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• Directory:Oklahoma
  ...titled "Hopes and Dreams," in downtown Perry was created by local sculptor Bill Bennett and placed there on a massive granite pedestal as a Cherokee Strip * Antlers bill itself as "The Deer Capital of the World and gateway to Southeast Oklahoma.
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• University of California Jazz Ensembles
  ...]], Susan Muscarella, <br/>Dave Le Febvre, [[Dave Meros]], Kent Reed,<br/> Bill Aron, Dave Kopf, Cheryl Pyle, <br/>Scott Latham, Nic Ten Broeck Notably, the 1979 European Tour band appeared on the same bill as [[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the 1981 Japan Tour band performed in, among ot
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• Directory:GlobalSecurity.org
  ...S actions could signal Iran conflict, despite White House denials; GOPer's bill requires Congress OK on Iran] By David Edwards and Mike Sheehan <u>The Raw ...ton Globe</u> January 11, 2007 -- Even with the new troops, the overall US force will still not reach its zenith, which was about 160,000 in early 2006. "It
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...ported a bill that raised money for the canal through state bonds, and the bill quickly passed through the legislature with the help of his Tammany Hall co ...d the bank at the same time voting, perhaps with a touch of bravado, for a bill offered in 1836 to subject [[abolition]] literature in the mails to the law
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• Directory:James Madison
  ...nia Declaration of Rights]]), and thus is also known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights".<ref>Wood, 2006b.</ref> As a political theorist, Madison's most ...Patrick Henry and others who sought revisions (such as the [[United States Bill of Rights]]) before its ratification. Madison is often referred to as the "
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• Alaska Airlines Flight 261
  ...pull on their [[Yoke (aircraft)|controls]] with approximately 10 pounds of force to keep level.<ref name="NTSB Final"/> Neither the flight crew, nor company ...together to regain control of the aircraft, and only by exerting a pulling force of 130 to 140 pounds on the controls were the flight crew able to arrest th
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  ...took affront at the Black Codes. Trumbull proposed the first Civil Rights bill. Although strongly urged by moderates in Congress to sign the Civil Rights bill, Johnson broke decisively with them by vetoing it on March 27. His veto mes
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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...r]] made into a popular recording in [[1955 in music|1955]] that knocked [[Bill Haley]]'s "[[Rock Around the Clock|(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock]]" f ...The final verse and chorus were slightly altered by the remains of Hood's force after their crushing defeat at the [[Battle of Nashville]] that December:
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• Directory:John Tyler
  ...ore states south of the line, left the House ready and willing to pass the bill. On March 3, Tyler sent instructions to his representative in Texas, [[Andr ...se an actual insurrection should break out in Rhode Island he would employ force to aid the regular, or Charter, government. He made it clear that federal a
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...seat by the narrow margin of 300 votes, partly due to the unpopular tariff bill and partly due to a [[gerrymander]]. ...y its author to advance the average rate from the 40 percent of the Wilson Bill to approximately 50 percent, or a shade higher than the McKinley rate. As p
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• Directory:Pulp Fiction
  ...ence as an actress in a failed television [[television pilot|pilot]], "Fox Force Five." Mia's character, Raven McCoy, was a knife expert raised by circus pe ...nued in 1983. Fruit Brute also shows up in ''Reservoir Dogs'' and ''[[Kill Bill]]''. The majority of clocks in the movie, especially in the pawnshop, are s
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...ckson, Adams wrote back "Spain must immediately [decide] either to place a force in Florida adequate at once to the protection of her territory ... or cede ...a Convention then met and rescinded its nullification ordinance. The Force Bill became moot because it was no longer needed.
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...ess of the whites to respect treaty agreements led to further war, and the force of George A. Custer was annihilated at the battle of the Little Bighorn in * North Dakota passed a bill in 1987 making English the official state language.
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...itated two years of bitter debate in Congress. The [[Missouri Compromise]] bill resolved the struggle, pairing Missouri as a slave state with [[Maine]], a ...residency in 1801. As governor he considered using the Virginia militia to force the outcome in favor of Jefferson. Federalists responded in kind, some seei
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• Non-referendum Bonds
  ...er, only eight months after the passage of tax caps in Cook County, Senate Bill 368 reinstated NRBs. It allowed taxing districts to effectively re-borrow t ...Crain's Chicago Business read, "Springfield legislators know it as Senate Bill 368. But La Salle Street wags call it the Chapman and Cutler Partners Incom
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  |successor=[[Bill Clinton]] |successor5=[[William Reynolds Archer, Jr.|Bill Archer]]
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...the first permanent settlement at Jamestown (May 13). Virginia was a prime force in the move for independence and was the site of Lord Cornwallis's surrende ...Bartholomew Gosnold, and John Ratcliffe to establish a base, and the tiny force entered Chesapeake Bay in Apr., 1607. On a peninsula in the James River the
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• Directory:Microsoft/Windows Vista
  ...al Edition. By way of the User Account Control feature, company set out to force independent software vendors to make their code more secure, says manager.<
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...War in 1775. Marylanders opposed the Stamp Act, protested the Boston Port Bill by burning a boat and the tea cargo, and attended the First Continental Con With the end of the Civil War, industry quickly revived and became a dominant force in Maryland, both economically and politically. Senator Arthur P. Gorman, a
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...the acts that established his reputation was a veto of the street-cleaning bill passed by the [[Buffalo Common Council|Common Council]].<ref name=street>Ne ...w York State Assembly|Assembly]], said that he had initially voted for the bill believing it was wrong, but wishing to punish the unscrupulous railroad bar
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