As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

Civil defense ( Civil defence ), ( see spelling differences ) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state ( generally non-combatants ) from military attack.

In a few countries such as Jordan and Singapore ( see Singapore Civil Defence Force ), civil defense is essentially the same organisation as the fire brigade.

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In the United States, Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and similar state rules require that an attorney perform a due diligence investigation concerning the factual basis for any claim or defense.

In response to the bloody suppression of this rebellion Marx wrote one of his most famous pamphlets, The Civil War in France, a defense of the Commune.

Under the United States Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, laches is an affirmative defense, which means that the burden of asserting laches is on the party responding to the claim to which it applies.

During the battle, Grant attempted to break through Lee's line of defense at the Mule Shoe, which resulted in one of the most violent assaults during the Civil War, known as The Battle of the Bloody Angle.

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Two of his foster brothers served as major generals in the Union Army during the Civil War: Hugh Boyle Ewing, later an ambassador and author, and Thomas Ewing, Jr., who would serve as defense attorney in the military trials against the Lincoln conspirators.

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The minister for national defense, acting in cooperation with the minister for interior, coordinates the work of the four major committees under the National Defense Council: the Military Defense Committee ; the Civil Defense Committee ; the Economic Defense Committee ; and the Psychological Defense Committee.

An example would be during the Earth Alliance Civil War on the television series Babylon 5, whereby the loyalist forces used orbital planetary defense platforms to defend Earth from the separatist forces.

In 1861, Fort Jackson served as an important Confederate defense for the city of New Orleans during the Civil War because it was at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

During the American Civil War, Spanish Fort was heavily fortified as an eastern defense to the city of Mobile.

During this period, Beauregard promoted innovative naval defense strategies, such as early experimentation with submarines, naval mines ( called " torpedoes " in the Civil War ), and with a small vessel called a torpedo-ram.

During the American Civil War, Fort Lincoln ( later known as Fort Osaga and Fort Fulton ) was built and operated near Fulton as part of the Fort Scott defense, mostly as a prisoner-of-war camp.

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Before the Second World War, air raid sirens were placed on the Municipal Buildings, and the local Civil Defence Headquarters were based in a single storey building, to the rear of the car park.

Particularly, he frequently expressed opposition to Civil Defense, going to such lengths as encouraging readers to turn on their lights in defiance to air raid sirens.

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On 15 February every year at 12 noon, the Singapore Civil Defence Force ( SCDF ) would sound the Important Message Signal via the island-wide Public Warning System ( PWS ) sirens.

At 1205 hours, the Singapore Civil Defence Force ( SCDF ) will sound the Important Message Signal through the island-wide Public Warning System ( PWS ) sirens.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

He served with seven officers during the Civil War and believed they tricked him into pulling guard duty when his accident occurred.

In 1652, during the third English Civil War, the Parliamentary garrison responded to the proximity of Charles II's forces by pulling down these defences as well and retreating to New College instead, causing great damage to the college in the process.

File: Alfred A. Stratton. jpg | Alfred A. Stratton, an American Civil War veteran and double amputee

In addition to his famous works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common and the outstanding grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals John A. Logan, atop a tumulus in Chicago, 1894 – 97, and William Tecumseh Sherman, at the corner of New York's Central Park, 1892 – 1903, Saint-Gaudens also maintained an interest in numismatics and designed the $ 20 " double eagle " gold piece, for the US Mint in 1905 – 1907, still considered the most beautiful American coin ever issued as well as the $ 10 " Indian Head " gold eagle, both of which were minted from 1907 until 1933.

In June 2010 American philosopher and theorist Judith Butler refused the Civil Courage Award ( Zivilcouragepreis ) of the Christopher Street Day Parade in Berlin, Germany at the award ceremony, arguing and lamenting in a speech that the parade had become too commercial, and was ignoring the problems of racism and the double discrimination facing homosexual or transsexual migrants.

On April 12, 1865, just days after the last major battle of the Civil War, a Confederate double agent named Godfrey Joseph Hyams approached the U. S. consul in Toronto claiming to have information about a plot by Blackburn to infect Northern cities with yellow fever.

1998: Oregon State prevails in double overtime ( the first ever overtime Civil War ), 44-41.

This film, a Civil War period piece, was intended as an experiment to determine if Roach could move Our Gang into features, as the double feature and block booking were slowly smothering his short subjects production.

Enlisted USMC personnel received a double breasted version with red piping worn with a leather stock and shako to reflect their status as an elite unit, although infantry soldiers continued to be issued the 1833 pattern shell jacket until the M1858 uniform, complete with French style kepi, entered service shortly before the US Civil War.

Sir Richard Willis, 1st Baronet ( sometimes spelt ' Willys ') ( 13 January 1614 – December 1690 ) was a Royalist officer during the English Civil War, and a double agent working for the Parliamentarians during the Interregnum.

He graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington, with a degree in Mathematics and double minors in Civil Engineering and Computer Programming.

The double L in the abbreviation refers to the early practice in the University of Cambridge to teach both Canon Law and Civil Law, the double L indicating the plural, Doctor of both laws.

The most recent one is the double degree in Civil Engineering with the University of Tongi China ( May 2008 ): students can achieve a Master in Civil Engineering and the two year Master course in Civil Engineering in Trento.

It is a legal concept originating in Roman Civil Law, but it is essentially the double jeopardy ( autrefois acquit ) clause found in common law jurisdictions.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights guarantees the right to be free from double jeopardy ; however, it does not apply to prosecutions by two different sovereigns ( unless the relevant extradition treaty expresses a prohibition ).

Sam Nixon across a double episode Special in The Bill ; and Leighton Peters, a top Civil Servant who was responsible for the downfall of Anthony Calf's regular in a double episode of Holby City.