• After decades of negotiations, the United States purchased the islands in 1917. (wikipedia.org)
  • As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. (wikipedia.org)
  • WW I and the 1917 sale of the Danish West Indies to the U.S. put to rest the company's plans for Water Island. (wica.vi)
  • Danish sovereignty over northern Greenland was recognized when the United States abandoned all claims to the region as part of purchase of the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. (loc.gov)
  • The islands have belonged to the United States since they were purchased in 1917. (cloudfront.net)
  • The islands were eventually sold to the United States for $25 million (equivalent to $571,040,000 in 2022) which took over the administration on 31 March 1917 and renamed the territory the United States Virgin Islands . (cloudfront.net)
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by initials JFK and Jack , was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. (everipedia.org)
  • 1917: The Manchester Guardian publishes the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France. (dorianssecrets.com)
  • The United States Virgin Islands, often abbreviated USVI, are a group of islands and cays located in the Lesser Antilles of the Eastern Caribbean, consisting of three main islands (Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas) and fifty smaller islets and cays. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like many other Caribbean islands today, Saint Croix has tourism as one of its main sources of revenue. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • A second British invasion of the Danish West Indies took place in December 1807, when a British fleet captured St Thomas on 22 December, and Saint Croix on 25 December. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • Wilson had refused to bring any leading Republican into the Paris talks, and back home he rejected a Republican compromise that would have allowed the Senate to ratify the Versailles Treaty and join the League. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, the U.S. Senate did not ratify the treaty and in April 1870 the treaty lapsed. (wica.vi)
  • Canada claimed that the island was part of the 1880 transfer of Hudson Bay Company lands to Canadian sovereignty. (loc.gov)
  • Before evaluating something we need to ask ourselves whether Danish sovereignty over Greenland matters - sovereignty is what Denmark was asked to sell, nothing else. (gwern.net)
  • The Treaty of Sevres, France, between the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and the allies (excluding Russia and the United States) liquidated the Ottoman Empire and virtually abolished Turkish sovereignty. (chuckhawks.com)
  • All citizens present on lands over which the United States extended its sovereignty had full constitutional rights that for men potentially included voting rights. (southerncalifornialawreview.com)
  • It was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles that he signed. (wikipedia.org)
  • German delegates sign the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 ending World War I. (wica.vi)
  • In 1979, Egypt and Israel signed a formal peace treaty, establishing formal diplomatic relations, setting a timetable for Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory occupied since 1967, and providing for the establishment of a Palestinian state. (si.edu)
  • Like many of their Caribbean neighbors, the history of the islands is characterized by native Amerindian settlement, European colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. (wikipedia.org)
  • A tiny 500 acre island in the Caribbean Sea. (wica.vi)
  • In order to understand why Water Island was considered to be of tactical value to the United States military, we must look for a moment into the strategic value of the Caribbean and later the U.S. Virgin Islands. (wica.vi)
  • Historical events provide the building blocks leading to the Water Island role in defense of the Caribbean in World War II. (wica.vi)
  • Immigrants from the Anglophone Caribbean that migrated to St. Croix after their formative years tend to speak the English creoles of their respective islands in informal situations, which are, for the most part, mutually intelligible with Virgin Islands Creole English. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • 2/17 Yahoo: Guadeloupe strikers block roads, close airport on French Caribbean island, burn cars and buildings and clash with police on Martinique too. (patriciamclaine.com)
  • Danish colonizers in the West Indies aimed to exploit the profitable triangular trade , involving the export of firearms and other manufactured goods to Africa in exchange for slaves , who were then transported to the Caribbean to work the sugar plantations. (cloudfront.net)
