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Commercial opportunities in the capital of the Dutch colony attracted Indonesian and especially Chinese immigrants.
He wrote to the Dutch West India Company, " Jewish settlers should not be granted the same liberties enjoyed by Jews in Holland, lest members of other persecuted minority groups, such as Roman Catholics, be attracted to the colony.
Being the only German colony considered suitable for white settlement at the time, Namibia attracted a large influx of German settlers.
The Taos art colony is an art colony founded in Taos, New Mexico by artists attracted by the rich culture of the Taos Pueblo and beautiful landscape.
Additionally, being part of William Penn ’ s colony, his charter providing civil rights and religious freedom also attracted settlers to the area.
Agrarian work was unsatisfactory to John Roebling, and the colony attracted very few settlers.
While Alaska attracted little interest at the time, the population of nearby British Columbia started to increase rapidly a few years after hostilities ended, with a large gold rush there prompting the creation of a British crown colony on the mainland.
Examples of mechanical controls include drone brood sacrifice ( varroa mites are preferentially attracted to the drone brood ), powdered sugar dusting ( which encourages cleaning behavior and dislodges some mites ), screened bottom boards ( so any dislodged mites fall through the bottom and away from the colony ), brood interruption and, perhaps, downsizing of the brood cell size.
The colony of Hong Kong attracted a large number of Chinese and Westerners to seek their fortune in the city.
The origins of the Tiger Snake colony has attracted significant debate and research into how that species has adapted to a harsh island habitat.
The big money flowed there and cheaper prices in the town attracted an international colony of artists between 1880 and 1914.
In the mid-eighteenth century, the colony attracted many German and Scots-Irish immigrants ; the latter were the largest ethnic group from the British Isles before the American Revolutionary War.
Visitors are also attracted to the Little Penguin colony on adjacent Diamond Island.
In the late 19th-century, it was home to both granite quarrying and an artist colony, which attracted painters including George Loftus Noyes and Margaret Fitzhugh Browne.
The Hebrew colony, which was attracted by the establishment of their national worship at Leontopolis, and which was increased by the refugees from the oppressions of the Seleucid kings in Palestine, flourished there for more than three centuries afterwards.
This incident has attracted the attention of a group of men, who never identify themselves, and they have offered to exterminate the rat colony on Fitzgibbon's land free of charge for him.
There have been attempts to start a Gannet colony on Mana Island, with conservationists creating a false colony of birds made of concrete, and installing sound systems that make Gannet sounds, in the hope that real ones will be attracted to nest there.
The resulting publicity attracted many settlers to the colony of North Carolina.
In time Sherman became attracted to the preachings of the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson, during the so-called Antinomian Controversy, and following their banishment from the Massachusetts colony, Sherman and many other followers were disarmed.
The new colony attracted many settlers because Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret sold the land to the colonists at low prices and allowed them political and religious freedoms.
Major settlement began after 1712 as the northern half of the British colony of Carolina attracted frontiersmen from Pennsylvania and Virginia, while the southern parts were populated by wealthy English planters who set up large slave plantations.

colony and large
One warlord, Huang Chao, captured Guangzhou in 879, killing most of the 200, 000 inhabitants, including most of the large colony of foreign merchant families there.
The colonies could then be warmed by large reflector plant leaves that could focus the dim, distant sunlight back on the growing colony.
The large all Gaulish colony became known as " Gallia " of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli ( Gaul or Celt ).
Within the colonial administration, borders were frequently changed, with Niger colony once possessing large portions of what is now Burkina Faso and Mali, as well as much of northern Chad, later associated with French Equatorial Africa.
On the tropical world of Lalonde, the newest colony in the Confederation, a group of Involuntary Transportees ' Ivets ' from Earth ( it becomes clear that the basic sentence for basically every convicted person on Earth is transportation, as its population is far too large to sustain prisoners ) is made to work while voluntary colonists set out to make a new life for themselves-some eager, some forced to come along with their families.
After checking each island, Warner decided that Saint Kitts would prove to be the best-suited site for an English colony, because of its strategic central position ideal for expansion, friendly native population, fertile soil, abundant fresh water, and large salt deposits.
It has a particular interest in its former colony of Equatorial Guinea, where it maintains a large aid program.
The next large expedition was that of Tristán de Luna y Arellano, in his unsuccessful attempt to establish a permanent colony for Spain nearby at Pensacola in 1559.
* July 24 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sails from France, again, with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
This source of labor was so important to the economic life of Côte d ' Ivoire that in 1932 the AOF annexed a large part of Upper Volta to Côte d ' Ivoire and administered it as a single colony.
Over many generations, the colony thus creates a large skeleton that is characteristic of the species.
Very soon a " large colony of beachcombers, escaped convicts, and ship's deserters became established ashore ," identified as " chiefly bad characters ," according to the log of the Swedish frigate Eugenie.
Bligh ceased the practice of handing out large land grants to the powerful in the colony ; during his term he granted just over 1, 600 hectares of land, half of it to his daughter and himself.
As in a few other types of eusocial bees, a colony generally contains one queen bee, a fertile female ; seasonally up to a few thousand drone bees or fertile males ; and a large seasonally variable population of sterile female worker bees.
By all accounts this was met with notable success, particularly as there was a large colony of Armenians on the island at that time, and this encouraged Heraclius to attempt to seek a wider approval of his compromise.
This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.
The Lozoya Valley supports a large black ( monk ) vulture colony, and one of the last bastions of the Spanish Imperial Eagle in the world is found in the Park Regional del Suroeste in dehesa hills between the Gredos and Guadarrama ranges.
The change of name was due to the fact that the Quakers, a large colony of whom were among the earliest settlers in Talbot County, having no reverence for saints, persisted in dropping the word saint and calling the river Michaels River, which readily became corrupted into Miles.
Consider a very large colony of bacteria isolated in a drop of solution.
Aeëtes built a new colony in Colchis, near the mouth of the large river Phasis, and called it Aea.
* Following Pericles ' visit to the Black Sea, a large Athenian colony is founded at Amphipolis.
He published in 1860, Results of the Magnetical, Nautical and Meteorological Observations from March 1858 to February 1859, and did a large amount of travelling in Victoria in connection with his magnetic survey of the colony.
Having lost their largest and richest colony, the French decided to send a large expedition to Guiana, commanded by Choiseul.
As directed, in 1619, Governor Yeardly established four large corporations, termed citties, which were designated to encompass the developed portion of the colony.

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