* ( right ) East Branch St. Joseph River ( rises in southwest Adams Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan at )

** ( right ) East Fork West Branch St. Joseph River ( rises in northwest Cambria Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan at )

** ( left ) West Fork West Branch St. Joseph River ( rises from the outlfow of Rebeck Lake in northwest Camden Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan at )

It was full of oaks, pines, and maples regarding which Surveyor Joseph Bouchet wrote in 1815: " the terrain rises and is covered with wood of the best species: oaks are of high quality and particularly of large size, suitable for the construction of vessels.

The North Fork Watab River rises in Pillager Lake, flows northeasterly to Stump Lake, then southeasterly near Collegeville, merging with South Fork Watab River near St. Joseph, then to Rossier Lake and finally flowing into Watab Lake.

Other denominations, such as The Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ), have an evangelist position independent of the original patriarch office instituted by the movement's founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

However, the term evangelist is rarely used for this position, the church retaining the term Patriarch, the term most commonly used in the days of founder Joseph Smith, Jr.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

According to Lang, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Lang to his offices to inform him that The Testament of Dr Mabuse was being banned but that he was nevertheless so impressed by Lang's abilities as a filmmaker ( especially Metropolis ), he was offering Lang a position as the head of German film studio UFA.

The ship's captain, Joseph Pierpont, published his experience in several American newspapers the following year giving an accurate position of Johnston and Sand Island along with part of the reef.

Newton returned to Liverpool, England and, partly due to the influence of his father's friend Joseph Manesty, obtained a position as first mate aboard the slave ship Brownlow, bound for the West Indies via the coast of Guinea.

His compositional style derives from Johann Joseph Fux's counterpoint, who was Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral 1713-1741, a position that Albrechtsberger would hold 52 years later.

Some commentators cite this placement as proof that Jacob continued to favor Joseph over Leah's children, as presumably the rear position would have been safer from a frontal assault by Esau, which Jacob feared.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

Following Pedersen, Illich-Svitych, and Dolgopolsky, most advocates of the theory have included Afroasiatic, though criticisms by Joseph Greenberg and others from the late 1980s onward suggested a reassessment of this position.

Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for well over a decade before assuming the governmental position of Premier of the Soviet Union during World War II.

The near loss of the election by Labor weakened McGirr's position and he was replaced as premier by Joseph Cahill in April 1952.

After the election, in an attempt to reconcile with Jewish leaders and people, Grant offered the position of Secretary of the Treasury to Joseph Seligman, a prominent Jewish businessman.

* October 13 – Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime Minister Moise Tshombe and forms a provisional government, with Evariste Kimba in a leading position.

In the days after the massacre, Scalise was heard to brag, “ I am the most powerful man in Chicago .” He had recently been elevated to the position of vice-president in the Unione Siciliana by its president, Joseph Guinta.

Colonel Joseph P. Taylor, the brother of the late President Zachary Taylor, declared that " if you had hunted the whole army, from one end of it to the other, you could not have found a man in it more admirably suited for the position in every respect than Sherman.

Edwin V. Sumner and Joseph Hooker to make multiple frontal assaults against Lt. Gen. James Longstreet's position on Marye's Heights, all of which were repulsed with heavy losses.

After sending his artillery commander, Porter Alexander, to reconnoiter the Union-occupied town, he devised a plan to shift most of the Army of Tennessee away from the siege, setting up logistical support in Rome, Georgia, go after Bridgeport to take the railhead, possibly catching Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and arriving Union troops from the Eastern Theater in a disadvantageous position.

He succeeded Governor Philip Gidley King in 1805, having been offered the position by Sir Joseph Banks.

After the death of Joseph Stalin his position was in danger for some time, because of his reputation as an archetypal Stalinist.

Later it was capital of Basilicata, a position it retained until 1806, when Joseph Bonaparte reassigned it to Potenza.

When McCormick assumed the position of co-editor ( with his cousin Joseph Medill Patterson ) in 1910, the Tribune was the third-best-selling paper among Chicago's eight dailies, with a circulation of only 188, 000.