  • British forces landed on the Caribbean island of Anguilla . (fooddeserts.org)
  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. (wikipedia.org)
  • The U. S. Congress declared on 25 April 1898 that a state of war had existed with Spain since 20 April 1898. (wica.vi)
  • In July 1898, the United States invaded the nation near the end of the Spanish-American War. (grunge.com)
  • After the Treaty of Paris in 1898 ceded the island nation to the US, the country ignored Puerto Rico's new democratic government and established the island as a colonized state, impoverishing the nation as the US focused on its coffee and sugar industries. (grunge.com)
  • United States Department of the Navy, Bureau of Equipment, 1903. (loc.gov)
  • However, because of the Teller Amendment to the country's war resolution, Cuba was not annexed by the United States, though it effectively became a protectorate in a coerced treaty in 1903. (grunge.com)
  • The Navy was sent to investigate the question of whether the United States should take over the mandate for Armenia from the League of Nations. (chuckhawks.com)
  • According to the Khan Academy , Cuba was not a part of treaty negotiations, and under the Platt Amendment, Cuba permitted diplomatic, economic, and military intervention and a lease on Guantanamo Bay to the United States. (grunge.com)
  • The islands were acquired by the Danish West India Company between 1672 and 1733, eventually becoming known as the Danish West Indies in 1754 when they came under direct control of the King of Denmark. (wikipedia.org)
  • Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod, and Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte B. Egede exchanged bottles of Canadian maple whiskey Sortilège and Danish bitter Gammel Dansk to celebrate the agreement to divide Hans Island between the two countries, leading to the establishment of the first land border between Canada and Denmark, much to the delight of trivia enthusiasts everywhere. (loc.gov)
  • The dispute began nearly 50 years ago when Canada and Denmark signed a treaty to demarcate the maritime border between Ellesmere Island in what is now the Canadian territory of Nunavut , and the Danish semi-autonomous country of Greenland ( Kalaalit Nunaat ). (loc.gov)
  • Denmark claimed that the island is an integral part of Greenland and was used by Greenlandic Inuit for hunting purposes. (loc.gov)
  • It is a dispute that only involves the island and not the water or the seabed around it because those issues were resolved in a boundary treaty between Canada and Denmark in 1973. (loc.gov)
  • Reasons of State: Why Didn't Denmark Sell Greenland? (gwern.net)
  • I discuss how the island otherwise remained a drain since, the dim prospect it will ever be useful to Denmark, and the forgone benefits of that offer. (gwern.net)
  • Following World War II, the United States developed a geopolitical interest in Greenland, and in 1946 the United States offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $1233270368.1946483 $100000000 1946 , but Denmark refused to sell. (gwern.net)
  • When the Danish West India-Guinea Company went bankrupt in 1754, King Frederik V of Denmark-Norway assumed direct control of the three islands. (cloudfront.net)
  • Denmark tried several times to sell or exchange the Danish West Indies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: to the United States and to the German Empire , respectively. (cloudfront.net)
  • Treaty of the Danish West Indies signed by President Wilson, ceding the Danish West Indies to the United States after their purchase from Denmark , and renaming them the US Virgin Islands . (cloudfront.net)
  • July 14 - (July 3 O.S.) The Treaty of Frederiksborg is signed between Denmark and Sweden, ending the Great Northern War . (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States took control of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam and the Philippines. (wica.vi)
  • According to History , in 1897, the island nation of Puerto Rico was granted self-rule by their Spanish colonizers. (grunge.com)
  • Upon the US invasion of Puerto Rico, however, the native population met American troops with much hope. (grunge.com)
  • Statehood for Puerto Rico is still a hot-button issue as, according to Vox , Puerto Ricans voted 97-percent in favor of becoming the 51st state in the US in a 2017 referendum. (grunge.com)
  • Similar to Cuba and Puerto Rico, Guam was one of the many islands ceded by Spain to the United States. (grunge.com)
