Slavery was gradually phased out of existence in the North and was fading in the border states and urban areas, but expanded in highly profitable cotton states of the Deep South.

On the western border are two spiral galaxies and the Wolf-Rayet planetary nebula IC 4406, containing some of the hottest stars in existence.

The third event was land colonization, which resulted from the availability of land, the existence of economic opportunity, the increased price of crops, and the newly gained accessibility of the eastern border region.

* The term border dispute applies only to the many cases where a limit territory bordering more than one state ( including an enclave in one state such as Nagorno Karabakh ) is claimed by two or more, not the very existence of a whole state challenged ( such as the Republic of China, which the People's Republic of China regards as a defunct and illegitimate entity, with its current jurisdiction of Taiwan claimed by the PRC as its 23rd province ).

Pashtun politicians in both countries strenuously object to even the existence of the Durand Line border.

This explains the canton's existence, even though it straddles the French-German linguistic border, for in the past, denominational considerations were more important than linguistic when drawing Switzerland's cantons.

Since manumission, abolition activity, and escape were all more common in the border states, the existence of nearby free soil was a threat to Missouri slaveowners.

The existence of a prehistoric fortress, 70 km from the German border, was used to show that the prehistoric " Poles " had held their own against foreign invaders and plunderers as early as the Iron Age.

Their actions increased the tension at the southern border of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( Kresy ), which resulted in almost constant low-level warfare in those territories for almost the entire existence of the Commonwealth.

They found no evidence of its existence, but could not rule out that it might live deep in the Gobi Desert along the prohibited areas of the Mongolian – Chinese border.

During the first year of its existence, the KOP arrested more than 5 000 people trying to cross the border illegally.

In 1957, the National Guard was involved in the only external military action of its existence, a brief border skirmish with Honduras.

The Eau Rouge has been a border river for several periods in its existence, including an administrative boundary under the Roman Empire between Cologne and Tongeren, and the state border between The Netherlands and Prussia from 1815 to 1839 and then between Belgium and Prussia from 1839 to 1919.

This claim is based on the existence of two water courses, Perumpallam in Surampatti and Kalingarayan Canal in Brahmana Periya Agraharam and Kasipalayam, themselves different neighboring villages ( municipalities now ) distinct outside the border of the old Erode village's boundaries.

The Harpers condemned Finder to timeless existence in the Citadel of White Exile, located on the border between the Positive Energy Plane and the Plane of Gems.

This victory secured the city's existence for the following years, but the Ottoman power grew and Poland's southern border remained insecure.

Over the years when Chandigarh came into existence Jaijon lost its glory and now its a sleepy town on the border of Punjab and Himachal in the foothills of Shivaliks.

There is also the option of cutting the number of Scottish MPs even further, as happened to Northern Irish representation during the existence of the Parliament of Northern Ireland when the number of MPs from Northern Ireland seated at Westminster was below the standard ratio of MPs compared with the rest of the UK.

He has Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which allow him to see the death of things in the form of " lines " and " points " on objects and people ; cutting the lines destroys the portion cut, while piercing the point destroys the existence of the object itself.

Donegal County Council ( which has officially been in existence since 1899 ) has responsibility for local administration, and is headquartered at the County House in Lifford.

After having his left hand cut off and right eye put out, Corum escapes by moving into another plane of existence, becoming invisible to the Mabden.

Since these geographic considerations imply that, not including the hill within, the walls would be willfully making the city prone to attack from it, some scholars, including the late 19th century surveyors of the Palestine Exploration Fund, consider it unlikely that a wall would ever have been built that would cut the hill off from the city in the valley ; archaeological evidence for the existence of an earlier city wall in such a location has never been found.

The prisoners were unable to make a living off the land and so were forced to revert again to crime, or to eke out a hand-to-mouth existence until they died.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

This was true not only off the Ethiopian highlands and the Red Sea coastlands, but also further south along the Somali-Oromo frontier where later nineteenth century travelers reported the existence of bilingual trading communities.

UPN quietly went off the air on September 15, three days prior to the launch of The CW ; WWE SmackDown was the last official program ( although some affiliates aired the optional weekend encore block ), ending its existence after 11 years.

“... The English home closed up and darkened over the decade ( 1850s ), the cult of domesticity matched by a cult of privacy .” Bourgeois existence was a world of interior space, heavily curtained off and wary of intrusion, and opened only by invitation for viewing on occasions such as parties or teas.

The county was formed by the Nevada Legislature by splitting off a portion of Lincoln County on February 5, 1909, and came into existence on July 1, 1909.

Lebanon Junction sprang into existence from a railroad switching point that split Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( now CSX Transportation ) traffic off the main railroad line to the Lebanon branch that ended in Lebanon, Kentucky.

The Lauwersmeer area came into existence when the Lauwerszee was closed off in 1969.

The town prospered for a time, as both the Northern Pacific Railway and the Great Northern Railway ran their lines through the town in the 1880s and early 1890s ( both lines are now abandoned ), and when Red Lake County split off from Polk County, in 1896, Red Lake Falls became the county seat of the newly formed county, a reason for existence that persists to the present day.

The Air Ministry found its existence threatened and resolved to fend off the attempts of the Admiralty and War Office to break up the RAF and recover the RFC and RNAS by offering a cheaper, innovative alternative strategy for British air power in the future.

Hopps claimed man had started off imperfect “ out of the animals darkness ” but will rise into the “ angel ’ s marvellous light ”, Hopps claimed man was not a fallen but a rising creature and that after death man would evolve on a number of spheres of existence to perfection.

Some of these include the existence of secret tunnels and catacombs under campus, the haunting of some of the older dormitories ( sometimes linked to their use as hospitals during the Civil War ), and speculation over the existence of an entire wing of St. Mary's Hall which is completely blocked off.

In a game scheduled in Chicago on March 21, 1981, players of the Minnesota Fillies, one of only three teams to play in all three seasons that the league was in existence, walked off the court before the starting lineups were announced in a game against the Chicago Hustle in a protest over unpaid salaries.

Drosselmeyer died after the angry townsfolk cut off his hands to stop him from warping reality with his writing, but he managed to bring the writing machine into existence by writing in his own blood.

Despite his dissatisfaction with his existence, he bitterly resists any move to turn him off.

The oldest Christian structure still in existence on the Côte d ' Azur is the baptistery of Fréjus Cathedral, built at the end of the 5th century, which also saw the founding of the first monastery in the region, Lerins Monastery on an island off the coast at Cannes.

The three major tasks of the Confederate Navy during the whole of its existence were the protection of Southern harbors and coastlines from outside invasion, making the war costly for the United States by attacking U. S. merchant ships world-wide and breaking the Union Blockade by drawing off U. S. Navy ships in pursuit of the Confederate raiders.

This process, which is produced primarily via fluids driven off the cooling magma, is one of the main reasons for the existence of rich, localized metal ore deposits such as those of gold, copper, molybdenum, lead, tin, zinc and tungsten in the world.

Kuyper famously said, " Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ' Mine!

ABC began news broadcasts early in its independent existence as a radio network after the Federal Communications Commission ordered the former NBC Blue Network to be spun off as an independent company in 1943.

During World War II, a sea-fort was built off the coast of Herne Bay and Whitstable, which is still in existence.