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George Washington in a 1785 letter to James Duane, NYC Mayor, called New York "the Seat of the Empire". Washington is said to have used the phrase"Pathway to Empire"when referring to the state in conversation w/ George Clinton, the NY Governor in the 1790s
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James Duane was born in 1733, in NYC, in the Province of New York, to Anthony Duane and his second wife, Althea Ketaltas. Anthony Duane was a Protestant Irishman from County Galway who first came to New York as an officer of the Royal Navy in 1698..
"After his first wife's death, Anthony married Althea Ketaltas (Hettletas), the daughter of a wealthy Dutch merchant. By the time of James' birth, his father had become a wealthy colonial settler.. When Anthony died in 1747, James became the ward of Robert Livingston,
the 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor, where he completed his early education.
The Dutch roots of the NY mayor are not surprising as, prior, during the 17thC, the Dutch East India Company developed the town New Amsterdam which is present-day New York City
The city of New York was recaptured by the Dutch in 1673 during the Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–1674) and renamed New Orange.
It was returned to the English under the terms of the Treaty of Westminster a year later
"The 1652–1654 First Anglo-Dutch War was the result of commercial rivalry and Orangist support for the exiled Charles II , uncle of William of Orange "
In 1524, it was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer in the service of the French crown, who explored the Atlantic coast of North America between the Carolinas and Newfoundland, including New York Harbor
Francis I of France was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy ..
A prodigious patron of the arts, King Francis I promoted the emergent French Renaissance by attracting many Italian artists to work for him, including Leonardo da Vinci, who brought the Mona Lisa with him, which Francis had acquired...
Francis' reign saw important cultural changes with the growth of central power in France, the spread of humanism and Protestantism, and the beginning of French exploration of the New World ..
The succession of his great rival Emperor Charles V to the Habsburg Netherlands and the throne of Spain, followed by his election as Holy Roman Emperor, led to France being geographically encircled by the Habsburg monarchy..
In his struggle against Imperial hegemony, Francis sought the support of Henry VIII of England at the Field of the Cloth of Gold .. When this was unsuccessful..
King Francis I formed a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Muslim sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, a controversial move for a Christian king at the time ..
Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1947) called it "the sacrilegious union of the lily and the crescent"...
Audio Visual Systems Consulting, Television, Video and Music Production - clients included Standards Australia, The NSW Attorney General's Department and international children's entertainers - The Wiggles
From 1986 to 1988, he was technical adviser to the office of the Minister of Culture, François Léotard ; he then took part in drafting the law on freedom of communication , which governs the CSA. Between 1988 & 1991,
World’s first high-tech e-courtroom (for Australia’s Wood Royal Commission into NSW Police Corruption) created and installed by For The Record’s Tony Douglass
@openthebooksaus Tony Douglass
Senior Technician
New South Wales Premier's Department
Oct 1994 - Feb 1997
Pursuant to the emergency ordinance which is being issued by the Swiss Federal Council, the merger can be implemented without approval of the shareholders.
the press release from UBS's side informs us that "the combination of the two businesses is expected to generate annual run-rate of cost reductions of more than USD 8 billion by 2027." Translation: virtually all CS workers will be laid off.
Robinson was scheduled to film the evangelistic program proclaiming Jesus' Resurrection on March 17 at Our Lady of the Assumption and St. Gregory Church in Warwick Street, London, for GBNews
The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory is a Catholic church on Warwick Street, Westminster. It was formerly known as the Royal Bavarian Chapel, because like several Catholic churches in London it originated as a chapel within a foreign embassy
It was built between 1789 and 1790 to the designs of Joseph Bonomi the Elder. The only surviving eighteenth-century Catholic chapel in London
I was on a graduate program at a Swiss medical school where epidemiology was part of the course when C19 happened and suddenly the lecturers were quoting Pfizer's safe&effective mantra , even though the data wasn't there..
We had been trained to examine the data.. All of that went out of the window. I was astonished at the hypnosis within the medical field..
I was on this course because of my tech background and I was interested in translational medicine which requires people with a computer science background. So my training was differrent to my peers who were mostly from the medical field...