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In 1947, Ripley entered Nepal pretending to be a close confidante of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nepal government, eager to maintain diplomatic ties with its newly independent neighbour, allowed him to collect bird specimens.
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They were married in 1947 and had three children: a daughter, Katherine Stevens ; a son, James Ripley II ; and another daughter, Margaret Childs.
Ripley was also a mining community with collieries owned until the Coal Nationalization Act of 1947 by Butterley Company.
* Andy Ripley ( born 1947 ), English rugby player
Romance, Rhythm and Ripley aired on CBS in 1945, followed by Pages from Robert L. Ripley's Radio Scrapbook ( 1947 – 48 ).
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Reformist policies, however, did not enjoy a consensus, and by 1947 the country had entered into a civil war, which in turn initiated a period of economic chaos that lasted until the mid-1950s.
The TTPI entered UN trusteeship on July 18, 1947 and was designated a " strategic area " in its 1947 trusteeship agreement.
The West entered in a war with India in 1947 directly involving the issue of Kashmir.
From 1947 – 1949, he attended Texarkana Junior College, then entered the U. S. Naval Academy in 1949 and helped establish its honor system.
In 1947 the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser entered the industry with a completely different design than Douglas and Lockheed aircraft.
In 1947, the United States, as the occupying power, entered into an agreement with the UN Security Council to administer much of Micronesia, including the Marshall Islands, as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
He subsequently entered flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas and Pensacola, Florida, and received his Naval Aviator wings in 1947.
In 1947, Bell entered her first long-distance race: a one-mile swim at the Canadian National Exhibition ( CNE ) in Lake Ontario.
The film was also entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Category: Treaties entered into force in 1947
The Mercedes-Benz W154 entered by Don Lee at the 1947 Indianapolis 500 with Duke Nalon as driver
Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by its first unabridged dictionary.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.
Category: Treaties entered into force in 1947
He entered Technical College in 1945, and had one year of internships, including a voyage to Indonesia in 1947 as an assistant ship ’ s engineer.
Drucker entered the comics field by assisting Bert Whitman on Debbie Dean in 1947 when he was 18.
** First entered the Billboard magazine chart on July 4, 1947, on charts 1 week, at # 10
** First entered the Billboard magazine chart on June 20, 1947, on charts 16 weeks, peaking at # 2
: On August 11, 1947, B & W Records and Jewel Records ( not to be confused with Je – Wel ) entered in the a distribution agreement that also gave B & W an option to acquire Jewel.
Born in Belize City, in what was then British Honduras, to William and Irene ( née Escalante ) Price, he entered politics in 1947 with his election to the Belize City Council.
In 1947, Gina entered the Miss Italia pageant and came in 3rd place.
He entered the military immediately after high school graduation, serving from 1943 to 1947.
Broyles entered coaching in 1947 as an assistant coach under head coach Bob Woodruff at Baylor University.
Bishop entered the University of Chicago in 1944, obtaining both the BS and MS in 1947.
1947 and Nepal
* 1947 – Gyanendra of Nepal
* Zhang Jiuhuan 張九桓 / 张九桓 ( 1947 -; Bobai, Guangxi ), Ambassador of China to Nepal ( 1995 – 1998 ), Singapore ( 2000 – 2004 ), Thailand ( 2004 -); Youngest-ever ambassador, People's Republic of China
Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (; Jñānendra Vīra Bikrama Śāh ) ( born 7 July 1947 ) is the deposed King of Nepal.
April 9, 1950: Formation of Nepali Congress through the merger of Nepali National Congress ( established on January 25, 1947 ) and Nepal Democratic Congress ( established on August 4, 1948 ) at Calcutta, India and call for an armed struggle against the Rana regime.
Smythies father took up a contract post of Forest Advisor to the Maharaja of Nepal and moved to Kathmandu after 1940 and stayed on till 1947.
He was imprisoned in Nepal in 1947 – 1948 after returning to his home city in Biratnagar to lead a labor demonstration.
