coconut plantations and fishermen but, due to an extreme drought which killed off tens of thousands of Coconut Palms --- about 75 % of Christmas Island's population of this plant --- the island was once again abandoned between 1905 and 1912.
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A direct result of these meetings was the establishment of the world's first organisation for the settlement of international disputes: the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ).
Permanent Scandinavian settlement occurred before 911, when an agreement was reached between Rollo, one of the Viking leaders, and King Charles the Simple of France, surrendering the county of Rouen to Rollo.
Permanent settlement began with the construction of an ostrog ( fortress ) in 1636 at the junction of the Oka and Angara rivers.
Belgium has resorted several times to international dispute settlement, notably in cases at both the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration with the Netherlands concerning the diversion of water from the Meuse ( 1937 ) the frontier at the enclave of Baarle-Hertog ( 1959 ) and the revitalisation of the so called Iron Rhine railroad ( 2005 ).
Permanent settlement began in the early 1860s, after gold discoveries in the Boise Basin brought people over the established stage and pack train routes.
Permanent settlement would be delayed by the French and Indian Wars, which ended with the 1763 Treaty of Paris.
Permanent settlement began around 1820 along Patterson Creek which flowed into the Susquehanna and was attractive as a water supply and water power source for sawmills.
Permanent European-American settlement did not take place until after the American Revolution, about 1801, after most of the Iroquois had been forced to cede their lands to New York and had emigrated to Upper Canada.
Permanent settlement occurred when Juan de Esquevil This is in part a result of abandonment of plans begun in the early 1960s to develop the town as a cruise ship port and destination.
Permanent settlement followed in 1532, and for the next 300 years the Portuguese slowly expanded westwards until they had reached nearly all of the borders of modern Brazil.
Permanent English settlement began after land grants were issued in 1622 to John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack and Sagadahoc ( Kennebec ) rivers, roughly encompassing present-day New Hampshire and western Maine.
Permanent white settlement of the northern Alleghenies was facilitated by the explorations and stories of such noted Marylanders as the Indian fighter and trader Thomas Cresap ( 1702 – 90 ) and the backwoodsman and hunter Meshach Browning ( 1781 – 1859 ).
Permanent settlement on Lord Howe was established in June 1834 when the British whaling barque Caroline, sailing from New Zealand and commanded by Captain John Blinkenthorpe, landed at what is now known as Blinky Beach.
Permanent European settlement began with the building by a retired sea-captain, Robert W. Graham, of a log hut, Merrimu, hand-cut from the forest, using horizontal-slab wall construction, an adobe floor, weatherboards and a sapling / shingle roof.
Permanent settlement in the Kauhajoki area began in the 16th century and in 1584 chapel was built in Kauhajoki.
Permanent settlement came from French fishermen who overwintered on this, the " French shore ", using rights given under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht which saw France cede its claims in Newfoundland to Great Britain in exchange for right of use of coastal lands for the fishery.
Permanent French settlement however was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois five leagues ( based in New York State ), who were allied with the British and by the early 1650s, using both British and Dutch arms had succeeded in pushing other related Iroquoian speaking peoples, the Petun and Neutral Nation out of or to the fringes of territorial southern Ontario.
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Carnegie and the original map of the Peace PalaceThe idea of the Palace started from a discussion in 1900 between the Russian diplomat Friedrich Martens and the US diplomat Andrew White, over providing a home for the Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ), which was established through the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899.
In 2002, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration started issuing the Permanent Resident Card ( originally billed as the Maple Leaf Card ) to all new Canadian permanent residents.
The coup d ' état failed as soon as it started, and the government dissolved the military units participating and the Permanent Committee of the Assembly.
The World Glacier Monitoring Service ( WGMS ) was started in 1986, combining the two former services PSFG ( Permanent Service on Fluctuations of Glaciers ) and TTS / WGI ( Temporal Technical Secretary / World Glacier Inventory ).
* Permanent Catholic Missions started in Fort Dauphin, led by Paulist priests and the Sisters of Charity.
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One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.
Similarly, Eritrea and Yemen had a border conflict between 1996 to 1998 over the Hanish Islands and the maritime border, which was resolved in 2000 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.
The Second World War effectively ended the International Agricultural Institute, though it was only officially dissolved by resolution of its Permanent Committee on February 27, 1948.
Permanent magnets ( materials that can be magnetized by an external magnetic field and remain magnetized after the external field is removed ) are either ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic, as are other materials that are noticeably attracted to them.
At the proposal of the Permanent Delegations of Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey, and as approved by its Executive Board and General Conference in conformity with its mission of “ constructing in the minds of men the defences of peace ”, UNESCO was associated with the celebration, in 2007, of the eight hundredth anniversary of Rumi's birth.
The Permanent Court of International Justice was provided for by the Covenant, but not established by it.
The League established the Permanent Central Opium Board to supervise the statistical control system introduced by the second International Opium Convention that mediated the production, manufacture, trade, and retailing of opium and its by-products.
After the third meeting in 1961 at the Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin, a standard proposed primarily by Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. ( 1918 – 2011 ), became known as the Wingspread Convention, which was adopted by a new organization, the Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes ( CIPEM ), affiliated in 1970 by the fifth colloquium with UNESCO.
The confrontation between the triumvirate and Trotsky began over the debate between the policy of Permanent Revolution as advocated by Trotsky and Socialism in One Country as advocated by Stalin.
* Palestinian National Charter ( 1964 ) published by the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
* PLO Political Program Adopted at the 12th Session of the Palestine National Council Cairo, 8 June 1974 published by the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the United Nations
As a result of these conferences and others, the judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice officially resigned in October 1945, and via a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced with the International Court of Justice.
Every synod elects a Permanent Judicial Commission, which has original jurisdiction in remedial cases brought against its constituent presbyteries, and which also serves as an ecclesiastical court of appeal for decisions rendered by its presbyteries ' Permanent Judicial Commissions.
The album delineates the apex of Rush's progressive period by featuring live material from the band's Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures tours.
The CIIR report also questioned the independence of the Permanent Commission on Human Rights, referring to an article in the Washington Post which claims that the National Endowment for Democracy, an organization funded by the US government, allocated a concession of US $ 50, 000 for assistance in the translation and distribution outside Nicaragua of its monthly report, and that these funds were administered by Prodemca, a US-based organization which later published full-page adverisments in the Washington Post and New York Times supporting military aid to the Contras.
The Permanent Commission denies that it received any money which it claims was instead used by others for translating and distributing their monthly reports in other nations.
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