  • 238 Hiking Tour Information: Friends of Virgin Islands National {{card.portName}}, Onboard The local holiday, Puerto Rico/U.S. You can visit the farmer's market all-year round to taste the fresh fruit and vegetables and enjoy a typical Cruzan breakfast. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • October 27, 1810 United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida. (peoples-history.com)
  • In 1905, the East Asiatic Company purchased Water Island. (wica.vi)
  • Water Island was part of the Danish West Indies until 1905, when the Danish state sold it to the East Asiatic Company , a private shipping company. (cloudfront.net)
  • an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (en-academic.com)
  • June 19 - At Burhanpur (in the modern-day Indian state of Madhya Pradesh ), the Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad survives an attempted ambush by Mughal Empire forces dispatched by the Sayyid brothers (Syed Abdullah Khan and Syed Husain Ali Khan Barha) and goes on to establish a rival state in southern India. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was learned that most native-born U.S. Virgin Islanders would not qualify as "native" under the proposed legislation, as their immigrant ancestors had arrived later than 1927, but thousands of Danish citizens would have qualified. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • This includes the colonization and imperialism which was practiced by the United States. (grunge.com)
  • This area was part of the Teutonic Order state from the 13th century and was Germanized in the course of the German colonization of the East. (zxc.wiki)
  • Australia , Canada , the United States , South Africa (and to a more controversial extent Israel ) are examples of nations created in their modern form by settler colonization. (explained.today)
  • He narrowly won re-election in the 1916 United States presidential election, boasting how he kept the nation out of wars in Europe and Mexico. (wikipedia.org)
  • A third treaty to purchase the Danish West Indies for $25M was signed on 4 August 1916. (wica.vi)
  • On 18 August 1916, at the age of sixteen and six months, Winfield was admitted to the United States Naval Academy as a Midshipman. (chuckhawks.com)
  • March 15, 1916: President Woodrow Wilson sent 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. (cloudfront.net)
  • 1812: Napoleon's troops, in their retreat from the invasion of Russia, are hit and massacred by Russian armies during the crossing of the Berezina River. (dorianssecrets.com)
  • In 1812, with the approach of the French and Prussian troops to Riga, the Riga fortress was brought into a defensive state. (paetz.wiki)
  • Note: Seward did negotiate a treaty and the Senate ratified the purchase of Alaska from Russia (Seward's Folly) 0n 9 April 1867 for $7.2M-1.9 cents per acre. (wica.vi)
  • The 64th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives . (cloudfront.net)
  • October 27, 1807 Occupation of Portugal by French-Spanish troops. (peoples-history.com)
  • Britain occupied the Danish West Indies in 1801-1802 and 1807-1815 during the Napoleonic Wars . (cloudfront.net)
  • British troops remained until 1951, when Egypt became completely independent. (si.edu)
  • 1951: in Paraguay, the government ends the state of war with West Germany, and diplomatic, commercial and financial relations are reestablished. (dorianssecrets.com)
  • Pyongyang preparing to test fire missile…NKorea puts troops on alert, warns of war danger. (patriciamclaine.com)
  • 1820: in the city of Trujillo (Venezuela), the government of the Republic of Gran Colombia and the kingdom of Spain sign the War Regularization Treaty, which puts an end to the "War to the Death" between patriots and royalists. (dorianssecrets.com)
  • Secretary of State Seward realized the value in the Danish West Indies after blockade running in the Civil War was facilitated by the weaknesses of the navy in the West Indies. (wica.vi)
  • U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned over a disagreement regarding the nation's handling of the RMS Lusitania sinking. (cloudfront.net)
  • Following a slave rebellion in 1848, slavery was abolished in the Danish territories, and the plantation economy of the islands collapsed. (wikipedia.org)
  • The economy of the Danish West Indies depended on slavery. (cloudfront.net)
  • In 1808 the United States outlawed the international slave trade and importation of slaves but did not yet ban slavery outright. (wikipedia.org)
  • The United States would pass the 13th amendment in December 1865 after having just fought a bloody Civil War in order to end slavery for non-criminals. (wikipedia.org)
  • After centuries of struggle, slavery was eventually declared illegal at the global level in 1948 under the United Nations ' Universal Declaration of Human Rights . (wikipedia.org)
