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The St Helena Advocate and Weekly Journal of News, published in 1851, was the first island newspaper, but closed two years later mainly due to competition from the government-funded St Helena Chronicle ( 1852 ).
The government-funded St Helena News Review and the St Helena News followed this.
Originally a private school, St. Stephen's College became a government-funded public school during the late 1900s.
Originally a private school, St. Stephen's College became a government-funded public school during the late 1900s.

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Before the advent of government-funded public schools, the primary mode of education for those of the lower classes was the charity school, pioneered during the 19th century by Protestant organizations and adapted for use by the Roman Catholic Church and governmental bodies.
The first IETF meeting was on January 16, 1986, consisting of 21 U. S .- government-funded researchers.
The government-funded but privately-developed R100 was a success in that it made a successful return trip to and from Canada and also while in Canada local trips to Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara Falls from Montreal.
Research in the UK was centred on the government-funded British Rayon Research Association.
Since two other companies had recently started copying the THOR dummy, there were many variations of the same dummy and NHTSA's ultimate goal ( since this was a government-funded and therefore open project ) was to get one version of the THOR dummy with no discrepancies between the three companies.
The Reform Party was plagued by an influx of intolerant people who supported the party's opposition to government-funded multicultural programs and bilingual programs.
In August 1931, the 1911 scheme was replaced by a fully government-funded unemployment benefit system.
As Oregon Senate President, he was the chief author of the state's government-funded health care plan, the Oregon Health Plan.
The establishment of the DUA with a small number of government-funded staff was greatly helped by public reaction to an important publication called The Future of London's Past by archaeologist Martin Biddle.
Chaired by Lord De La Warr, President of the Board of Education, the Council was government-funded and after the war was renamed the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Kean quickly was appointed to the boards of several important foreign policy bodies, including the U. S. government-funded National Endowment for Democracy ( NED ), which was heavily engaged in supporting democracy-building programs in former Eastern bloc and other nations around the world, and a Presidential advisory commission on a post-Castro Cuba, chaired by former U. S. Presidential Republican candidate Steve Forbes.
The Lockheed Martin X-33 was an unmanned, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane developed in the 1990s under the U. S. government-funded Space Launch Initiative program.
) And, although some of their methods and goals proved questionable, a government-funded group known as The Initiative was also aware of the existence of demons and was fighting a secret war against them.
There was a massive government-funded campaign for the " Yes " vote, with large posters posted across Northern Ireland.
In the spring of 1978, the question of who owns government-funded research and who could therefore profit from it became personal for Bayh, as Marvella's cancer returned and the Bayhs learned that a technology that could predict a patient ’ s reaction to chemotherapy was held up by restrictions on patent rights for federally sponsored research discoveries.
The single from the EP " Take It Away " was picked up by government-funded radio station Triple J as the " Unsigned Find " of 2002.
One early government-funded project was the Cumberland Road, which Congress approved in 1806 to build a road between the Potomac River and the Ohio River ; it was later pressed on through Ohio and Indiana and halfway through Illinois, as well along what is now U. S. Route 40.
He was also a persistent advocate for government-funded internal improvements, which helped the state's businesses.

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In 2007, a government-funded organization, the National Society for Human Rights, published a document suggesting ways to improve the treatment of people living with the disease.

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However, as of early 2007, the only official Chinese policy related to WAPI is a " government preference " for WAPI in government and government-funded systems.

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The rising popularity of automobiles travelling on government-funded all-weather highways saw passenger rail traffic decline sharply during the 1950s and into the 1960s.

