In free states, Republican militias-called " Wide Awakes "-sided with abolitionists in sometimes violent confrontations with Federal authorities.

This resulted in the " Stone's Prairie Riot " on August 25, 1860, at which the Republican Party para-military organization, the " Wide Awakes ", confronted armed supporters of the Democratic Party.

Lyon himself had been extensively involved in the St. Louis Wide Awakes, a pro-union paramilitary organization that he intended to arm from the arsenal and muster into the ranks of the federal army.

He personally organized and equipped a force of several thousand Unionist " Home Guards ", drawn from the " Wide Awakes "-the Republican marching clubs of the 1860 campaign.

The Wide Awakes was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party during the United States presidential election of 1860.

In the mid-1850s, an entirely separate group called the " Wide Awakes " existed in New York City.

Wide Awakes Torch Rally ca.

In 1856, across the North, the new Republican party organized young men's marching clubs called " Rocky Mountain Clubs ", " Wide Awakes ", " Freedom Clubs ", and " Bear Clubs " The term " Wide Awakes " became popular in the 1860 campaign.

In Chicago on October 3, 1860, 10, 000 Wide Awakes marched in a three-mile procession.

Each party took unusual pains to mobilize its followers in disciplined political clubs, but the most remarkable of these were the Lincoln " Rail Maulers " and " Wide Awakes ," whose organizations extended throughout the state.

The " Wide Awakes " in particular were well drilled and served as political police in escorting party speakers and in preserving order at public meetings.

The Wide Awakes adopted the image of a large eyeball as their standard banner.

Little is known about the national organization of the Wide Awakes, if indeed any formal governing body existed at all.

Surviving minutes of the Waupun, Wisconsin Wide Awakes chapter restrict membership to males age 18 and older.

Typical Wide Awakes chapters also adopted an unofficial mission statement.

On the way to the rally, the Quincy Wide Awakes passed through Payson, the residents of which had erected a pole with an offensive effigy of Lincoln astride a rail.

The Wide Awakes, however, carried a banner with an equally offensive depiction of a drunken Douglas falling over a pile of rails.

An early confrontation was avoided, with the Wide Awakes proceeding to Stone's Creek.

The Wide Awakes defended the speakers, and a general melee resulted, involving several hundred men.

After the rally, the Wide Awakes returned through Payson, where they found a hundred Democrats guarding their pole.

Although Wide Awakes avoided confrontation, shots were fired at them while leaving town.

The Wide Awakes ' flag was pierced by shots, and several were reported to have been injured.

To the South, the Wide Awakes were only a taste of what was to come if Lincoln were to be elected.

After Lincoln called out all the militia in April 1861, the Republican Wide Awakes, the Democratic " Douglas Invincibles ", and other parade groups volunteered en masse for the Union army.

The Wide Awakes were organized under great secrecy by Congressman Frank Blair, an ally of Abraham Lincoln with powerful connections to the incoming president through his brother Montgomery Blair.

After Lincoln called for Union troops in preparation for the Civil War, Lyon recognized an opportunity to provide the Wide Awakes the arms they desired by mustering them into the Federal army.

Beginning on April 22, 1861, on the orders of President Abraham Lincoln, Lyon mustered in four regiments of Federal Missouri Volunteers ( mostly former members of Republican Party Wide Awake marching clubs ), issuing them weapons drawn form the Arsenal stocks.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

Rich scattering of galaxies was captured using the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG / ESO 2. 2-metre telescope.

The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments ( RFCs ), most notably RFC 2616 ( June 1999 ), which defines HTTP / 1. 1, the version of HTTP in common use.

JPEG / Exif is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices ; along with JPEG / JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the World Wide Web, as evidenced by his WorldWideWeb editor / browser, was close to a peer-to-peer design in that it assumed each user of the web would be an active editor and contributor creating and linking content to form an interlinked web of links.

These standards are usually developed in voluntary consensus standards bodies such as the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business ( UN / CEFACT ), the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, the Telecommunications Industry Association ( TIA ), and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ( OASIS ).

The high data speeds of UMTS are now most often utilised for Internet access: experience in Japan and elsewhere has shown that user demand for video calls is not high, and telco-provided audio / video content has declined in popularity in favour of high-speed access to the World Wide Web — either directly on a handset or connected to a computer via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared or USB.

Image: Image from ESO ’ s La Silla Observatory of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. jpg | Image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG / ESO 2. 2-metre telescope at ESO ’ s La Silla Observatory in Chile.

The 2002 submission of the DAML + OIL language to the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) captures the work done by DAML contractors and the EU / U. S. ad hoc Joint Committee on Markup Languages.

* Wide range of bit rates available ( from 2 kbit / s to 44 kbit / s ).

Hubble Space Telescope | Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 clearly shows the slow evolution of the debris coming from asteroid P / 2010 A2, which is thought to be due to a collision with a smaller asteroid.

Between January and May 2010, Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 took images of an unusual X shape originated in the aftermath of the collision between asteroid P / 2010 A2 with a smaller asteroid.

* ABC Local Radio: Wide Bay 855 AM / 100. 1 FM – due to the terrain of the area, both AM and FM frequencies are used.

Image: Orion Nebula WFI. jpg | Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG / ESO 2. 2-metre telescope.

* Wide range of interfaces including I²C, SPI, USB, USART, A / D, programmable comparators, PWM, LIN, CAN, PSP, and Ethernet

** Blake Chancey, Paul Worley ( producers ), John Guess ( engineer / mixer ) & Dixie Chicks for Wide Open Spaces

Before 2007, players played both offense and defense except for the Quarterback, Kicker, and Offensive Specialist ( Wide Receiver / Running Back combination ) and two Defensive Specialists ( Defensive Backs ).

* LBJ-072 Bright Eyes-I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning CD / LP

It was early enough in the history of the World Wide Web that The New York Times thought it newsworthy to report that Gates was going to " conduct on-line forums to promote the book " and Penguin had created a " Bill Gates web site on the Internet ( http :// www. penguin. com / roadahead ), which will feature information and an audio clip about the book, printed excerpts and quotes from reviews, as well as information about the CD-ROM.

The Wide Receiver / Quarterback relationship of Gino Cappelletti and Babe Parilli was nicknamed " Grand Opera.

In a miraculous feat of strength, Wide receiver / Defensive back Barry Wagner would catch two touchdown passes, get two two-point conversions, recover an onside kick, and made a game-ending tackle.

File: Messier 107. jpg | The globular star cluster Messier 107 image taken by the Wide Field Imager ( WFI ) on the MPG / ESO 2. 2-metre telescope.

* Tom Petty / Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers-" Free Fallin '", " Yer So Bad ", " Learning To Fly ", " Into The Great Wide Open ", " King of the Hill " ( Tom Petty & Roger McGuinn )