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121Conscription in the Netherlands — (Dutch: dienstplicht) was first employed in 1810 by French occupying forces. Napoleon s brother Louis Bonaparte, who was King of Holland from 1806 to 1810, had tried to introduce conscription a few years earlier, unsuccessfully. Every man aged 20 …
122Rowland Laugharne — Major General Rowland Laugharne (c. 1607 ndash; 1675 in London) was a soldier in the English Civil War.His family came from St. Brides House, Pembrokeshire, Wales.Major General Laugharne, Parliament s commander in south Wales during the First… …
123United Kingdom general election, 1801 — [ James Gillray caricatured the resignation of Pitt s Ministry in 1801.] The United Kingdom general election, 1801 was not an election as such, but the co option of members to serve in the first Parliament to be held after the formation of the… …
1242007 Constitution of Thailand — Final version of the draft constitution, distributed to the public prior to the August 2007 referendum. A Permanent Constitution for the Kingdom of Thailand was drafted by a committee established by the military junta that abrogated the previous… …
125Unamended Christadelphians — The Unamended Christadelphians are a fellowship within the broader Christadelphian movement located primarily in the United States and Canada. They are, like all Christadelphians, millennialist and non Trinitarian. The Term Unamended… …
126Yau-Man Chan — Survivor contestant name = Yau Man Chan birthdate = birth date and age|1952|08|26 location = Martinez, California season = finish = 4th place (Fiji) 18th Place (Micronesia) tribe = Ravu, Moto, Bula Bula (Fiji). Malakal (Micronesia)Yau Man Chan… …
127Vroedschap — The vroedschap was the name for the city council in the early modern Netherlands; the member of such a council was called a vroedman , literally a wise man . A honorific title of the vroedschap was the vroede vaderen , the wise fathers Most early …
128Jacopo Tiepolo — (b. Venice; d. 1249, Venice) was doge of Venice from 1229 1249. At the election for doge, Tiepolo and his rival Marino Dandolo were tied at 20 votes each, and Tiepolo was selected by drawing lots. This is thought to have sparked the feud between… …