  • Classes graduated early due to World War I. According to the United States Academy Annual Register for the graduating class of June 6, 1919, Winfield was ranked 184 in order of general merit out of a class of 467 members. (chuckhawks.com)
  • Following the defeat of the Nice Treaty referendum, Ireland committed that our Defence Forces would only be sent overseas where approved by (i) the Government (ii) the Dáil and (iii) the United Nations. (pana.ie)
  • Known as the "Triple Lock", this commitment made in Seville, Spain, was a key argument in favour of accepting the Nice Treaty in the second referendum. (pana.ie)
  • After the Lisbon Treaty was rejected in 2008, our Government again made a National Declaration affirming the Triple Lock, to encourage the Irish people to vote Yes in the second referendum. (pana.ie)
  • This step would be effectively a repudiation of the Seville Declaration which induced Irish voters to vote Yes to the ratification of the EU's Nice Treaty by referendum in 2002, having rejected that treaty by referendum the year before. (pana.ie)
  • It notes that Ireland intends to associate its National Declaration with its act of ratification of the Treaty of Nice, should the people of Ireland in a referendum decide to accept the Treaty of Nice. (pana.ie)
  • Citing continuing 'aggressive statements' by Baku, Pashinian said the military alliance of Russia, Armenia, and four other ex-Soviet states should specifically consider dispatching a monitoring mission to the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. (rferl.org)
  • World War I began on 2 August 1914 when German troops crossed the border into France. (wica.vi)
  • 6 His first cruise was changed from ferrying troops home from France to a military mission in the Near East, which was being headed by General Harbord. (chuckhawks.com)
  • February 17 - The Treaty of The Hague is signed between Spain , Britain , France , Austria and the Dutch Republic , ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance . (wikipedia.org)
  • May 20 - The Treaty of The Hague , signed between Spain and the Quadruple Alliance (Britain, France, the Netherlands and Austria) on February 17, goes into effect. (wikipedia.org)
  • This period of Nordic military, mercantile and demographic expansion had a profound impact on the early medieval history of Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Estonia, Kievan Rus' and Sicily. (shoutwiki.com)
  • If this was true, the East Asiatic Company may have acquired Water Island in order to guarantee its long-term availability for the exclusive use of the German Navy. (wica.vi)
  • Administration of the Virgin Islands was placed under the Department of the Navy. (wica.vi)
  • Her original impulse toward America had come during the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), who in 1725 dispatched Vitus Bering, a forty-four-year-old Danish veteran of the Russian Navy, to seek the answer to a question then puzzling the academic world: Were Asia and America joined? (americanheritage.com)
  • Michael H.B. Cunningham's son from his first marriage, Fredrick Cunningham of Rockbridge and Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, had two children serve in World War I. Chester M. Cunningham was a Yeoman, 3 Class, United States Navy, while Winfield Scott Cunningham was an Ensign in the United States Navy. (chuckhawks.com)
  • Winfield Scott Cunningham would become the commander of the gallant heroes of Wake Island, the winner of the United States Navy Cross and retire as a Rear Admiral. (chuckhawks.com)
  • Russia backed a UN Security Council resolution for a Gaza truce, which was vetoed by the United States on December 8. (rferl.org)
  • After decades of exploration, piracy and plundering around the coasts and rivers of Europe, Vikings established Norse communities and governments scattered across north-western Europe, Belarus, Ukraine and European Russia, the North Atlantic islands all the way to the north-eastern coast of North America. (shoutwiki.com)
  • The collection of tiny islets, cays, and rocks dotting the sea around them reminded Columbus of Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgin martyrs, which inspired him to name the archipelago Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Virgenes (English: Saint Ursula and her Eleven Thousand Virgins). (wikipedia.org)
  • The Phoenicians sailed into the pristine harbors long before sun-bathers took up residency on the golden beaches on the three island archipelago of Malta, Gozo, and Camino. (jetsettersmagazine.com)
