The initials and handle of free software guru Richard Stallman. (He is perhaps better known by his initials than his name.)
An abbreviation for Royal Mail Steamer, for example the RMS Titanic. Different from His/Her Majesties Ship which is a title reserved for commissioned warships, for example HMS Enterprise.
In one
succession of Navigation Acts, beginning about 1650, limited the English
vessels. Even between neighboring English coloniestrade.html">trade was hampered by
Parliament thus to control the trade of the colonies the Americans did not
systematically disregarded: foreign vessels carried freights to and from
(sec. 23; Colonies, secs. 44, 128).
[Sidenote: Social life.]
[Sidenote: Economic conditions.]
Thus, partly from circumstances, and partly by their own design, the
dynasties and of sovereigns or of ministers in England little affected
abundance of land.html">land favored the growth of a yeoman class accustomed to take
discipline, and the community was armed. The distance from England and an
general evenness of social conditions, except that some men held more land
were those of free and independent communities. On the other hand,
indifferent, and travelling was unusual. The people had the boisterous
there were almost no schools, and in New England schools were very poor.
(now Princeton) were the only colleges, and the education which they gave
were few and dull. Except in theology, there was no special instruction
physicians little known. City life did not exist; Philadelphia, Boston,
three industries,--agriculture, the fisheries, and shipping. Tobacco had
New England fishery, employing sixhundred vessels, and the commerce with
were whale products, bread-stuffs, naval stores, masts, and pig-iron.
these products a fleet of at least two hundred vessels was.
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