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    The South Sea Company (officially: The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America and...
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    Lord Treasurer Robert Harley established the South Sea Company in 1711. Nominally, this was a trading company, but its main activity was the funding of government...
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  • Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. The term South Sea may also be used...
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  • Territorial disputes in the South China Sea involve conflicting island and maritime claims in the South China Sea made by Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia...
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    Nanhai One (redirect from South China Sea-I)
    Chinese: 南海一號; pinyin: Nánhǎi Yī Hào – South China Sea No. 1) is a Chinese merchant ship, which sank into the South China Sea during the Southern Song dynasty...
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    shares of the South Sea Company in a debt-for-equity swap. The South Sea Company was primarily set up as a government-debt holding company; although it...
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    Coinage of the South Sea Company was minted in Britain in 1723, after the South Sea Company (SSC) discovered silver in (and shipped it back from) Indonesia...
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    The South Seas Mandate, officially the Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean Lying North of the Equator, was a League of Nations mandate...
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    the South Sea Company, was established in 1711 to trade in the Spanish South American colonies, but met with less success. The South Sea Company's monopoly...
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  • Imperial Privileged Oriental Company 1722 Ostend Company 1775 Austrian East India Company 1711 South Sea Company 1752 African Company of Merchants (abolished...
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  • Russia Company, the Levant Company, the African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the French Company, the Spanish Company, and the South Sea Company....
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    The Sea Pines Company was a real estate development group founded by General Joseph Bacon Fraser, Charles E. Fraser, and Joseph B. Fraser, Jr. In 1956...
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    The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America...
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  • the Hudson's Bay Company, the French Company, the Spanish Company, and the South Sea Company. Media related to Trading companies at Wikimedia Commons...
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    Sea-Land (later known as Maersk SeaLand and SeaLand) was an American intra-regional container shipping company headquartered in Miramar, Florida with representation...
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    Robert Walpole. The "South Sea Bubble" economic crisis was brought on by the failure of the South Sea Company, an early joint-stock company. The campaigns of...
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    the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast. The sea stretches 1,200 km (750 mi) from north to south, with an average width of...
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    Massachusetts. The act gave the South Sea Company a monopoly over British trade with South America until the South Sea Bubble "popped" in Britain's first...
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  • until April 1982 that Seven Seas Health Care Ltd. was set up as a subsidiary of the Marfleet Refining Company. Seven Seas was acquired in 1986 as part...
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    The South Seas Detachment (南海支隊, Nankai Shitai) of the Imperial Japanese Army was a brigade-size force formed in 1941 to be the army unit used in the Japanese...
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    many major marginal seas, including the Philippine Sea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf...
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    Bank of England 1634: Guinea Company of Scotland 1698: Company of Scotland A similar chartered company, the South Sea Company, was established in 1711 to...
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    eventually crossed the Barents Sea and reached Novaya Zemlya. He spent some time sailing along the coast, then turned south towards Scandinavia. However...
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    The South Seas genre is a genre spanning various expressive forms including literature, film, visual art, and entertainment that depicts the islands of...
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  • company offering global transport services by road, air, sea and train. Since its foundation in 1976 by nine independent Danish hauliers, the company...
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    San Francisco-based Women's Real Estate Investment Company, first used the name "Carmel-by-the-Sea" on a promotional postcard. In 1902, James Franklin...
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    Venus of the South Seas, also known as Venus of the Southern Seas, is a 1924 silent drama film directed by James R. Sullivan starring swimmer Annette Kellerman...
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    British monopolies at the time, the Hudson's Bay Company, the South Sea Company and the East India Company for access the Chinese markets. However the British...
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    uk/art/artworks/ward-the-south-sea-bubble-a-scene-in-change-alley-in-1720-n00432 Dafforne, James. The Life and Works of Edward Matthew Ward. Virtue and Company, 1879. Thomas...
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  • Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure in the South Seas (ドラえもん のび太の南海大冒険, Doraemon Nobita no Nankai Daibōuken) is a science fiction adventure film which premiered...
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