Thomas Jefferson had tried to bring a French mechanic ( almost certainly Blanc ) and his methods to America in 1785, but the project never went anywhere.

It was said that when Kent went on a speaking tour of America, Holihan followed him, that offensive material on Kent was sent to newspapers and radio stations, and that demonstrations were organised against him.

There followed a glamorous honeymoon tour of European courts and America which famously included a visit to Niagara Falls ( because " all honeymooners went there ").

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

The Only You tour with big band went on in America, Australia and a short trip to Asia.

Nehru had a powerful ally in the US president Dwight Eisenhower who, if relatively silent publicly, went to the extent of using America ’ s clout in the IMF to make Britain and France back down.

The movie grossed $ 114 million during its opening weekend in North America and went on to earn $ 822 million worldwide.

Jefferson ’ s letter went on with the same heat to a much quoted passage about “ the day that France takes possession of New Orleans .” Not only did he say that day would be a low point in France ’ s history, for it would seal America ’ s marriage with the British fleet and nation, but he added, astonishingly, that it would start a massive shipbuilding program.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe went further in that games released for Nintendo consoles could not feature nudity, sexuality, profanity ( including racism, sexism or slurs ), blood, graphic or domestic violence, drugs, political messages or religious symbols ( with the exception of widely unpracticed religions, such as the Greek Pantheon ).

Also in the 1950s and 1960s, 40 % of all U. S. pesticide exports went to Central America.

In April 2006, the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement went into effect, expanding export opportunities for Nicaragua's agricultural and manufactured goods.

Quills went into decline after the invention of the metal pen, which was first patented in America in 1810 and then mass produced by 1860, although mass production began in Great Britain as early as 1822 by John Mitchell of Birmingham.

The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

By 1850, North America had discovered a love of the sport, and, indeed, North America went on to develop the all-steel blade, which was both lighter and sharper.

Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.

All proceeds went to progressive organizations such as Music for America and MoveOn. org.

In 1735, John and Charles Wesley went to America to teach the gospel to the American Indians in the colony of Georgia.

A metaphor for America was Gary Cooper as the real life Sergeant York who went from hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a draftee comparing the Bible to the History of the United States and deciding that his marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.

According to the BBC, America went back on this promise, effectively destroying the deal.

Only two 1949 models were sold in America that year, convincing Volkswagen chairman Heinrich Nordhoff the car had no future in the U. S. ( The Type 1 went on to become an automotive phenomenon.

* June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution ( b. 1764 )

Eventually in 1928 he went to the United States of America to take a faculty position at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

2. 5 million people had seen the show, and after touring Latin America and Australia the numbers went up to 3 million.

DiFranco went on to perform at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Kenny Olson went on to perform with several other bands, and has appeared on other studio recordings such as the song " I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know " from the Les Paul & Friends CD as well as a version of " Little Wing " with Chaka Khan on " The Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix ".

Damadian along with Larry Minkoff and Michael Goldsmith, subsequently went on to perform the first MRI body scan of a human being on July 3, 1977.

In 1962, the BBC commissioned a pilot for a television series of satirical sketches based on the Establishment club, but it was not picked up straight away and Cook went to New York for a year to perform in Beyond The Fringe on Broadway.

Torres, remembering painful events from her own childhood, urged the Doctor to perform gene therapy to reduce this phenotype, and even went so far as to reprogram him to do so.

Although his mother at first does not believe him, Cole soon tells Lynn that her own mother once went to see her perform in a dance recital one night when she was a child, and that Lynn was not aware of this because her mother stayed in the back of the audience where she could not be seen.

The band went on a world tour to promote the album, on the last night of which Buckingham and Nicks reunited on stage to perform " Landslide ".

Messing went on to perform and become a successful entertainer in Soviet Russian.

Before the Vicksburg Campaign in the spring of 1863, Sherman expressed serious reservations about the wisdom of Grant's unorthodox strategy, but he went on to perform well in that campaign under Grant's supervision.

Inspired by more song-based acts Clapton went on to perform much different, less improvisational material with Delaney & Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos and in his own long and varied solo career.

A talented vocalist, Gwynne sang in a Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television production, The Littlest Angel ( 1969 ), and went on to perform in a variety of roles on stage and screen.

Ixion went mad, defiled by his act ; the neighboring princes were so offended by this act of treachery and violation of xenia that they refused to perform the rituals that would cleanse Ixion of his guilt ( see catharsis ).

Barnes went on to perform with the band Six Feet Under, and later Torture Killer.

She went on to perform the role in several other cities through 2002 including Off-Broadway in New York and the Long Beach Playhouse Studio Theatre in California.

Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub FRS, consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital ( 1969 – 2002 ), carried out the first live lobe lung transplant, and went on to perform more transplants than any other surgeon in the world.

After the breakup of The Alpha Band, Soles released two solo albums, Promise in 1980, and 1982's Walk by Love, and went on to produce or perform on albums by Dylan, Burnett, The Washington Squares, Peter Case, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn, Don McLean, The Monkees, The 77s, Olivia Newton-John, Roy Orbison, Tonio K, Victoria Williams, Steve Scott and others.

I will obey your every word ”, and went on to perform intense penance.

He then went on to become one of the first pop singers to perform at the Las Vegas casinos.

Tosh went on to perform on stage with the guitar.

On 29 March 2011 the group all went to see Lee perform as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys on stage.

SST house record producer Spot went along as sound-man and tour manager, a job he would perform for several years, along with helping to record much of the label's music.

Reportedly, when budget estimates reached $ 14 million, the producers attempted to replace Hill with Arthur Hiller ; but abandoned the idea after hundreds of native Polynesians in the cast went on strike, declaring: " We can and will perform only for our friend, Monsieur Hill.

Bridgeman went on to perform studio work with Clannad, The Waterboys and Altan.

Ian McLagan went on to perform with artists such as Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones, David Lindley and his band El Rayo-X among others, and more recently Billy Bragg.

The appellate court explained that the dispute arose from No Doubt's discovery, two weeks before Band Hero went on sale, that its band members could be manipulated in the game to perform songs they would never perform in real life.