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The nature of the event has also been met with criticism outside of Quebec, such as that given by Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren, who said in 2007: " The Canada of the government-funded paper flag-waving and painted faces — the ' new ' Canada that is celebrated each year on what is now called ' Canada Day '— has nothing controversially Canadian about it.
Perhaps the best-known study of clairvoyance in recent times has been the US government-funded remote viewing project at SRI / SAIC during the 1970s through the mid-1990s ; at least those studies amongst these that did not involve " agents " visiting or being otherwise aware of the target sites.
In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.
Other lobbying focusses directly on use of free software by government agencies and government-funded projects.
After government-funded whaling failed, the KGH eventually settled on maintaining the native Greenlanders in their traditional pursuits of hunting and whaling and enforced a monopoly on trade between them and Europe.
Indonesia's founding president, Sukarno, envisaged Jakarta as a great international city, and instigated large government-funded projects with openly nationalistic and modernist architecture.
Janet is a private UK government-funded computer network dedicated to research and education.
It is one of Sweden's top receiver of research grants, most of which come from government-funded bodies.
Fraser supported multiculturalism and established a government-funded multilingual radio and television network, the Special Broadcasting Service ( SBS ), though their first radio stations were established under the Whitlam government.
For example, in order to become a fully qualified teaching professional in Hong Kong working in a state or government-funded school, one needs to have successfully completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (" PGDE ") or a Bachelor's degree in Education (" BEd ") at an approved tertiary educational institution or university.
Ultimately, Canada pulled out of the depression as a result of government-funded jobs associated with the preparation for and onset of the Second World War.
Spurred by the national emphasis on anti-communism, Senator Joseph McCarthy conducted hearings searching for communists in the U. S. government, the U. S. Army, and other government-funded agencies and institutions, leading to a national paranoia.
The majority of them are public and government-funded, although there are some diocesan upper secondary schools and a Waldorf upper secondary school, which are private and require tuition to be paid.
The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ultimately, this debate led to a series of Congressionally-commissioned panels and government-funded reviews of the state of reading instruction in the U. S.

St and Helena
Includes Galápagos Islands, Hawaii, and Australia subcontinent, ( plus St. Helena Island, etc.
* St. Helena
After his final defeat, Napoleon was treated as a general by the British authorities during his second exile to Atlantic Isle of St. Helena.
His title was a matter of dispute with the governor of St Helena, who insisted on addressing him as " General Bonaparte ", despite the " historical reality that he had been an emperor " and therefore retained the title.
It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.
St Helena was much less frequently visited by Asia-bound ships, the northern trade winds taking ships towards the South American continent rather than the island.
Also, Lopo Homem-Reineis published the " Atlas Universal " about 1519 which clearly showed the locations of St Helena and Ascension.
Nevertheless, St Helena certainly once had a rich and dense inland forest.
Bermudez, the Patriarch of Abyssinia landed at St Helena in 1557 on a voyage to Portugal, remaining on the island for a year.
Three Japanese ambassadors on an embassy to the Pope also visited St Helena in 1583.
Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.
As a result, in 1592 Philip II of Spain and I of Portugal ( 1527 – 1598 ) ordered the annual fleet returning from Goa on no account to touch at St Helena.
The Dutch Republic formally made claim to St Helena in 1633, although there is no evidence that they ever occupied, colonised or fortified it.
' A View of the Town and Island of St Helena in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to the English East India Company ', engraving c. 1790
By 1649, the East India Company ordered all homeward-bound vessels to wait for one another at St Helena and in 1656 onward the Company petitioned the government to send a man-of-war to convoy the fleet home from there.
Having been granted a charter to govern the island by the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell in 1657, the following year the Company decided to fortify and colonise St Helena with planters.
A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.
It is from this date that St Helena claims to be Britain ’ s second oldest colony ( after Bermuda ).
The East India Company immediately sought a Royal Charter, possibly to give their occupation of St Helena legitimacy.
Finding that the cape was not the ideal harbour they originally envisaged, the Dutch East India Company launched an armed invasion of St Helena from the Cape colony over Christmas 1672.
This he used to locate an East India Company flotilla sent to reinforce St Helena with fresh troops.
Acknowledging that St Helena was a place where there was no trade, the Company was permitted to send from England any provisions free of Customs and to convey as many settlers as required.
Against the background of this erosion, several years of drought and the general dependency of St Helena, in 1715 governor Isaac Pyke ( 1714 – 1719 ) made the serious suggestion to the Company that appreciable savings could be made by moving the population to Mauritius, evacuated by the French in 1710.
William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.
St Helena was then transferred to this new United East India Company.

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