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    Retrocession Day is the annual observance and former public holiday in Taiwan commemorating the end of Japanese rule of Taiwan and Penghu and the claimed...
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    District of Columbia retrocession is the act of returning some or all of the land that had been ceded to the federal government of the United States for...
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    of Taiwan. This event was referred to by the Republic of China as the retrocession of Taiwan (臺灣光復). The Republic of China government viewed this as the...
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  • In the Swiss finance industry retrocessions are kickback commissions that banks, asset managers, trustees and financial service providers receive after...
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    year. The Virginia portion was given back in 1847, a process known as "retrocession". Following the First Opium War (1839–1842) and Second Opium War (1856–1860)...
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    retake the land it had donated to form the district, a process known as retrocession. The Virginia General Assembly voted in February 1846, to accept the...
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    Reinsurance is insurance that an insurance company purchases from another insurance company to insulate itself (at least in part) from the risk of a major...
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    represented the end of their federal representation in Congress. Prior to retrocession, residents of Alexandria County expected the proximity of the federal...
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    Taiwan and the Pescadores in the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952; see Retrocession Day, Theory of the Undetermined Status of Taiwan, political status of...
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    sugar producers. The 1920s saw the rise of a "retrocessionism" movement, which favoured the retrocession of Mauritius to France. The movement rapidly collapsed...
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    Cape Juby (Arabic: رأس جوبي, trans. Raʾs Juby, Spanish: Cabo Juby) is a cape on the coast of southern Morocco, near the border with Western Sahara, directly...
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    Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. The ROC proclaimed Taiwan Retrocession Day on 25 October 1945. However, due to the unresolved Chinese Civil...
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    Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana". Yale Law School; Avalon Project Documents in Law, History...
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    Kuomintang-Communist Civil War Constitutional government 1945–present Taiwan Retrocession of Taiwan February 28 incident White Terror Exodus to Taiwan Korean War...
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    Africans in Virginia Indentured servitude in Virginia District of Columbia retrocession Great Dismal Swamp maroons Human trafficking in Virginia Liberation and...
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    Kuomintang-Communist Civil War Constitutional government 1945–present Taiwan Retrocession of Taiwan February 28 incident White Terror Exodus to Taiwan Korean War...
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    Virginia was later returned to that state by the District of Columbia retrocession in 1846. Influenced by a changing economy, revolutionary ideals, and...
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    Kuomintang-Communist Civil War Constitutional government 1945–present Taiwan Retrocession of Taiwan February 28 incident White Terror Exodus to Taiwan Korean War...
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    Pechengsky District (Russian: Пе́ченгский райо́н; Finnish: Petsamo; Norwegian: Peisen; Northern Sami: Beahcán; Skolt Sami: Peäccam) is an administrative...
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    in all subsequent years. Even just three short years before the 1969 retrocession to Morocco, the most considerable urban expansion was concluded, on the...
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    ISSN 0024-9041. Chan, Ming K. (2003). "Different Roads to Home: The Retrocession of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese Sovereignty" (PDF). Journal of Contemporary...
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    Japanese Instrument of Surrender (September 1945) Korea Retrocession (August 1945) Taiwan Retrocession (October 1945) Treaty of San Francisco (1951) Cairo...
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    greater authority over the District, the population convened to request retrocession of the District back to the states of Maryland and Virginia. The efforts...
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    Allied occupation of Japan Removal of Japanese troops from China and retrocession of Taiwan to China Liberation of Korea and Manchuria, followed by the...
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    Africans in Virginia Indentured servitude in Virginia District of Columbia retrocession Great Dismal Swamp maroons Human trafficking in Virginia Liberation and...
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    Africans in Virginia Indentured servitude in Virginia District of Columbia retrocession Great Dismal Swamp maroons Human trafficking in Virginia Liberation and...
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    ISBN 9781469635873. Richards, Mark David (Spring–Summer 2004). "The Debates over the Retrocession of the District of Columbia, 1801–2004" (PDF). Washington History. Historical...
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    Customs Officer's Day (Russia) Day of the Basque Country (Basque Country) Retrocession Day (Taiwan) Sovereignty Day (Slovenia) Thanksgiving Day (Grenada) The...
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    The Residence Act of 1790, officially titled An Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States (1 Stat. 130)...
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    The Spanish protectorate in Morocco was established on 27 November 1912 by a treaty between France and Spain that converted the Spanish sphere of influence...
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