Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

No modern viceroy has denied Royal Assent to a bill.

* 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a " monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend ," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.

Ceremonial nickel-plated Pickelhaube of the modern Swedish Life Guards ( Swedish Army ) | Royal Life Guard Regiments.

In modern times, the city has been known by its Ottoman Turkish name Üsküp () during the time of Ottoman rule and by the Serbian form Skoplje ( Скопље ) during the time of the Royal Yugoslavia between 1912 and 1941.

This power ( along with others such as appointing ministers in the government, appointing diplomats, declaring war, and signing treaties, for example ) are known as the Royal Prerogative, which in modern times are exercised by the sovereign solely on the advice of the Prime Minister.

The latest in modern architecture was also represented by the likes of the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain and the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, at its completion the tallest building in the British Empire.

No modern Canadian viceroy has denied Royal Assent to a bill.

Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7, 1763, which outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory, and to some extent continues to govern relations between the government of modern Canada and the First Nations.

He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

As a result of the report Forster was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

A 2003 Royal National Theatre production featured Henry as a modern war general, ridiculing the Iraq invasion.

Elizabeth of York's arms, showing her husband ’ s arms ( the royal arms of England ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling her own paternal arms: Femme: quarterly, first: Royal arms of England | France modern and England, second and third: or, a cross gules ( Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster | de Burgh ), fourth ( Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March | Mortimer ).

Sloops in their modern form were developed by the French Navy as blockade runners to circumvent Royal Navy blockades.

The Royal Society's Hooke papers ( recently discovered after disappearing when Newton took over ) will open up a modern reassessment.

The modern prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851.

The Canadian Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is often refereed to as the origins of modern political awareness of multiculturalism.

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, βασιλική στοά, Royal Stoa, the tribunal chamber of a king ), has three distinct applications in modern English.

At the Royal College of Surgeons copies of the same fragments used by the British Museum in their reconstruction were used to produce an entirely different model, one that in brain size and other features resembled a modern human.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

While the language has continued to change in all of these places, modern Canadian English has inherited significant vocabulary and spelling from the shared political and social institutions of Commonwealth countries.

Although many Canadian whiskies are still labelled as “ rye ”, the modern mash bill for a Canadian “ rye ” whisky often contains little or no rye grain, and their flavour is derived in other ways ( such as flavour development from the aging process, blending with stronger-tasting Canadian whiskies, and the addition of flavourings ).

Examples of modern gold collector / investor coins include the American Gold Eagle minted by the United States, the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf minted by Canada, and the Krugerrand, minted by South Africa.

In the 1970s, Canadian Keith Johnstone invented Theatresports that has become a staple of modern improvisational comedy.

The oldest known mosquito with an anatomy similar to modern species was found in 79-million-year-old Canadian amber from the Cretaceous.

Dating back to the late 19th century, the main center of the older Chinatown is Pender Street and Main Street in downtown Vancouver, which is also, along with Victoria's Chinatown, one of the oldest surviving Chinatowns in North America, and has been the setting for a variety of modern Chinese Canadian culture and literature.

In the early 20th century, as modern transportation and communication systems developed, Bermuda's tourism industry began to develop and thrive, and Bermuda became a popular destination for a broader spectrum of wealthy US, Canadian, and British tourists.

The better-known genera include, for example, Aysheaia, which was discovered among the Canadian Burgess Shale and which is the most similar of the Lobopoda in appearance to the modern velvet worms ; a pair of appendages on the head have been considered precursors of today's antennae.

Despite the legal and political complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle and including the lakes in the Canadian interior as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingit.

In 1836, Canadian Michel Branamour Menard and several associates purchased of land for $ 50, 000 to found the town that would become the modern city of Galveston.

* Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood re-envisioned the myth of Helen in modern, feminist guise in her poem " Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing ".

The new organization was charged with federal law enforcement in all the provinces and territories, and immediately set about establishing its modern role as protector of Canadian national security, as well as assuming responsibility for national counterintelligence.

In modern Canadian constitutional theory, the provinces are considered to be co-sovereign divisions, and each province has its own " Crown " represented by the lieutenant-governor, whereas the territories are not sovereign, but simply parts of the federal realm, and have a commissioner.

In modern music, Canadian electronic / pop musician Dan Snaith, aka Caribou ( musician ), entitled the last track on his 2007 Polaris Prize winning Andorra ( album ) as " Niobe ".

The Canadian historian and philosopher John Ralston Saul has referred to Richelieu as the " father of the modern nation-state, modern centralised power the modern secret service.

Time Europe, on December 25, 2000, noted that " The change Canadian government policies marked the triumph of ideas forcefully argued by the most successful businessman in modern Canadian history: Nortel Networks CEO John Roth, 58.