Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

He denounced secession as anarchy, and explained that majority rule had to be balanced by constitutional restraints in the American system.

In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1887, the National League and American Association agreed to abide by some uniform rule changes and decreased the number of balls required for a walk to five.

In 1973, the designated hitter ( DH ) rule was adopted by the American League, while in the National League pitchers still bat for themselves to this day.

This colony was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.

Following the 1947 season, the American League countered with a rule change that fixed the distance of an outfield wall for the duration of a season.

* Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain

See American rule.

Under American football's tuck rule, if the quarterback is attempting to bring the ball back to his body after starting a passing motion, a lost ball may be considered an incomplete pass even if the quarterback's arm is moving backward at the time.

Spain ruled the Islands from Buenos Aires until 1811, withdrawing due to the pressures of the Peninsular war against Bonapartist rule at home and the moves toward independence by her South American colonies.

The rule adopted by a committee for American football in 1880 first provided for the uncontested right of one side to play the ball by foot ( in any direction ) for a scrimmage.

Beginning regionally again and universally by 1923, the Burnside rules led to the 3-man scrimmage being reduced to the centre alone, the number of players on the field being reduced commensurately from 14 to 12, and a snap rule and neutral zone similar to that of American football was adopted.

The history of Guam involves phases including the early arrival of people known today as the ancient Chamorros, the development of " pre-contact " society, Spanish colonization, and the present American rule of the island.

It was a measure of his powers of persuasion that he managed to coax the 77-year-old Astaire – who had insisted that his contract rule out any dancing, having long since retired – into performing a series of song and dance duets, evoking a powerful nostalgia for the glory days of the American musical film.

A mnemonic used by the American Diabetes Association and others is the " rule of 15 "-consuming 15 grams of carbohydrate followed by a 15 minute wait, repeated if glucose remains low ( variable by individual, sometimes 70 mg / dl ).

The history of Guam involves phases including the early arrival of people known today as the ancient Chamorros, the development of " pre-contact " society, Spanish colonization, and the present American rule of the island.

The M ' Naghten rule was embraced with almost no modification by American courts and legislatures for more than 100 years, until the mid-20th century.

In 1920, Judge Landis was a leading candidate when American League and National League team owners, embarrassed by the Black Sox scandal and other instances of players throwing games, sought someone to rule over baseball.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

This rule was created to prevent market over-saturation, which had contributed to the North American video game crash of 1983.

Honduras and other Central American countries united to drive him out of Nicaragua in 1857, after which a period of three decades of Conservative rule ensued.

American support for the long rule of the Somoza family had soured relations, and the FSLN government was committed to a Marxist ideology, with many of the leading Sandinista continuing long-standing relationships with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Like Heinlein in " Solution Unsatisfactory ", Anderson assumed that the imposition of an American military rule over the rest of the world would necessarily entail the destruction of American democracy and the imposition of a harsh tyrannical rule over the United States ' own citizens.

* 1914 – A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.

Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.

These sets were expanded in 1963 to 7 bits of coding, called the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) as the Federal Information Processing Standard which replaced the incompatible teleprinter codes in use by different branches of the U. S. government.

" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.

) Viewers via home antenna who receive both American and Canadian networks on their personal sets are not affected by sim-sub.

Most American television sets are cable-ready and have a television tuner capable of receiving older analog cable TV ( UK televisions are set up to receive Freeview digital terrestrial broadcasting ).

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

Many specialized FBI functions are located at facilities in Quantico, Virginia, as well as a " data campus " in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where 96 million sets of fingerprints " from across the United States are stored, along with others collected by American authorities from prisoners in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan.

* 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.

* 1971 – Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

American philosopher Roderick M. Chisholm in his Theory of Knowledge details the problem of the criterion with two sets of questions:

RCA cameras and studio gear, particularly of the TK-40 / 41 series, became standard equipment at many American television network affiliates, as RCA CT-100 (" RCA Merrill " to dealers ) television sets introduced color television to the public.

Approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in roughly one-third of American homes.

* April 30 – Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76, 229 persons attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.

* November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U. S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45, 000 American troops from Vietnam.

* December 30 – The first colour television sets go on sale for about $ 1, 175 ( American dollars ).

* July – Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison.

* May 22 – The first major wagon train headed for the American Northwest sets out with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri on the Oregon Trail.

< imagemap > File: 2nd millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: In 1492, Christopher Columbus ; The American Revolution ; The French Revolution ; The Atomic Bomb from World War II ; An alternate source of light, the Light Bulb ; For the first time, a human being sets foot on the moon in 1969 during the Apollo 11 moon mission ; Aeroplanes become the most-used way of transport though the skies ; Napoleon Bonaparte, in the early 19th century, affects France and Europe on subjects of expansionism and modernization ; Alexander Graham Bell's telephone ; In 1348, the Black Death kills over 100 million people worldwide, and over half of Europe, in two years.

* 1962-Organization of American States ( OAS ) excludes Cuba, sets up trade embargo ; dropped in 1975.

Feridun Zaimoglu, one of Germany ’ s leading literary figures, describes the Turkish most hip hop artists employ as ‘ Kanak Sprak .’ ‘ Kanak Sprak ’ makes a direct reference to local racism in Germany This creolized Turkish-German spoken by the disenfranchised youth of the hip-hop generation is characterized as sentences without commas, full stops, capital letters, and any kind of punctuation as well as frequent switches between Turkish and German Kanak Sprak alone, without even delving into the lyrics, sets Turkish hip hop apart from pure imitation of American music and makes it more meaningful for its Turkish listeners.

American manufacturer Zenith continued to use point-to-point wiring in its tube-based television sets until the early 1970s.

These rules have evolved into two separate sets: American parliamentary procedure as generally followed in the United States ; and Westminster parliamentary procedure, followed in several Commonwealth countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa.

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O ' Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor.