Or was he now taking the role -- the gesture and the suffering -- because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid, befogged loneliness of this land.

They all prayed now that the North would realize that peace must come, for Virginia had defended her land victoriously.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.

* 1639 – Madras ( now Chennai ), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.

* 2003 – The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo ( now called Behchoko ).

With the Confederates having confiscated his land, his slaves taken away, and his home made into a military hospital, Johnson made his final comments in the Senate: " I am a Democrat now, I have been one all my life ; I expect to live and die one, and the corner-stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis of the Union.

* 1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León first sights land in what is now Florida.

All land in the ACT is held on 99 year leases from the national government, although most leases are now administered by the Territory government.

As a consequence of his vision and audacity, there was now a land free from kings, a vast continent for new beginnings.

Phillip assigned a convict, James Ruse, land at Rose Hill ( now Parramatta ) to establish proper farming, and when Ruse succeeded he received the first land grant in the colony.

However, as more people gradually moved from working the land to living in towns ( especially those who could read and write, the only people whose use of language we now know ), the word harvest lost its reference to the time of year and came to refer only to the actual activity of reaping, and autumn, as well as fall, began to replace it as a reference to the season.

The refuge now includes of land and of water.

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

The return, however, was not without problems of its own: the returnees found themselves in conflict with those Jews who had remained in the country and who now owned the land, and there were further conflicts over the form of government that should be set up.

She is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park.

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

The land had also been intended for development, but was turned over to the City by BART and is now Ohlone Park.

These oceans and seas were populated with now extinct marine reptiles, ammonites and rudists, while dinosaurs continued to dominate on land.

As chromium compounds were used in dyes and paints and the tanning of leather, these compounds are often found in soil and groundwater at abandoned industrial sites, now needing environmental cleanup and remediation per the treatment of brownfield land.

Later, French settlers, French-owned companies, and Arab merchants established a plantation-based economy that now uses about one-third of the land for export crops.

This appeared to be confirmed by the exploration of the deep sea beds conducted by the Challenger expedition, 1872-6, which showed that contrary to expectation, land debris brought down by rivers to the ocean is deposited comparatively close to the shore in what is now known as the continental shelf.

The land which is now Columbus was bought by General John Tipton and Luke Bonesteel in 1820.

In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.

Compaq's ( now HP United States ') headquarter campus consisted of of land which contained 15 office buildings, 7 manufacturing buildings, a product conference center, an employee cafeteria, mechanical laboratories, warehouses, and chemical handling facilities.

* 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.

In the course of a move, a checker may land on any point that is unoccupied or is occupied only by a player's own checkers.

It may also land on a point occupied by exactly one opposing checker, or " blot ".

A checker may never land on a point occupied by two or more opposing checkers ; thus, no point is ever occupied by checkers from both players simultaneously.

On the next day, much of the land army as had not escaped to their own lands submitted or were followed in their retreat to Macedonia and forced to surrender, and Antony's camp was occupied.

The Native American societies of Mesoamerica occupied the land ranging from central Mexico in the north to Costa Rica in the south.

Continuing a practice started by the Ayyubids, much of the land occupied by former Fatimid palaces was sold and replaced by newer buildings.

The most common form in which the Spanish occupied the land was the encomienda.

In exceptional cases, " jurisdiction " may not be confined to a Contracting State's own national territory ; the obligation to secure Convention rights then also extends to foreign territory, such as occupied land in which the State exercises effective control.

When the war ended on 11 November 1918, Italy's army had occupied most of Albania ; Serbia held much of the country's northern mountains ; Greece occupied a sliver of land within Albania's 1913 borders ; and French forces occupied Korçë and Shkodër as well as other regions with sizable Albanian populations such as Kosovo.

" Nasrallah stated that " in occupied Palestine, there is no difference between a soldier and a civilian, for they are all invaders, occupiers and usurpers of the land.

Israeli settlements in the occupied territories ( commonly referred to as simply Israeli settlements ) are the Jewish civilian communities built on land that was captured by Israel from Jordan, Egypt and Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.

These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”

When Hariri's sister took a pro-Syrian line saying that Lebanon should " stand by Syria until its land is liberated and it regains its sovereignty on the occupied Golan Heights " the crowd jeered her.

It is built on the land formerly occupied by the RAF Luqa air base.

Palin said, " I ’ ve been to the Nyamgiri Hills in Orissa and seen the forces of money and power that Vedanta Resources have arrayed against a people who have occupied their land for thousands of years, who husband the forest sustainably and make no great demands on the state or the government.

Most of the niche occupied by sub plants on land is actually occupied by macroscopic algae in the ocean, such as Sargassum and kelp, which are commonly known as seaweeds that creates kelp forests.

As of 1993, 12 % of New Caledonian land is used for permanent pasture, with 39 % occupied by forests and woodland.

In 1988, however, the PLO officially endorsed a two-state solution, contingent on terms such as making East Jerusalem capital of the Palestinian state and giving Palestinians the right of return to land occupied by Palestinians prior to 1948, as well as the right to continue armed struggle until the end of " The Zionist Entity.

By 1970, the latifundio type of industrial farm ( more than 50 hectares in area ) occupied more than 77 per cent of arable land in the country.

The Letters of Patent attached to the Act acknowledged Aboriginal ownership and stated that no actions could be undertaken that would affect the rights of any Aboriginal natives of the said province to the actual occupation and enjoyment in their own persons or in the persons of their descendants of any land therein now actually occupied or enjoyed by such natives.