Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America.

In 1967 the then National Capital Development Commission adopted the " Y Plan " which laid out future urban development in Canberra around a series of central shopping and commercial area known as the ' town centres ' linked by freeways, the layout of which roughly resembled the shape of the letter Y, with Tuggeranong at the base of the Y and Belconnen and Gungahlin located at the ends of the arms of the Y.

Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

Bliss then adopted the name Blissymbolics in order that no researcher could plagiarize his system of symbols.

Octavian's prestige and, more importantly, the loyalty of his legions, had been initially boosted by Julius Caesar's legacy of 44 BC, by which the then nineteen-year-old Octavian had been officially adopted as the only son of the great Roman general and also established as the sole legitimate heir of his enormous wealth.

It was then ratified in 1948 by the 9th CGPM which adopted a new name for this unit, the candela.

However, if this approach is naïvely adopted, then moral agents who, for example, recklessly fail to reflect on their situation, and act in a way that brings about terrible results, could be said to be acting in a morally justifiable way.

This expensive medical procedure left her deeply in debt, made worse when she adopted the debts of her husband ( a man who married her shortly after her surgery, then later faked his death in an automobile accident ).

The United States adopted a non-interventionist foreign policy from 1932 to 1938, but then President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved toward strong support of the Allies in their wars against Germany and Japan.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

The Baudot telegraph system was employed progressively in France, and then was adopted in other countries, Italy being the first to introduce it, in its inland service, during 1887.

The British Post Office adopted it for a simplex circuit between London and Paris during 1897, then used it for more general purposes from 1898.

The alphabet, first described completely by Spanish monks, was adopted by the Abbé de l ' Épée's deaf school in Paris in the 18th century, and was then spread to deaf communities around the world in the 19th and 20th centuries via educators who had learned it in Paris.

The name Gibtelecom begun to be used in July 2002, and as of 1 October 2003 this name was formally adopted by the company ( which up until then was still Gibraltar Nynex Communications ).

The constitution of 1876 adopted for the first time the name " España " (" Spain ") for the Spanish nation, and from then on monarchs used the title of " King of Spain ".

The HTTP WG planned to publish new standards in December 1995 and the support for pre-standard HTTP / 1. 1 based on the then developing RFC 2068 ( called HTTP-NG ) was rapidly adopted by the major browser developers in early 1996.

Darwin's initial model of heredity was adopted by, and then heavily modified by, his cousin Francis Galton, who laid the framework for the biometric school of heredity.

In the 1820s, as part of the Romantic revival, tartan and the kilt were adopted by members of the social elite, not just in Scotland, but across Europe, prompted by the popularity of Macpherson's Ossian cycle and then Walter Scott's Waverley novels.

France then adopted the dissuasion du faible au fort doctrine which meant a Soviet attack on France would only bring total destruction to both sides.

In the 4th century it was successively adopted as the state religion by Armenia in 301, Georgia in 319, Aksumite Empire in 325, and then the Roman Empire in 380.

The present name was adopted in 1970 as part of a new international Convention on the IHO adopted by the then member nations.

Since then, all major military powers have developed or adopted IFVs.

They adopted a son, James Cagney, Jr., in 1941, and then a daughter, Cathleen " Casey " Cagney.

And then off he went so casually, to someone else with breasts better developed, more obvious in a lower-cut dress, someone without a mouthful of wire bands and an inability to find words that would hold him.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

If the man refuses, he then is obligated to give the woman money or buy her a dress.

The French then began to dress the walls with stone from a quarry about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) away, although this work was never fully completed.

Typically, inner city schools have polo shirts and trousers for the primary and junior high school years, and then move up to button up shirts, usually some form of tie, and dress trousers with a belt or a skirt.

* 1917: The Bureau of Construction & Repair introduces the MK V helmet and dress, which then becomes the standard for US Navy diving until the introduction of the MK 12 in the late seventies

With the music reaching its grand climax Astaire and Rogers rush toward the camera, then away in a series of bold, dramatic manoeuvers culminating in three ballroom lifts which showcase Rogers ' dress before abruptly coming to a halt in a final, deepest backbend, maintained as the music approaches its closing bars.

Bart called him out on the accuracy of his encounter with Hitler, in which Grampa did say that the story was not true but then admitted that he did wear a dress during a period in the 1940s.

A series of full-screen clips from various episodes would then be shown, foregrounded by various cast members — each walking into frame as a recurring character, looking at a clip of his or her character, morphing into him or her self in formal dress, and walking out of frame.

was based directly on the scene in which Grant's coat ( and then Hepburn's dress ) is torn in Baby.

Velázquez then painted the first of many portraits of the young prince and heir to the Spanish throne, Don Baltasar Carlos, looking dignified and lordly even in his childhood, in the dress of a field marshal on his prancing steed.

Dawes was rather rough-hewn for some of his duties, disliking having to present American débutantes to King George V. On his first visit to the royal court, in deference to American public opinion, he refused to wear the customary Court dress, which then included knee breeches.

However there is just one day of the year — the day of the festival of Zeus -- when they chop up a single ram, skin it, dress the statue of Zeus in the way mentioned, and then bring the statue of Heracles up close to the statue of Zeus.

Oshun is then said to have gone mad with grief and to have worn the same white dress every day as a symbol of this madness ; it eventually turned yellow.

Whitman then shot and wounded two students named Abdul Khashab and his fiancée, Janet Paulos, as the pair browsed outside a dress shop at the corner of 24th and Guadalupe.

The squatters who lived there would, when alerted to the impending arrival of law officers, dress as Indians and then ignore the officers.

The decision was then made to dress Vance in frumpier clothing to tone down her attractiveness.

He would then dress the bend by drawing the sides of the bend to keep the correct thickness.

Preliminary attempts to clean it up fail as they only transfer the mess elsewhere, including a dress, the wall, a pair of ten dollar shoes, a rug, the bed, and then eventually outside.

He then proposed to reinvent the group by having them dress in neon surfer-punk clothing, and have them play really stripped-down, basic 1950s rock n ' roll, with all of the emphasis on Kiedis.

She looks into some of the shop windows, pausing to examine a white dress, then finds a restaurant and goes inside in search of ( clearly scarce ) food.

Portraits suggest intelligence but heavy features, and the playwright Thomas Shadwell writes in a letter in 1692 that it would have been better to have staged Nicholas Brady's The Rape in Roman dress, " and then w ' th a Mantle to have covered her hips Mrs Barry would have acted ye part.

For example, if a woman tells her friend, " I think I might buy this beautiful dress ", then asks her friend's opinion of the dress, she has " poisoned the well ", as her previous comment could affect her friend's response.