They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

It was recorded in St. Paul's, the chapel at Columbia University, chosen for the acoustics.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

The earliest known personification of what would become the United States was " Columbia " who first appeared in 1738 and sometimes was associated with Liberty.

She was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980 and began her law career as an associate with the Washington, D. C. firm of Wald, Harkrader & Ross.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

The province's name was chosen by Queen Victoria when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. " the Mainland ", became a British colony in 1858.

It refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River, in southeastern British Columbia, which was the namesake of the pre-Oregon Treaty Columbia Department of the Hudson's Bay Company.

Queen Victoria chose British Columbia to distinguish what was the British sector of the Columbia District from that of the United States (" American Columbia " or " Southern Columbia "), which became the Oregon Territory in 1848 as a result of the treaty.

The National Speleological Society of the USA was later founded in 1941 ( originally formed as the Speleological Society of the District of Columbia on May 6, 1939 ) and the Swiss Society of Speleology created in 1939 in Geneva, but the first speleological institute in the world was founded in 1920 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, by Emil Racovita, a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist and explorer of Antarctica.

The building, at the northeast corner of Broadway and 112th Street, was originally an apartment house but was converted to research space after Columbia bought it.

This is because the founder of this seaside community, which is today part of the municipality of Richmond, British Columbia, was Manoah Steves, originally from Moncton.

Some of Bob Hope's films originally released by Paramount ( including The Seven Little Foys and The Lemon Drop Kid ) were owned by Hope himself ; the copyrights were later transferred to Columbia Pictures Television.

* In the 1970s, Paramount acquired the rights to the Frank Capra film Broadway Bill, which was originally released by Columbia Pictures – Paramount had remade the film as Riding High in 1950 ;

The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was " cleaned up " with several hundred thousand dollars before being distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States, still being promoted as " the movie made for $ 7, 000 ".

The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

( Enterprise, the test vehicle which was the prototype for Columbia, originally had the same wing markings as Columbia but with the letters " USA " on the right wing spaced closer together ; Enterprises markings were modified to match Challenger in 1983.

Columbia was also originally fitted with Lockheed Martin-built ejection seats identical to those found on the SR-71 Blackbird.

Had Columbia not been destroyed, it would have been fitted with the external airlock / docking adapter for STS-118, an International Space Station assembly mission, originally planned for November 2003.

The Bangles ' full-length debut album on Columbia, All Over the Place ( 1984 ), captured their power-pop roots, featuring the singles " Hero Takes a Fall " and the Kimberley Rew-penned Beatlesque " Going Down to Liverpool " ( originally recorded by Rew's band Katrina and the Waves ).

Recycled footage of Shemp, combined with new footage utilizing Columbia supporting player Joe Palma as Shemp's double ( only filmed from the back ), were used to complete the last four films originally planned with Shemp: Rumpus in the Harem, Hot Stuff, Scheming Schemers, and Commotion on the Ocean.

* Columbia Aircraft Corp, originally Columbia Air Liners Inc.

** Columbia Automobile Company ( 1899 – 1913 ), originally expanded from the bicycle line

She originally pursued her master's degree at Columbia University, where she was exposed to the subject of psychology through courses under Edward Thorndike.

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

Telluride was originally named " Columbia ", but due to confusion with Columbia, California, the name was changed by the post office in 1887.

Examples include Vancouver, British Columbia, named after the explorer George Vancouver ; and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, originally called Isbister's Settlement but renamed after Queen Victoria's husband and consort in 1866.

Although the District of Columbia was originally created as a capital territory out of parts of Maryland and Virginia, the portion from Virginia was removed from the Federal District and returned to Virginia in 1846.

All of Simon's solo recordings, even the ones originally issued by Columbia Records, are currently distributed by Sony Records ' Legacy Recordings unit.

* The courts of Louisiana and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are organized under a civil law model with significantly different procedures from those of the courts in all other states and the District of Columbia, which are organized on an American version of the common law system established originally in England.

* 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.

* 2005 – Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of Discovery, NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the Columbia Disaster in 2003.

Columbia was scheduled for this mission due to Discovery being out of service for its Orbital Maintenance Down Period, and because the ISS assembly schedule could not be adhered to with only Endeavour and Atlantis.

Columbia was also scheduled to launch the X-38 V-201 Crew Return Vehicle prototype as the next mission after STS-118, until the cancellation of the project in 2002.

Prior to Return to Flight, NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe declared that all future flights of the shuttle would go to the ISS, precluding the possibility of executing the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission which had been scheduled before the Columbia accident, despite the fact that millions of dollars worth of upgrade equipment for Hubble were ready and waiting in NASA warehouses.

STS-61-E was a Columbia mission scheduled for March 1986, carrying the ASTRO-1 platform to study the comet.

Columbia Pictures purchased the screen rights in September 1932, and the studio scheduled the production to begin the following May, although director Frank Capra had misgivings about the project.

On September 17, at a show in Abbotsford, British Columbia, STP took the stage nearly two hours after their scheduled time, and cut their set 30 minutes short, angering many fans.

The film was originally scheduled for general release during the 1985 Christmas Day weekend, but Columbia moved it, to the weekends of January 17 and January 31, 1986, when they saw the holiday lineup of films.

The STS-107 mission ended abruptly when Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed and its crew perished during re-entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.

Ramon and the rest of the Columbia crew died over East Texas in the Southern United States during entry into Earth's atmosphere, 16 minutes prior to scheduled landing.

Chawla died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the loss of all seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107.

McCool was born September 23, 1961, in San Diego, California, and died on February 1, 2003, over the southern United States when Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during entry, 16 minutes prior to scheduled landing.

The STS-107 mission ended abruptly on February 1, 2003, when Columbia and her crew perished during entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.

The STS-107 mission ended abruptly on February 1, 2003, when Columbia and her crew perished during entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.

The STS-107 mission ended abruptly on February 1, 2003, when Columbia and her crew perished during re-entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.

The STS-107 mission ended abruptly on February 1, 2003 when Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew perished during entry, 16 minutes before scheduled landing.

A shorter water approach from Port McNeill, British Columbia, a northern community of Vancouver Island accessible by scheduled daily air connections and / or road from Victoria, reducing the water journey to less than a day may be undertaken.

Lent lives in Vernon, British Columbia, where he has finished revising a novel, The Path to Ardroe, a multi-voiced narrative set in Vernon, Strasbourg and the Scottish highlands, scheduled for publication in Spring 2012.

It operates scheduled passenger, charter, cargo and ground handling services throughout the Yukon, with flights to the Northwest Territories, Alaska, British Columbia, and Alberta.

* In 2006, following a successful protest lasting over one year, tree sitters in Cathedral Grove ( also known as MacMillan Provincial Park ), British Columbia, halted the removal of a number of old growth Douglas Fir trees which were scheduled to be to taken down in an attempt to calm traffic and improve the parking facilities.

Prince Edward Island plans on switching to a HST on April 1 2013, the same date that British Columbia is scheduled to revert to a separate GST / PST after their adoption of a HST in 2010 was rejected in a referendum.

Retrieval of the passive LDEF had been scheduled during 1985, but schedule delays and the Challenger disaster of 1986 postponed the return until 12 January 1990, when Columbia retrieved LDEF on mission STS-32.

Columbia published most of the canon material about Hârn in the early 1980s ; at that point ( around the time the first edition of the Harnmaster rules was published ) the interval between new products lengthened and some scheduled products were never completed ( such as the Trierzon and Azeryan regional modules ).