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• Directory:Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc.
  ...which gains international attention through its flagship event, the annual Governor's Ball following the Oscars; and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc., the corpora ...ensive catering business, including the high-profile annual Academy Awards Governor's Ball. Wolfgang Puck Worldwide handled the casual dining restaurants, and
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• Directory:Japan
  ...cities, towns, and villages. Each prefecture is led by a directly elected governor and a single-chamber parliament.
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...be said to have really begun in 1741, when Benning Wentworth became royal governor of New Hampshire. According to his commission New Hampshire extended west a ...George Clinton of New York (father of Sir Henry Clinton) promptly informed Governor Wentworth that he had no authority to make such a grant. Wentworth thereupo
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...he United States]]. He served as the first [[Governor of Indiana Territory|Governor]] of the [[Indiana Territory]] and later as a [[United States House of Repr ...leves Symmes]]. His stepmother-in-law was the daughter of [[New Jersey]] [[Governor]] [[William Livingston]]. He was the first cousin of [[Burwell Bassett]] on
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | order4=16th [[Governor of Virginia]] | order5=12th [[Governor of Virginia]]
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...sailed into the bay. Argall named one of the capes Cape La Warre after the governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Baron De la Warr. ...a for that country. The best known of these was Peter Minuit, who had been governor of New Amsterdam (later New York). In 1637–38 Minuit directed the coloniz
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• Cybernetics
  ...946;ερνήτης (''kybernetes'', steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder — the same root as the word ''government''). It is ...[[The Laws]] to signify the governance of people. The words govern and [[governor]] are also derived from the same Greek root.
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...govern both colonies until 1741, when Benning Wentworth was made the first governor of New Hampshire alone. Under King George II New Hampshire returned to its provincial status with a governor of its own, Benning Wentworth, who was its chief magistrate from 1741 to 17
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...their descendants, who commissioned colonial officials and authorized the governor and his council to grant lands in the name of the Lords Proprietors. ...y and council, the governor of Carolina resided in Charleston and a deputy governor appointed for North Carolina.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...ates South of the River Ohio (Southwest Territory), with William Blount as governor. This act disposed of various schemes to place the area under the control o ...tion so divided the Democratic party that in 1910 a Republican was elected governor for the first time since 1880. In World War I the thousands of Tennessean v
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• Directory:Maine
  ...minent Bath merchant and shipbuilder who subsequently became Maine's first governor. ...as the 23rd state under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and Long its first governor.. This arrangement allowed Maine to join the Union as a free state, with Mi
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• Directory:Jeffery D. Stein
  *Governor, International Council for Computer Communications
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• December 9
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...nd formed the restored government of Virginia, with Francis H. Pierpont as governor. ...ion that a state consent to its own division. Pierpont continued to act as governor of occupied Virginia throughout the war.
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• Directory:Australia
  ...rty or leader of a majority coalition is sworn in as prime minister by the governor general ...High Court (the chief justice and six other justices are appointed by the governor general)
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | title5=[[Governor of Tennessee]] ...[War Democrat]] from the South. In 1862 Lincoln appointed Johnson military governor of Tennessee, where he proved energetic and effective in fighting the rebel
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...but as they were about to abandon the colony in June, 1610, his superior, Governor Thomas West, Baron De la Warr, ordered them to reoccupy Jamestown. Although ...known as colonies or hundreds. In 1619, at the instruction of the company, Governor George Yeardley provided additional incentives to settlers by forming a hou
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• Oak Park Hall of Fame
  ...earcher*<br/>Col. Dr. John Kark, military AIDS researcher<br/>Otto Kerner, governor of Illinois<br/>Dr. Joseph Kerwin, NASA physician on Skylab<br/>Paul Kiesge
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• The Oak Park Hall of Fame
  ...earcher*<br/>Col. Dr. John Kark, military AIDS researcher<br/>Otto Kerner, governor of Illinois<br/>Dr. Joseph Kerwin, NASA physician on Skylab<br/>Paul Kiesge
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...in North Dakota, a fusion with the Democrats elected Honest John Burke as governor for three terms (1906–12). ...e in 1934, although the conviction was later reversed. Langer again became governor in 1936, running as an individual candidate and not on the ticket of either
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