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Protector of Aborigines. The Australian colonies and in the nineteenth century created offices involved in dealing with indigenous people in the jurisdictions. The role of Protector of Aborigines was first established in South Australia in 1836. The role became established in other parts of Australia pursuant to a recommendation contained in ...
Within the sociology of knowledge, agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of deliberate, culturally induced ignorance or doubt, typically to sell a product, influence opinion, or win favour, particularly through the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data ( disinformation ). [5] [6] More generally, the term includes the ...
Uganda, [b] officially the Republic of Uganda, [c] is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of ...
Western New Guinea. 1962–1963. Indonesia. (claimed by the Republic of West Papua ) United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) Cambodia. 1992–1993. Cambodia. United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES)
History of theGambia. The first written records of the region come from Arab traders in the 9th and 10th centuries. In medieval times, the region was dominated by the Trans-Saharan trade and was ruled by the Mali Empire. In the 16th century, the region came to be ruled by the Songhai Empire.
The First Protectorate Parliament was summoned by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell under the terms of the Instrument of Government. It sat for one term from 3 September 1654 until 22 January 1655 with William Lenthall as the Speaker of the House . During the first nine months of the Protectorate, Cromwell with the aid of the Council of State ...
Politics. A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. [1] [2] Though dominated by the foreign colonizers, the rule remains separate to the original country of the colonizers, the metropolitan state (or "mother country"), which together have often been organized as colonial empires, particularly with the development of modern ...