  • Compared to the Arawak and Chiboney peoples, who had inhabited the islands for much of their history, the Kalinago had a more militant society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here are some islands that the United States has stolen during its history. (grunge.com)
  • As Professor Lillian Guerra explained to History , American general Nelson Miles declared his intention on the island to "protect the life, liberty, and happiness of Puerto Ricans. (grunge.com)
  • The sentiment today has the ring of irony: one need only contemplate the present implications of Alaska as a strong Russian beachhead in North America-instead of as the union's forty-ninth state-to realize how history has justified, in a way and to a degree even he could not have foreseen, the bold action of that "grey, bent, and weary" man. (americanheritage.com)
  • Finally, it was not until the beginning of the Christian era that the first Thai states entered the history of the country. (whatsupuniversity.com)
  • People walk at Dubai's Expo City during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai. (rferl.org)
  • I am writing to express my concern at the Government's proposals to enable the Defence Forces to serve abroad in missions unauthorised by the United Nations. (pana.ie)
  • In my view, adherence to the charter and values of the United Nations should remain a core part of Irish foreign policy and I urge you to vote against these proposals. (pana.ie)
  • It discusses the distinction between colonialism, imperialism and conquest and states that "[t]he difficulty of defining colonialism stems from the fact that the term is often used as a synonym for imperialism. (explained.today)
  • Spelling out the Triple Lock in the 2002 Seville Declaration was the key factor used to persuade the Irish people to change their vote on the Nice Treaty. (pana.ie)
  • In return, the European Council of Member State Governments made the following Declaration: "The European Council takes cognizance of the National Declaration of Ireland presented at its meeting in Seville on 21-22 June 2002. (pana.ie)
  • It is the last major naval battle in the Great Northern War taking place in the Åland Islands, marking the end of Russian and Swedish offensive naval operations in Baltic waters. (wikipedia.org)
  • The stretched position of the Prussian corps, passivity MacDonald, the success of Polotsk Wittgenstein, the beginning of a General retreat of Napoleon, and also the arrival in Riga of the housing Steingel all circumstances prompted Essen to the beginning of the offensive, however, due to poor management, Russian troops suffered heavy losses in several battles. (paetz.wiki)
  • There's only one dispute over land in the entire Arctic, and that is a small island between Canada and Greenland named Hans Island. (loc.gov)
  • It appears it evolved into a tradition after Denmark's minister for Greenland, Tom Høyem, first left a bottle of cognac in 1984, welcoming visitors to the Danish Island. (loc.gov)
  • The straits separating the principal islands are the Strait of Soya, or La Pérouse between Hokkaido and the Sakhalin, the strait of Tsugaru between the Great Island Honshiu and Hokkaido, and the Strait of Shimonoseki between Honshiu and Kiusiu. (newadvent.org)
  • July 27 - The Battle of Grengam takes place in the Ledsund strait between the island communities of Föglö and Lemland. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the years 1251 to 1309, the Elbląg Order Castle was the deputy headquarters of the Order State (the headquarters were then Acre and later Venice ) and the seat of the Landmeister of Prussia and the Grand Spittler , at the same time the residence of Bishop Anselm of Warmia , who died here in 1274. (zxc.wiki)
  • However, Guam held an importance during the conflict that was unique: According to Sutori , the United States viewed Guam as a strategic base of operations for their main target, the Philippines. (grunge.com)
  • January 21 - Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War) . (wikipedia.org)
  • Archeological evidence shows that the Virgin Islands were inhabited for thousands of years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus. (wikipedia.org)
  • To his guests he pointed out those who, during his brief eight years in the State Department, had passed from the scene. (americanheritage.com)
  • The dominant power in the region for 3,500 years, Egypt passed through periods of strength and weakness until 330 B.C., after which it was ruled by foreign states and dynasties until modern times. (si.edu)
  • Interestingly, the island lies along the route taken by Commander Robert E. Peary and Matthew Henson on their 1902 expedition in the High Arctic. (loc.gov)
