Please note that as the State of the Onion speeches are often primarily based on visual humour, the transcripts may seem confusing or nonsensical.

Pound is the site of Red Onion State Prison, a supermax state prison that has been a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Corrections since August 1998 and is an identical twin facility to Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap.

Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.

* OSCON has been the host to Larry Wall's State of the Onion keynotes.

The Perl 6 design process was first announced on July 19, 2000, on the fourth day of that year's Perl Conference, by Larry Wall in his State of the Onion 2000 talk.

Held in the spring, the event affords members the opportunity to hear the " State of the Onion " address by the Lorde Mayor, celebrate the history of the society, and hear one or more addresses by guest speakers ( usually Baylor faculty ) and neophyte members.

Other supermax prisons that have gained notoriety for their harsh conditions and attendant litigation by inmates and advocates are the former Boscobel ( in Wisconsin ), now named the Wisconsin Secure Program Facility, Red Onion State Prison ( in Western Virginia, the twin to Wallens Ridge State Prison ), Tamms ( in Illinois ), and the Ohio State Penitentiary.

** Red Onion State Prison-Wise County, Virginia

H2K2 included two tracks of scheduled speakers, with a third track reserved for last-minute and self-scheduled speakers, a movie room, retrocomputing, musical performances, a State of the World Address by Jello Biafra, keynotes by Aaron McGruder and Siva Vaidhyanathan and discussions on the DMCA and DeCSS.

The building was dedicated in 2007 as part of the Center's twentieth anniversary celebrations, which included keynotes by former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen.

In 1997, a team of researchers led by John Gustafson from Ames Laboratory ( located on the Iowa State campus ) finished building a working replica of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer at a cost of $ 350, 000.

* Warren Treadgold ( 1997 ), A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford Universwity Press, pp. 612 – 29.

* Treadgold, Warren, A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford University Press, 1997

Juneau, AK: Alaska State Museums, Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, 1997.

Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud as US president Clinton waves during the State of the Union address in 1997.

In the January 1997 State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide coverage to up to five million children.

Senators Ted Kennedy – a Democrat – and Orrin Hatch – a Republican – teamed up with Hillary Rodham Clinton and her staff in 1997, and succeeded in passing legislation forming the State Children's Health Insurance Program ( SCHIP ), the largest ( successful ) health care reform in the years of the Clinton Presidency.

The framework for the Union of Russia and Belarus was set out in the Treaty On the Formation of a Community of Russia and Belarus ( 1996 ), the Treaty on Russia-Belarus Union, the Union Charter ( 1997 ), and the Treaty of the Formation of a Union State ( 1999 ).

In 1997 General Krulak became a Life Member of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of California.

Following the return of the Labour Party to government in 1997, Dewar became the Secretary of State for Scotland and campaigned for a ' Yes-Yes ' vote in the successful referendum on Scottish devolution.

Affairs of State ( 1997 ), by leading scholar

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

In a letter dated 13 January 1997, the Department of State advised the other agencies of the Executive branch that it considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be one area for political, economic, legal and other purposes.

After the 1997 season ( when Bloomington North won the final single-class State Championship ), the IHSAA controversially did away with the single-class system, ending the run of single-class champions in Indiana.

Doctoral thesis University of the Orange Free State 1997, Dutch, pdf )

* 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.

In 13 November 1997, Liz O ' Donnell ( Irish Minister for State ) spoke about the relationship between the two nations and Ireland's future commitment towards Lesotho.

* Jimi Peters, ' The Nigerian Military and the State ,' 1997, ISBN 1-85043-874-9

* Treadgold, Warren, A History of the Byzantine State and Society ( 1997 )

* Treadgold, Warren, A History of the Byzantine State and Society ( 1997 )

* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern May 7 – 12, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8071-2136-3.

The US State Department at times labeled Serbia and Montenegro as a rogue state solely because Slobodan Milosevic, who served as President of Serbia between the years 1989 and 1997, had violated the rights of some of his nation's citizens.

Previous apologies had been offered by State and Territory governments in the period 1997 – 2001.

* Apologies by State and Territory Parliaments ( 1997 – 2001 )

The AFL turned its focus for representation to an annual International Rules Series against Ireland in 1998 before abolishing State of Origin in 1999.

In Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address, he warned Congress of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's possible pursuit of nuclear weapons:

The areas of Lochnagar and Ballochbuie were designated in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Scotland as Special Protection Areas ( SPA ) under the European Union ( EU ) Birds Directive.

( eds ), Comparative Corporate Governance: The State of the Art and Emerging Research ( Clarendon 1998 )

* 1998 – 2002: Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas

Wayne State University Press, 1998. pp. 40 – 53.

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

* Kenneth Bendiner, The Art of Ford Madox Brown, ( University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1998 )

" A Policy Framework for Developing a National Nanotechnology Program ", Master of Science thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998, available at Digital Library and Archives

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

He also co-starred with Will Smith in the 1998 film Enemy of the State, where his character was reminiscent of the one from The Conversation.

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20-40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani.

He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1998 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played Will Smith's stalwart antagonist from the NSA.

The first attempt at underwater exploration of the North Pole was made by a Russian firefighter and diver Andrei Rozhkov with a support of Diving Club of Moscow State University on April 22, 1998 but ended in fatality.

After he was sentenced on June 4, 1998 to life without parole, the State of Oklahoma in 2000 sought a death-penalty conviction on 161 counts of first-degree murder ( 160 non-federal agent victims and one fetus ).

State Street Bank v. Signature Financial Group is the landmark case in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled ( July 23, 1998 ) that a computer algorithm can be patented to the extent that it produces " a useful, concrete and tangible result ".

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20 – 40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani.

* State of the World 1998 ISBN 0-393-31727-7

On 9 January 1998, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, paid a surprise visit to the prison to talk to members of the Ulster Defence Association / Ulster Freedom Fighters ( UDA / UFF ) including Johnny Adair, Sam McCrory and Michael Stone.

* Gascoigne, John ( 1998 ) Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, The British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution.

* Enemy of the State ( 1998 )

* MV Chinook, a passenger ferry in Washington State built in 1998

* Eliza Marian Butler Ritual Magic, University Park, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1949 ; Reprint 1998

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998.