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... colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It gives accounts of what a girl's daily life might have been like during the beginnings of this colony. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...

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...he Late Rebellion in Virginia, Most Humbly and Impartially Reported by His Majestyes Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Affaires of the Said Colony Narratives of the Insurrections, 1675-1690...

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... to discover why there was a giant stuffed moose in a house down the road. Jimmyland The settlers were dispatched to a distant planet to build a colony to house the future of mankind. They had everything they needed, except a backup plan in case things went horribly wrong, and there was no way home....

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...ng phased out of work, mainly by automation, and then by influx of cheap labor from neighboring states. In this story the houses where women from the colony across the road works as household help, are being razed to the ground to give way to four colossal multistory buildings. The women lose their job and find life hard going, especially when their drunkard husbands do no...

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...ed food with each other. They can carry 15-20 times their body weight. Only the colony's queen breeds. Unfertilized eggs develop into males. The... ...ts an iris-like "shutter" to release the correct amount of light from his bacterial colony. The squid replaces the hosted vibrios daily. Still, bac... ...city in the country and, for a long time, its capital - was made a separate British colony in 1886. It was administered from Freetown, Sierra Leone.... ...r broke out, he organized a volunteer corps of 11,000 Indians to defend the British colony of Natal. There is much more here: http://dmoz.org/Socie... ...the United States. But the first massacre was perpetrated by Indians in the British colony Jamestown, in Virginia in 1622. They slaughtered 347 whi...

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...lse recognition, by the highest authority of the devil‘s power to appear in the colony; nay, by strange construction it was made an act of conjuratio... ... her friends to respect her body, and give it a Christian burial. But the whole colony rang with her story. It was exceedingly alarming to the ruler... ... a great fast at Salem, and another proclaimed by the government throughout the colony, ―that the Lord would effectually rebuke Satan and save his p...

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...irrevocable one). They chose to become lifetime members of the reclusive Captain's colony and to abide by its (overly rational) rules. The Utopia... ...t their image. Others can be in multiple places at the same moment or be part of a colony-like hive. But all extraterrestrial life forms occupy spa...

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...ud. Isabel was half Indian. She had told her last night that her birthplace was Goa, a Portuguese colony in Southern India, and that her father had ... ...trees outside her bedroom window. She stretched and walked to the window to watch the squabbling colony and noticed on her dressing table a single r...

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...ources, such as food and territo- ries. Consequently, a new entity—a bacterial colony—was formed, which was better suited to the environmental condi...

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...th God, but it didn’t help them become a single great people, instead of a colony of the British Empire. It hadn’t helped them create a soul of a pe...

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... all that made Tyre to be worthy of estimation, and withdrew some to Carthage, a colony of the Tyrians, others to Ionea or Greece, others to differen...

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...u will get not only much visual pleasure but a great deal of information about one important side of life during the first 40 years of the antipodean colony.' T.R. Garnett, The Age, Melbourne, February, 1985. 'Finney’s impeccable research also provides fresh and original insight into Australia’s early social and political life; a lively history full of surprising facts…. ...

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...E Discovery: 1699–1777 CHAPTER TWO Van Diemens Land and the western coast of New Holland: 1788–93 CHAPTER THREE Establishment of the British Colony, the initial years: 1788–92 CHAPTER FOUR Establishment of the British Colony—survival assured: 1793–99 CHAPTER FIVE The Continent Defined: the voyage of the Investigator 1800–01 CHAPTER SIX French Explora...

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...sed it, though my take is slightly different: I think the murder has been manipulated by the vested interests. I am a resident of an unauthorized colony; therefore, my opinion on Unauthorized Colonies has found place in the present selection; though I admit had the case been different, I wouldn’t have included it; so please bear with my little bias. Though I have n...

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...The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the institutions under which they lived could not have been more elaborate or precise....

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...Earth is threatened with destruction by a deadly alien plague. The planet’s only hope: Get help from the long-lost Omega Colony, somewhere in space. The fate of the Earth is in the hands of Lieutenant Commander Greylorn in charge of the search for Omega, and every decision he will make during Man’s first contact with an alien race... (Summary b...

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...nt that resulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their department under the `LTC scheme` during their summer vacation in 1981. Mad...

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...nt that resulted in the death of 32 persons, travelling in the over-crowded bus, carrying some teachers and their families, mostly residents of Nimri Colony in North Delhi. This group of 46 persons was on an All-India tour, organized by someone amongst themselves, to avail the benefit from their department under the `LTC scheme` during their summer vacation in 1981. Mad...