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.

It is successfully grown in most of western and southern Europe, the Pacific Northwest of North America north to southwest British Columbia, the southern United States, southeast Australia, New Zealand and central-southern Chile.

The fifth and last Leasat ( F5 ), which was built as a spare, was successfully launched by Columbia mission STS-32 on January 9, 1990.

" He compared the film's budget problems to the even more serious problems of We're No Angels that commonly go unmentioned, and he went on to declare its difficulties as a mixture of " trade press " still being upset about Gilliam's battle with Universal over Brazil, nepotism, and an intrigue on behalf of Ray Stark successfully trying to have Puttnam removed from Columbia, coupled with the fact the studio was being sold at the time:

After three years of various courses, in the autumn of 1879 he successfully finished the tests and entered Columbia College in 1879, where he became known as an exceptional athlete and scholar.

In 1948, Columbia Records introduced the 33-1 / 3-rpm long-playing vinyl disc to successfully compete with RCA Victor's 45-rpm vinyl disc.

However, co-disposal has been successfully implemented by several designers including AMEC at, for example, the Elkview Mine in British Columbia.

STS-32 ( January 9 – 20, 1990 ) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on an eleven-day flight, during which crew members on board the Orbiter Columbia successfully deployed a Syncom satellite, and retrieved the 21, 400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility ( LDEF ).

Columbia launched successfully from Kennedy Space Center at 6: 55 am EST on 12 January 1986.

The STS-5 crew successfully concluded the 5-day orbital flight of Space Shuttle Columbia with the first entry and landing through a cloud deck to a hard-surface runway and demonstrated maximum braking.

The STS-5 crew successfully concluded the 5-day orbital flight of Columbia with the first entry and landing through a cloud deck to a hard-surface runway and demonstrated maximum braking.

The STS-5 crew successfully concluded the 5-day orbital flight of Columbia with the first entry and landing through a cloud deck to a hard-surface runway, demonstrating maximum braking.

In the longest Shuttle mission to date, crew members aboard the Orbiter Columbia successfully deployed the Syncom IV-F5 satellite, and retrieved the 9, 724 kg ( 21, 393 lb ) Long Duration Exposure Facility ( LDEF ) using the RMS.

The mission used the Space Shuttle Columbia, which lifted off successfully from Kennedy Space Center ’ s launch pad 39-B on 20 June 1996.

successfully purified and crystallized the enzyme from electric eels at Columbia University, NY.

After 145 orbits of the Earth traveling 3. 29 million miles in 218 hours, O ' Connor piloted Columbia to a landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, his crew having safely and successfully completed over 100 % of their mission objectives.

STS-52 was a 10-day mission aboard the Orbiter Columbia during which the crew successfully deployed the Laser Geodynamic Satellite ( LAGEOS ), a joint Italian-American project.

On Friday, August 13, 2004 at 12: 53 PM, the Levitated Dipole Experiment, a collaboration between Columbia University and MIT, successfully energized a superconducting torus with RF and momentarily created plasma within the magnetic field of the dipole.

As chairman, he successfully engineered the inclusion of language in the 2007 omnibus spending bill that guarantees the extension of the 50 State Quarters program to include the minting of 6 additional quarters to honor the District of Columbia and the 5 United States territories, including Serrano's native Puerto Rico.

In 2008, Isitt successfully defended his History dissertation on the topic " Tug-of-War: The Working Class and Political Change in British Columbia, 1948-1972 ".

It can also be grown successfully in areas with cooler, moister summers, such as the British Isles, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest ( coastal Oregon, Washington and British Columbia ).

The most common species in cultivation is Trachycarpus fortunei ( Chusan Palm or Windmill Palm ), a temperate palm which is, in cultivated range, the northernmost palm species in the world, having been successfully grown in such cool and damp but relatively mild locales such as Scotland, southwestern Norway, south and southwest Iceland, southwestern British Columbia Canada, extreme southwestern Utah, coastal New Jersey and the panhandle of Alaska.

After successfully co-chairing a campaign to elect Elizabeth May as Leader of the Green Party of Canada, Carr resigned her position of Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia in September 2006 to become one of two deputy leaders of the Green Party of Canada appointed by her political ally and long-time friend Elizabeth May.

Yiu was a prominent organizer in the anti-HST campaign, that successfully fought for the repeal of the Harmonized Sales Tax in British Columbia.

In June 1980, due to the number of changes in the SSME design since the SSME installation on Columbia, the three flight-rated SSMEs ( numbers 2005, 2006 and 2007 ) which had performed successful individual 520-second mission demonstration test firings on the NSTL SSME test stand in early 1979, were removed from OV-102, shipped to NSTL, and successfully recertified.

Early plans saw it being launched by Space Shuttle Columbia on what was then codenamed STS-23 in January 1982, but delays in the development of the Space Shuttle allowed more time for development of the probe.

* 1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.

On August 1, 1981, at 12: 01 a. m., MTV launched with the words " Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll ," spoken by John Lack, and played over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year, and of the launch of Apollo 11.

* 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.

* 1981 – Space Shuttle program: mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

Columbia was the only orbiter launched with its Space Shuttle external tank | external tank painted white, which was later discontinued to save weight.

* January 12 – STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz.

* January 16 – STS-107: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on its last flight.

The recently launched Columbia CaseWorks program utilizes the faculty ’ s research and industry experience and brings that perspective into the classroom through the development of new cases and teaching materials.

Descendants of the worms aboard Columbia in 2003 were launched into space on Endeavour for the STS-134 mission.

Idaho County was originally founded as a region of Washington Territory in 1861, named for a steamer called Idaho that was launched on the Columbia River in 1860.

It was launched July 23, 1999, by the Shuttle Columbia ( STS-93 ).

The Long-Playing record was launched in the USA in 1948 by Columbia Records ( not connected with the British company of the same name at the time ).

The launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 started the Space Age, and on July 20th, 1969 Apollo 11 achieved the first manned moon landing. In 1981, the space shuttle " Columbia " launched, the start of regular manned access to orbital space.

STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched 16 January 2003.

Columbia was launched from Kennedy Space Center at 11: 00 am EST, on 22 March 1982, the planned launch date.

Columbia launched on schedule from Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ) at 7: 19 am EST, 11 November 1982.

AXAF was renamed Chandra in 1998 and launched in 1999 by the shuttle Columbia ( STS-93 ).

* 1981-The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched, marking America's first return to space since 1975

Epic Records was launched in 1953 by the Columbia Records unit of CBS for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of the more mainstream Columbia label.

In December 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress ( CIC ) launched complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, British Columbia Human Rights Commission, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission against Maclean's accusing it of publishing 18 articles between January 2005 and July 2007 that they considered Islamophobic in nature including a column by Mark Steyn titled " The future belongs to Islam.

He launched a worldwide tourism initiative, and worked towards the designation of the Columbia River Gorge as a national scenic preservation area.