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The French were especially inconvenienced because French law recognized marriages only when contracted under a civil authority ( the nearest being in New Caledonia ), whereas British law recognized marriages conducted by local clergy.
The relationship between Britain and the German Empire, at that time the nearest relevant colonial power, was formalized by the 1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, in which Germany pledged not to interfere with British interests in insular Zanzibar.
By contrast, the rest of Europe combined sent only 882, 412 people from 1500 to 1795, and the fleet of the English ( later British ) East India Company, the VOC ’ s nearest competitor, was a distant second to its total traffic with 2, 690 ships and a mere one-fifth the tonnage of goods carried by the VOC.
Most of this network was closed by British Railways in 1959 but the short section from Melton Constable railway station via Holt to Sheringham ( services continuing on to Cromer and Norwich ) escaped closure for a few more years-finally succumbing in 1964 when the branch was cut back to Sheringham ( now the nearest national rail-head, served by frequent services to Norwich along the ' Bittern Line ').
Sophia became the nearest Protestant heir to the English and Irish crowns ( later British crown ).
Its commander had clearly observed the British advance, but the nearest British tank was unable to traverse its turret to engage and by the time a second tank had moved into position the armoured car had withdrawn.
The CLR had been operating since 1900, and its nearest station, British Museum, was 250 metres to the west.
The Guardian claimed in 1968 that the organisation was " probably the nearest British equivalent to the American John Birch Society ".
The Final Settlement Price is the British Bankers Association ( BBA ) percentage rate for Three – Month Eurodollar Interbank Time Deposits, rounded to the nearest 1 / 10000th of a percentage point at 11: 00 London time on that day, subtracted from 100.
The water problem is solved by a covert raid late one night, refilling the reservoir with hoses attached to the nearest fire hydrant on the British side of the border.
The nearest equivalent to a brake van still in use on main-line British railways is the driving van trailer ( DVT ), which is used on locomotive-hauled trains to control the locomotive from the other end of the train in a push-pull configuration, removing the need for the locomotive to run around its train at termini.
The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning " Bare-Hill ", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn ( bald hill ).
As with the rest of the British Isles and the North of England, Amble experiences a maritime climate with cool summers and mild winters-The nearest MetOffice weather station for which average's are available is Boulmer, about 9 miles to the north.
Their situation was now precarious, as their main attacking force was well past the right of the main British infantry positions ; infantry in the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division was closer to the nearest enemy-controlled water source at Katia than most of the attacking force.
In 1963 British Railways withdrew passenger services between and Oxford and closed Thame station, leaving Princes Risborough ( 7 miles ) as the nearest passenger station until 1987 ( see below ) BR dismantled the track between Thame and, but kept the line between Thame and Princes Risborough open for goods traffic to and from an oil depot in Thame.
The airfield nearest to the Falklands and usable for RAF operations was on Ascension Island, a British territory, with a single runway at Wideawake airfield which was leased to the US.
American currency and postage circulated widely in the colony, whose nearest British neighbors were Red River 2, 000 miles to the east, and Hong Kong to the west.
To the west is the British Museum and Holborn tube station is the nearest underground station to the southeast.
In the British Royal Navy and navies of many other Commonwealth counties, the equivalent rank is " able seaman ", although this is considered junior to the nearest equivalent ranks of corporal or bombardier in the other military branches.
Clark asked Governor Henry for permission to lead a secret expedition to capture the nearest British posts, which were located in the Illinois country.
Wyannie Malone, originally from Charleston, South Carolina and other British Loyalists left the United States for the nearest British territory in the Bahamas.
Two larger vessels, the corvette Madison and the brig Oneida would engage the nearest British batteries.

