League. The Little Britain Merchants were founded in 1978 as members of the Southern Counties Junior D Hockey League. In 1984, the Merchants move to the...
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Ontario League has survived with the likes of Georgina, Lakefield, Little Britain, Port Perry, and Uxbridge. A sixth team has failed to stick in most...
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; Hanighen, F. C. (15 June 1934). Merchants of Death (PDF). Dodd, Mead & Co. Retrieved 22 January 2018. "'Merchants of Death': September 4, 1934". United...
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2011, the Eagles won their first game, at home, 3–2 against the Little Britain Merchants. The Eagles' first season back in Junior C ended with a winning...
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In the league semi-finals, the MoJacks challenged a resilient Little Britain Merchants squad. The series went the distance, but the MoJacks won game seven...
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its slave-trading rights in Latin America. In the East Indies, British and Dutch merchants continued to compete in spices and textiles. With textiles becoming...
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United Kingdom (redirect from Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
particularly to India. British merchants played a leading part in the Atlantic slave trade, mainly between 1662 and 1807 when British or British-colonial slave...
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First Opium War (category Wars involving the British East India Company)
ban on the opium trade by seizing private opium stocks from mainly British merchants at Guangzhou (then named Canton) and threatening to impose the death...
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investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commodities, particularly cloth merchants. Historically...
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achievement award from the Circus Friends' Association of Great Britain in 2000. "'Little Billy' Merchant", The Telegraph, 11 June 2001, retrieved 23 July 2010...
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America. 1916 – The Merchant of Venice, an unsuccessful silent British film produced by Walter West for Broadwest. 1923 – The Merchant of Venice (Der Kaufmann...
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the league semi-final, the Bruins challenged the second seeded Little Britain Merchants. The series went the distance, with Uxbridge coming out on top...
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Royal Merchant coming into our road, which is the greatest that was ever sustained in one ship, being worth 400,000l. at least. The merchants of Antwerp...
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Italians in the United Kingdom (redirect from Italian migration to Britain)
centre of the Italian community in Britain throughout the 19th Century, and indeed to the present day, is 'Little Italy', situated in a part of London...
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East India Company (redirect from British E. India Company)
soldiers, twice the size of the British Army at certain times. Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies...
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goods, to the Americas where ship merchants sold the slaves and European manufactured goods to plantation owners. Merchants then purchased sugar and molasses...
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in St Martin-in-the-Fields to Merchant Tailors' School, to gain what Pope so aptly terms 'a dangerous thing', a little learning. This was about the year...
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Merchant seamen crewed the ships of the British Merchant Navy which kept the United Kingdom supplied with raw materials, arms, ammunition, fuel, food and...
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but had similar results in the CSC playdowns. They defeated the Little Britain Merchants (Central Ontario League) in 7 games but fell again to the Alliston...
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which enabled British financiers and merchants to operate successfully in many otherwise independent countries, as in South America. The British remained non-aligned...
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Mercantilism (redirect from Merchant capitalists)
This school argues that rent-seeking merchants and governments developed and enforced mercantilist policies. Merchants benefited greatly from the enforced...
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Brent: The general manager of the Slough branch of Wernham Hogg paper merchants. Immature and arrogant, he believes he is a lovable rogue in the business...
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but other forms of unfree servitude continued for some centuries. British merchants were a significant force behind the Atlantic slave trade (also known...
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typical "Merchant–Ivory film" would be a period piece set in the early 20th century, usually in Edwardian England, featuring lavish sets and top British actors...
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basic policy imposed by Great Britain on its overseas possessions. Mercantilism meant that the government and the merchants became partners with the goal...
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The name Little Venice is now being used for a wider area than previously to include new developments surrounding Paddington Basin (Merchant Square/Paddington...
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Digging For Britain is a British television series focused on last and current year archaeology. The series is made by 360 Production (now Rare TV) for...
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Julius Caesar invaded Britain twice: in 55 and 54 BC. On the first occasion, Caesar took with him only two legions, and achieved little beyond a landing on...
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of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 8 March 1702, and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union 1707 merging...
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Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), known professionally as Little Richard, was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter. He was an influential...
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