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37) The intendancy offered scholarships to island students interested in pursuing teaching degrees in Bogota, Cartagena, or Medellin, thus competing for children whose parents considered sending them to study in Jamaica or the United States.
A transnational world fractured but not forgotten: British West Indian migration to the Colombian islands of San Andres and providence
According to a report of the Police Intendancy of Huancavelica, the following deliveries of mercury were made from Huancavelica to Cerro de Pasco on the following dates:
Mercury (not always rising) and the social economy of nineteenth-century Peru
The public edifices, such as the Government building, the Intendancy, the Counsel building, and the most solid structures, like the new church, the new Corps de Garde, the powder magazine and private houses, were no more than heaps.
The tragic annals of Haiti: devastating earthquakes have been chronicled on the island of Hispaniola for the past 500 years
The principal centralist innovation, the intendancy, created by a Royal Ordinance of 1782, was aimed at subordinating the cabildos and in some cases substituting the royal mayors and the chief town magistrates.
How Spanish America disintegrated: selected cross-national factors
Yet, de-privatizing the provincial taxes and reintroducing the intendancy system in Spain raised proceeds for the royal coffers and intensified royal power in the provinces.
Friends, followers, countrymen: viceregal patronage in mid-eighteenth century New Spain
It is titled "Report presented to the Intendancy of the Province of Concepcion, by Ambrosio Lozier, Simon Rodriguez and Juan Jose Arteaga, nominated to recognize the city of Concepcion and its surroundings after the earthquake of February 20, 1835" (Rodriguez, 1835) and denoted herein as "Rodriguez' report".
Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy and Simon Rodriguez met in Concepcion, Chile, after the earthquake of February 20, 1835
In the late 1980s, the ELN's size was thought to be 500 with its theater of operations extending to vast stretches of Colombia's eastern plains and portions of the departments of Norte de Santander, Santander, Bolivar, Cauca, and Antioquia, and the intendancy of Arauca.
Enduring freedom; the FARC of other terrorist groups in Colombia and South America: are we moving closer to the next phase in the war on terror?
Rene Velazquez, "The Intendancy of Alejandro Ramirez in Puerto Rico" (Ph.
Moses E. Levy of Florida: A Jewish Abolitionist Abroad

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