nearest and ships
The concussion of the blast alone was sufficient to rip open the seams of the nearest ships, and flaming wreckage landed in a huge circle, much of it flying directly over the surrounding ships into the sea beyond.
California was months away from the nearest base in colonized Mexico, and the cargo ships of the day were too small to carry more than a few months ’ rations in their holds.
Leaving the Downs, Albemarle came upon De Ruyter's fleet of 85 ships at anchor, and he immediately engaged the nearest Dutch ship before the rest of the fleet could come to its assistance.
Rather than expose the entirety of his fleet to the American battle line, Cervera had signaled his other ships to continue to the southwest while he attempted to cover their escape, directly engaging Brooklyn, his nearest enemy.
They eventually implement a program of interstellar exploration using a fleet of 63 ships, targeting the nearest 21 stars.
Although ships were observed to perform reasonably well under jury rig, the rig was quite a bit weaker than the original, and the ship's first priority was normally to steer for the nearest friendly port and get replacement masts.
As the nearest port available for carrying out repairs and landing his wounded men was Gibraltar, Byng's plan was to sail there, repair his ships, and try once again to get extra forces before returning to Fort St Philip.
Two of the ships survive, although they are crippled and stranded far from the nearest system.
They contact the nearest and make contact with the Mosdva, who turn out to have once been the Tyrathca's slaves, being used to mine and build the ships and habitats since they were more versatile in zero gravity.
Shackleton's initial plan was a march across the pack ice to the nearest land, where the party would try to reach a point that ships were known to visit.
* in crises groups of Systems Vehicles ( assisted by some smaller ships, mainly General Contact Units ) act as the nearest thing to a government that the anarchistic Culture ever has.
After some debate and prompting by President Washington, Congress passed an act on 20 April 1796 allowing the construction and funding to continue only on the three ships nearest to completion:, and.
This means that ships harbored in Fosnavåg can be registered here instead of in the next nearest city: Ålesund.
The lyrics mention the ships sailing into Bethlehem, but the nearest body of water is the Dead Sea about 20 miles away.

nearest and Alexander
On-site analysis of the area was conducted by General Karapuhkin, Airborne deputy commander General Alexander Lebed, and other senior officers who mingled with the crowds nearest to the White House.
Three Harlem River bridges: High Bridge ( showing the steel arch that replaced the original masonry spans ), nearest ; Alexander Hamilton Bridge ( part of Interstate 95 in New York | I-95 ); and the Washington Bridge, farthest.

nearest and Orion
The nearest nebula to the Sun where massive stars are being formed is the Orion nebula, away .< ref > However, lower mass star formation is occurring about 400 – 450 light years distant in the ρ Ophiuchi cloud complex.

nearest and all
After each competitor has delivered all of their bowls ( four each in singles and pairs, three each in triples, and two bowls each in fours ), the distance of the closest bowls to the jack is determined ( the jack may have been displaced ) and points, called " shots ", are awarded for each bowl which a competitor has closer than the opponent's nearest to the jack.
The current consensus is that chordates are monophyletic, meaning that the Chordata include all and only the descendants of a single common ancestor which is itself a chordate, and that craniates ' nearest relatives are cephalochordates.
In parallel computing, arrays of sorted values may be merged efficiently using an all nearest smaller values computation.
That means that the nearest common ancestor of all Osteichthyes includes tetrapods amongst its descendants.
Both Zenadors are called away to the nearest world for trial ( a journey that would take twenty-two years ), the colony's charter is revoked, and all humans are ordered to evacuate posthaste, leaving no sign of ever having been there.
The Gliese ( later Gliese-Jahreiß ) catalogue attempts to list all star systems within of Earth ordered by right ascension ( see the List of nearest stars ).
As Tallinn is located nearest to Asia Pacific of all EU capitals, this gives Tallinn Airport a major geographical advantage for establishing long-haul flights between these two regions.
In it, the salesman starts at a random city and repeatedly visits the nearest city until all have been visited.
The nearest neighbour algorithm may not find a feasible tour at all, even when one exists.
When a solution is reached the property corners that are chosen as those that best fit all the data are coordinated and ties by direction and distance are computed from the nearest traverse point.
He writes, bidding her tell her siblings that he's about to sell the house and move them all out to Surrey, six miles from the nearest railway station.
The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.
The Hyades (; Greek Ὑάδες, also known as Melotte 25 or Collinder 50 or Caldwell 41, is the nearest open cluster to the Solar System and one of the best-studied of all star clusters.
::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.
* The number of partitions of n in which all parts are 1, 2 or 3 ( or, equivalently, the number of partitions of n into 1, 2 or 3 parts ) is the nearest integer to ( n + 3 )< sup > 2 </ sup > / 12.
This led the International Ski Federation ( ISF ) to time all events to the nearest 1 / 10 second in the future.
There is no rail, bus or air service in town, with the nearest for all three being in Great Barrington.
The nearest regional transportation services can all be reached in Pittsfield, including bus, Amtrak and air service.
The nearest small airport is the Orange Municipal Airport, with the nearest national air service at Logan Airport in Boston, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire and Bradley International Airport in Connecticut, all of which are approximately 90 minutes away from the town.
The nearest private colleges from the center of Ludlow are Western New England University, American International College, and Springfield College, all in Springfield.
The nearest towns are Erskine, Mentor and Brooks, all located outside the township.
Newcastle Airport is the nearest, however for alternative flights, Edinburgh Airport, Manchester Airport and Leeds Bradford Airport are all within.
The sum runs over all nearest neighbor positions on a lattice, of any dimension.

1.620 seconds.