In 1947 an agreement, known as the Tripartite Agreement between India, Nepal and the United Kingdom was negotiated in order to determine what would happen to the Gurkhas upon the formalisation of India's Independence.
After the Partition of India in 1947 the regiment was one of the six Gorkha regiments transferred to the Indian Army as part of the Tripartite Agreement signed between India, Nepal and Britain at the time of Indian independence.
India gained its independence in 1947 and the regiment was one of six Gurkha regiments ( out of 10 ) to be allocated to the Indian Army as part of the Tripartite Agreement between Britain, India and Nepal.
The Tripartite Agreement between the United Kingdom, India and Nepal was a treaty signed in 1947 concerning the rights of Gurkhas in military service.
While Britain achieved colonial control of India between 1858 and 1947, it never did so over Nepal.
:: Afghanistan, Russian and Chinese Central Asia, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim ( late eighteenth century to 1947 );
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The British wrested control of the city from the Ottomans during World War I and it was to be included in an international zone under the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
In the United Nations General Assembly's 1947 resolution to partition Palestine, Bethlehem was included in the special international enclave of Jerusalem to be administered by the United Nations.
The first to be born was the radical Chadian Progressive Party ( PPT ) in February 1947, initially headed by Panamanian born Gabriel Lisette, but from 1959 headed by François Tombalbaye.
In the introduction to his 1947 " Kinetic theory of liquids " book, J Frenkel ( see Yakov Frenkel ) proposed that " The kinetic theory of liquids must accordingly be developed as a generalization and extension of the kinetic theory of solid bodies.
When this was introduced in July 1947, it led to a currency crisis and convertibility had to be suspended after just five weeks.
1947 proved to be a particularly difficult year for the government ; an exceptionally cold winter that year caused coal mines to freeze and cease production, creating widespread power cuts and food shortages.
The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.
Censuses during independence have been taken 1947, 1960 ( the first comprehensive demographic investigation ), 1970, 1976 ( a sample census ), 1981, 1994 and 2004 and the next would be taken at 2017.
Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).
Robert Lowell wrote in 1947, " Nothing could be more wrongheaded, than the English disputes about Dylan Thomas's greatness ...
He also edited the first anthology of original sf, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes ( 1947 ), although there is evidence that this last was originally intended to be the first issue of a new magazine.
Article 2 of the Constitution of Japan, promulgated in 1947 by influence of the U. S. occupation administration and still in force, provides that " The Imperial Throne shall be dynastic and succeeded to in accordance with the Imperial Household Law passed by the Diet.
He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.
It was then simplified in 1947, when Leon Henkin observed in his Ph. D. thesis that the hard part of the proof can be presented as the Model Existence Theorem ( published in 1949 ).
* 1947: British Empire begins to be voluntarily dismantled with the granting of independence to India and Pakistan.
On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved ( Resolution 106 ) that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ), be created " to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine ".
At this time, there was further controversy when the British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin ordered an illegal immigrant ship, the Exodus 1947, to be sent back to Europe.
In the Report of the Committee dated 3 September 1947 to the UN General Assembly, the majority of the Committee in Chapter VI proposed a plan to replace the British Mandate with " an independent Arab State, an independent Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem " ..., the last to be under " an International Trusteeship System ".
There is a large following in Punjab, especially in Ludhiana and Patiala, and there used to be many Jains in Lahore ( Punjab's historic capital ) and other cities before the Partition of 1947, after which many fled to India.
In January 1947, Nehru said that independent India would not accept the Divine Right of Kings, and in May 1947, he declared that any princely state which refused to join the Constituent Assembly would be treated as an enemy state.
According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.
By the summer of 1947, however, the KSČ's popularity had significantly dwindled, and most observers believed Gottwald would be turned out of office at the elections due for May 1948.
Laos ' first, French-written and monarchical constitution was promulgated on May 11, 1947 and declared it to be an independent state within the French Union.
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