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POLAR EXPLORER REMEMBERED
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While not exactly a household name in this country, Norwegian
seaman Otto Sverdrup is a big figure in explorations of the frozen
Arctic.
The explorer was the subject of a joint stamp issue last month in
Canada, Greenland and Norway. The stamps were issued March 26, the
150th anniversary of Sverdrup's birth.
In 1898, Sverdrup set forth on a four-year voyage of the polar
regions north of Canada and Greenland in a ship he helped design. The
seaman charted more than 62,000 square miles of the region, more than
any other polar explorer.
Sverdrup was born in 1854 in Bindal, Norway. He first went to ...
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Statute of Westminster.
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder
; ...December 1931 Today, Canada becomes an independent nation--almost. The British Parliament has passed the Statute of Westminster, making all its Dominions free and sovereign nations; all that is, except Canada. The last colonial ties have...
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Holyrood presses Westminster for control of firearms legislation
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...which remains reserved to Westminster and Scottish ministers are...sympathetic" response from Westminster. A spokesman for Alex Salmond...Scottish ministers and their Westminster counterparts on enabling the...went on to the Westminster statute book last year. These effectively...
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SNP bid to take over firearms law and ban airguns vetoed by Westminster
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...the co-operation of Westminster. All firearms' legislation...the UK is reserved to Westminster and since July Mr MacAskill...off procedure in which Westminster could agree to the Scottish...on to the Westminster statute book last year. These...
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Westminster school board will get funds
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; A gender harassment policy the Westminster school board adopted meets enough of a a state agency...obligated to follow the law as declared by state statute and regulation." Westminster board members Helena Rutkowski, Judy Ahrens and...
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Blunkett legislates to silence lone protester at Westminster
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...activities as a desperate last resort. Westminster Council was first to try to evict him...could not be over-ridden by medieval statutes guaranteeing MPs safe passage in the streets of Westminster. Sir George Young, the Tory MP for...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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They can't get rid of Section 28 - the Act which created Scotland's Parliament won't let them; THE Scottish Executive's proposal to scrap Section 28 has provoked widespread anger. But leading lawyer PETER WATSON argues that the Executive are exceeding their powers and that the matter should only be decided by MPs at Westminster.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...body but a creature of statute. It was given a role...limited range of powers by Westminster. In the case of Section...what is reserved to Westminster. Wendy Alexander...opportunities" are reserved for Westminster. They are defined as...
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Sir Edward Coke -- A Freethinker Before His Time
Magazine article from: Freethought Today
; ...our own borders, threw out anti-miscegenation statutes and overturned 150 years of American stare decisis...English judges were to enforce automatically the statutes of Westminster. Only a jury's refusal to convict and the finality...
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Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages.(Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). It is startling as well to find Glanvill, Bracton, Magna Carta, the Statutes of Westminster I and II, and Britton lumped together under the heading "Norman Law." James A. Brundage University of Kansas
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Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...other important legal documents from the period after the Norman Conquest, such as those of Henry I and the Statutes of Westminster. The literary sources section includes humorous readings such as the Ballad of the Tyrannical Husband as well...
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The constitutional requirements for the royal morganatic marriage.(United Kingdom, Canada)
Magazine article from: McGill Law Journal
; ...the preamble to the Statute of Westminster, the assent of the...The Statute of Westminster also abolished the...subsection 2(2) of the Statute), which had until...section 7 of the Statute of Westminster. Notwithstanding...
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