According to First Facts, it states that the " gas mask resembling the modern type was patented by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville, Kentucky who received a patent on June 12, 1849.

Based on this they then published Kane's book Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries, and Inventions in the United States in 1933.

Kane then published a supplement called More First Facts in 1935.

The second edition of Famous First Facts was published fifteen years later.

Kane hosted a weekly national radio program called Famous First Facts from 1938 to 1939 on the Mutual Broadcasting System.

First Facts about Breaux Bridge, Louisiana – March 1988 by Kenneth P. Delcambre and Claude J. Kenneson.

The First Complete Documentation of the Facts behind the Legend, are assuming that a more plausible time-frame would be 1086 – 1108, when there were a lot of antipopes, and the reign of the legitimate popes Victor III, Urban II and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since this city was occupied by Emperor Henry IV, and later sacked by the Normans.

* Kane, Joseph, et al., Famous First Facts 5th Edition, New York: Wilson, 1997. p. 455, item 6262, First radio broadcast demonstration ( by Stubblefield, 1892 ).

The # 1 New York Times Best Seller: Intriguing Facts about the 484 books that have been # 1 New York Times Bestsellers Since the First List, 50 years ago.

* A series of articles called Australia's First Films: Facts and Fables Published in Cinema Papers throughout 1994.

* Anzovin, Steven et al., Famous First Facts International Edition, H. W. Wilson Company ( 2000 ), ISBN 0-8242-0958-3.

" Firsts " have been recorded for a long time and are a widely-documented area of study, most particularly in the core library reference work Famous First Facts by Joseph Nathan Kane, first published by H. W. Wilson Company in 1933.

* " Love at First Byte ", 1984 episode of The Facts of Life

* 1861 – Edith Roosevelt, American wife of Theodore Roosevelt, 27th First Lady of the United States ( d. 1948 )

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

* 1860 – Florence Harding, American publisher, 31st First Lady of the United States ( d. 1924 )

* 1938 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor ( The New Christy Minstrels and The First Edition )

* 1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D. C.

Armoured trains saw use during the 19th century in the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ), the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), the First and Second Boer Wars ( 1880 – 81 and 1899 – 1902 ), the First ( 1914 – 1918 ) and Second World Wars ( 1939 – 1945 ) and the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ).

Franklin earned the title of " The First American " for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity ; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin ( 2000 )- excellent long scholarly biography excerpt and text search

The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

* First North American blizzard of 2010

Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).

In addition to battling the armies of other European Empires ( and of its former colonies, the United States, in the American War of 1812 ), in the battle for global supremacy, the British Army fought the Chinese in the First and Second Opium Wars, and the Boxer Rebellion, Māori tribes in the first of the New Zealand Wars, Nawab Shiraj-ud-Daula's forces and British East India Company mutineers in the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the Boers in the First and Second Boer Wars, Irish Fenians in Canada during the Fenian raids and Irish separatists in the Anglo-Irish War.

Codebooks and codebook publishers proliferated, including one run as a front for the American Black Chamber run by Herbert Yardley between the First and Second World Wars.

By the 1980s, several independent publishers, such as Pacific, Eclipse, First, Comico, and Fantagraphics had started releasing a wide range of styles and formats — from color superhero, detective, and science fiction comic books to black-and-white magazine-format stories of Latin American magical realism.

Traditional stories from many Native American, First Nations, and Aboriginal cultures include a deity whose name is translated into English as " Coyote ".

First, Kennedy had explicitly promised the American people less than a month before the crisis that " if Cuba should possess a capacity to carry out offensive actions against the United States ... the United States would act.

Many legal scholars believe that a number of legal cases, in particular Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, established that the use of content-control software in libraries is a violation of the First Amendment.

The Children's Internet Protection Act and the June 2003 case United States v. American Library Association found CIPA constitutional as a condition placed on the receipt of federal funding, stating that First Amendment concerns were dispelled by the law's provision that allowed adult library users to have the filtering software disabled, without having to explain the reasons for their request.

Alexander was awarded the First Gold Medal for Research by the American Institute of Architects in 1972.

Other conservative parties are the National Party of Australia, a sister party of the Liberals, Family First Party, Democratic Labor Party, Shooters Party and the Katter's Australian Party The second largest party in the country, the Australian Labor Party's dominant faction is Labor Right, a socially conservative element.

When the ALP split over conscription during the First World War in 1916, Earle, a pro-conscriptionist, followed Prime Minister Billy Hughes out of the Labor party.

* Joseph P. Goldberg and William T. Moye, The First 100 Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This city has an annual Fall Festival the First weekend after Labor Day, with the KKK Parade ( Koncordia Komical Krew ) held on Friday night.

First multiparty elections held since the 1920s ; 98. 9 percent of voters participated ; Albanian Party of Labor wins over 67 percent of vote for People's Assembly seats ; Albanian Democratic Party wins about 30 percent.

After World War II, Alia resumed his duties in the Communist Youth Organization, and at the First Congress of the Albanian Party of Labor in November 1948, he was elected to its Central Committee and was assigned in the department of agitation and propaganda.

These conferences included the First Day School Conference, the Friends Union for Philanthropic Labor, the Friends Religious Conference, the Friends Educational Conference and the Young Friends Associations.

It struck down several key planks of the Chifley Labor government's reconstruction program, notably an attempt to nationalise the banks in the Bank Nationalisation case ( 1948 ), and an attempt to establish a comprehensive medical benefits scheme in the First Pharmaceutical Benefits case ( 1945 ).

Christian democratic parties in Australia are said to include not only the party called ' The Christian Democratic Party ", but also the Democratic Labor Party ( which is a social democratic party ) and Family First Party ( which is regarded by some as a liberal democratic party ).

A recent example is that of minor party Family First Senator Steve Fielding who, on losing his seat at the 2010 election, threatened to block supply if the Labor Party was successful in forming a minority government.

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* 1909: First statewide use of Hare-Clark voting system elects first Labor government, led by John Earle ; government lasts only one week, with return of conservatives

As a result of his pro-gay statements, the Family First Party – which preferenced Liberal / National Coalition candidates ahead of Labor candidates in almost every other seat, nation-wide – directed their preferences to Labor instead of Entsch.

As of the 2010 election, the upper house consists of eight Labor, seven Liberal, two Green, two Family First, two No Pokies and one Dignity for Disability.

Delegates of First National Convention of the Labor Party, 1919, Chicago, Illinois. The other primary contributing stream to the Farmer – Labor movement was the Labor Party movement.

* James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America New York: Anchor Books, 2006.

First leader of the Australian Labor Party ( Anti-Communist ), a party that became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.

As one of the founders of the Fair Labor Association, whose members include corporations as well as human rights and other public interest organizations, Human Rights First has been criticized by other human rights activists, union leaders and the press for being co-opted by those responsible for human rights abuses.

* " William Bauchop Wilson: First U. S. Secretary of Labor ," www. blossburg. org Retrieved March 6, 2010.