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And thousands of Hawaiians signed a petition in 1898 protesting the annexation by the United States.
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The discovery of gold in 1849 outside Sacramento and the annexation of the state after the Mexican War attracted venturesome souls of diverse backgrounds.
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With the annexation of Punjab in 1849, British India reached the frontier.
ECONOMIST: Waziristan
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It then maintained a functioning parliamentary democracy from 1918 until 1938 when the Munich agreement led to the beginning of Nazi annexation and occupation.
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Marked by the triple whammy of the Great Depression, Nazi annexation, and brutal Stalinist occupation, the 20th century was not kind to the Czech people.
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After the Nazi annexation of Austria and the violence of Kristallnacht ("the Night of Shattered Glass"), both in 1938, the demand to emigrate escalated, and long lines formed at U.S. consulates.
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PRUSSIA. The Annexation of Hanover, Hesse, Nassau and Frankfort.
NYTIMES: France
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And such theft could have grave consequences: in 1844, when letters of Henry Clay exposing his ambivalence on the annexation of Texas were released, it cost him the Presidency he was favored to win.
FORBES: The Not-So-Secret Vatican Archives
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In 1897, U.S. Secretary of State John Sherman invoked scholarly works to explain to the Government of Japan why the treaties made by the Kingdom of Hawaii would not survive the U.S. treaty of annexation of the Kingdom's territory, i.e.
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It would have been more relevant, historically and geographically, to refer to the annexation of the Afghan kingdom to the North-West Frontier Province by the British raj, which happened soon after the casual carve-up of the Ottoman Empire had enraged the Muslim world.
ECONOMIST: Ever present
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The family considered itself fully assimilated, but after the Nazi annexation of Austria, in 1938, Mischel remembers being taunted in school by the Hitler Youth and watching as his father, hobbled by childhood polio, was forced to limp through the streets in his pajamas.
NEWYORKER: Don��t!