The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.

There is, however, no " post " that the winning candidate must pass in order to win, as the winning candidate is required only to have received the highest number of votes in his or her favour.

In 1589, he received the valuable appointment of reversion to the Clerkship of the Star Chamber, although he did not formally take office until 1608 – a post which was worth £ 16, 000 a year.

Back in London, in September 1937, Gardner applied for and received a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Meta Collegiate Extension of the National Electronic Institute, an organisation based in Nevada that was widely recognised by academic institutions as offering invalid academic degrees via post for a fee.

In 1878, the locality received its own post office, which was then part of the stationmasters house.

In 1927 the post of Deputy-Registrar was created, tasked with dealing with legal research for the Court and answering all diplomatic correspondence received by the Registry.

The following year, he received an appointment as Distributor of Stamps for Westmorland, and the £ 400 per year income from the post made him financially secure.

Whenever she received a letter soliciting money, a cheque would be sent by the next post, regardless of the authenticity of the mendicant and without having the case investigated.

Horne received several attractive invitations, and chose the post of Chairman and Managing Director of Chad Valley toy manufacturers.

On the day of the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler, Bodewin Keitel was on an inspection tour in his command area in Danzig, when his command post inadvertently received a telex from a citizen of Berlin addressed to his first officer, Hasso von Boehmer from the co-conspirator's headquarters in the Bendlerblock, arranging the first steps to then be taken by participant Boehmer.

IEEE publications have received a Green rating the from SHERPA / RoMEO guide for affirming " authors and / or their companies shall have the right to post their IEEE-copyrighted material on their own servers without permission " ( IEEE Publication Policy 8. 1. 9. D ).

When Clark received an endorsement by only 66. 9 per cent of delegates at the party convention in January 1983 in Winnipeg, Clark resigned and ran to regain his post at the 1983 leadership convention.

He was kindly received by the Queen and her husband, King Francis II, and, as he himself put it: " The Queen recompensed me more liberally and jobbies honourably than I had deserved " — receiving 600 Crowns and the post and salary of gentleman of the French King's Chamber.

Dickens later noted that he received " by every post, all manner of strangers writing all manner of letters about their homes and hearths, and how the Carol is read aloud there, and kept on a very little shelf by itself ".

WikiLeaks initially said it had not received the cables, but did plan to post the video of an attack that killed 86 to 145 Afghan civilians in the village of Garani.

This post received 100 pounds voted by Parliament for the repair and completion of the Abbey in 1698.

The town received its first post office in 1875.

The town of Geary, which also received a post office in the same year as the land run, became an agricultural trade center in the county and had a population of 2, 561 by 1902.

It was later changed to Woodshop, which was its name when the town received its post office.

A stagecoach stop for many years, the community now known as Winslow first received a post office on December 11, 1876, known as Summit Home.

The town was essentially a trading post and received its name when the Post Office was established and the Post Office Department designated the office " Los Banos " after the nearby creek.

In 1912 several things happened in Yorba Linda: it received its first post office ; the Yorba Linda Citrus Association was founded ; the Southern California Edison Company began providing electricity ; and the first church was constructed.

It received a post office in 1881 under the name Osgood after California Southern Railroad chief engineer Joseph O. Osgood ; the renaming was supposedly an unsuccessful attempt to convince Osgood to build the railroad through the San Luis Rey River valley ( the rail line eventually followed the Santa Margarita River instead ).

In 1867 the town received a post office under the name of McCarthysville.

Gen. Swing has received public attention before this for abuse of some of the prerogatives of his office.

In 1932 Dorset received its own exchange, which made business easier for the Manchester office, but it was not until February 1953 that area service was extended to include Manchester and Dorset.

Henry McLeish, Labour First Minister of Scotland, failed to refund the House of Commons for income he had received from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes while still a Westminster MP.

In 2007 – 08, Berkeley received media attention due to demonstrations against a Marine Corps recruiting office in downtown Berkeley and a series of controversial motions by Berkeley's City Council regarding opposition to Marine recruiting.

It earned less at the box office than his previous features and received mixed reviews ; some viewers were displeased with Chaplin's politicising.

It was a modest box office success, but received critical acclaim, earning a score of 96 % on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes.

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

Oxford received his first vote for membership in the Order of the Garter in 1569, but never attained the honor in spite of his high rank and office.

Finally with the arrival of Paranormal Activity ( 2009 ), which was well received by critics and an excellent reception at the box office, minimal thought started by The Blair Witch Project was reaffirmed and is expected to be continued successfully in other low-budget productions.

Heathers was first released onto VHS in 1989, where it received strong sales and rentals, and is where it first became well known after being unsuccessful at the box office.

In late July 1934, Special Agent Melvin Purvis, the Director of Operations in the Chicago office, received a tip on Dillinger's whereabouts which paid off when Dillinger was located, ambushed and killed by FBI agents outside the Biograph Theater.

He received excellent reviews, with the New York Journal American rating it one of his best performances, and the film, made for Universal, was a box office hit.

The film was well-reviewed by critics, but received little promotion, and performed poorly at the box office.

The film received glowing reviews and shattered box office records across the country, earning Universal $ 12 million on first release.

The movie was well received by critics and a financial success, setting a new opening weekend box office record for North America.

On 15 September 1656 the octogenarian Köprülü Mehmed Pasha accepted the seals of office having received guarantees from the Valide Turhan Hatice of unprecedented authority and freedom from interference.

Roderigo complains that he has received nothing for his efforts and threatens to abandon his pursuit of Desdemona, but Iago convinces him to kill Cassio instead, because Cassio has just been appointed governor of Cyprus, and — Iago argues — if Cassio lives to take office, Othello and Desdemona will leave Cyprus, thwarting Roderigo's plans to win Desdemona.

The film received favorable reviews, and was commercially successful, grossing over $ 67 million worldwide, although it performed better at the box office internationally than domestically.

In 1939, Pius XII turned the Vatican into a centre of aid which he organized from various parts of the world At the request of the Pope, an information office for prisoners of war and refugees operated in the Vatican under Giovanni Battista Montini, which in the years of its existence from 1939 until 1947 received almost 10 million ( 9, 891, 497 ) information requests and produced over 11 million ( 11, 293, 511 ) answers about missing persons.

It received mostly positive reviews, but performed moderately at the box office.

While the film performed well at the box office, it received mixed reviews from critics.

Saving Private Ryan was well received by audiences and garnered considerable critical acclaim, winning several awards for film, cast, and crew as well as earning significant returns at the box office.

The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U. S. box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release.