Results 1 - 10 from 10 for german imperial government in 0.796 sec.

Bougainville - The long struggle for freedom
British, Germans, Dutch and French. Under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck representatives of the German Imperial Government set foot in Neu Guinea, Bougainville and the Solomons in 1884. At first they ... his control into the Solomons from Rabaul. Areas of the Solomons Archipelago which came under German control included Bougainville while the rest came under Britain and was known as the British ...
www.eco-action.org

LEAD International
Members Member Programmes Fellows & Members Statistics Regions Themes LEAD Member Login Join the Network Fellows' Stories Mehjabeen ABIDI-HABIB Senior Research Felow, Sustainable Development Study Centre Government College University Lahore Nationality Pakistani Cohort 1997-1999 - Cohort 6 Member Program Pakistan Contact Log in to view Biography Mehjabeen Abidi-Habib is research scholar in human ...
lead.org

Milan's U.N. Climate Change meeting
In a press conference with the German Green Minister of the Environment on December 10th, it became clear that he is calling ... about ecological policy? Further, US citizens came here as part of delegations not on the government list such as state governments, municipal authorities, business representatives and many non-governmental organizations with ...
culturechange.org

Asian Horses
Asia and China. Karashahr horses were regularly sent as tribute to the imperial court at Peking, and Chinese cavalry were mounted upon them. These were strong animals, twelve ... steeds, Turkish or Persian mounts . . . and travelers published disparaging accounts of their mettle. (The French government sent equerries to the Levant in 1706 to buy horses; not only did they buy ...
www.iras.ucalgary.ca

Travel Books and Travelogues - National Geographic Traveler Highlights the Best Travel Writing
The doctor falls in love with a nurse at the hospital where he works, but—under the Communist government's rules—has to wait 18 years before he is free to marry again. This love story ... -war Japan and inspired by the life of Empress Michiko, the first commoner to marry into the imperial family. Geisha, by Liza Dalby (1983). Cultural anthropologist Dalby turns in her American dress for kimonos and ...
nationalgeographic.com

The Impact Of Decline Upon Weights And Measures
Imperial measures that existed prior to their own metrication. Examples include the French "livre"and the German "Pfund" (500 grams, about one pound in weight), and the Swedish inch (25 millimetres). Numerous ... Britain a clear assurance that the mile and the pub pint will remain. The Government must decriminalise Imperial measures, resist the European Union's banning order on pounds and ounces on ...
ourcivilisation.com

International News on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - 1999/08/16
She said: "I want the Government to look into this because I saw the change in my daughter - as soon as ... in Canada, the Canadian National Farmers Union (NFU; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is lobbying the Canadian federal government to legislate industry compensation for unintended genetic alteration of crops. NFU members, which include both ...
www.safe-food.org

Today over 80 per cent of Burma's people are Buddhist and the country has the largest number of monks as a percentage of the total population. | April 2008 | New Internationalist
British to drive out the Japanese. Having had his brush with the imperial ambitions of Japan, he was also one of the founders of the Anti-Fascist People's ... Commonwealth, unlike other colonies that had also gained independence. A brief democracy U Nu's government faced many challenges from the outset -- disgruntled communist factions and ethnic groups, who felt excluded from ...
newint.org

by Leonardo Padura Fuentes | March 2008 | New Internationalist
Cuba and the US, which since the 19th century has been twisted by the imperial arrogance of Washington's policy towards the island, and which in the last 50 years has ... have been frozen by orthodoxy, bureaucratization and volunteerism. An important question is whether the Cuban Government, in an atmosphere of belligerence from the US and serious economic problems at home, has ...
newint.org More from this site

Hector Ceballos-Lascurain | Planeta
In 1993, I carried out for the Ecuadorean government (funded by GTZ - German Technical Cooperation) the Ecotourism Master Plan for the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve in the ... SEDUE among other institutions) to the Sierra Madre Occidental of Durango, in search of the Imperial Woodpecker, the largest woodpecker that ever existed in the world. Unfortunately, we did not find ...
planeta.com