Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

Charlottetown, the capital of the new colony of St. John's Island, was ransacked in 1775 with the provincial secretary kidnapped and the Great Seal stolen.

He later travelled to the Court of Session to be sworn in by the Lord President and receive the Great Seal of Scotland.

Oxford complained that his servant Thomas Hampton had taken advantage of these writs by taking money from the tenants to his own use, and had also conspired with another of Oxford's servants to pass a fraudulent document under the Great Seal of England.

Francis Hopkinson provided assistance to the second committee that designed the Great Seal of the United States.

The three overlapping seals on the left are the seal of the U. S. Department of State ( similar to the Great Seal of the United States ), the seal of the U. S. Department of Justice, and the seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The seal is located directly below the 112 m ( 368 ft ) steeple and the Great Seal of the United States inside the Memorial Room.

It first appeared on the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, which in turn was replaced by the coat of arms, the Irish Presidential Standard and the Presidential Seal in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.

On July 6, 1776, the first committee for the production of the Great Seal of the United States convened.

* 1782 – The U. S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.

* 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.

They, and many of the moderates not in overt rebellion, forced King John to agree to a document later known as the ' Articles of the Barons ', to which his Great Seal was attached in the meadow at Runnymede on 15 June 1215.

* 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician and former Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain

* Novus ordo seclorum ( Latin for " New Order of the Ages "), the motto on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States often mistranslated as " New World Order "

The discovery of Owain's Great Seal and his letters to the French in the Bibliothèque Nationale helped revise historical images of him as a purely local leader.

The badge of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in the form of a golden star with white enamel, with a red enamel pentagon behind it ; the central disc bears thirteen gold stars on a blue enamel background ( taken from the Great Seal of the United States ) within a golden ring.

Many visual effects are possible, and the SVG specification automatically handles bidirectional text ( for composing a combination of English and Arabic text, for example ), vertical text ( as Chinese was historically written ) and characters along a curved path ( such as the text around the edge of the Great Seal of the United States ).

A figure of Liberty was also depicted on the Great Seal of France.

Stephen's Great Seal of the Realm | Great Seal

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.

The most brilliant displays are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee.

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

The Great North Road originates from different routes close to Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl.

Furthermore, considering that some of these roads seem to go nowhere, experts suggest that they can be linked — especially the Great North Road — to astronomical observations, solstice marking, and agricultural cycles.

After approximately 1150, North America experienced significant climatic change in the form of a 300-year drought called the Great Drought.

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, North American Great Plains

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

There is also some co-operation between the Central ( Amended ) and Unamended Fellowships in North America – most recently in the Great Lakes region, where numerous Amended & Unamended ecclesias have opened fellowship to one another despite the failure of wider attempts at re-union under the North American Statement of Understanding ( NASU ) in recent years.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

After graduating from the Great Neck North High School, he entered Hofstra University in 1955 majoring in theater arts.

It would seem that the lineages of the Maned Wolf and the Falkland Islands Wolf separated in North America ; canids did not appear in South America until roughly 3 million years ago in a paleozoogeographical event called the Great American Biotic Interchange, in which the continents of North and South America were newly connected by the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

As the 18th century advanced, global competition with Great Britain led to the Seven Years ' War, where France lost its North American holdings.