The announcement included news of the inactivation of Seventeenth Air Force at Sembach Air Base Germany, transferring its responsibility for overseeing all U. S. Air Force units north of the Alps to Third Air Force.

Seventeenth Air Force was activated on 1 October 2008 to serve as the air component for United States Africa Command and is headquartered at Ramstein Air Base.

* Seventeenth Air Force, Sembach Air Base, West Germany

* Seventeenth Air Force, 15 November 1959

* Seventeenth Air Force, 1 July 1961

* Army components which were to participate in the new operations against Port Moresby included the bulk of the Seventeenth Army ( about six infantry battalions, primarily ); naval forces comprising the Eighth Fleet ; and units built around the 25th Air Regiment.

* 23 March / 24: Joined 6 Corps ( Lt-General Sir Aylmer Haldane ) in Third Army, initially in reserve, then at Ervillers, to defend the line against the German Seventeenth Army ( General Otto von Below ) on the right ( i. e. north ) wing of the " Michael 1 " German Spring Offensive ( Kaiserschlacht ) in the First Battle of the Somme ( 1918 ).

By April 8, 1913, three-fourths of the states had ratified the proposed amendment, making it the Seventeenth Amendment.

* April 8 – The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.

The Khmer Rouge then replaced it with Dap Prampi Mesa Chokchey (" Glorious Seventeenth of April ").

The Seventeenth Amendment, which required direct election, took effect on April 8, 1913.

George Herbert Putnam was born in New York City – “ at 107 East Seventeenth Street ” -- on September 21, 1861, and was the sixth son and tenth child of Victorine and George Palmer Putnam.

The Sixteenth Edition ( October 1905 ) was edited by J. C. DaCosta, and the Seventeenth ( September 1908 ) by DaCosta and E. A. Spitzka.

On September 1, 1863, forces of the Seventeenth Wisconsin led by Brig.

* James R. Jones: The Anglo-Dutch Wars of the Seventeenth Century, Longman House, London / New York 1996, ISBN 0-582-05631-4.

The current system, under the Seventeenth Amendment, allows Governors to appoint a replacement only if their state legislature has previously decided to allow the Governor to do so ; otherwise, the seat must remain vacant until the special election is held to fill the seat, as in the case of a vacancy in the House.

Reformers included William Jennings Bryan, while opponents counted respected figures such as Elihu Root and George Frisbie Hoar amongst their number ; Root cared so strongly about the issue that, after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, he refused to stand for re-election to the Senate.

Several notable films based on stories from Australian literature ( generally with strong rural themes ) were made in Australia in the 1950s-but by British and American production companies, including A Town Like Alice ( 1956 ) which starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch ; The Shiralee ( 1957 ) also starring Peter Finch with Australian actors Charles Tingwell, Bill Kerr and Ed Devereaux in supporting roles ; Roberry Under Arms, again starring Finch in 1957 ; and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1959 ), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and Angela Lansbury ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales with foreign leads Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov but a supporting cast including Australians Chips Rafferty, John Meillon and Leonard Teale.

* The Woodcraft Manual for Boys ; the Seventeenth Birch Bark Roll ( 1918 )

* Perez Zagorin, “ The Court and the Country: A Note on Political Terminology in the Earlier Seventeenth Century ," English Historical Review ( 1962 ) 77 ; 306-11 in JSTOR.

" Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington ", chapter 6 in Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: a Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century, a reissue with a retrospect ( Cambridge: 1987 ; 1957 ); ISBN 0-521-31643-X.

Brownlow was re-elected by a greatly expanded electorate ( with the inclusion of freed slaves ) in 1867 ; he resigned in February 1869 to accept election to the United States Senate by the state legislature, the method used prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

He served from February 27, 1822 to March 3, 1829, during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses ; during the last three sessions, he was the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture.

Lyon was appointed United States factor to the Cherokee Nation in Arkansas Territory in 1820 ; and again attempted to serve in Washington, D. C. when he unsuccessfully contested the election of James W. Bates as a delegate from the Arkansas Territory to the Seventeenth Congress.

He wrote three books on the topic ; The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann, History of Numerical Analysis from the 16th Through the 19th Century and History of the Calculus of Variations from the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century.

