The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

In the United States, because of the broad protections granted by the First Amendment, with extremely limited exceptions, unless the media outlet is a party to the case, a media outlet cannot be found in contempt of court for reporting about a case because a court cannot order the media in general not to report on a case or forbid it from reporting facts discovered publicly.

This long running conflict widened with the third canon of the First Council of Constantinople which granted the see of Constantinople primacy over the older sees of Alexandria and Antioch.

# First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) repudiated Arianism, declared that Christ is " homoousios with the Father " ( of the same substance as the Father ), and adopted the original Nicene Creed, fixed Easter date ; recognized primacy of the sees of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch and granted the See of Jerusalem a position of honor.

While the Third Estate demanded and was granted " double representation " so as to balance the First and Second Estate, voting was to occur " by orders " – votes of the Third Estate were to be weighted – effectively canceling double representation.

The Italian communes were granted almost complete autonomy from the very early days of the Kingdom, thanks to their military and naval support in the years following the First Crusade.

As President and First Lady, the Reagans were reported to display their affection frequently, with one press secretary noting, " They never took each other for granted.

In the United States, the right of freedom of speech granted in the First Amendment has limited the effects of lawsuits for breach of privacy.

From the 11th century onwards indulgences were granted: In 1064 Pope Alexander II allegedly promised the participants of an expedition against Barbastro ( Tagr al-Andalus, Aragon ) a collective indulgence 30 years before Pope Urban II called the First Crusade.

First diploma awarded by Yale College, granted to Nathaniel Chauncey, 1702.

* September 12 – First Barons ' War in England ended by the Treaty of Kingston upon Thames: French and Scots are to leave England, and an amnesty is granted to rebels.

Following the First World War, the Union of South Africa was granted the administration of the German South-West Africa colony as a League of Nations mandate and it became treated in most respects as if it were another province of the Union.

As it is unlikely that Napoleon granted the artists a sitting, Ingres ' meticulously painted portrait of Bonaparte, First Consul appears to be modelled on an image of Napoleon painted by Antoine-Jean Gros in 1802.

A number of private members ’ bills related to consumer affairs, put forward by Co-operative MPs, became law under the First Wilson Government, and much of the consumer legislation taken for granted by contemporary British shoppers can be attributed to the legislation passed during this period.

The First Chamber consisted of noblemen, old and new nobles, who were granted the position by King William.

By the end of the First World War, the increased fortitude of Canadian nationalism inspired the country's leaders to push for greater independence from the King in his British Council, resulting in the creation of the uniquely Canadian monarchy through the Statute of Westminster, which was granted Royal Assent in 1931.

The First House of the Edain was the House of Bëor, which entered Beleriand in and was granted the fief of Ladros in Dorthonion by Finrod Felagund.

Many states now delegate the authority over alcohol granted to them by this Amendment to their municipalities or counties ( or both ), which has led to many lawsuits over First Amendment rights when local governments have tried to revoke liquor licenses.

After plans to restore city status on Perth in 2007 were backed by newly elected First Minister Alex Salmond, saying it should be granted " at the next commemorative opportunity ".

The ENIAC patent, issued in 1964 was filed on June 26, 1947, and granted February 4, 1964, but the public disclosure of design details of EDVAC in the First Draft ( which were also common to ENIAC ) was later cited as one cause for the 1973 invalidation of the ENIAC patent.

First settlements in the area were around 1000, and Helmond was granted city rights in approximately 1232.

First granted as Monadnock No. 4 in 1752 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, this was one in a line of eight towns settled by Scottish colonists.

First granted in 1733 as Lower Ashuelot, Swanzey was one of the fort towns established by Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, which then held authority over the province of New Hampshire.

First called Swanfield, it was settled in 1767.

This diplomatic maneouvring resulted in the start of the First Anglo-Mysore War in August 1767 when a company outpost at Changama was attacked by a combined Mysore-Hyderabad army under Hyder Ali's command.

* Thomas, Peter D. G. British Politics and the Stamp Act Crisis: The First Phase of the American Revolution, 1763 – 1767.

*, a third-rate built 1767 ; fought in the American Revolutionary War ; heavily damaged in the Battle of the Glorious First of June 1794 ; wrecked 1800.

The First Anglo-Mysore War ( 1767 – 1769 ) was a war in India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the East India Company.

They then strengthened and expanded Fort St George over the next thirty years to bear subsequent attacks, the strongest of which came from the French ( 1759, under Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally ), and later Hyder Ali, the Sultan of Mysore in 1767 during the First Anglo-Mysore War.

* Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson ( 1767 – 1828 ), American First Lady

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

A third Thomas Bushell ( 1594-1674 ), `` much loved '' by Bacon, called himself `` The Superlative Prodigall '' in The First Part of Youths Errors ( 1628 ) and became an expert on silver mines and on the art of running into debt.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

First, the present situation is too varied to be systematized by any single formula.

With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.

First I make preliminary watercolor sketches in quarter scale ( approximately Af inches ) in which I pay particular attention to the design principles of three simple values -- the lightest light, the middle tone, and the darkest dark -- by reducing the forms of my subject to these large patterns.

Some of the classic indicators, as described by Drs. Pittenger, Hockett, and Danehy in The First Five Minutes, are these: ambiguity of pronouns:

A detachment of six men from the 701st Chemical Maintenance Company under First Lt. Howard D. Beckstrom went aboard, followed by Lt. Thomas H. Richardson, the Cargo Security Officer.

The AID has undertaken the redecoration of the White House library as a project in connection with the work being done by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's Fine Arts Advisory Committee to secure antiques for the presidential home.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

Among the many severe measures taken by the First Emperor, Shih Huang-ti, in his efforts to insure the continuation of this hard-won national unity, was the burning of the books in 213 B.C., with the expressed intention of removing possible sources for divergent thinking ; ;

First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

First published 1974 by Morrow.

First published 1992 by Combined Books.

First published 1964 by University of Texas Press.

* Warhol in Paris — slideshow by The First Post

First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.

Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

* 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

Australia won the First Test by nine wickets, but in the next two England were victorious.

The 1894 – 95 series began in sensational fashion when England won the First Test at Sydney by just 10 runs having followed on.

After winning the First Test by an innings after being controversially sent in by Hutton, Australia lost its way and England took a hat-trick of victories to win the series 3 – 1.