  • A graduate of Tianjin Military College, his military posts were mainly in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the top of which was commander of the 1st Army of the Zhejiang-Shanghai United Forces. (rulers.org)
  • Following Spain's defeat, Cuba was included as spoils for the victorious United States. (grunge.com)
  • Denmark's soldiers land on Canadian Arctic territory, hoist their flag, claim the island as their own, and Canada does nothing. (loc.gov)
  • Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve contains the only known site where members of a Columbus expedition set foot on what is now United States territory. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • The first documented Europeans to visit the islands arrived with Christopher Columbus. (wikipedia.org)
  • When Columbus and his crew decided to move on to other islands, they kidnapped six Arawaks to guide them. (wikipedia.org)
  • The fact is that Columbus' name has become synonymous with the United States, to the point that he has a holiday and statues honoring his actions. (grunge.com)
  • July 28, 1915: The United States occupation of Haiti began. (cloudfront.net)
  • For the other countries, the date given may not represent "independence" in the strict sense, but rather some significant nationhood event such as the traditional founding date or the date of unification, federation, confederation, establishment, fundamental change in the form of government, or state succession. (cia.gov)
  • 1948: in the city of Dublin (Ireland), the Parliament approves the total independence and the separation of the United Kingdom. (dorianssecrets.com)
  • The 1973 treaty deliberately left the border undefined through tiny, uninhabited Hans Island ( Tartupaluk ), which lies midway between the two countries. (loc.gov)
  • Armenia's Defense Ministry has said one of its troops was killed on the border with Azerbaijan overnight on June 18-19 but did not provide details. (rferl.org)
  • mw-parser-output .hidden-begin{box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;padding:5px;border:none;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .hidden-title{font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .hidden-content{text-align:left}You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Danish. (cloudfront.net)
  • Faced with mounting deficits, the Danish government repeatedly attempted to sell the islands. (wikipedia.org)
  • Before the Civil War, the United States was ever expanding, annexing lands and then killing, displacing, subordinating, or assimilating those already living there. (southerncalifornialawreview.com)
  • All U.S. lands other than the District of Columbia were or would become states. (southerncalifornialawreview.com)
  • In 2005, Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham took a helicopter to the island and visited an inuksuk that the Canadian Armed Forces erected. (loc.gov)
  • The British occupation of the Danish West Indies took place at the end of March 1801, with the arrival of a British fleet at St Thomas. (kaizenagrosolution.com)
  • Background: Occupied by the Portuguese in the 16th century and the Dutch in the 17th century, the island was ceded to the British in 1802. (en-academic.com)
  • The 2020 fighting ended in a Russian-brokered cease-fire that returned large swaths of land to Azerbaijan, left around 2,000 Russian troops in the area to monitor the truce, and fed resentment in Yerevan. (rferl.org)
  • Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian last week renewed his calls for the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to help his country deal with what he called serious security threats emanating from Azerbaijan. (rferl.org)
  • After the failure of Russian troops in July, under the gross-Ekau rejected the ultimatum, the Prussian commanders on the surrender of Riga, but hastened to give the order to burn Moscow, Mitavskiy and Zadvinsky suburbs. (paetz.wiki)
  • The Triple Lock reflects our historic commitment as a neutral state to the UN rather than military alliances such as NATO . (pana.ie)
  • each island was given a new constitutional status. (fooddeserts.org)
  • As Mahan complained, "any project of extending the sphere of the United States, by annexation or oth erwise, is met by the constitutional lion in the path. (southerncalifornialawreview.com)
  • Those events produced the constitutional regime that I term the Reconstruction Constitution , which dramatically moved the racially heterogeneous United States towards rights, membership, and equality. (southerncalifornialawreview.com)
  • The country is traversed by two chains of mountains, one a part of Sakhalin Island, the other south-east of China crossing Formosa. (newadvent.org)
  • If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. (gutenberg.org)