AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Louth Contemporary Music Society invited the US composer Terry Riley to perform in Drogheda in 2007, Arvo Pärt's first Irish commission and visit to the country was in Drogheda in February 2008, Michael Nyman performed in Drogheda in May 2008, John Tavener's Temenos festival was held in October 2008 and the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel was the focus of a portrait concert as part of the Drogheda Arts festival on 1 May 2009.

The US leg of the tour was highlighted by a headline appearance at NEARfest, the world's most prestigious progressive rock festival.

They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours.

Prior to the album's release, the band played festival and headline dates, and supported The Who in Europe through summer 2007, with a US headline tour to follow.

Tiger Army made major festival appearances across the US and Europe in support of their fourth album, titled Music from Regions Beyond.

In 2003, in one of his most famous protests, Kaurismäki boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival as a show of solidarity with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami who was not given a US visa in time for the festival.

Some family members recommended Basinger buy the small town of Braselton, Georgia, some 1691 acres in 1989 for US $ 20 million, to establish as a tourist attraction with movie studios and film festival.

Waterford is home to the largest annual tugboat festival in the Northeast US.

Unlike previous music festivals such as Woodstock, A Gathering of the Tribes, or the US Festival, which were one-time events held in one venue, Lollapalooza was a touring festival that travelled across the United States and Canada.

The 1982 US Festival was the first major festival since California Jam II that was not a charity concert — it was intended to be celebration of evolving technologies ; a marriage of music, computers, television and people.

* The US Festival was mentioned in The Simpsons episode " Homerpalooza ", where Homer says, " There can only be one truly great festival of a lifetime, and it's the US Festival!

* In the comic strip Bloom County, an US Festival was held in Milo's Meadow ; according to Milo et al., the festival got its name " because all the dough goes to us!

The US film ( though drawn from the UK films of both the 1979 and 1981 shows ) used as its title The Secret Policeman's Other Ball – a title that by May 1982 had some resonance in the US marketplace because of the success of the music soundtrack album and media coverage of the film festival screenings.

DEFA films are now enjoying a revival in Germany and the United States: in October 2005 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a two-week DEFA festival, and several titles are now commercially available on DVD from US distributor First Run Features ( see link below ).

The festival has now become a month long event that features the annual Owners and Pennsylvania Day at the Races the Saturday after Labor Day, and a new US $ 300, 000 preliminary event on Labor Day named the Smarty Jones.

The popularity in the US saw them being invited to play at the Woodstock ' 94 anniversary festival, although they were forced to do so without Saleh who had decided to leave the band, necessitating their first line-up change since the beginning of the decade.

The band played its first and only concerts in the US in August 2003, at the annual Progday festival in North Carolina and a couple of other dates.

has given more than 150 performances throughout the US and Europe in various rock and jazz clubs, punk houses, theatres, festival stages, art galleries, record stores and warehouse performance spaces.

As Rawat grew older, he began to take a more active role in the movement and, when he turned sixteen, following the financially disastrous Millennium ' 73 festival, he took administrative control of the US branch.

The whole thing is located at a US missile base called " Pydna ", now decommissioned, which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100 000 m² ( without camping, which takes up more than 1 km² ).

Until Moscow resumed nuclear testing last September 1, the US and UK had released more than twice as much radiation into the atmosphere as the Russians, and the fallout from the earlier blasts is still coming down.

Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

* is the name of three different US warships between 1869 and 1972

The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US $ 100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises.

Every natural-born citizen of a foreign state who is also an American citizen and every natural-born American citizen who is a citizen of a foreign land owes a double allegiance, one to the United States, and one to his homeland ( in the event of an immigrant becoming a citizen of the US ), or to his adopted land ( in the event of an emigrant natural born citizen of the US becoming a citizen of another nation ).

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

As of April 24, 2008, the average monthly salary is 75, 000 drams ( about $ 242 US dollars ).

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

US dollar is used

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

( It is important to note that in the US some states prohibit the use of the word ' Architect ' to be used in any way to describe an unlicensed person who is in the architectural profession.

There is an active trade in the shells, which sell for more than US $ 1, 400 per metric tonne.

Assault in some US jurisdictions is defined more broadly still as any intentional physical contact with another person without their consent ; but in the majority of the United States, and in England and Wales and all other common law jurisdictions in the world, this is defined instead as battery.

The Triumph of Time is also the US title of James Blish's novel A Clash of Cymbals.

A RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 anti-ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh ( CG-67 ) | USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser | Ticonderoga-class cruiser.

Most of the US midwest is on square mile grids for surveying purposes.

Elevated levels of americium were also detected at the crash site of a US B-52 bomber, which carried four hydrogen bombs, in 1968 in Greenland.

Many countries, including some US states, also permit the use of less severe corporal punishment for children in school.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

In total Carnegie funded some 3, 000 libraries, located in 47 US states, and also in Canada, the United Kingdom, what is now the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, the West Indies, and Fiji.

Plans were also made for a new retractable-roof ballpark, Bank One Ballpark, nicknamed the BOB, ( renamed in 2005 to Chase Field ) to be built in an industrial / warehouse district on the southeast edge of downtown Phoenix, one block from the Suns ' America West Arena ( now US Airways Center ).

Solid backs and sides can also contribute to a pleasant sound, although laminated sides and backs are acceptable alternatives, commonly found in mid-level guitars ( in the range of US $ 300 –$ 1000 ).

Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral and central nervous systems ; they include paracetamol ( para-acetylaminophenol, also known in the US as acetaminophen or simply APAP ), the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) such as the salicylates, and opioid drugs such as morphine and opium.

In 1969 it was also released in the US, under the pseudonym " Shannon ", where it was also a minor hit.

" The construction of a missile defense system was also feared to enable the US to attack with a nuclear first strike.

It was also falsely reported that Ms. Musseli sent over US $ 500, 000 to Switzerland, but that was gossip given credence by newspaper items claiming that Loewe had warned his partner to not get romantically involved with a lawyer.

Other US ships with the Mk 41 can also accommodate VL-ASROC.

Anspach is also home to a US Military base.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

There are also a number of acts both in the US ( Johnny Rogers, John Mueller ) and UK ( Marc Robinson, Spencer J etc.

Aid sent by the UN and the US to Central African nations also contained some StarLink corn.

Bartók, who had made some recordings in Hungary, also recorded for Columbia Records after he came to the US ; many of these recordings ( some with Bartók's own spoken introductions ) were later issued on LP and CD ( Bartók 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 2003, 2007, 2008 ).

A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars

Medical devices are regulated and classified ( in the US ) as follows ( see also Regulation ):

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

This demonstration not only was the last JATO performance of the squadron, but also the final JATO profile of the entire US Marine Corps.