Its official definition, edited by Woodward, Wetherall and Gorman, was first published in 1970.

Its status as an official geological period was ratified in 2004 by the International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ), making it the first new geological period declared in 120 years.

Its duties have expanded over the years, and today, according to official Federal Reserve documentation, include conducting the nation's monetary policy, supervising and regulating banking institutions, maintaining the stability of the financial system and providing financial services to depository institutions, the U. S. government, and foreign official institutions.

Its official name is Our Lady of Dolours.

Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States.

Its official language is French, although many of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole ( Créole Martiniquais ).

Its official news publication is The Final Call Newspaper.

Its official language is Swiss German.

Its standardized form, commonly called Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English.

Its functions had been fully absorbed into official government machinery in the British Raj and its private army had been nationalised by the British Crown.

Its aim was to prevent middle-class citizens from evading their responsibilities by financially putting into question the neutrality of the under-sheriff, the official entrusted with impanelling juries.

Its official name is Tokyo Metropolis, highlighting its special designation.

Its charter had been granted by an Anglican king and seems to have assumed that the Church of England would be its official church.

Its official establishment was deferred with the outbreak of World War II until August 23, 1948.

Its later use in legislation waned in favour of providing a schedule of local government areas and became mostly obsolete with the official creation of Greater London in 1965.

Its official debut came two nights later at the Sixth Annual Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival.

Its official population count was 761, 137 inhabitants in 2006 ; however, some estimates indicate its population to be as high as 1. 2 million ; the population in 1960 was only 70, 000.

Its GDP per capita was € 62, 374 in 2003, according to INSEE official figures.

Its official release was on October 17, 2007, but many stores began selling it five days in advance due to an internet leak of the album.

Its web site contains a link to the official rules of Pétanque and a link to a list of its national members.

Its official journal is Albanian Official Journal.

Its releases lag behind the official releases, due to its small development team and the concurrent development of the technology used to port the user interface.

Its official dedication took place on 1 July 2000, with Queen Margrethe II, and King Carl XVI Gustaf as the host and hostess of the ceremony.

Its name means " earth wolf " in the Afrikaans / Dutch language.

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

Its Roman name was Obringa.

Its name means " pump " and it specifically represents an air pump.

Its name means " no feet " in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise ( which were once believed to lack feet ).

Its name has become a byword for any and all supposed advanced prehistoric lost civilizations.

Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State.

Its scientific name is Musa textilis.

Its name implies associations dating back to the time of Columba and, although undocumented before the 12th century, it may have served the monks of the Columban family as an ' Iona of the east ' from early times.

Its name is frequently shortened to in Japan.

Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Its name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in memory of Alexander III of Macedon ( Pliny merely states that the name changed from Antigonia to Alexandria ).

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

Its name commemorates the uprisings in East Berlin of 17 June 1953.

Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858 and, in 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.

Its name can be connected to drum and bass or Miami Bass, whose influence can still be heard in Bass music's edgey raw energy.

Its name comes from a nightclub in London that is also called Bedrock.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

Its Cornish name, Goen Bren, is first recorded in the 12th century.

Its English name, chive, derives from the French word cive, from cepa, the Latin word for onion.

Its name is Latin for " horned male goat " or " goat horn ", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea-goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish.

Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.

Its name refers to Cetus, a sea monster in Greek mythology, although it is often called ' the whale ' today.