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In 1861 the RHS ( as it had now become ) developed a new garden at South Kensington on land leased from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 ( the Science Museum, Imperial College and the Royal College of Music now occupy the site ), but it was closed in 1882.
In Britain, under the Imperial War Graves Commission, Reverend David Railton had seen a grave marked by a rough cross while serving in the British Army as a chaplain on the Western Front, which bore the pencil-written legend " An Unknown British Soldier ".
Before the end of World War I, he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead.
The museum was originally called the National Air Museum when formed on August 12, 1946 by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, some pieces in the National Air and Space Museum collection date back to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia after which the Chinese Imperial Commission donated a group of kites to the Smithsonian after Smithsonian Secretary Spencer Fullerton Baird convinced exhibiters that shipping them home would be too costly.
The Commission was founded by Fabian Ware and constituted through Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission.
The Imperial War Graves Commission amended its name to its present name in 1960.
In 1915, his work was given official recognition by the Imperial War Office and the unit was transferred to the British Army as the Graves Registration Commission.
The suggestion was accepted and on 21 May 1917 the Imperial War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter, with Edward, Prince of Wales serving as president, Secretary of State for War Lord Derby as chairman and Ware as vice-chairman.
The first fully professional dig was directed by Valentin Alekseevich Zhukovsky of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, in 1890 and published in 1894.
He also created many war cemeteries in Belgium and northern France for the Imperial War Graves Commission.
In September 1918, Holden transferred to the Imperial War Graves Commission ( now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ) with the new rank of major.
A draft bill establishing a court was put forward by the Commission, but it completely excluded appeals to the Privy Council, which reacted critically and prevented any serious attempts to implement the bill in London ( before federation, any laws affecting all the colonies would have to be passed by the British Imperial Parliament in London ).
* On July 20, 2005, the Securities and Exchange Commission “ announced a settled administrative proceeding against Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's ( CIBC ) broker-dealer and financing subsidiaries for their role in facilitating deceptive market timing and late trading of mutual funds by certain customers.
The Commission ordered the subsidiaries, CIBC World Markets Corp. ( World Markets ), a New York based broker-dealer, and Canadian Imperial Holdings Inc. ( CIHI ), to pay $ 125 million, consisting of $ 100 million in disgorgement and $ 25 million in penalties .”
Back on New Caledonia, an Imperial Commission is on the verge of granting colonies to the Moties, not realizing the ultimate danger.
Imperial Inspection Commission was founded, consisting of representatives from administrative bodies and people of proven integrity.
It was occupied by General Suvurov's Russian and Austrian forces, which appointed a provisional administration led by the Imperial Commission of the Mantuan Count Luigi Cocastelli.
There the Imperial Commission decides that ships must be sent to the hitherto ignored star system where the new Alderson point is predicted to appear.
In the west, and in response to the victory there obtained, most of the cities in the countries involved in the conflict erected memorials, with the memorials in smaller villages and towns often listing the names of each local soldier who had been killed in addition ( so far as the decision by the French and British in 1916 to construct governmentally designed cemeteries was concerned ) to their names being recorded on military headstones, often against the will of those directly involved, and without any opportunity of choice in the British Empire ( Imperial War Graves Commission ).
This possibility can perhaps be said to relate to the perhaps rather complicated legal position ( at least up to the First World War and the creation in the United Kingdom of the Imperial War Graves Commission, and as in record from the classical Roman times ) that the bodies of the dead ( and consequently also presumably the commemoration of their names?
Britain and Canada ( whose currency was shared by Newfoundland ) agreed to give the dominion financial aid in exchange for the creation of an Imperial Royal Commission to investigate the dominion's future.
However, the Commission of National Education retained control over the academy until 1803, when Tsar Alexander I of Russia accepted the new statute and renamed it The Imperial University of Vilna ( Императорскiй Виленскiй Университетъ ).

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Of course, if you want to throw all caution to the winds and rent an Imperial or Cadillac limousine just for you and your bride, you'll have a memorable tour, but it won't be cheap, and it is not recommended unless you own a producing oil well or you've had a winner in the Irish Sweepstakes.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
The acre is often used to express areas of land in the United States and in countries where the Imperial System is still in use.
** The Aquila Lander is a light shuttle used by the Imperial Navy
The Sir Alexander Fleming Building on the South Kensington campus was opened in 1998 and is now one of the main preclinical teaching sites of the Imperial College School of Medicine.
Arnulf spent his childhood on the Mosaburch or Mosapurc, which is widely believed to be Moosburg in Carinthia, only a few miles away from one of the Imperial residences, the Carolingian Kaiserpfalz at Karnburg, which before as Krnski grad had been the residence of the Carantanian princes.
There is evidence it was used as early as the Roman Imperial period, and as recently as the American Civil War.
He is buried in tomb 122 in the New Vault of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.
The Imperial high council has lost the political initiative and is powerless to control the Jihad.
This theory also claims there can be only one rightful sovereign ruling all under heaven at a time but throughout Chinese history there have been many contentious and long periods of disunity where the question of legitimacy is moot ; see also Imperial Seal of China.
Part of the Fremen / Atreides strategy is to wait until a sandstorm shorts out the force field shields of the Harkonnen / Imperial transport ships, disable them with projectile weapons, and then attack with a vast assault force, using giant sandworms under cover of the severe weather to break the enemy lines.
Rabban dies in the initial part of the battle ; the Harkonnen army is massacred to the last man and almost all the Imperial Sardaukar are killed.
In the Imperial propaganda from the period, recent history is perverted and minimized in the service of the theme of the Tetrarchs as " restorers ".
The Diet of Nuremberg is often called the Imperial Diet at Nuremberg.
He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state.
The Imperial House of Japan is the oldest continuing hereditary monarchy in the world.
The current Emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito, who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father the Showa Emperor ( Hirohito ) died in 1989.
One of the most famous Imperial coronation ceremonies was that of Napoleon, crowning himself Emperor in the presence of Pope Pius VII ( who had blessed the regalia ), at the Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The painting by Jacques-Louis David | David commemorating the event is equally famous: the gothic cathedral restyled Empire ( style ) | style Empire, supervised by the Letizia Ramolino | mother of the Emperor on the balcony ( a fictional addition, while she had not been present at the ceremony ), the pope positioned near the altar, Napoleon proceeds to crown his then wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress.
Kammu is traditionally venerated at his tomb ; the Imperial Household Agency designates, in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, as the location of Kammu's mausoleum.
Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.
Although there were seven other reigning empresses, their successors were most often selected from amongst the males of the paternal Imperial bloodline, which is why some conservative scholars argue that the women's reigns were temporary and that male-only succession tradition must be maintained in the 21st century.

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