" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.

Relatively few parts of New York actually permit alcohol sales at all times permissible under state law ; most counties have more restrictive blue laws of their own.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money ; warships ; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies ; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references.

Charlemagne established across them the vassal regions of Pamplona, Aragon and Catalonia ( which was itself formed from a number of small counties, Pallars, Gerona, and Urgell being the most prominent ) respectively.

The suffix-shire is attached to most of the names of English, Scottish and Welsh counties.

In the British cultural legacy, most regional entities begin with fairly expansive counties which encompass an appreciable territorial area and proceed down in size to smaller entities.

The issue divided Ireland, for a significant unionist minority ( largely though by no means exclusively based in Ulster ), opposed Home Rule, fearing that a Catholic-Nationalist parliament in Dublin would discriminate against them and would also impose tariffs on industry ; while most of Ireland was primarily agricultural, six counties in Ulster were the location of heavy industry and would be affected by any tariff barriers imposed.

In most U. S. counties, one town or city is designated as the county seat, and this is where the government offices are located and where the board of commissioners or supervisors meets.

The thirteen historic counties of Wales were fixed by Statute in 1539 ( although counties such as Pembrokeshire date from 1138 ) and most of the shires of Scotland are of at least this age.

Alaska is divided into boroughs, which typically provide fewer local services than do most U. S. counties, as the state government furnishes many services directly.

The All-Ireland Senior Championship is run as a knock-out competition, with the top two counties meeting in the All-Ireland Football Final, considered the most prestigious event in Gaelic football.

The polka ( polca in the Irish language ) is also one of the most popular traditional folk dances in Ireland, particularly in Sliabh Luachra, a district that spans the borders of counties Kerry, Cork and Limerick.

It is one of the most affluent counties in the United States, and has the highest percentage ( 29. 2 %) of residents over 25 years of age who hold post-graduate degrees.

Although Perot won no state, he received the most votes in some counties, including Trinity County, California.

The appointed jurymen are divided into two groups, in most counties the first with sixteen members and the second with eight.

In the census ; Merionnydd, Ynys Mon, Carmarthen, and Caernarfon averaged 75 % concentration of Welsh speakers, with the most significant decrease in the counties of Glamorgan, Flint, and Pembroke.

Today it is one of the most affluent counties in the country, home to many of New York City's most desirable suburban communities.

Madison County is the name of nineteen counties and one parish in the United States, most of which are named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States.

Until the 16th century, the Low Countries – roughly now corresponding to Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg – consisted of a number of duchies, counties and bishoprics, most of which were under the supremacy of the Holy Roman Empire.

Their character varies, and while most function as cities with no upper level of government, some function as counties or regional municipalities with no lower municipal subdivisions below them.

* Fulton County, Georgia, the most populous of Georgia's counties

It is the least populous of New York's 62 counties and is also the most sparsely populated county in the eastern half of the United States, with a population density of just over three people per square mile.

Mando, pleading her cause, must have said that Dr. Brown was the most distinguished physician in the United States of America, for our man poured out his symptoms and drew a madly waving line indicating the irregularity of his pulse.

Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.

The death of Mr. Hammarskjold removes the United Nations' most controversial leader.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

`` The American press clamored for many days promising President Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems confronting the United States.

The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.

It would be the most severe reprisal, short of declared war, that the United States could invoke against Castro.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

Colorado's Grand Canyon, probably the most famous landmark of the United States, can be the highpoint of your Western vacation.

In the United States, most of the sensors are calibrated by dropping small spheres on their sensitive surfaces.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

And so well is such ignorance preserved by the amateur and the money-maker that even at the college level most of the hundred-odd folklore courses given in the United States survive on sentiment and nationalism alone.

Corn and wheat supply most of the starch in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

India is the most populous United Nations member with more than 400,000,000 inhabitants.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

In most United States jurisdictions a defendant is allowed the opportunity to allocute — that is, explain himself — before sentence is passed.

In the United States the most common terms used are ALS ( both specifically for ALS and as a blanket term ) or " Lou Gehrig's disease ".

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, Henry Wise Wood, president of the United Farmers of Alberta ( UFA ) during that movement's time as the governing party of the province ( 1921 – 1935 ).

For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.

Palmer amaranth is among the " top five most troublesome weeds " in the southeast of the United States and has already evolved resistances to dinitroanilines and acetolactate synthase inhibitors.

It extended citizenship to every person born in the United States ( except Indians on reservations ), penalized states that did not give the vote to freedmen, and most importantly, created new federal civil rights that could be protected by federal courts.

* 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.