At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

In 1968, the Atlantic-Richfield Company discovered oil at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast, catapulting the issue of land ownership into headlines.

Inheritance was an important issue, since land could fall into the hands of those who did not have loyalty to the Church or the great lords.

The lawn vs. garden issue is played out in urban planning as the debate over the " land ethic " that is to determine urban land use and whether hyper hygienist bylaws ( e. g. weed control ) should apply, or whether land should generally be allowed to exist in its natural wild state.

This was not an issue in an era where the major highways became Main Street in every town along the way and inexpensive land at the edge of town could be developed with motels, car lots, filling stations, lumber yards, amusement parks, roadside diners, drive-in restaurants and theatres and countless other small roadside businesses.

Namibia also is addressing the sensitive issue of agrarian land reform in a pragmatic manner.

The BBC states that squatting was " a big issue in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 and again for the Diggers in the 17th Century were peasants who cultivated waste and common land, claiming it as their rightful due " and that squatting was a necessity after the Second World War when so many were homeless.

During the 1960 presidential campaign, the issue of whether the nation would for the first time elect a Catholic to the highest office in the land raised the specter of an implicit, but no less effective, religious test.

Perhaps the final political impetus towards independence was the central issue of land ownership which arose during the 1960s.

* The Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China orders the Ministry of Public Works to issue a public notice that every 100 households in the lijia system are to set aside 2 mu ( 1, 390 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) of land for planting mulberry and jujube trees.

Another issue was the mineral rights to the land, which were owned by Tufts University.

To deal with the issue of land distribution, they worked out innovative solutions to access, tenure, and a graduated tax on unimproved values.

As the landmass grew, collecting more dumped rubble as well as silt from the lake, Streeter began to issue deeds to the land to others who saw themselves as " homesteaders " in the growing city of Chicago.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first time the phrase appeared in print was in the August 1894 issue of Forum: " The true cause for exultation is the universal outburst of patriotism in support of the prompt and courageous action of President Cleveland in maintaining the supremacy of law throughout the length and breadth of the land, in establishing the pax Americana.

In the Mortmain ( 1279 ), the issue was grants of land to the church.

Christian thinkers did not discount the idea that there might be land beyond the southern seas, but the issue of whether it could be inhabited was controversial.

The project was delayed because the stretch of land at issue runs through Menlo Park, not Palo Alto ; the city reversed its stubborn opposition to widening only after it saw how well the widening of the northern Palo Alto segment turned out.

As Americans began to head West, these institutions began to issue more and more currency as a means of facilitating land speculation.

In 1906 the Burke Act ( also known as the forced patenting act ) further amended the GAA to give the Secretary of the Interior the power to issue allotees a patent in fee simple to people classified ‘ competent and capable .’ The criteria for this determination is unclear but meant that allotees deemed ‘ competent ’ by the Secretary of the Interior would have their land taken out of trust status, subject to taxation, and could be sold by the allottee.

From the 1940s to the 1970s, the Navajo kept moving their villages closer and closer to Hopi land, causing the Hopi to raise the land issue with the U. S government.

The Scrip Commission was dispatched to the Saskatchewan Valley to address the issue of Métis land claims.

This rivalry focused on the issue of land reform in North Vietnam.

His forces met little resistance, burning numerous towns to the ground and living off the land, until they reached the Loire River at Tours.

The reason for this is that although the Scandinavian peninsula is attached to Continental Europe by Karelia etc., it is usually reached by sea, not by land ( which would require travelling north as far as Tornio at the 66th parallel north ).

This removed their tremendous weight, allowing the land under them to begin to rebound upward in the polar regions, which has been continuing and will continue until isostatic equilibrium is reached.

The dispute eventually reached the Supreme Court of the United States, which ruled in 1998 that New Jersey had jurisdiction over all portions of the island created after the original compact was approved ( effectively, more than 80 % of the island's present land ).

On January 1576 Oxford wrote to Lord Burghley from Siena about complaints that had reached him about his creditors ' demands, which included the Queen and his sister, and directing that more of his land be sold to pay them.

Kyoto ( Heian-kyō ) was geopolitically a better seat of government ; with good river access to the sea, it could be reached by land routes from the eastern provinces.

After an agreement was reached with the European Union ( EU ) to increase Honduras's banana quota to the EU, the large banana companies were avid for additional land for increased production to meet the anticipated new demand from Europe.

In 1836, the Chickasaw had reached an agreement that purchased land from the previously removed Choctaw after a bitter five-year debate.

Dinosaurs dominated the land, and reached their peak in this period as they diversified into a wide variety of groups.

As a result Brown's record sales and concerts in the United States reached a lull in 1973 as he failed to land a number-one R & B single that year.

and especially anything — such as land redistribution — designed to enhance equality, they were at the same time, albeit unconsciously, invoking a radical tradition which reached back to the late seventeenth century.

Komodo dragons were first documented by Europeans in 1910, when rumors of a " land crocodile " reached Lieutenant van Steyn van Hensbroek of the Dutch colonial administration.

Comprehensive reforestation programs starting in the 1970s and continuing into the late 1990s aided in an acceleration of forest volume increase, and the forest cover reached a peak of 65 % of national land area in 1980 as opposed to a low of 35 % in 1955.

Clarkson told the men to clear the land until they reached a large cotton tree.

No earlier evidence of human occupation has been found, but the island almost certainly formed part of the land bridge used for the settlement of Australia and New Guinea by at least 40, 000 BC There is no evidence of Homo erectus having reached Sulawesi ; crude stone tools first discovered in 1947 on the right bank of the Walennae river at Berru, which were thought to date to the Pleistocene on the basis of their association with vertebrate fossils, are now thought to date to perhaps 50, 000 BC

Hedeby, which lay near the modern city of Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein, was pretty centrally located and could be reached from all four directions over land as well as from the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea.

In 1820 – 1821, the federal land surveys had reached the disputed area from two directions, progressing southward from a baseline in Michigan and northward from one in Ohio.

In about 986, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Leif Ericson and Þórfinnr Karlsefni from Greenland reached North America and attempted to settle the land they called Vinland.

In the course of the Ostsiedlung, which reached its peak in the 12th to 14th centuries, this land was settled by Germans and reorganized.

* 1075 – 1077: the Song Dynasty of China and the Lý Dynasty of Vietnam fight a border war, with Vietnamese forces striking first on land and with their navy, and afterwards Song armies advancing as far as modern-day Hanoi, the capital, but withdraw after Lý makes peace overtures ; in 1082, both sides exchange the territories that they had captured during the war, and later a border agreement is reached.

Carter Harrison CribIn 1915, when Harrison left office, Chicago had essentially reached its modern size in land area, and had a population of 2, 400, 000 ; the city was moving inexorably into its status as a major modern metropolis.

At the same time, Pêro da Covilhã reached Ethiopia by land.

Their relationship reached a crisis in the 1250s when de Montfort was brought up on spurious charges for actions he had taken as lieutenant of Gascony, the last remaining Plantagenet land across the English Channel.

When he reached land, being eager for his journey, he failed to return the dolphin to the sea and it perished there.

He reached Greenland, believing it to be east Asia, but chose not to land.