In 1947, RCA-Victor developed and released the first 45 rpm record to the public, to compete with CBS / Columbia's 33⅓ rpm " LP ".

Two of the District of Columbia's original 1791 boundary stones ( see: Boundary Stones ( District of Columbia )) are located in public parks on the boundary between the City of Falls Church and Arlington County.

In 1949, RCA-Victor developed and released the first 45 rpm record to the public, answering CBS / Columbia's 33⅓ rpm " LP.

He also won a de facto segregation case regarding the District of Columbia's public schools and " disinterred, singlehandedly " the concept of federal removal jurisdiction in the 1960s.

Bolling v. Sharpe, 347 U. S. 497 ( 1954 ), is a landmark United States Supreme Court case which deals with civil rights, specifically, segregation in the District of Columbia's public schools.

The process of finding qualified individuals begins with submissions from the public to the Order of British Columbia's advisory council, which consists of the Chief Justice of British Columbia, who serves as the Chair ; the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly ; a president, in turn, of one of British Columbia's public universities, for a two-year term ; the President of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities ; the Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Relations ; and two Members of the order.

Under her leadership in the 1970s as the District of Columbia's first female poundmaster, legislation was passed to create the first spay / neuter clinic in Washington, D. C., as well as an adoption program and the public funding of veterinary services, leading her to be among those chosen in 1980 as Washingtonians of the Year.

He also edited Columbia's series in history, economics, and public law from 1890.

Knowledge is British Columbia's public educational broadcaster and is required to be distributed as part of the basic cable service in British Columbia.

The head of the search committee, Professor Michael C. Dorf, has noted in interviews that several of Columbia's rival schools had recently appointed new and " relatively … young " deans.

British Columbia's rugged coastline stretches for more than, and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited.

The Chief Joseph Dam and several dams on the Columbia's tributaries entirely block migration, and there are no migrating fish on the river above these dams.

The Mississippi and Nelson watersheds are separated by the Laurentian Divide, which meets the Continental Divide at Triple Divide Peak near the headwaters of the Columbia's Flathead River tributary.

Columbia's hospitals and supporting facilities are a large referral center for the state, and medical related trips to Columbia are common.

As of 2011, 2, 590, 921 people ( 59 % of British Columbia's total population ), lived in the region ; sixteen of the province's thirty most populous municipalities are located there.

Most of Columbia's neighborhoods contain single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and apartments, though some are more exclusive than others.

The primary landforms in Columbia are rolling hills and stream valleys ; Columbia's road network is laid out to follow the terrain, with many winding streets and cul-de-sacs.

Because the Coast Mountains are just east of the Pacific Ocean, they have a profound effect on British Columbia's climate by forcing moisture-laden air off the Pacific Ocean to rise, dropping heavy rainfalls on the western slopes where lush forests exist.

It turned out that under Columbia's concordat with the Holy See, members of the clergy could only be investigated by ecclesiastical courts which are ruled by canon law, and that the Bishops were therefore immune from investigation by the civil authorities on what many in Columbia considered to be a serious felony.

Some of the largest expanses of old growth are found in Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Tongass National Forest, Mount St. Helens National Monument, Redwood National Park, and throughout British Columbia ( including British Columbia's Coastal Mountain Ranges ), with the coastal Great Bear Rainforest containing the largest expanses of old growth temperate rainforest found in the world.

Columbia's most well-known games are block wargames.

A list of admissions requirements and procedures is available from the General Studies website and statistics on application, admission, and matriculation are available at the website of Columbia's Office of Planning and Institutional Research.

Most of British Columbia's 94, 000 Filipinos reside in the Greater Vancouver Area where the jobs are concentrated.

The books are integrated into the main Columbia collection, but there is an archive of ATF materials as well in Columbia's special collections.

Columbia's output is owned by Sony through Sony Pictures Television, the films of 20th Century Fox ( owned by the News Corporation ), are handled for television by 20th Television, and Walt Disney Productions ( owned by The Walt Disney Company ) has their output handled for television by Disney-ABC Domestic Television.

* The Broughton Archipelago, Broughton Island and Broughton Strait in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Strait region are named for Lieutenant Broughton.

