English civil war, 1642–48, the conflict between King Charles I of England and a large body of his subjects, generally called the “parliamentarians,” that culminated in the defeat and execution of the king and the establishment of a republican commonwealth. The Nature of the Struggle The ...
Historical survey.The Fiji Islands were discovered by the Dutch navigator A. Tasman in 1643 and were visited in 1774 by the English explorer J. Cook. By the time the Europeans came, the primitive communal system of the local population was already in decline. The first British missionaries arr...
These included guarantees to protect French language and culture, both directly (by making French an official language in Quebec and Canada as a whole) and indirectly (by allocating jurisdic- tion over education and "Property and Civil Rights in the Province" to the provinces). The protection ...
Bias-corrected projections were developed for South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka) and the 18 Indian sub-continental river basins (Fig.1). We used basin boundaries in the Indian sub-continent from Shah and Mishra42[Fig.1]. We obtained observed daily gridded...
Outstanding achievements of postwar civil architecture include the Rudjer Bošković Research Center in Zagreb (1950–65, architect K. Ostrogović), the Zagreb Airport (1965–67, architect I. Uhlik), the Marjan Hotel in Split (1965, architect L. Perković), and the Prima Department Store...
Because of Pennsylvania's location near the South, it was the scene of several battles in the Civil War, notably the Gettysburg campaign of 1863. The Rise of Industry and the Labor Movement With the close of the war came the rapid emergence of the state as a mighty industrial commonwealth....
(1968); on civil construction (1968); on economic, scientific, and technological cooperation (1970); on the development of cooperation in the field of radio and television (1970); on international motor vehicle transportation (1971); and on navigation and cooperation in providing safety in ...
a republic in SE Europe: settled by Croats in the 7th century; belonged successively to Hungary, Turkey, and Austria; formed part of Yugoslavia (1918--91); became independent in 1991 but was invaded by Serbia and fighting continued until 1995; involved in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina...