Capital punishment has existed in the state since its colonial days.
His first name commemorates an ancestor, John Endicott, who was the state's first colonial governor.
Havana, would two million people, and more that 100, 000 old colonial houses, some of them in poor physical state would have been devastated by this hurricane.
Investigations have recently covered the behaviour of British soldiers and colonial officers in Kenya and the secrecy of the Saudi state.
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Through the state's preservation effort, many of the colonial buildings in St.
In areas such as Laikipia in central Rift Valley, people who hold long leases issued by the colonial government would have those reviewed and the land could revert to the state.
Visitors to Kota Kinabalu, capital of the state of Sabah in eastern Malaysia, can take a trip back to colonial times on the newly refurbished North Borneo Railway.
Such a zone would reflect the separate coastal Alawite state created on and off between 1920 and 1936 when France was the colonial power in Syria, according to Osama Klaib, a Sunni lawyer from the Homs area and now a Tripoli-based member of the opposition Syrian National Council.
British colonial rule was almost gone: some newly independent countries kept the queen as head of state while others ditched her altogether in favor of a president.
The capital of the state, also called Guanajuato, has long been admired for its rich history and colonial architecture.
After the first post-dictatorship democratic elections in 1999, 12 of the northern Muslim states adopted sharia law, putting an enormous strain on the unity of a Nigerian state that had previously been run only under the secular, civil law bequeathed to it by British colonial rulers.
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