In 1856 those little devils on Van Diemen's Land changed its name to this
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Tasmania - Wikipedia  Tasmania is an island state of the Commonwealth of Australia. It is located 240 km (150 mi) to ... The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. .... Of those removed from Tasmania, the last to die was Truganini, in 1876. ... changing its name from "Van Diemen's Land" to "Tasmania", and in 1856 the...
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Tasmania, where fantastic golf coexists with rather cute little devils  Nov 25, 2015 ... Go to Tasmania, where fantastic golf coexists with rather cute little devils ... There were so few of them remaining that they conceded to move to ... colony called Van Diemen's Land until 1856, when its name changed to...
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Tasmania's History 1: the First Tasmanians and European ...  However, its human history is far more ancient than the brief 200 years of ... Most of these names remain today, though the main island was re-named Tasmania in 1856. ... Van Diemen's Land was visited in the 18th Century by both the French .... The Whites moved about in armed bodies, and surprised little families of...
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Kiting at the end of the world | Action Asia - Best Adventures in Asia  He named the rugged land he found Van Diemen's Land, but in 1856 it was officially ... For those chasing wind and waves, Marrawah (teeming with 400 people) is ... Extinct on the mainland with the spread of the dingo, devils are limited to ... The bay was given its name in 1773 by Captain Tobias Furneaux, who saw the...
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Maria Island - Wikipedia  Maria Island is a mountainous island located in the Tasman Sea, off the east coast of Tasmania ... Native name: Toarra-Marra-Monah ... At its closest point, Point Lesueur, the island lies approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) off the ... by Dutch explorer Abel Tasman after Maria van Diemen (ne van Aelst), wife of Anthony van...
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24/02/2016: The Devils Rope-The history of barbed wire - Mark ...  Mar 2, 2016 ... For millennia, the great American plains were covered in fertile ... came up with a deadly solution that the American Indians called the devil's rope. ... We can provide funding for education materials to highlight the fencing...
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the Bowery | district, New York City, New York ... - Britannica.com  The Bowery, street and section of Lower Manhattan, New York City, U.S., ... in their skirmishes with the Dutch, which later became the road leading to Gov. ... The city's theatre life once centred there (186075), but by the 1880s the Bowery had ... his farm, the Bouwerie (from which New York City's Bowery takes its name).
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The State of Utah - An Introduction to the Beehive State ... - Netstate  When the Mormons first came to the territory, they named the area The State of Deseret, a reference to the honeybee in The Book of Mormon . This name was...
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7 towns that changed their names (and 4 that almost did) - The Week  Oct 20, 2014 ... The smallest town in Montana changed its name for one NFL season to "Joe. ... the first town to rename itself after his popular radio and television show. ... In 2000, officials in Halfway, Oregon, agreed to change the town's name to ... According to the town's website, White Settlement traces its name to the...
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The Origins of the Names of the 50 U.S. States - Today I Found Out  Apr 3, 2014 ... This state name was also inspired by its native people. ... Well, turns out so does colorado, which is an alternate word for red usually used in instances like to turn red .... The Dakota tribe called the Minnesota River mnisota, which meant ... The Carolina colony split into north and south in 1712 after the two...
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49. Tasmania  Known to Australians as Tassie, Tasmania is the smallest and only island state. ... Abel Tasman, who arrived there in 1642 and named it Van Dieman's Island after ... Van Dieman's Land became notorious as a British prison colony during the...
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Devil's Island - Wikipedia  The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island (le du Diable), was a famous prison of the 19th and 20th century. It operated at several locations in French Guiana. ... le Saint-Joseph was the Reclusion, where inmates were sent to be punished by solitary confinement in...
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The Dutch Surrender New Netherland - History in the Headlines  Sep 8, 2014 ... On September 8, 1664, the Dutch surrendered the colony of New ... renamed it New York after the king's brother, the Duke of York. ... The first major group of settlers did not arrive until 1624, when 30 ... But they gave it up the following year as part of a peace treaty in which ... This Day in History: 06/20/1975.
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The New Jersey Devils will be rebranding their franchise next season.  The team will have a new name. ... name in the month of April, next season the team will be rebranded as the New Jersey Angels, and their former devil horned...
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Devil's Island - Wikipedia  The penal colony of Cayenne (French: Bagne de Cayenne), commonly known as Devil's Island ... The prisoners were moved to live on the adjacent pontoons. ... In the 1840s, the state set up internal agricultural penal colonies as a place to receive ... published as a memoir by Henri Charrire, a former prisoner who escaped.
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Tasmania, the Name  While Tasman missed meeting any Aborigines, they knew their land as ... In 1823 Godwin's Emigrant's Guide to Van Diemen's Land, more properly called ... sponsored the renaming through a parliamentary petition to Queen Victoria, who ... the new name became effective on 1 January 1856, and the next day 'Tasmania'...
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History of New South Wales - Wikipedia  The history of New South Wales refers to the history of the state of New South Wales and the ... In the 21st century, the state is the most populous in Australia, and its capital, .... It was not until 1825 that Van Diemen's Land became a separate colony. ... Newcastle, north of Sydney, named after the English coal port city, was...
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Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948  especially closely at people whose descendents today are called Coloured, ... the great mixed nineteenth-century chiefships on the highveld, and how the ..... Identity: Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa (New York: ...... has shown that when the leadership dispersed its herds in around 1200, the.
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The Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642  Title: The Discovery of Van Diemen's Land in 1642 Author: James Backhouse .... Then he rounded the South-West Cape, and named the Maatsuyker Islands,...
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This Day in History July 24, 1847 | Mystic Stamp Discovery Center  Jul 24, 2016 ... U.S. #4324  The Utah flag pays tribute to the Mormon settlers with ... These devout settlers called the region Deseret, after the Mormon word for honeybee. ... the evil spirit or god of this earth and adding the book of Mormon.
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Abel Janszoon Tasman - Princeton University  Legacy of Tasman's name: Tasmania (island state of Australia), Tasmanian Devil ... the Netherlands and the VOC; Tasman named the territory Van Diemen's Land ... Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of His Discovery of Van Diemens Land and ... and kept by the wind with our pinnace; we made him plant the said pole with...