Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

This time, added to that which I had already spent in school prior to my induction in 1954, makes a total of twenty-two ( 22 ) years of education.

The territory's border with Ethiopia, marked out in 1897 by France and Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia, was later reaffirmed by agreements with Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1945 and 1954.

* 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game

The term became official after the formation of the NCAA Division I athletic conference in 1954.

:" If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never had been made.

In 1954 Lyons formed LEO Computers Ltd to market LEO I and its successors LEO II and LEO III to other companies.

" I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly ," he wrote in another letter in 1954.

While he was speaking in Williamstown, Victoria, in 1954, a heckler shouted, " I wouldn ’ t vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel " to which Menzies coolly replied " If I were the Archangel Gabriel, I ’ m afraid you wouldn't be in my constituency.

In 1954, the Secretary of Defense stated, " I know of no American satellite program.

Romero drew inspiration from Richard Matheson's I Am Legend ( 1954 ), a horror / science fiction novel about a plague that ravages a futuristic Los Angeles.

This " zombie " is taken largely from George A. Romero's seminal film The Night of the Living Dead, which was in turn partly inspired by Richard Matheson's 1954 novel I Am Legend.

Atlantic Research Corporation significantly boosted composite propellant I < sub > sp </ sub > in 1954 by increasing the amount of powdered aluminum in the propellant to as much as 20 %.

* Dave Brubeck dedicated " The Duke " ( 1954 ) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others, both during Ellington's lifetime ( such as by Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, 1957 ) and posthumously ( such as George Shearing on I Hear a Rhapsody: Live at the Blue Note, 1992 ).

I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson.

used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Man of La Mancha took most of its dialogue from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote ( from which it was adapted ), and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M.

* Soundtrack recordings from the 1958 film Here I Am, Here I Stay and the 1954 short film Round Up of Rhythm ( On Screen, Hydra Records, 1998 );

After his international success with Godzilla in 1954, he said, " When I worked for Nikkatsu Studios, King Kong came to Kyoto and I never forgot that movie.

But with the renewal of interference in 1954 ( as with its beginning in 1835 ), the improvement was impaired.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

The Indochina struggle was a war to stay out of in 1954, when Gen. Ridgway estimated it would take a minimum of 10 to 15 divisions at the outset to win a war the French were losing.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.

It was first tried out on a conventional submarine, the Albacore, in 1954.

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

In 1943, he founded the University of Lawsonomy in Des Moines to spread his teachings and offer the degree of " Knowledgian ," but after various IRS and other investigations it was closed and finally sold in 1954, the year of Lawson's death.

Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.

( When the award name was changed in 1954, Capp also retroactively received a Reuben statuette.

In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.

He served as chairman of the Cartoonists ' Committee in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's People-to-People program in 1954 ( although Capp had actually supported Adlai Stevenson for president in 1952 and 1956 ), which was organized to promote Savings bonds for the U. S. Treasury.

The Roman epic The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009.

Since the rule was reinstated in its present form, Gil Hodges of the Dodgers holds the record for most sacrifice flies in one season with 19, in 1954 ; Eddie Murray holds the record for most sacrifice flies in a career with 128.

The rule was again adopted in 1939, only to be eliminated again in 1940, before being adopted for the last time in 1954.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Initially his mother was reluctant to let him commit to an insecure football career, so he began an apprenticeship as an electrical engineer ; however he went on to turn professional in October 1954.

In response to attention from the government and from the media, the U. S. comic book industry set up the Comics Code Authority in 1954 and drafted the " Comics Code " in the same year.

1945-1991 ) to describe the countries associated with the Western European Union ( 1954 – 2011 ; now part of the European Union ( EU )), a defensive alliance drafted in 1948 among non-communist European nations during the Cold War, as opposed to the countries of the Eastern Bloc ( or Warsaw Pact ).

Warren drafted the basic opinion in Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) and kept circulating and revising it until he had an opinion endorsed by all the members of the Court.

In 1954 he was drafted and ended up in Korea.

His college career was interrupted for two years in 1954 when he was drafted into the U. S. Army.

In 1954, he was drafted by the United States Army and served in Austria and New Mexico as a member of the Army Signal Corps.

Hill was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the 15th round of the 1954 NFL Draft.

John Lewis Gaddis, a historian, said that the 1954 accords " were so hastily drafted and ambiguously worded that, from the standpoint of international law, it makes little sense to speak of violations from either side.

The Congressmen drafted the document to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, which determined that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.

Faloney was drafted in the first round of the 1954 National Football League draft by the San Francisco 49ers.

Yet, his budding journalism career would have to be put on hold – Talese was drafted into the United States Army in 1954.

In 1954, Lattner and was drafted in the first round by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but played with them for only one season before entering the United States Air Force.

Miller initially worked at Walt Disney productions for a few months in 1954 as a liaison between WED Enterprises and Disneyland before he was drafted into the army later that year.

The Knicks drafted Guerin with the 8th pick in the second round of the 1954 NBA Draft while still on active duty.

Selvy was drafted first overall by the Baltimore Bullets in the 1954 NBA Draft.

Warren drafted the basic opinion in Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) and kept circulating and revising it until he had an opinion endorsed by all the members of the Court.

After graduation, he was drafted in 1954 by the Philadelphia Warriors.

He was drafted into the army in 1954 and served in the Golani infantry brigade.

Dicey Galloway was drafted in November 1954.

He was originally drafted by coach Red Auerbach to provide some much-needed defensive nerve for the Celtics team, which ( despite becoming the first team to average 100 points per game in the 1954 – 55 season ) had one of the worst defensive records in the league.

He was drafted in the fourth round ( 41st overall ) of the 1954 NFL Draft by the New York Giants.

He went on to become the Head of the Social Science Department, London School of Economics from 1939 – 44, and worked for UNESCO as the head of the Social Science Department from 1956 – 60, possibly contributing to the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, which was drafted in 1954, but not ratified until 1966.

Forced into retirement by Nasser and physically attacked by a mob for attempting to restore constitutional government in 1954, Sanhuri left Egypt and helped draft the civil codes of pre-Baath Syria of Husni al-Za ' im ( who ordered for an exact code of the Sanhuri Code to replace the majalla in 1949 ), King Hussein's Jordan ( only completed and implemented in 1976, after his death ), and Libya ( 1954 ) and the commercial code of Kuwait ( drafted by Sanhuri but only concluded and implemented in 1981, already after his death.