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The present-day figure of about 4. 6 million foreign residents, that make up some 8 % of the total population, include more than half a million children born in Italy to foreign nationals — second generation immigrants, but exclude foreign nationals who have subsequently acquired Italian nationality ; this applied to 53, 696 people in 2008.
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** António Vieira arrives, with his parents, in Bahia ( present-day Salvador ) in colonial Brazil, an unpromising beginning for his great career as a diplomat, noted author, leading figure of the Church, and protector of Brazilian Indians in an age of intolerance.
Villegaignon became an important historical figure in the attempt for king Henry II to build a " France Antarctique ", by invading present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555 with a fleet of two ships and 600 soldiers and colonists, mainly French Huguenots and Swiss Calvinists who sought to escape Catholic persecution in Europe.
" Hiawatha was not " another name for the same personage " ( the mistaken identification of the trickster figure was made first by Schoolcraft and compounded by Longfellow ), but a probable historical figure associated with the founding of the League of the Iroquois, the Five Nations then located in present-day New York and Pennsylvania.
Galloway criticizes what he sees as the over-sexualization of present-day human history, " as fiery and hot as it is ," and asks: " Who said I have to experiment in order to figure out how to do things?
Ernst Streeruwitz, originally Ernst Ritter Streer von Streeruwitz ( 23 September 1874, Mies, Austria-Hungary ( present-day Stříbro, Czech Republic )-19 October 1952, Vienna ) was an Austrian political figure.
Hang Tuah is held in the highest regard, even in present-day Malaysian Malay culture, and is arguably the most well-known and illustrious warrior figure in Malaysian history and literature.
It is also assumed that the earliest of them was Ananta Chandidas, who has been more or less identified as a historical figure born in the 14th century in Birbhum district of the present-day West Bengal state and wrote the lyrical Srikrishna Kirtan ( Songs in praise of Krishna ).
It seems that approximately the land south of the Orange River in present-day Lesotho was Phuthi-speaking during the time of the greatest historical figure in the history of the Sotho people, Moshoeshoe I -- just seven years older than Moorosi — whose authority in the 1830s, however, was far from covering the present-day territory of Lesotho.
Salahuddin, or Abang Louis is the only son of the late Abang Barieng bin Abang Anyut, a Melanau community leader and a well-known figure in the Third Division ( present-day Sibu Division ).
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By October the little colony about Fort Douglas ( present-day Winnipeg ) numbered 100.
The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.
Even for present-day neuroscience, the mechanisms by which brain activity gives rise to consciousness and thought remain very challenging to understand: despite rapid scientific progress, much about how the brain works remains a mystery.
Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.
According to the Jargon File, " Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naïve and tremendously stimulating.
The first dramatic rise in atmospheric oxygen on Earth, to about a tenth of its present-day value, occurred approximately 2. 5 billion years ago, and that level did not change significantly until the Cambrian era approximately 600 million years ago.
The Hebrew calendar year is longer by about 6 minutes and 25 +< sup > 25 </ sup >/< sub > 57 </ sub > seconds than the present-day mean solar year, so that every 224 years, the Hebrew calendar will fall a full day behind the modern solar year, and about every 231 years it will fall a full day behind the Gregorian calendar year.
On April 11, 1803, just days before Monroe's arrival, Barbé-Marbois offered Livingston all of Louisiana for $ 15 million, equivalent to about $ in present-day values.
Liubice (" lovely ") was founded on the banks of the river Trave about four kilometres north of the present-day city centre of Lübeck.
During prehistoric times there was a succession of cultures that flourished in the land of present-day Moldova from the end of the Ice age up through the Neolithic Age, the Copper Age, the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, when historical records begin to be made about the people who lived in these lands.
Their capital city was situated about 100 km north of present-day Oyo.
Gerbert was born about 946 in the town of Belliac, near the present-day commune of Saint-Simon, Cantal, France.
Glaciation took place repeatedly during the Quaternary Ice Age – a term coined by Schimper in 1839 that began with the start of the Quaternary about 2. 58 Mya and continues to the present-day.
The Bambuti were linked to Pygmy tribes whose Stone Age culture was slowly replaced by Bantu tribes coming from regions north of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo about 2, 000 years ago, introducing Iron Age culture to the region.
It is estimated that by the end of the 18th century European traders took about 350, 000 slaves from the region of the present-day Republic of Congo.
McCulloch reports that at that time, amongst Sierra Leone's largest present-day ethnolinguistic group, the Mende, who then had about 560, 000 people, about 15 per cent of the population ( i. e. 84, 000 ) were domestic slaves.