2, Esslingen and Paris 1908 ( Reprint: Teaneck, NJ: Somerset House, 1976 ; A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol.

The Sixteenth Men, frustrated by their inability to improve their civilization, decide that their nature is insufficiently advanced to produce a truly perfect community, and create an artificial species, the Seventeenth Men, to succeed them ; however, the Seventeenth Men are " flawed " in some unspecified way, unimagined by the 16th due to their lesser awareness, and last only a short period of time before being replaced by the Eighteenth Men, essentially a more perfect version of their own species.

In the United Kingdom, the House of Lords was composed of life members and hereditary members and reserved solely to the nobility ; similarly, in France, Senators, also with life terms, were named rather than elected ; in the United States, a presidential republic, Senators were chosen by the state legislatures ( until this was modified by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913 ).

The Sykaos Papers, being An Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim in the Seventeenth Galaxy ; of his Mission to the planet Sykaos ; of his First Cruel Captivity ; of his Travels about its Surface ; of the Manners and Customs of its Beastly People ; of his Second Captivity ; and of his Return to Oitar.

* Sullivan, Ceri, ' The Art of Listening in the Seventeenth Century ', Modern Philology 104. 1 ( 2006 ), pp. 34 – 71

This midrash glosses Lamentations 1. 3, " All pursuers overtook her between the straits ," interpreting " straits " as " days of distress "— namely the Seventeenth of Tammuz and the Ninth of Av.

«‘ A king of thine own heart ’: the English Reception of King James VI and I ’ s Basilikon Doron », Seventeenth Century 9, 1 ( 1994 ), p. 1-9.

The Second Congress to Unite Women got under way on May 1 at 7: 00 PM at Intermediate School 70 on West Seventeenth Street in Manhattan.

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article on Field, pp. 300 – 1.

* Blunt, Anthony, " The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in Seventeenth Century France ", Journal of Warburg and Courtauld, October 1937

At the Seventeenth Annual Session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, October 4, 1878, the following action was taken :< ul >

It was effected by the Seventeenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1997, which was approved by referendum on 30 October 1997 and signed into law on the 14 November of the same year.

With the assassination of Park on 26 October 1979, the Republic entered a period of tumult and transition under the short-lived nominal presidency of Choi Kyu-hah, controlled under severe escalating martial law and witnessing the coup d ' état of December Twelfth, the violent unfolding of the Gwangju Democratization Movement and its armed suppression, the coup d ' état of May Seventeenth and presidency of Chun Doo-hwan, and finally the transition to the Fifth Republic under Chun in 1981.

In October 1876, a new school which “ for convenience and comfort will probably have no superior ” was constructed at Seventeenth and Spring Garden Streets.

In 2008, the Third Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Party () initiated a new round of land privatization reforms The resolution reached on the rural land reform, in simplified Chinese can be found at < http :// news. xinhuanet. com / newscenter / 2008-10 / 19 / content_10218932_1. htm >.</ ref >, but these measures were ultimately quite limited, for the transfer and trading of land remains ambiguous and not " officially endorsed and encouraged ".

As an Air Force psychiatrist put it: `` You can't have dry runs on this one ''.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Air Force life is great, the cadet wrote, `` though the fourth-class system is no fun ''.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

In addition, their establishment made it unnecessary to begin publication of a contemplated Air Force medical bulletin.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

and an Air Force of 91 combat wings and 825,000 men.

Basic long-line communications in Alaska are now provided through Federal facilities operated by the Army, Air Force, and Federal Aviation Agency.

A project for the Air Force has been completed in which the NAIR infrared detecting device was developed for area monitoring of noxious or dangerous gases.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has provided financial assistance in the early stages of the Institute's program.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

The Royal Air Force had but a single light anti-aircraft squadron and two balloon units available.

division five, by the Air Force followed by 11 states.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.

The game players saw the Air Force film Monday, ran for 30 minutes, then went in, while the reserves scrimmaged for 45 minutes.

Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will entertain at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force Academy.

A young real estate salesman, Kern first got seriously interested in the problems posed by Communism when in the Navy Air Force.

On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal.