In the mid &# 8209 ; 19th century, expansionism, especially southwards, faced opposition from those who opposed slavery.

Since the mid &# 8209 ; 1990s, Monsanto indicates that it has sued 145 individual U. S. farmers for patent infringement and / or breach of contract in connection with its genetically engineered seed.

In the mid &# 8209 ; 17th century Augustine Herman, a mapmaker and Prague native who had served as an envoy for the Dutch, observed that two great bodies of water, the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay, were separated only by a narrow strip of land.

The first promession facility opened at the end of 2011, and as of mid &# 8209 ; 2011, Wiigh-Mäsak had received expressions of interest from more than 60 countries, including Vietnam, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Netherlands, Canada, and the United States.

The term futurology in its contemporary sense was first coined in the mid &# 8209 ; 1940s by the German Professor Ossip K. Flechtheim, who proposed a new science of probability.

In the mid &# 8209 ; 1940s the first professional " futurist " consulting institutions like RAND and SRI began to engage in long-range planning, systematic trend watching, scenario development, and visioning, at first under World War II military and government contract and, beginning in the 1950s, for private institutions and corporations.

The period from the late 1940s to the mid &# 8209 ; 1960s laid the conceptual and methodological foundations of the modern futures studies field.

Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.

The B5500 came a few years later ; followed by the B6500 / B6700 in the later 1960s, the B7700 in the mid 1970s, and the A series in the 1980s.

Yet the banknotes issued were still regionally valid and temporary ; it was not until the mid 13th century that a standard and uniform government issue of paper money was made into an acceptable nationwide currency.

When the team fell out of contention in mid -, Shapiro fired manager Charlie Manuel and traded pitching ace Bartolo Colón for prospects Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, and Grady Sizemore ; acquired Travis Hafner from the Rangers for Ryan Drese and Einar Diaz ; and picked up Coco Crisp from the St. Louis Cardinals for aging starter Chuck Finley.

* From late August to mid September 1995, the island was in the path of three successive cyclones: Tropical Storm Iris on 28 August — caused minor damages ; Hurricane Luis on 5 September — caused moderate damages in north coast of Grande-Terre ; Hurricane Marilyn on 15 September — caused moderate damages in Basse-Terre.

* From late August to mid September 1995, the island was in the path of three successive cyclones: Tropical Storm Iris on 28 August caused minor damages ; Hurricane Luis on 5 September caused moderate damages in north coast of Grande-Terre ; Hurricane Marilyn on 15 September caused moderate damages in Basse-Terre.

Historically, a marble or limestone edge runner mill, running on a limestone bed was used in Great Britain ; however, by the mid 19th century AD this had changed to either an iron shod stone wheel or a cast iron wheel running on an iron bed.

From 1913 onwards parts of her collection were open to the public ; until the mid 1930s her exhibition hall in The Hague was one of the very rare places where one could see more than a few works of modern art.

The Ruthenian population formed a majority in GDL from the time of the GDL's expansion in the mid 14th century ; and the adjective " Lithuanian ", besides denoting ethnic Lithuanians, from early times denoted any inhabitant of GDL, including Slavs and Jews.

The subject also enjoyed a revival in the mid twentieth century ; André Obey's 1931 play Le Viol de Lucrèce was adapted into a 1946 opera by Benjamin Britten.

By the mid 1970s, Sweden experienced a recession that struck especially hard on the industrial sector ; shipyards and manufacturing industries were hard hit, which led to high unemployment in many cities of Scania.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet the macron is used to indicate mid tone ; the sign for a long vowel is a modified triangular colon ⟨⟩.

In Lauda was again strong in his Ferrari ; at mid season he led the championship with 56 points whilst Hunt had only 26 despite wins in Spain ( a race from which he was initially disqualified ) and France.

They can be considered the successors of early telephotography input devices, which were able to send consecutive scan lines as analog amplitude modulation signals through standard telephonic lines to appropriate receivers ; such systems were in use in press since the 1920s to the mid 1990s.

