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See polling place result map below for detail of the boundary ... first woman to contest a national election anywhere in the British Empire when she contested the Victorian Senate in 1903.
Map of the Underground Railroad (Courtesy of the University ... Slavery had been outlawed throughout the British Empire in 1833, including Canada. Abolitionists were shocked when the British governor ...
The humble charkha stood in stark opposition to the bales of British mill cloth—each stamped with enticing paper labels designed to make the Empire desirable ... at the Museum of Art & Photography ...
“If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it between ... During the US Civil War of 1861-65, the Union considered forcibly annexing Canada due to British support for the ...
And as this map shows, you won't need to travel far to find them. Even if you choose to avoid travelling, and to stay at home instead, this list will provide you with some of the best pubs on your ...
Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...
After the fights at Lexington and Concord's North Bridge, the British column had to return to Boston. On its way, the ...
City of St. Augustine Archaeology Program volunteers, from left, Don Roberts, Janet Fittipaldi, David Kasriel and Bob Maerz work to screen soil to recover artifacts from the 1781 British Redoubt ...
It’s all a very British row. It also goes to prove you ... they are the kind of women who were once the backbone of an empire. Age has nothing to do with it, though it does mean that they ...
Part of the confusion arose from discrepancies between historical maps of British St. Augustine. Although several maps depict the redoubts, “they all have slightly different sizes and dimensions ...
and if the King visited Rome without going to the Vatican it would certainly be an act of discourtesy to millions of his loyal subjects all over the Empire.” There is, however, a very strong ...