* British Columbia Medical Guidelines-In Canada, British Columbia's guidelines and protocols are developed under the direction of the Guidelines and Protocols Advisory Committee ( GPAC ), jointly sponsored by the B. C.

Coincidentally, Columbia's current parent company Sony Pictures Entertainment currently owns some of MGM, although the US rights to this film are now with Warner Bros ./ Turner Entertainment.

He also co-authored a book with his grandmother titled, There are Survivors: The Michael Cuccione Story about his experiences battling cancer ; his effort eventually raised C $ 500, 000, which was donated to the British Columbia's Children's Hospital.

The films are highly typical of Columbia's B product of the 1940s, with an assortment of veteran character actors ( including Clarence Muse, Marvin Miller, George Lloyd, Byron Foulger ), new faces on the way up ( Larry Parks, Dorothy Malone, Nina Foch, Forrest Tucker, Lloyd Bridges ) and stock-company players familiar from Columbia's features, serials, and short subjects ( Kenneth MacDonald, George McKay, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell ).

The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services ( DYRS ) is the District of Columbia's head juvenile justice agency and is responsible for placing DC community youth who are in its oversight in detention, commitment, and aftercare programs.

Télé-Québec is equivalent to Ontario's TVOntario and TFO, British Columbia's Knowledge and Saskatchewan's SCN, and similar to the US PBS network, in that it is somewhat modest in scope, runs mostly educational or cultural programming, and does not try to compete with privately owned television networks or with the Radio-Canada television network owned and operated by the federal government.

Columbia's short-subject department operated two units, one headed by Jules White, the other by Hugh McCollum.

YSC is operated by DYRS as the District of Columbia's secure juvenile detention center, which was opened in 2004.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

British Columbia's geography is epitomized by the variety and intensity of its physical relief, which has defined patterns of Human settlement | settlement and industry since colonization.

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

The first was Columbia's proposed gymnasium in neighboring Morningside Park ; this was seen by the protesters to be an act of aggression aimed at the black residents of neighboring Harlem.

The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

System and its Creator Melville Dewey by University of British Columbia's mission, the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

The ensuing celebration is soon interrupted by Eddie, an ex-delivery boy, partial brain donor to Rocky, and Columbia's lover, who rides out of a deep freeze on a motorcycle.

* Ric Careless, one of British Columbia's leaders in wilderness preservation, named Environmentalist of the Year ( 1991 ) by Equinox Magazine and River Conservationist of the Year ( 1993 ) by American Rivers

* March 2 – Recording sessions for the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

* April 22 – Recording sessions for the influential jazz album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis take place at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City.

For 2011, national rankings of Columbia's MBA program include # 5 by Forbes, # 9 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and # 8 by U. S. News and World Report.

To achieve the goals set forth by the Work Group, Columbia's Master Plan called for a series of ten self-contained villages, around which day-to-day life would revolve.

In March 2008, the Chemainus First Nation proposed renaming the strait the " Salish Sea ", an idea that reportedly met with approval by British Columbia's Aboriginal Relations Minister Mike de Jong, who pledged to put it before the B. C.

* the southeastern Alaska Panhandle was leased from the Russian Empire, from 1839 to 1867, until the lease was ignored by both the Russians and Americans and, subsequently, by the Canadian and the British imperial governments, despite British Columbia's protests.

The cancellation was confirmed in 1995 by the federal government's " war on the deficit " and British Columbia's subsequent highway capital spending freeze.

Composed by George Duning and Steve Allen ( although Allen's lyrics were not used in the film ), the song is featured in the famous dance scene between Holden and Novak, wherein Columbia's musical director Morris Stoloff blended " Theme From Picnic " with the 1930s standard " Moonglow ".

Perkins was also united in 1969 by Columbia's Murray Krugman with a " rockabilly " group based in New York's Hudson Valley, the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet.

The UPA animators applied their stylistic concepts and storytelling to Columbia's characters The Fox and the Crow with the shorts Robin Hoodlum ( 1948 ) and The Magic Fluke ( 1949 ), both directed by Hubley.