Several 30-contact relays in " Connector " circuits in mid 20th century 1XB switch and 5XB switch telephone exchanges ; cover removed on one

By the mid twentieth century the Crossbow Corps had become largely defunct, save for parading on state holidays ; but in 1956 the practice of training its members in crossbow shooting was revived, and a ' Crossbow Federation ' was formed to encourage competition in this art, so that the unit ( although still entirely ceremonial in nature ) now again has a very active existence.

The rebound which started in mid 2003 saw growth rate growth rate averaging 3 % ( 2004 and 2005 saw a GDP growth of 2. 5 % and 2. 6 % respectively ; for 2006 and 2007, the rate was 3. 6 %).

After this, in the mid to late 19th century, only in autonomous Galicia ( 1861 – 1914 ) was there a unicameral, functioning National Sejm ; it is recognised today as having played a major, and overwhelming positive role in the development of Polish national institutions.

LeMay loaned out facilities of Strategic Air Command bases for the SCCA's use ; the SCCA relied heavily on these venues during the early and mid 1950s during the transition from street racing to permanent circuits.

During the mid 1980s and into the early 1990s, this membership category was called an " instant " membership ; currently these are referred to as " signature members ".

* Pope Evaristus succeeds Pope Clement I as the fifth pope ( according to Catholic tradition ; none of the Popes until the mid second century is certain ).

The popularity of mystery cults flourished in Late Antiquity ; Julian the Apostate in the mid 4th century is known to have been initiated into three distinct mystery cults.

By the 1940s, the term commonly was capitalized, Negro, but by the mid 1960s it was considered disparaging.

Amphetamines were used until the mid 1960s.

From the late 1820s until the mid 1960s, Arapawa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds.

Around the mid 1960s, boats made of glass-reinforced plastic, more commonly known as fibreglass, became popular, especially for recreational boats.

By the mid 1960s, binary addressing had become the standard architecture in most computer designs, and main memory sizes were most commonly powers of two.

Doug Engelbart began experimenting with a keysets to use with the mouse in the mid 1960s.

He eschewed radical political and economic reforms, promoting instead a small degree of candor in politics and mild economic experiments similar to those that had been associated with the late Premier Alexei Kosygin's initiatives in the mid − 1960s.

Founded by New York based artist Mercedes Matter and her students the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture is an art school formed in the mid 1960s.

By the mid 1960s, Viola Spolin's classes were handed over to her protégé, Jo Forsberg, who further developed Spolin's methods into a one-year course, which eventually became The Players Workshop, the first official school of improvisation in the USA.

Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence.

On his evangelist program The Old-Time Gospel Hour in the mid 1960s, Falwell regularly featured segregationist politicians like Lester Maddox and George Wallace.

He also set up Engine Developments Ltd. in 1971 with John Judd, who had worked for Brabham on the Repco engine project in the mid 1960s.

There have been strong developments for the kantele in Finland since the mid 20th century, starting with the efforts of modern players such as Martti Pokela in the 1950s and 1960s.

* ETA – Basque Fatherland and Liberty, a left-wing Basque separatist group fighting for the independence of the Basques from Spain with ties to the Provisional Irish Republican Army also received training support from Libya in the 1960s and mid -' 70s.

Media studies in Australia was first developed as an area of study in Victorian universities in the early 1960s, and in secondary schools in the mid 1960s.

In secondary schools, an early " film studies " course first began being taught as part of the Victorian junior secondary curriculum during the mid 1960s.

In the mid 1960s, Fayed met the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid al Makhtoum who entrusted Fayed with helping transform Dubai.

In the mid 1960s Baba became concerned with the increasingly prevalent drug culture in the West and began a correspondence with several Western academics, including Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, in which he strongly discouraged the use of all hallucinogenic drugs for spiritual purposes.

The Novichok ( Russian for " newcomer ") agents are a series of organophosphate compounds that were developed in the Soviet Union from the mid 1960s to the 1990s.

As the campus orientation of the American New Left became clear in the mid to late 1960s, the student sections of the British New Left began taking action.

It was pioneered by musicians including The Beatles, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, emerging as a genre during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United Kingdom and United States, such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Doors and Pink Floyd.

In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.

Led by pearl pioneer John Latendresse and his wife Chessy, the United States began farming cultured freshwater pearls in the mid 1960s.