Consider what happened during World War 1,, when the Protestant churches united to push the Prohibition law through Congress.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

* Portals to the World from the United States Library of Congress

Alessandri appealed to those who believed the social question should be addressed, to those worried by the decline in nitrate exports during World War I, and to those weary of presidents dominated by Congress.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )

Congress provided funding for shutting the remaining camps down in 1942 with the equipment being reallocated .. It became a model for conservation programs that were implemented in the period after World War II.

* 1939 – Indian Muslims observe a " Day of Deliverance " to celebrate the resignations of members of the Indian National Congress over their not having been consulted over the decision to enter World War II with Britain.

The first World Congress of Esperanto was organized in France in 1905.

After the Great War, there was a proposal for the League of Nations to accept Esperanto as their working language, following a report by Nitobe Inazō, an official delegate of League of Nations during the 13th World Congress of Esperanto in Prague.

The Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe after World War II in response to a call issued by Europeans from all walks of life who had gathered at the Hague Congress ( 1948 ).

After the Spanish Civil War, Francoist Spain persecuted the Anarchists and Catalan nationalists among which Esperanto was extended but in the 1950s, the Esperanto movement was tolerated again with Francisco Franco accepting the honorary patronage of the Madrid World Esperanto Congress.

* 1905: The first Universala Kongreso ( World Congress ) is held in Boulogne-sur-Mer, with 688 participants and conducted entirely in Esperanto.

Every year, Esperanto speakers meet for the World Congress of Esperanto ( Universala Kongreso de Esperanto ).

These attract around 1500-3000 speakers, and the best-attended conferences are regularly those held in Central or Eastern Europe, close to the birthplace of Esperanto ( see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto ).

The Serbian actor Sasha Pilipovic presents his cabaret at the World Esperanto Congress, Rotterdam 2008

* 1983 – A special commission of the U. S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

* 1944 – Ronald Lauder, American philanthropist and president of the World Jewish Congress

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

In 1987 the 50th anniversary of the bombing was commemorated as the town hosted the Preliminary Congress of the World Association of Martyr Cities.

* Tinkov, S., Bekeredjian, R., Winter, G., Coester, C., Polyplex-conjugated microbubbles for enhanced ultrasound targeted gene therapy, 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, 16 – 20 November, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, < http :// www. aapsj. org / abstracts / AM_2008 / AAPS2008-000838. PDF >

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

The federation had external ties with the World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ), the Permanent Congress for Latin American Workers Trade Union Unity ( Congreso Permanente de Unidad Sindical de Trabajadores de América Latina — CPUSTAL ), and the Central American Committee of Trade Union Unity ( Comité de Unidad Sindical de Centroamérica — CUSCA ).

On 21 April, Himmler met with Norbert Masur, a Swedish representative of the World Jewish Congress, to discuss the release of Jewish concentration camp inmates.

Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths.

Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths.

Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths.

* Dag Øistein Endsjø, Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths, Reaktion Books 2011.

" This conviction led him to regret his invasion of Tibet, and eventually, in 1936, to found the World Congress of Faiths ( in imitation of the World Parliament of Religions ).

In July 1942 Younghusband suffered a stroke after addressing a meeting of the World Congress of Faiths in Birmingham.

* Gardner, James: Faiths of the World, A Dictionary All Religions and Religious Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies and Customs, Volume II, Fullerton & Co. ( London and Edinburgh, 1858 ).

On 9 January 2009 a Sunday church service was featured in a BBC documentary Around the World in 80 Faiths.

Islam in a World of Diverse Faiths Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd., 1991.

Suzuki maintained connections in the West and, for instance, delivered a paper at the World Congress of Faiths in 1936, at the University of London ( he was an exchange professor during this year ).

He was a co-founder of the Three Faiths Forum, vice chairman of the World Congress of Faiths and director / trustee of the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism ( FAIR ).

* Endsjø, Dag Øistein, Sex and Religion: Teachings and Taboos in the History of World Faiths, Reaktion Books 2011.

After the war, the ministry focused on building bridges between races and faiths, e. g. with the Jewish community of North London, and was recognised by the World Congress of Faiths.

She was invited by Hodder Headlines to write the book on Islam for the World Faiths section of the famous Teach Yourself series, now in its third edition and a best-seller.

*" The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations " ( World Wisdom, 2003 )

* The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations ( The Perennial Philosophy ), Bloomington, Indiana: World Wisdom Books, 2003

Continuing deficits of anything like this magnitude would, over time, impair our own economic growth and check the forward progress of the Free World.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

In an article he submitted for the medical journal The Lancet during World War I, Fleming described an ingenious experiment, which he was able to conduct as a result of his own glass blowing skills, in which he explained why antiseptics were killing more soldiers than infection itself during World War I. Antiseptics worked well on the surface, but deep wounds tended to shelter anaerobic bacteria from the antiseptic agent, and antiseptics seemed to remove beneficial agents produced that protected the patients in these cases at least as well as they removed bacteria, and did nothing to remove the bacteria that were out of reach.

Although it has previously been assigned to its own genus Alopex, genetic evidence places it in Vulpes ( Mammal Species of the World ) with the majority of the other foxes.

In 1965, Fuller inaugurated the World Design Science Decade ( 1965 to 1975 ) at the meeting of the International Union of Architects in Paris, which was, in his own words, devoted to " applying the principles of science to solving the problems of humanity.

Barge and canal systems were nonetheless of great, perhaps even primary, economic importance until after World War I in Europe, particularly in the more developed nations of the Low Countries, France, Germany, Poland, and especially Great Britain which more or less made the system characteristically its own.

Amateur boxing is an Olympic and Commonwealth sport and is a common fixture in most of the major international games-it also has its own World Championships.

The Beano is so popular that it had its own section of the Chessington World of Adventures theme park, " Beanoland ".

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

Beginning in 1984, women biathletes had their own World Championships, and finally, from 1989, both genders have been participating in joint BWCHs.

More recent authorities maintain their overall position in the order Falconiformes along with the Old World Vultures or place them in their own order, Cathartiformes.

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

In late 19th century through the early 20th century, millions of the outcasts, downtrodden and socially ostracized people from Europe migrated on their own, or transferred as indentured laborers to the New World.

Originally presented with an opportunity to rock out Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World " by their new stereophonic label, the band instead forged ahead to unify their own orchestral-based threads of a day in the life of a common man.

At that time, and even into World War I, the only function of destroyers was to protect their own battle fleet from enemy torpedo attacks and to make such attacks on the battleships of the enemy.

According to the World English Bible translation, Titus 1: 12-13 reads ( in part ) " One of them, a prophet of their own, said, ' Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

The Falkland Islands Radio Service ( FIRS ) operates a radio network in conjunction with the BBC World Service, while the British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS ) operates three networks of its own.

Some, such as Mario Bava's Hercules in the Haunted World ( Italian: Ercole Al Centro Della Terra ) are considered seminal works in their own right.

It has held the annual World Science Fiction Convention since 1939, along with many other events each year, and has created its own jargon, sometimes called " fanspeak ".

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

The Soviet Union and People's Republic of China supported post – World War II anti-colonial national-liberation movements to advance their own interests but were not always successful.

* 1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.