By, at latest, 1628, they had a " factory " ( their name for a trading post ) in the vicinity of Sherbro Island, which is about 50 km south-east down the coast from present-day Freetown.
The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover information about the history of deformation ( strain ) in the rocks, and ultimately, to understand the stress field that resulted in the observed strain and geometries.
It appears that in about 500 BC, residents of present-day India began making sugar syrup and cooling it in large flat bowls to make crystals that were easier to store and transport than the cane itself.
Since then, this part of eastern Germany has been referred to as Saxony ( German: Sachsen ), a source of some misunderstanding about the original homeland of the Saxons, with a central part in the present-day German state of Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ).
* 1058 – Agnes de Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border-zone in present-day Burgenland.
They coalesced as a people around the Great Lakes, likely about the same time as the rise of the five nations of the historic Iroquois tribes, based in present-day New York.
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* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1, 900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4, 400.
* February 21 – In Dhaka, East Pakistan ( present-day Bangladesh ) police open fire on a procession of students, killing 4 people and starting a country-wide protest which leads to the recognition of Bengali as one of the national languages of Pakistan.
It took place at Senlac Hill, approximately 10 km ( 6 < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 4 </ sub > miles ) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.
The Fair's 1, 200 acre ( 4. 9 km² ) site, designed by George Kessler, was located at the present-day grounds of Forest Park and on the campus of Washington University, and was the largest fair to date.
He was born about 1815-16, signed together with his cousin, Mistāwasis in 1876 the Treaty 6 at Fort Carlton, where he agreed that his group were settled into a reserve near the present-day Prince Albert, died 4 December 1896 at the age of 81 years )
He died a few days later, on July 4, 1541, and was buried in the church at Tiripetío, a village between Patzcuaro and Morelia ( in present-day Michoacán ).
By the 1940s, U. S. Route 9 was also designated along the present-day portion of Route 34 that was then a part of Route 4, this would later become Route 4A after U. S. Route 9 and Route 4 were moved to a new alignment between Freehold and Cheesequake.
The area including present-day Colonial Heights was made a part of " Henrico Cittie ", one of 4 huge " incorporations " formed in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the London Company.
Prior to this, the county seat had been set at Williamsburg ( now Bayou Cane ), approximately 4 miles northwest of present-day downtown Houma.
The present-day routing of U. S. Route 9 between Cape May and South Amboy and Route 35 between South Amboy and Rahway bore the Route 4 designation prior to 1953, when the route was defined onto its current alignment.
The section of present-day Route 4 was built between 1930 and 1934 to connect Paterson and the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee.
* Greene Washington Caldwell ( born near present-day Belmont on April 13, 1806, died 1864 )-Congressional Representative from North Carolina, elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress ( March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843 )
Sulphur Springs, located 3 / 4 mile south-southeast of the highway intersection of OK 3 and OK 93 in present-day Rattan, was county seat of Cedar County, Choctaw Nation.
Ansted and Imboden bought more than a thousand acres ( 4 km² ) of coal and timber land on Gauley Mountain between Hawks Nest and the town of Westlake, which became the present-day town of Ansted.
Remnants of the former 4 / 22 runway are still visible in the present-day taxiways.
On 1 November, the first boats set out from the island, and reached French Creek ( near present-day Clayton, New York ) on 4 November.
In 1982, Jurong West New Town started expanding as Jurong West Extension, which saw the realignment of the PIE to make it go through the southern boundary of present-day NTU, while converting the former section into Jurong West Avenue 2 and renaming the original Upper Jurong Road into Jurong West Avenue 4.
* Evolving Planet follows the history and the evolution of life on Earth over 4 billion years, from the first organism to present-day life.
It was founded a few months after, and in the same year as, its more successful rival, the colony at Jamestown, which was established on May 4, 1607 by the Virginia Company of London in present-day James City County, Virginia.
The company built a water distribution system of the intake pipe located 600 feet offshore, almost 4 miles of iron pipe along present-day Geary Boulevard, a water pump, and the reservoir tank located on Laurel Heights.
The Greenbelt is a crescent of land within the present-day boundaries of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ( now 2, 796. 4 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Studies have shown that between the mid Holocene and the 19th century AD, wildland fires annually burned between 4. 5 % and 12 % of present-day California's total land, for example.
Enver himself was killed in a failed last-ditch cavalry charge on August 4, 1922, near Baldzhuan in present-day Tajikistan ).
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