" The Act of Congress on 1918-07-09, recognized the need for different types and degrees of heroism and meritorious service and included such provisions for award criteria.

At the Second International Interlanguage Congress, held in Geneva in 1931, IALA began to break new ground ; 27 recognized linguists signed a testimonial of support for IALA's research program.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science also recognized the need for increased understanding between scientists and lawmakers in its newsletter on Science and Technology in Congress, " Although most individuals would agree that sound science is preferable to junk science, fewer recognize what makes a scientific study ' good ' or ' bad '.

In early 1804, Congress passed the Mobile Act which recognized West Florida as being part of the United States.

Rivalries among European powers enabled the Arab-Berber population, the Maures ( Moors ), to maintain their independence and later to exact annual payments from France, whose sovereignty over the Senegal River and the Mauritanian coast was recognized by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

The Puerto Rican citizenship was first legislated by the U. S. Congress in Article 7 of the Foraker Act of 1900 and recognized by the Puerto Rico constitution.

The state was recognized by Napoleon by the Treaty of Tolentino, in 1797 and by the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

However, following a deadly civil war and the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan is widely recognized as an authoritarian state where all effective political power is obtained by President Omar al-Bashir poopthe ruling National Congress Party ( NCO ).

* May 4 – The United States Congress recognized Bourbon whiskey as a " distinctive product of the United States ".

* June 11 – Antonio Meucci is recognized as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

On May 4, 1964, the United States Congress recognized bourbon whiskey as a " distinctive product of the United States ".

Since then, the Forum has documented new insights derived from this timeline and subsequent discoveries in permanent resources including the exhibit An Uncommon Commitment to Peace, and its companion catalogue, recognized by the Library of Congress as the most accessible educational resource on the subject, a Portsmouth Peace Treaty Trail ( and map supported by the New Hampshire Division of Tourism ), a curriculum guide for grades 4-8 distributed to all school districts in New Hampshire, a series of New Hampshire Humanities Council lectures and articles on the Treaty and New Hampshire's citizen diplomacy and a variety of commemorative events.

His distinguished work was recognized at the International Leprosy Congress held at Bergen in 1909.

The Congress of Vienna recognized both Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mecklenburg-Schwerin as grand duchies and members of the German Confederation.

In FLPMA, Congress recognized the value of the remaining public lands by declaring that these lands would remain in public ownership.

Although the states would not be recognized by the Radicals until an undetermined time, installation of military governors kept the administration of Reconstruction under Presidential control, rather than that of the increasingly unsympathetic Radical Congress.

Congress later recognized the need to disseminate the knowledge gained at the land-grant colleges to farmers and homemakers.

While the Government of the United States had previously recognized the Indian Tribes as semi-independent, “ it has the right and authority, instead of controlling them by treaties, to govern them by acts of Congress, they being within the geographical limit of the United States ...

The formal independence of the country was internationally recognized at the Congress of Berlin in 1878, which formally ended the Russo-Turkish War ; this treaty, however, prohibited Serbia from uniting with Bosnia by placing it under Austro-Hungarian occupation.

The United States Congress officially recognized the Pledge for the first time, in the following form, on June 22, 1942:

As eventual congressionally recognized " attainer " of the pole ( not " discoverer " in deference to 1908 North Pole claimant Frederick Cook's supporters ) Peary was given a Rear Admiral's pension and the Thanks of Congress by a special act of March 30, 1911.

On May 20, 1992, under the authority recognized in Coleman, and in keeping with the precedent first established regarding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, each house of the 102nd Congress passed a version of a concurrent resolution agreeing that the amendment was validly ratified, despite the unorthodox period of more than 202 years for the completion of the task.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act recognized Ninilchik as an Alaska Native village, which led to the formation of the Ninilchik Native Association Incorporated and eventually to the further recognition, by the US Congress, that Ninilchik's descendants comprised a quasi-sovereign government ( equivalent to American Indian tribes ), thereby establishing the Ninilchik Traditional Council ( NTC ) as the governing body for Natives who live in the area surrounding Ninilchik or who descended from the original inhabitants.

The U. S. Congress recognized Bristol as the " Birthplace of Country Music " in 1998.

* 1845 – Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

For example, the Rashtriya Janata Dal ( translated as National People's Party ) has a vote bank among the Yadav and Muslim population of Bihar and the All India Trinamool Congress does not have any significant support outside West Bengal.

Mali is an active contributor to peacekeeping forces in West and Central Africa ; the Library of Congress said that in 2004 Mali was participating in United Nations operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( MONUC, 28 personnel including 27 observers ), Liberia ( UNMIL, 252 personnel, including 4 observers ), and Sierra Leone ( 3 observers ).

Where the river serves as a boundary between states today, Congress designated the entire river to belong to the states on the east and south, i. e., West Virginia and Kentucky at the time of admission to the Union, that were divided from Virginia.

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).

Prominent among the Creoles demanding change were the bourgeois nationalist H. C. Bankole-Bright, General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Branch of the National Congress of British West Africa ( NCBWA ), and the socialist I. T. A.

Following the advice of George Washington, John Adams and others, in 1802 Jefferson and Congress agreed to authorize the funding and construction of the United States Military Academy at West Point on the Hudson River in New York.

A struggle for the direction of the organization culminated a " compromise agreement ," ratified in 1991 at the Greens National Congress in Elkins, West Virginiain which both strategies would be accommodated within the same organization under a 527 political organization renamed The Greens / Green Party USA.

* December 2 – Manifest Destiny: U. S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

In July 1916, “ former LC staff member Elizabeth West, director of the Carnegie Library of San Antonio, Texas, suggested to Putnam that the Library of Congress cooperate with other libraries to send books to American soldiers .”

Several key areas needed to link the East ( Chicago ) to the West had none, and hence the Union Pacific was formed by Congress.

The public can now tour one such facility, intended to house the entire United States Congress, on the grounds of the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

Knowing that such speculation, combined with Congressional grants of land sections to veterans of the Revolution, could result in a lucrative opportunity, Ebenezer Zane in 1796 petitioned the US Congress to grant him a contract to blaze a trail through Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky, ( near modern Maysville, Kentucky ) a distance of.

When the decision for independence was announced, it included the condition of a referendum being held in the North West Frontier Province because it was ruled by the Khudai Khidmatgar-backed Congress government of Dr. Khan Sahib.

All the members of Ohio County's delegation to the West Virginia Legislature and United States Congress are Democrats.

The 1951 Congress argued that the Soviet Union took over these countries because of the military and political results of World War II, and instituted nationalized property relations only after its attempts at placating capitalism failed to protect those countries from the threat of incursion by the West.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was frequently accused, during his tenure in the Senate, of repeatedly inserting pork-barrel spending that favored his state into budget appropriations, called it " an offensive slap at Congress ," asserting that the legislation would enable the President to intimidate individual members of any Congress by targeting the projects of his political opponents.

Before the Communications Act of 1934 was enacted as law by the U. S. Congress, there was a debate over commercial versus non-commercial broadcasting: Senators Robert Wagner of New York and Henry Hatfield of West Virginia offered an amendment to the then proposed Communications Act.

Nevertheless, the treaty, passed by Congress by a single vote, and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, was imposed by his successor President Martin Van Buren who allowed Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama an armed force of 7, 000 made up of militia, regular army, and volunteers under General Winfield Scott to round up about 13, 000 Cherokees into concentration camps at the U. S. Indian Agency near Cleveland, Tennessee before being sent to the West.

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