I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.

They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead.

The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Ordinarily a father permits his children to grow up in due time -- but when the colony received independence in 1960 the Congolese child, if one imagines him to have been born in 1908, was 52 and had until then been treated as an infant.

Adelaide had also become economically self-sufficient during this period, but at heavy cost: as a result of Gawler's public works the colony was heavily in debt and relied on bail-outs from London to stay afloat.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

Also that year, Claudius had founded a Roman colony and called the colony Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis or Agrippinensium, today known as Cologne, after Agrippina who was born there.

Everything a new colony might need had to be taken, since Phillip had no real idea of what he might find when he got there.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.

It became the chief town of the Hirpini after Beneventum had become a Roman colony.

Velázquez, who had become Governor of Cuba relocating from Baracoa to Santiago de Cuba, was given the task of apportioning both the land and the indigenous Cubans to groups throughout the new colony.

The colony of Cape Breton Island had its capital at Sydney on its namesake harbour fronting on Spanish Bay and the Cabot Strait.

The British government had intended that the Crown take over the operation of the mines when Cape Breton was made a colony, but this was never done, probably because of the rehabilitation cost of the mines.

During the middle of the 20th century the French reluctantly began to accede to reasonable requests, and in 1946 Comoros had become a separately administered colony from Madagascar.

The Charlottetown Conference, as it came to be called, was also attended by a slew of visiting delegates from the neighbouring colony of Canada, who had largely arrived at their own invitation with their own agenda.

However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

At the time of his death, Janssen had just begun filming a television movie playing the part of Father Damien, the priest who dedicated himself to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

Diego Garcia had no permanent inhabitants when discovered by the Spanish explorer Diego García de Moguer in the 16th century and remained so until settled as a French colony in 1793.

The settlers Albert Burgh, Samuel Blommaert, Samuel Godijn, Johannes de Laet had little success with populating the colony of the New Netherland, and to defend themselves against local Indians.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

The major European empires consisted of the following colonies at the start of World War I ( former colonies of the Spanish Empire became independent before 1914 and are not listed ; former colonies of other European empires that previously became independent, such as the former French colony Haiti, are not listed ):

Seabirds include the second largest colony in the western Indian Ocean of Great Frigatebirds ( with up to 1100 pairs ), Audubon's Shearwaters ( up to 100 pairs, probably of the subspecies Puffinus lherminieri bailloni previously considered endemic to the Mascarene Islands ), Dimorphic Egrets and Caspian Terns.

It was a mostly agrarian-based society, but canal projects and a new network of plank roads spurred greater trade within the colony and with the United States, thereby improving previously damaged relations over time.

* May 5 – Pennsylvania colony enacts a statute requiring all persons importing any person previously convicted of sodomy to pay £ 5 for each such incoming person.

Pliny described it as a colony, the only on the island in his time, suggesting that there was previously no town on the spot, but merely a fort or castellum.

consisted of the separate Colony of British Columbia ( formed in 1858, in an area where the Crown had previously granted a monopoly to the Hudson's Bay Company ), and the Colony of Vancouver Island ( formed in 1849 ) constituting a separate crown colony until it was united with the Colony of British Columbia in 1866.

In 268 BC at the mouth of the Ariminus river, in an area that had previously been inhabited by the Etruscans, the Umbrians, the Greeks and the Gauls, the Romans founded the colony of Ariminum, probably from the name of a nearby river, Ariminus ( today, Marecchia ).

The Confederate settlements in British Honduras introduced large scale sugar production to the colony and proved that it could be profitable where others had previously failed.

While the expedition was being prepared, Baltimore was kept busy in England defending the charter from former members of the Virginia Company ; they were trying to regain their charter, including the entirety of the Maryland colony, which had previously been a part of Virginia.

East Florida comprised the bulk of what had previously been the Spanish colony of Florida.

Colonization was effectively begun in 1534, when Dom João III divided the territory into twelve hereditary captaincies, a model that had previously been used successfully in the colonization of the Madeira Island, but this arrangement proved problematic and in 1549 the king assigned a Governor-General to administer the entire colony, Tomé de Sousa.

His intentions then changed from forming a buffer colony to establishing an independent Republic of Sonora, which might eventually take its place as a part of the American Union ( as had been the case previously with the Republic of Texas ).

Female American Cliff Swallows are known to lay eggs in and move previously laid eggs into the nests of other birds within the colony.

Previously thought to be extinct since 1850, a series of sightings from 2003 to the present indicate the presence of a previously unknown colony.

It is a critically endangered species, previously thought extinct, with a mere four pairs rediscovered in 2000, nesting in a Greater Crested Tern colony on an islet in the Matsu Islands ( territory governed by the Government of Taiwan ), just off the coast of Fujian Province, China, and wintering south to the Philippines.

As indicated previously, British colonial policy at that time divided The Gambia into two sections ; the colony and the protectorate.

It began with the resolution of a cliffhanger involving a previously unknown colony of Kryptonians.

This war was significant in that it starkly demonstrated the reality that a Western colonial power could be defeated by an indigenous revolutionary force ; the French previously pacified a similar uprising in the Madagascar colony in March, 1947.

In 1565, however, the Spanish decided to eliminate the new French colony of Fort Caroline, located in what is now Jacksonville, Florida, in territory previously claimed by Spain.

Without warning, a previously unknown alien species, the " Chigs ", attack and destroy Earth's first extra-solar colony and then destroy a second colony ship.

The affair continues and when Marty can't get up to visit on the weekend because of the traffic jam caused by the Woodstock festival, which is within walking distance of the bungalow colony, Pearl goes to the festival, and unbeknownst to her, Alison goes as well with Ross and her friends despite her mother previously forbidding it.

Lyon, also referred to as the " father of the Press " in the colony of Queensland, had previously served as a writer and journalist in Melbourne and he would move on to found and edit journals such as Moreton Bay Free Press, North Australian and Darling Downs Gazette.

The British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia — simply Rhodesia from October 1964 — was created on 1 October 1923, from land previously governed by the British South Africa Company.