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A kindred not associated with any other group is known as an independent kindred, which is more typical within the US than elsewhere.

For instance, the United Kingdom has its Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington, D. C., but also maintains seven consulates-general and four consulates elsewhere in the US.

Jefferson had the expedition declare " sovereignty " and demonstrate their military strength to ensure native tribes would be subordinate to the US, as European colonizers did elsewhere.

Nininger reports several other such instances, in the Southwest US and elsewhere, such as the discovery of Native American beads of meteoric iron found in Hopewell burial mounds, and the discovery of the Winona meteorite in a Native American stone-walled crypt.

Professional dance teachers in the US saw this approach to dancing as " extreme ", " undisciplined ", and thus, deemed it necessary to standardize the dance to present it as a sell-able commodity for the social or ballroom market Thus, compared to the mambo in Cuba, mambo had a different movement sequence in the United States and elsewhere, as it was popularized internationally.

Those Communists who became disillusioned with Communism due to its authoritarian character eventually formed the " new left ", first among dissenting Communist Party intellectuals and campus groups in the United Kingdom, and later alongside campus radicalism in the US and elsewhere.

Since a paper describing the algorithm had been published in August 1977, prior to the December 1977 filing date of the patent application, regulations in much of the rest of the world precluded patents elsewhere and only the US patent was granted.

In terms of its wide cultural impact across society in the US and elsewhere, Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock ", recorded in April 1954 but not a commercial success until the following year, is generally recognized as an important milestone, but it was preceded by many recordings from earlier decades in which elements of rock and roll can be clearly discerned.

Though US daytime soap operas are not generally rerun by their networks, occasionally they are rebroadcast elsewhere.

By 1945, the church reported 210, 000 members in the US and Canada, and 360, 000 elsewhere ; the budget was $ 29 million and enrollment in church schools was 140, 000.

T-Mobile has launched a network in the US operating at 1700 MHz ( uplink ) / 2100 MHz ( downlink ), and these bands are also being adopted elsewhere in the Americas.

The reference pressure, in inches of mercury in Canada and the US and hectopascals ( previously millibars ) elsewhere, is displayed in the small Kollsman window, on the face of the aircraft altimeter.

Historically, fingerprints have been used as the most authoritative method of authentication, but recent court cases in the US and elsewhere have raised fundamental doubts about fingerprint reliability.

Obviously this concept exists in US jurisprudence but disdained by " fans of entrepreneurial lawyering in the academy and elsewhere.

A 4-hour TV movie, Riverworld has been produced and released by Syfy ( formerly The Sci-fi Channel ) in the US and by Studio Universal elsewhere, written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

A nonprofit organization ( US ) or not-for-profit organisation ( UK and elsewhere ) ( NPO ) is an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals rather than distributing them as profit or dividends.

Public Opinion, 1935-1946 ( 1951 ), massive compilation of many public opinion polls from US, UK, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere.

in release, it grossed $ 75, 793, 305 in US and Canada and $ 48, 951, 77 elsewhere bringing to a total of $ 124, 745, 083.

*( In the US ) – a quadrilateral with no parallel sides ( a shape known elsewhere as a general irregular quadrilateral ).

An American branch recently incorporated under the name " American Friends of Neve Shalom " they are a non-profit 501 ( c ) 3 organization that raises funds in the US for NSWAS programs ( similar support groups also exist in the EU, and elsewhere ).

People in other parts of the world are responding to this availability of organs, and a number of individuals ( including US and Japanese citizens ) have elected to travel to China or India as medical tourists to receive organ transplants which may have been sourced in what might be considered elsewhere to be unethical ways ( see later ).

Their debut album was Mr. Fantasy, produced by Jimmy Miller, and like the singles, was a hit in the UK but not as big elsewhere, although it did reach number 88 in the US.

Toltec architecture is distinctive, featuring details that indicate Toltec influence when they turn up elsewhere at sites as distant as the Yucatán peninsula and the US Southwest.

While on their international tour supporting Heaven or Las Vegas, the group signed a new recording contract with Mercury Records subsidiary Fontana for the UK and elsewhere, while retaining their US relationship with Capitol.

Some US School districts and systems return to school in August.

Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral and central nervous systems ; they include paracetamol ( para-acetylaminophenol, also known in the US as acetaminophen or simply APAP ), the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) such as the salicylates, and opioid drugs such as morphine and opium.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

Funded by a US Air Force grant, an expert system-based application ( hprcARCHITECT ) that generates computer programs for mixed processor technology ( FPGA / GPU / Multicore ) systems without a need for technical specialists has recently been commercially introduced.

For EFTPOS, US based systems allow the use of debit cards or credit cards.

The sizes of gallon used in these two systems were different from each other: the first was based on the wine gallon ( equal in size to the US gallon ), and the second on either the ale gallon or the smaller imperial gallon.

One of the aims of Galileo is to provide a high-precision positioning system upon which European nations can rely, independently from the Russian GLONASS, US GPS, and Chinese Compass systems, which can be disabled in times of war or conflict.

Since Galileo was designed to provide the highest possible precision ( possibly even greater than GPS ) to anyone, the US was concerned that an enemy could use Galileo signals in military strikes against the US and its allies ( some weapons like missiles use GNSS systems for guidance ).

In presidential systems, such as that of the United States, appointments are nominated by the President's sole discretion, but this nomination is often subject to parliamentary confirmation ( in the case of the US, the Senate has to approve cabinet nominees and judicial appointments by simple majority ).

The US Navy for example developed some of the most technically advanced hydrofoils around but they could never get them to be reliable due to the complex propulsion systems and ride control required.

The Russian Navy still operates very large hydrofoils and have been successful in their designs, largely because they have opted for simpler systems which might not have the same performance as the US designs but are much more robust and reliable.

, all five of the nations with permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council have operational long-range ballistic missile systems: all have submarine-launched missiles, and Russia, the United States and China also have land-based ICBMs ( the US ' missiles are silo-based, China and Russia have both silo and road-mobile missiles ).

*: 1950s: Growing concern in the US for a " science gap " with the USSR motivated, encouraged funding and provided a backdrop for mechanized literature searching systems ( Allen Kent et al.

It was originated to ensure that the command and control ( C2 and C3 ) and weapons systems of all US military services would be interoperable.

Principal US military systems currently purchased by the Kuwait Defence Forces are Patriot missile system, F-18 Hornet fighters, and the M1A2 Main Battle Tank.

LORAN systems were built during World War II after development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) Radiation Laboratory and were used extensively by the US Navy and Royal Navy.

Shorter-range developments have become widely used as highly accurate attack systems, such as the US Tomahawk missile, the Russian Kh-55 the German Taurus missile and the Pakistani Babur cruise missile.

By 1950 systems based on this early research started to reach operational service, including the US Army's Nike Ajax, the Navy's " 3T's " ( Talos, Terrier, Tartar ), and soon followed by the Soviet S-25 Berkut and S-75 Dvina and French and British systems.

The Macintosh was the favorite among US musicians, as it was marketed at a competitive price, and would be several years before PC systems would catch up to its efficiency and graphical interface.

However, many modern tanks ( such as those operated by the US and NATO ) have onboard fire suppression systems.

NATO refers to surface-to-air missile systems mounted on ships or submarines with the same names as the corresponding land-based systems, but the US DoD assigns a different series of numbers with a different suffix ( i. e., SA-N-vs. SA -) for these systems.