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Orange Free State

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Orange Free State former province, South Africa: see Free State . ... Read more
Orange Free State
A Dictionary of British History Orange Free State Former British colony in...mid‐19th cent., the Orange Free State retained its independent...on Britain in 1899, the Free State's leaders felt bound to...and the country became the Orange River Colony in 1900. It... Read more
Orange Free State
The Oxford Companion to British History Orange Free State. Former British colony in...the mid-19th cent., the Orange Free State retained its independent...on Britain in 1899, the Free State's leaders felt bound by...and the country became the Orange River Colony in 1900. It... Read more

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Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State, 1899-1902/The Great Escape of the Boer Pimpernel, Christiaan de Wet: The Making of a Legend
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State, 1899-1902. Weltevreden Park...Republic [Transvaal] and the Orange Free State) who bolted from the cause by...long-remembered, part of the war in the Orange Free State. The scorched earth and population... Read more
Africa: Rock of ages In a scattering of sacred mountain caves in South Africa's Orange Free State, thousands of men and women converge to learn ancient secrets of healing, divining and witch-spotting. Heidi Holland joins the pilgrimage trail to the self-styled `University of Sangoma'. Photographs by TJ Lemon
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/5/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...and the nearby caves of Badimong, near Ficksburg in the Orange Free State, he sips from a bowl of sheep's blood, sprinkles tobacco...exceptionally well tuned to their clients' psychological state. "We understand exactly how people are thinking," says... Read more
100th anniversary of the Boer War Part 1: The Beginning Irish soldiers stand fast against threat from Orange Free State; In a new mini-series BRIAN COURTNEY recounts the events of the Boer war and the involvement of Ulster troops fighting in the former colony of Natal.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 7/26/2001; 700+ words ; ...aspects of a very gloomy scenario. When the war began in October 1899, the Boers from the then independent republics of Orange Free State and Transvaal invaded the predominately British colony of Natal. Tension between Boers and Britain had been acute... Read more
Freer power market will better serve state.(The Orange County Register)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 6/5/2002; 700+ words ; ...editorial appeared in The Orange County Register on June 5...The chance is low that the state will suffer the chaos, skyrocketing...emergency are many: 1. Out-of-state investors in new California...environment, are in the midst of a state-federal debate. The federal...federal court against the ... Read more
South African Election: Behind the barriers with a nice Boer and his gun: In a tiny rural Orange Free State town Richard Dowden meets a baffled and fearful young Afrikaner unable to accept the reality of the new South Africa
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/25/1994; ; 498 words ; ...did we think? A pleasanter, more open boy your mother could not imagine. Viljoenskroon is a tiny dorp on the endless Free State plain. It is clean and Calvinist and I was surpised to find a black policeman on the street. I asked him if he was a... Read more
Town, township, homeland. (Harrismith, Orange Free State) (A Survey of South Africa)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 3/20/1993; 700+ words ; HALF-WAY between Johannesburg and Durban, Harrismith is a convenient stopping place for long-distance lorry drivers. They find little entertainment in this God-fearing rural town. The locals have erected a solar-powered illuminated cross on a nearby hillside. Memorials to the Afrikaner and British Read more
Orange Free State. (poem)
Magazine article from: TriQuarterly; 9/22/1993; ; 157 words ; Rows and rows and rows. Match box shacks. Perhaps, your shot gun is not architecture. But, your dark faces wandering paths. Your miles and miles and miles of wealth. Reflect the Mississippi Delta with ored-veins. Your blacks huddled at the cross roads must have a Robert Johnson or Bessie Smith to Read more
The Free Trade Area of the Americas and the market for processed orange products
Magazine article from: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; The proposed Free Trade Area of the...largest processed orange producing regions...eliminated. Key Words: orange juice, spatial equilibrium...symbol omitted.) The Free Trade Area of the...would be the largest free trade zone in the...world's production of orange juice. The states... Read more
Orange County, N.Y., consumers still pay sales tax during tax-free week.
Newspaper article from: Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY); 1/28/2006; 402 words ; ...Mad that Orange County isn...a true tax-free week? Blame...of New York state's weeklong tax-free shopping on...when the state suspends its...sales tax; Orange County will...New York State Department...logic behind Orange County's decision...residents; feel free ... Read more
Orange County commits to free park-and-ride.
Newspaper article from: Times Herald-Record (Middletown, NY); 5/3/2007; 598 words ; ...May 3--GOSHEN -- Free parking is coming to Orange County's park-and-ri...intent is to get to free parking, said David...reimbursed (by the state). In an attempt...the network, the state Department of Transportation...mowing grass at the state-owned lots. Since...county and the ... Read more

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