U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell launched the talks on April 3, 2001, and the negotiations continued with mediation by the U. S., Russia, and France until April 6, 2001.

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* On December 15, 1993, Colin Powell was created an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

* The 2002 Liberty Medal was awarded to Colin Powell on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* The Coat of Arms of Colin Powell was granted by the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh on February 4, 2004.

* In 2005 Colin and Alma Powell were awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

* Colin Powell was initiated as an honorary brother in Sigma Phi Epsilon.

* In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Colin Powell on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

* In 2009, an elementary school named for Colin Powell opened in El Paso.

There is also a street in El Paso named for Powell, Colin Powell Drive.

* In 2006, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem awarded Colin Powell with the Truman Peace Prize for his efforts to conduct the " war against terrorism ," through diplomatic as well as military means, and to avert regional and civil conflicts in many parts of the world.

* LaFeber, Walter, " The Rise and Fall of Colin Powell and the Powell Doctrine ," Political Science Quarterly, 124 ( Spring 2009 ), 71 – 93.

* DeYoung, Karen, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

* Colin Powell: America's Best Leaders from US News & World Report

* Colin Powell Quotes

* The American Presidency Project: Remarks on the Retirement of General Colin Powell in Arlington, Virginia, September 30, 1993

* Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies, Ed Pikington, Helen Pidd and Martin Chulov, The Guardian, February 16, 2011

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For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

On the morning of September 10, 1895, Powell and Ross rose at dawn and began their day's work.

He looked around in surprise, then noticed that Fred Powell was clutching his chest.

Powell gasped.

For three straight years, Tom Horn patrolled the southern Wyoming pastures, and how many men he killed after Lewis and Powell ( if he killed Lewis and Powell ) will never be known.

`` Last year your Tennessee Williams told our Dilys Powell, in a television program, that it is the task of the playwright to throw light into the dark corners of the human heart.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

This is softer than earlier Powell amendments which would have denied funds to all segregated school districts.

U.S. Dist. Judge Charles L. Powell denied all motions made by defense attorneys Monday in Portland's insurance fraud trial.

In denying motions for dismissal, Judge Powell stated that mass trials have been upheld as proper in other courts and that `` a person may join a conspiracy without knowing who all of the conspirators are ''.

Attorney Dwight L. Schwab, in behalf of defendant Philip Weinstein, argued there is no evidence linking Weinstein to the conspiracy, but Judge Powell declared this is a matter for the jury to decide.

John Powell, batting for Adair, fanned after fouling off two 2-and-2 pitches, and Buddy Barker, up for Stepanovich, bounced out sharply to Jerry Lumpe at second to end the 2-hour-and-27-minute contest.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

( In the heat of the anti-Colmer drive last week, Judge Smith threatened reprisal against Powell.

The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.

* Powell, Barry B.

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

Andrew Powell appeared as arranger of orchestra ( and often choirs ) on all albums except Vulture Culture, when he was composing the score of Richard Donner's film Ladyhawke.

Powell also composed some material for the first two Project albums.

* 1865 – U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.