At a Braveheart Convention in 1997, held in Stirling the day after the Scottish Devolution vote and attended by 200 delegates from around the world, Braveheart author Randall Wallace, Seoras Wallace of the Wallace Clan, Scottish historian David Ross and Bláithín FitzGerald from Ireland gave lectures on various aspects of the film.

In 1997 he also gave over the leadership of the National Party and retired from politics.

In 1997, Juan Maldacena gave the first holographic descriptions of a higher dimensional object, the 3 + 1 dimensional type IIB membrane, which resolved a long-standing problem of finding a string description which describes a gauge theory.

This number is lower than the 1997 Census, which gave 929, 718 residents.

In 1997 alone, after the capture of Kabul by the Taliban, Pakistan gave $ 30 million in aid and a further $ 10 million for government wages.

* With help from clinical fertility drugs, an Iowa mother, Bobbie McCaughey, gave birth to the first surviving septuplets in 1997.

Harris's site attracted few visitors, and caused no concern until late 1997, when Klebold gave the web address to Brooks Brown, a former friend of Harris.

In a 1997 interview with Andy Diggle for the now defunct Comics World website, Alan Moore gave the title of the work as " The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk ".

In an interview with Andy Diggle in 1997, Alan Moore first gave a synopsis of the series which then had the working title of The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk.

With the third-worst record in the league, the Spurs won the NBA's draft lottery, which gave them the top pick in the 1997 draft.

( The paper later gave rise to the title of the film Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, and the paper's concepts arguably have been seen in practice in the 1997 Mars Pathfinder and then 2004 Mars Exploration Rover Mission.

* Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who grew up near Zinn and were family friends, gave A People's History a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ).

* Bobbi McCaughey, the Iowa mother, and wife of Kenny McCaughey, who made international news when she gave birth to septuplets in Des Moines on November 19, 1997.

In 1997 Johnny Chung, a Democratic political donor, claimed that O ' Leary met with Chinese oil officials after he gave $ 25, 000 to O ' Leary's favorite charity Africare in 1995.

In 1997, researchers proposed a simpler classification that reduced the number of major types to six and gave them descriptive names .< ref > These six major types are listed here.

EWF performed at the 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival and gave an encore performance the following year.

Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution.

She gave birth to their only child, daughter Ava Elizabeth, in 1997.

Golden Child later became his second Broadway venture and won the 1997 Obie Award for its Off-Broadway production and gave Hwang his second Tony nomination.

In 1997, Vasquez gave Squee, a supporting character from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, his own four-issue series.

Following a referendum in 1997, in which the Scottish electorate gave their consent, a Scottish Parliament and devolved Scottish Government were established by the Labour government of Tony Blair.

Finally, in 1996 Reilly gave Eileen Davidson, who had played Kristen Blake since 1993, a second role as Kristen's lookalike Susan Banks, and between 1997 and 1998 added three more — including a man — with Davidson ultimately receiving a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1998.

This is a list of Acts of Parliament enacted since 1997 that gave powers to the Department of Constitutional Affairs.

The Indigenous Peoples Rights Act came into existence in 1997 and gave the peoples of the Cordillera decisive influence over the establishment of foreign mining companies.

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

Lewinsky alleged that between November 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President Bill Clinton that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts in the Oval Office, but that none of them involved sexual intercourse.

In response to the trials of the conspirators being moved out-of-state, the Victim Allocution Clarification Act of 1997 was signed on March 20, 1997 by President Clinton to allow the victims of the bombing ( and the victims of any other future acts of violence ) the right to observe trials and to offer impact testimony in sentencing hearings.

In 1997 the Supreme Court of Canada, in the Delgamuukw v. British Columbia trial, ruled that oral histories were just as important as written testimony.

* Dr. Schneider's 1997 testimony to the U. S. Senate.

But a key fact was unknown in 1997, and had not been elicited under sworn testimony in which Mulroney had denied business dealings or significant meetings with a business associate: Mulroney later confirmed that he had personally accepted cash payments from his business associate Karlheinz Schreiber, a German-Canadian businessman who had been a paid broker for Airbus and other companies.

In 1997, Annette Gordon-Reed published a book that analyzed the historiography of the controversy, demonstrating how historians since the nineteenth century had accepted early assumptions, including Jefferson family testimony over Hemings family testimony, and failed to note all the facts.

Although he rejected this scholarship, Martin Mayer wrote in 1997 that since the late 1980s it had been “ clear ” that continuing the Glass-Steagall prohibitions was only “ permitting a handful of large investment houses and hedge funds to charge monopoly rents for their services without protecting corporate America, investors, or the banks .” Hyman Minsky, who disputed the benefits of “ universal banking ,” wrote in 1995 testimony prepared for Congress that “ repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, in itself, would neither benefit nor harm the economy of the United States to any significant extent .” In 1974 Mayer had quoted Minsky as stating a 1971 presidential commission ( the “ Hunt Commission ”) was repeating the errors of history when it proposed relaxing Glass-Steagall and other legislation from the 1930s.

The Supreme Court of Japan ruled in 1997 that the testimony was indeed sufficient and that requiring it to be removed was an illegal violation of freedom of speech.

In his 1997 book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, Kertzer investigates the story and quotes from contemporary testimony.

In her testimony to the Senate Agriculture Committee and in several subsequent speeches during the first half of 1997, Chairperson Born argued OTC derivatives did not create the same “ concentration of financial risk ” as exchange traded futures and did not perform the “ unique price discovery ” function of exchange traded contracts.

Chairperson Born ’ s 1997 testimony on the difference between exchange and OTC markets was consistent with her first speech as CFTC Chair, on October 24, 1996, in which she stated her belief that regulation of the OTC derivatives market should be limited to fraud and manipulation.

While her 1997 testimony opposed the Senate bill ’ s provision to codify in law the existing CFTC regulatory exemptions for OTC derivatives, she also stated the CFTC was “ watching ” the OTC derivatives market with the PWG and had no plans to modify the existing CFTC exemptions for that market.

Medical examiner Robert Davis changed his testimony from 1997 deposition given in the civil case to strongly disagree that Lisa was severely dehydrated.

According to the congressional testimony of Gary Milhollin of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in 1997, Norinco subsidiaries in the U. S. include: Beta Chemical, Beta First, Beta Lighting, Beta Unitex, China Sports ( California ), Forte Lighting, Larin, NIC International ( New Jersey ).

In April 1997, during sworn testimony during an Australian court case, Fasold repeated his doubts and noted that he regarded the claim that Noah's ark had been found as " absolute BS ".

* His testimony to House Judiciary Committee Sub-Committee on Terrorism and Crime, June 10, 1997

1997 ) – In this case, a grand jury subpoenaed testimony from an attorney on the contents of his discussions with and work on behalf of a deceased client ( Vince Foster ).

In 1997, Coleman pleaded guilty to five counts of perjury in a Federal court after admitting that he submitted a false testimony in a civil litigation brought on behalf of the families of passengers killed in the bombing.