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In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.
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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 late February or early March 1902 he fathered a child with Marie Scheuchl, a servant girl in the Berg family household.
The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.
After being conquered by the Arabs in the early 8th century, it was reconquered in 801 by Charlemagne's son Louis, who made Barcelona the seat of the Carolingian " Hispanic March " ( Marca Hispanica ), a buffer zone ruled by the Count of Barcelona.
Robert Quinlan " Bob " Costas ( born March 22, 1952 ) is an American sportscaster, on the air for NBC Sports television since the early 1980s.
The two had disagreed on the issue as early as March – May 1903, but it was not until the Congress that their differences became irreconcilable and split the party.
On the night of 29 February and the early morning of 1 March three Italian brigades advanced separately towards Adwa over narrow mountain tracks, while a fourth remained camped.
While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.
However, as early as March 12, 1970, the CIA Station Chief told Washington that based on communications from Sirik Matak, Lon Nol's cousin, that " the ( Cambodian ) army was ready for a coup ".
The southwest monsoon brings the rainy season from mid-May to mid-September or to early October, and the northeast monsoon flow of drier and cooler air lasts from early November to March.
In early 1962 ( as mentioned above ), Clipperton provided a home to nine crewmen of the sunken tuna clipper MV Monarch, who were stranded on the island for 23 days from February 6 to March 1 of that year.
The first single from Nobody's Daughter was " Skinny Little Bitch ", which was the most added song on alternative rock radio in early March 2010.
Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.
As early as 1877, Princeton University was known to have a " Princeton Cheer ", documented in the February 22, 1877, March 12, 1880, and November 4, 1881, issues of the Daily Princetonian.
Corrado Gini died in the early hours of March 13, 1965.
Camilla Christine Hall ( March 24, 1945-May 17, 1974 ) was an artist, college trained social worker, and an early member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
With the death of Stalin in early March 1953, Russian support for a Chinese hard-line weakened and China decided to compromise on the prisoner issue.
In late March 2011, Toy, Bowie's previously unreleased album from 2001, was leaked onto the internet, containing material used for Heathen and most of its single B-sides, as well as unheard new versions of his early back catalogue.
Devo announced in early 2009 that they would be performing at SXSW on March 20th, with a warmup show in Dallas on March 18th.
As early as March 1982 ECMA TC24 with its corporate members reached agreement on a standard for CSMA / CD based on the IEEE 802 draft.
until in early March 2009 congressional Democrats were moving to close down the program and remove children from their voucher-funded school places at the end of the 09 / 10 school year under the $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 which, as of March 7 had passed the House and was pending in the Senate.
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In response to the rapid creation of new independent agencies in the early twentieth century ( see discussion below ), Congress enacted the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) in 1946.
A silent film of one of these early streetcars in Berkeley can be seen at the Library of Congress website: " A Trip To Berkeley, California "
By the early twentieth century, both parties were winning increasing numbers of seats in Congress.
Allen appeared before the Continental Congress as early as September 1778 on behalf of Vermont, seeking recognition as an independent state.
By early July he had been replaced and attended his first meeting of the Congress on July 7, 1778.
In 1794, he declined to serve another term, and left Congress in early 1795.
In anticipation of an effort to bring the border dispute to an end in early 1996, the Guatemalan Congress ratified two long-pending international agreements governing frontier issues and maritime rights.
In the early 1860s, when the United States Congress was considering organizing a new territory in the Rocky Mountains, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested the name " Idaho ," which he claimed was derived from a Shoshone language term meaning " the sun comes from the mountains " or " gem of the mountains ".
Beginning in the early 1970s, he began permitting the most prominent guerilla organizations, such as the Rhodesian ZANU and the African National Congress, to use Zambia as a base for their operations.
In early 1804, Congress passed the Mobile Act which recognized West Florida as being part of the United States.
In early January 1918, Wilson summoned House to Washington and the two began hammering out, in complete secrecy, the president ’ s first address on the League of Nations, which was delivered to Congress on 8 January 1918.
All of the processes imparted an adequately high pH in studies conducted by the European Commission on Preservation and Access, the Library of Congress, and a team of scientists from the Centre de Recherches sur la Conservation des Documents Graphiques in the early and mid-nineties.
This tool has been used as a weapon: in the Rwandan Genocide ; in South Africa particularly in the 1980s and early 1990s when the former province of Natal was wracked by conflict between the African National Congress and the Zulu-nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party.
In May, he announced that the Fourteenth Party Congress would convene in an early session on 9 September.
Pollution began to draw major public attention in the United States between the mid-1950s and early 1970s, when Congress passed the Noise Control Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Smog Pollution in Taiwan
As early as 1949, the youth wing of the African National Congress ( ANC ) advocated the abolishment of Apartheid and suggested fighting against racial segregation by various methods.
However, the Truman and Eisenhower administrations considered it a national security threat for Canada to alone control the deep waterway, and used various means-such as delaying and stalling the Federal Power Commission license for the power aspect-until Congress in early 1954 approved an American seaway role via the Wiley-Dondero act.
GPUS is descended of The Green Committees of Correspondence ( GCoC ), a decentered network of green organizations formed by members of the North American Bioregional Congress in the early 1980s.
However, a major issue early in the 20th century was whether the whole Constitution applied to the territories called insular areas by Congress.
From the early 19th century onward, it also meant that a lame duck Congress or Presidential administration could fail to adequately respond to a significant national crises in a timely manner.
Bill Clinton framed the narrative against Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warning America that Bob Dole would work in concert with the Republican Congress to slash popular social programs, like Medicare and Social Security, dubbed by Clinton as " Dole-Gingrich ".
Also, in recent decades, newly inaugurated presidents have chosen to deliver speeches to joint sessions of Congress in the early months of their presidencies, but have not officially considered them State of the Union addresses.
The ratification of the 20th Amendment on January 23, 1933 changed the opening of Congress from early March to early January, affecting the delivery of the annual message.
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