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Nation and Maker
* Return to Innocence: Transitioning of the Nation of Islam, The Sense Maker, Chicago, Illinois, 2007
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times ( 2011 ); 688pp excerpt and text search
* 2011-Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times ; Volume Two: 1867-1891
* Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times ; Volume Two: 1867-1891
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
The stockyards are referred to in Carl Sandburg's poem Chicago: " proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Nation and Sir
* October 17 – Sir Syed Ahmad Khan ( Bahadaur ) Founder of the Two Nation Theory for a future Pakistan ( d. 1898 )
See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.
Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, KCMG, OM, PC, JP ( 22 March 193026 August 2000 ), is regarded as the " Father of the Nation " of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 July 1973.
* England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country-pamphlet attributed to Sir William Coventry
In 1833, he obtained an Act of Parliament, sponsored by Joseph Hume to bequeath the house and collection to the British Nation to be made into a museum of architecture, now the Sir John Soane's Museum.
Many of the character names are either puns ( Bertha van Ation refers to the film Birth of a Nation, Juan Tootrego ) or references to historical personages ( Blake Williams refers to the poet William Blake, Francis Dashwood's name refers to Sir Francis Dashwood ).
She has played important and successful shows at DragonCon amidst an impressive lineup with such luminaries as Sir Patrick Stewart, most recently in 2011, and has also performed with the seminal EBM / synthpop band VNV Nation.
* Cesare Cuttica, Sir Francis Kynaston: The importance of the ‘ Nation ’ for a 17th-century English royalist, History of European Ideas, Volume 32, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 139-161.
That August deputies of the Six Nation brought the news of Sir William Johnson's death.
Sir Lynden is recognised as the Father of the Nation, having led the Bahamas to Majority Rule in 1967 as well as Independence from the United Kingdom in 1973.

Nation and John
now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.
One was his visit as a Boys Nation senator to the White House to meet President John F. Kennedy.
The primarily agrarian Maliseet Nation settled throughout the St. John River and Allagash River valleys of present-day New Brunswick and Maine.
* Wilson, John F. Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History ( 2003 ) 119pp
( 2010 ) "' And bloody England into England gone ': Empire, Monarchy, and Nation in King John ," in Maley and Tudeau-Clayton ( eds ) 2010.
* John of Fordun, Chronicle of the Scottish Nation, ed.
* Laband, John ( 1997 ) " The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation "
Both Thatcherite and Traditionalist Conservatives rebelled over Europe ( and in particular Maastricht ) during John Major's premiership ; and Traditionalist and One Nation MPs united to inflict Margaret Thatcher's only major defeat in Parliament, over Sunday trading.
Journalist John Nichols opined in The Nation that the Koch brothers have provided funding to ALEC for " decades " in a " savage assault on democracy ".
In 1839, as President of the Western Cherokee, Sequoyah signed an Act of Union with John Ross that reunited the two groups of the Cherokee Nation.
* Garraty, John A., The American Nation: A History of the United States, pp. 469, 481, 587.
During the campaign for the 1960 United States presidential election, John F. Kennedy assured the Seneca Nation that he would oppose the dam if elected.
** Muskoday First Nation ( formerly: John Smith First Nation ) – Muskoday, Saskatchewan
In addition, this was also investigated by journalist John Pilger's in his Stealing A Nation documentary that was released in 2004.
The official websites of each band reflect a split between the shared history of Payne's tenure with the band, as the reunited Asia acknowledge only pre-and post-Payne albums, whereas Asia Featuring John Payne claim Payne-era ( 1991 – 2006 ) albums Aqua ( 1991 ) through Silent Nation ( 2004 ) as part of their own discography.
Kennett's profile continued to grow as he became a major commentator on national issues, including urging the new government of John Howard to introduce tax reform, and actively opposing the rise of the One Nation Party of Pauline Hanson.
Jesse Boot, 1st Baron Trent ( 2 June 1850 – 13 June 1931 ) transformed The Boots Company, founded by his father, John Boot, into a national retailer, which branded itself as " Chemists to the Nation ", before he sold out his controlling interest to American investors in 1920.
Prominent temperance leaders in the United States included Bishop James Cannon, Jr., James Black, Ernest Cherrington, Neal S. Dow, Mary Hunt, William E. Johnson ( known as " Pussyfoot " Johnson ), Carrie Nation, Howard Hyde Russell, John St. John, Billy Sunday, Father Mathew, Andrew Volstead and Wayne Wheeler.
In 1842 three of the Young Ireland leaders, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, launched the Nation newspaper.
* La Nation Innu Matimekush-Lac John ( also known as ‘ Innu Nation of Matimekush-Lac John ’, Reserve: Lac John, Matimekosh # 3, ca. 94 ha, Population: 850 )

Nation and .
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation.
Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.
Once many years ago I sat at dinner next to Arthur Train, and the subject of The Nation came up.
When we become firm enough to stand for those ideals which we know to be right, when we become hard enough to refuse to aid nations which do not permit self-determination, when we become strong enough to resist any more drifts towards socialism in our own Nation, when we recognize that our enemy is Communism not war, and when we realize that concessions to Communists do not insure peace or freedom, then, and only then will we no longer be `` soft ''.
The materials for compromise are at hand: The Nation, Walter Lippmann and other sober commentators ( see Alan Clark on p. 367 ) have spelled them out again and again.
You have heard him tell these young people that during his almost 50 years of service in the Congress he has seen the Kaisers and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis, the Tojos and Stalins and Khrushchevs, come and go and that we are passing on to them the freest Nation that mankind has ever known.
He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.
But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.
And Sam Rayburn is a great man -- one who will go down in American history as a truly great leader of the Nation.
I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.
The Merchant Marine is the `` Fourth Arm of Defense '', for a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation.
In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.
Research and development activities undertaken by the Secretary shall be coordinated or conducted jointly with the Department of Defense to the end that developments under this Act which are primarily of a civil nature will contribute to the defense of the Nation and that developments which are primarily of a military nature will, to the greatest practicable extent compatible with military and security requirements, be available to advance the purposes of this Act and to strengthen the civil economy of the Nation.
Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.
The rules and policies to be applied in this process of course must be based on objectives which represent what is to be desired if radio service is to be of maximum use to the Nation.
`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.
One reel -- from eight to twelve minutes -- became the standard length from the year of Robbery, 1903, until Griffith shattered that limit forever with Birth Of A Nation in 1915.
* 1930 – Terry Nation, Welsh novelist and screenwriter ( d. 1997 )
Tahlequah and the Cherokee Nation, Arcadia Publishing.
Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.
Over the years, Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation and Meet the Press She has been a speaker on the topic commercial law of law as well as race and women's rights.

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