This was the position, contrary to that of " Classical Marxism " which by that time had been further illuminated by active life, shared by Trotsky and Lenin and the Bolsheviks until 1924 when Joseph Stalin, who along with Kamenev in February 1917 had taken the Menshevik position of first the bourgeois revolution, only to be confronted by Lenin and his famous April Thesis on Lenin's return to Russia, after the death of Lenin and seeking to consolidate his growing bureaucratic control of the Bolshevik Party began to put forward the slogan of " Socialism in one country ".

In 1795 Joseph was a member of the Council of Ancients, where he used his position to help his brother overthrow the Directory.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

Following Lenin's death, Joseph Stalin took power in the Communist Party through the office of General Secretary of the Central Commmittee, the leading Secretary of the Secretariat.

Following Lenin's forced departure due to ill health, a power struggle began, which involved Nikolai Bukharin, Lev Kamenev, Alexei Rykov, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tomsky, Leon Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev.

President Joseph Kabila established the Commission of Repression of Economic Crimes upon his ascension to power in 2001.

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

Some scientists and engineers have expressed reservations about nuclear power, including: Barry Commoner, S. David Freeman, John Gofman, Arnold Gundersen, Mark Z. Jacobson, Amory Lovins, Arjun Makhijani, Gregory Minor, Joseph Romm and Benjamin K. Sovacool.

After leading a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union, Trotsky was successively removed from power ( 1927 ), expelled from the Communist Party, and finally deported from the Soviet Union ( 1929 ).

Until shortly before his death, Lenin worked to counter the disproportionate political influence of Joseph Stalin in the Communist Party and in the bureaucracy of the soviet government, partly because of abuses he had committed against the populace of Georgia, and partly because the autocratic Stalin had accumulated administrative power disproportionate to his office of General Secretary of the Communist Party.

Vladimir Lenin said that cinema was “ the most important of the arts .” His successor, Joseph Stalin, also recognized the power of cinema in efficiently spreading Communist Party doctrine.

* 1965 – Joseph Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Congo and becomes President ; he rules the country ( which he renames Zaire in 1971 ) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.

Though confident they could secure the stadium, their hopes were dashed when Sheldon Silver and Joseph L. Bruno, both of whom held veto power over the stadium construction, refused to support the project, alleging it would hurt rather than help the development of the West Side.

However, Joseph Stalin, an elected General Secretary of the Communist Party, managed to put down all opposition groups within the party and consolidate much power in his hands.

In the late 1930s, Khojayev and the entire leadership of the Uzbek Republic were purged and executed by Soviet leader Joseph V. Stalin ( in power 1927 – 53 ) and replaced by Russian officials.

However, Alexander's policies later encountered opposition from other European powers stemming from developments in Italy and Germany, where Fascists and Nazis rose to power, and the Soviet Union, where Joseph Stalin became absolute ruler.

In May, Joseph Stalin consolidated his power in the Soviet Union by sending Leon Trotsky into exile.

** Colonel Joseph Mobutu takes power in Republic of the Congo via a military coup.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

It is believed that it was Joseph Stalin who put pressure on Bolesław Bierut and Jakub Berman to remove Gomułka and Spychalski as well as their followers from power in 1948.

In the Soviet Union, after Vladimir Lenin incapacitated from a stroke in 1923, Joseph Stalin — who, as General Secretary of the Communist Party had the power to appoint anyone he chose to top party positions — eventually emerged as leader of the Party and the legitimate government.

Following the earthquake, Joseph I gave his Prime Minister even more power, and Sebastião de Melo became a powerful, progressive dictator.

While they had initially been mutually supportive, issues arose following the ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev to power in the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin.

On 21 June, at Vitoria, the combined Anglo-Portuguese and Spanish armies won against Joseph Bonaparte, finally breaking French power in Spain.

Mann " had angered many Republicans by objecting to their private bills on the floor ;" also he was a protégé of autocratic Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-IL ( 1903 – 1911 ), and many Members " suspected that he would try to re-centralize power in his hands if elected Speaker.

Though she was expected to cede power to Francis and Joseph, both of whom were officially her co-rulers in Austria and Bohemia, Maria Theresa was the absolute sovereign who ruled by the counsel of her advisers.