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Ms. Figueres, who often leads difficult climate change talks, will succeed Yvo de Boer as executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"Meeting representatives of business in the past 10 days, I've been asking them to step up to the plate and invest in low-carbon technologies," said Christiana Figueres, who succeeded Mr. de Boer as the U.N. climate chief.

But others noted that, although the international system might have been at fault for Copenhagen's failures, some rancor was inevitably directed at Mr. de Boer, as the United Nations' central representative, and it probably speeded his departure.

The software uses the GAB equation developed by Guggenheim, Anderson and de Boer as described by Timmerman (Waterman 2009) to simulate the water sorption isotherm.

Tottenham had been linked with bringing in Ajax coach Frank de Boer as their new manager but have instead opted for Pochettino.

On 30 May 1940, inspired by childhood recollections of similar Boer forces as well as experiences during the Arab uprising in Palestine, Clarke sketched out an idea for small amphibious raiding parties, called Commandos.

(Athol Fugard's plays are a good antidote for this simplification, while Mandela's moral greatness was to see, and say, that the Boers were as much South Africans as the Xhosa).

Few Boers were as conciliatory as Kruger, however; Meintjes marks this as "the point where the rift between the Transvaalers and the uitlanders began".

Meanwhile, in Natal, Andries Pretorius defeated more than 10,000 of Dingane's Zulus at the Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838, a date subsequently marked by the Boers as Dingaansdag ("Dingane's Day") or the Day of the Vow.

Diamonds had been discovered in Griqua territory just north of the Orange River on the western edge of the Free State, arousing the interest of Britain and other countries, and mostly British settlers, referred to by the Boers as uitlanders ("out-landers"), were flooding into the region.

Europeans preserved the balance of power, and the British fleet protected trade, while America criticised military adventures, such as the Boer war, as immoral.