* Penrose, Roger: " Singularities and time-asymmetry ", Chapter 12 in General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey ( Hawking and Israel, editors ), ( 1979 ), see especially section 12. 3. 2, pp. 617 – 629 ( ISBN 0-521-22285-0 )

In 1976 Ecuador became the first foreign country to order the Kfir, an advanced jet-fighter equipped with the General Electric J-79 engine produced in Israel under license.

Throughout the history of the United Nations General Assembly, it is claimed by some there has always been an " automatic majority " against Israel.

The instruments that he cited were the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, and various cables and letters of confirmation addressed to the Secretary General.

Mr. Eban's explanations and Israel's undertakings were noted in the text of General Assembly Resolution 273 ( III ) Admission of Israel to membership in the United Nations, 11 May 1949.

In Jerusalem, the United States maintains a Consulate General as a diplomatic representation to the city of Jerusalem alone, separate from the US's representation to the state of Israel.

Latvia has a Consulate General in Russia ; Consulates in Belarus and Russia ; Honorary Consulates General in Australia, Cyprus, India, Israel, and Norway ; and Honorary Consulates in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela.

* 1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.

On November 3, 1986 the United Nations General Assembly passed, by a vote of 94-3 ( El Salvador, Israel and the US voted against ), a non-binding resolution urging the US to comply.

On 14 December 1988, following an outcry from his 13 December General Assembly speech, Yasser Arafat called a press conference in Geneva to clarify his earlier statement by specifically mentioning the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to exist in peace and security, including the State of Palestine, Israel, and their neighbours.

In June 2004, the General Assembly met in Richmond, Virginia and adopted by a vote of 431-62 a resolution that called on the church's committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment ( MRTI ) " to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.

Pro-Israel groups, who had written General Assembly commissioners to express their concerns about a corporate engagement / divestment strategy focused on Israel, praised the new resolution, saying that it reflected the church stepping back from a policy that singled out companies working in Israel.

This resolution also reaffirmed paragraph 11, concerning refugees, of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 ( 1948 ), adopted and passed unopposed, supported by Israel and the Arab states, with only the Soviet bloc and South Africa abstaining.

After the Arab rejection of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine ( UN General Assembly Resolution 181 ) that would have created an Arab state and a Jewish state side by side, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria attacked the state of Israel.

* November 7 – Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France, and Israel to withdraw their troops from Arab lands immediately.

Instead, the group agreed to leave the mural, " The Life and Times of General Israel Putnam of Connecticut ," at its current location at Greenwich Library.

The Attorney General of Israel is the head of the public prosecution from the state, the person who advises the government in legal matters, the person who represents the state's authorities in the courts, and advises in preparation of law memoranda of the government in general and the Justice Minister in particular ( likewise he examines and advises for private proposals for a law of Knesset members ).

Since 1959 Israel and Portugal were represented by Consulates General only.

The name is in honor of General Israel Putnam.

Birth room of General Putnam in Danvers, MA

Putnam was named major general, making him second in rank to General Artemas Ward in the Army of Observation that preceded the founding of the Continental Army.

After Bunker Hill, Putnam progressed to temporary command of the American forces in New York, while waiting for the arrival on April 13, 1776 of the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General George Washington.

With future Vice-President Aaron Burr in his charge, Putnam was fooled in October 1777 by a feint executed by British troops under the command of General Sir Henry Clinton, making way for Clinton's capture of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton.

General Putnam is an ancestor to the famed 20th-century newsman and former Marine Corps Officer George Putnam.

Recently a mural depicting General Putnam was to be returned to the newly renovated Hamilton Avenue School in Greenwich, CT. An article of April 1, 2006, entitled " Mural deemed too violent for school ", explains the mural's reception:

Putnam County was first established on 2 February 1842, when the Twenty-fourth Tennessee General Assembly enacted a measure creating Putnam County from portions of Jackson, Overton, Fentress, and White counties.

Two years later during a British raid on Greenwich on February 26, 1779 General Israel Putnam, who had stayed at Knapp's Tavern the previous night, rode away on his horse to warn the people of Stamford.

Cook County was created on January 15, 1831, out of Putnam County by an act of the Illinois General Assembly.

Major General Samuel Holden Parsons, commander in the Continental Army under Gen. Israel Putnam, later chief judge of the Northwest Territory, lived on Black Rock Turnpike.

Brooklyn is the final resting place of Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam.

* Israel Putnam ( 1718 – 1790 ), a Major General serving George Washington, lived in the town.

Created from sections of Killingly, Pomfret, and Thompson, the town was named in honor of Revolutionary War General Israel Putnam.

During the Revolutionary War, Washington told his friend General Rufus Putnam of the beauty he had seen in his travels through the Ohio Valley and of his ideas for settling the territory.

On April 7, 1788, 48 men of the Ohio Company of Associates, led by General Putnam, arrived at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers.

Its first judges were General Rufus Putnam, General Benjamin Tupper, and Colonel Archibald Crary.

On October 25, 1776, he succeeded General Israel Putnam in command of Fort Washington, across the river from Fort Lee.

About 1, 500 troops ( including those of Colonel Gansevoort ) were in outposts along the Mohawk River, about 3, 000 troops were in the Hudson River highlands under the command of General Israel Putnam, and Schuyler commanded about 4, 000 troops ( inclusive of local militia and the troops at Ticonderoga under St. Clair ).

Command during the battle devolved upon General Israel Putnam and Colonel William Prescott.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

The bicameral Parliament consists of the Senate ( seventeen-member body appointed by the Governor General ) and the House of Representatives ( seventeen seats ; members are elected by proportional representation to serve five-year terms ).

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

" The Clinton Factor: The Effects of Clinton's Personal Image in 2000 Presidential Primaries and in the General Election " White House Studies, Vol.

The spread of increasingly democratic forms of representative governance has its origin in the formation of the first General Conventions of the American Episcopal Church in the 1780s, which established a " House of Bishops " and a " House of Deputies.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

* 1865 – Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

His father, Archibald Stuart, was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and Democratic politician who represented Patrick County in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, and also served one term in the United States House of Representatives.

" According to General Ludlow, this reform bill provided for an equal representation of the people, disfranchised several boroughs which had ceased to have a population in proportion to representation, fixed the number of the House at four hundred ".

The designs of General Fleetwood of the army and the Wallingford House party were now suspected as being in a possible alliance with Charles Stuart ( Charles II ).

Appeals for Whitacre's full pardon or clemency to the White House are supported by several current and former justice department officials: Dean Paisley, a retired 25-year veteran and former FBI supervisor on the price-fixing case ; two other FBI agents involved with the case ; a former Attorney General of the United States ; one of the former Asst.

Rolling Stone caused a controversy in the White House by publishing in the July issue an article by journalist Michael Hastings, entitled, " The Runaway General ", quoting criticism of General Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U. S. Forces-Afghanistan commander, about Vice President Joe Biden and other Administration members of the White House.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

In a letter dated February 23, 2011 to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the Attorney General of the United States stated " while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable ".

They work as a single group within the House of Commons, and were involved in joint campaigning during the 2005 General Election campaign.

These include the Attorney General, five members elected from the Zanzibar House of Representatives to participate in the Parliament, the special women's seats which are made up of 30 % of the seats that a given party has in the House, 181 constituent seats of members of Parliament from the mainland, and 50 seats from Zanzibar.

He was an enthusiastic singlestick player and, according to Harper's Weekly, in 1905 showed up at a White House reception with his arm bandaged after a bout with General Leonard Wood.

Each constituency elects a Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons at General Elections and, if required, at by-elections.