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May continues to sit as a Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands and has exerted a considerable amount of legislative influence on a number of issues ranging from denying unanimous consent for military intervention in Libya, playing a central role in exposing changes to environmental legislation hidden in the omnibus Budget Bill C-38, to introducing a private member's bill to develop a national strategy on Lyme disease.
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* Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War, continues to May 9 ( International )
A more secular version of May Day continues to be observed in Europe and America.
Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.
This practice still continues today, although the Fair has been relocated from the Square, and is currently held in the large field towards the village of Maugersbury every May and October.
This causes the north and east of Tanzania to experience two distinct wet periods – the short rains ( or " Vuli ") in October to December and the long rains ( or " Masika ) from March to May – while the southern, western, and central parts of the country experience one wet season that continues October through to April or May.
In part because of this, the Rangers began playing most of even their weekend games between May and September at night — a tradition that continues to this day.
* May 12 – Nine Years ' War: With England and the Netherlands both now ruled by William III, they join the Grand Alliance ( League of Augsburg ), thus escalating the conflict, which continues until 1697.
Active development of CVS continues with new releases correlating directly with requests for new features or bug reports, with the latest version released May 2008, and only some maintenance bugfixes since then in the CVS project's own CVS repository.
The Manzanar National Historic Site also unveiled its virtual museum on May 17, 2010 and continues to collect oral histories of former incarcerees and others from all periods of Manzanar's history.
April & May were filled with dates in Germany, and the band continues to perform a selection of old and new as they travel to other European countries.
The last eruption has started on 13 May 2008 and still continues.
A massive portrait of Sun continues to appear in Tiananmen Square for May Day and National Day.
It runs from an interchange with the Delaware Memorial Bridge extension of the New Jersey Turnpike ( Interstate 295 and U. S. Route 40 ) in Deepwater, Salem County, where it continues north as U. S. Route 130 southeast to Route 50 and County Route 557 in Tuckahoe, Cape May County.
Since discontinuing all scheduled service in May 2008, North American Airlines continues to operate today as solely a charter airline.
Some additional events during the festival include A Gallery Stroll, which takes place during the May arts festival and continues throughout the season, on the second Saturday of each month, and which allows viewers to tour the numerous art galleries in town and meet the many of the featured artists.
Meanwhile, Route 50 continues north on Cape May Avenue, passing through developed areas.
It will be voting in May 2012 for a renewal of the sales tax as the court case continues.
( May 31, 1970 ) – Kermit tries to sing the song on the piano while Grover continues to interrupt him.
* In the sequel, Spider-Man 2 ( 2004 ), Aunt May continues to look after Peter, and has had financial difficulties since the death of her husband, forcing her to sell the house and live in a smaller apartment ( although it is implied that the bank is cheating her out of the house ).
May there be only peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.
* May 5 – The seventeenth Maggio Musicale Fiorentino opens with a performance of Gaspare Spontini's last opera, Agnese di Hohenstaufen, and continues until 20 June, featuring operas by Weber, Adriano Lualdi, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky, as well as the world premiere of Valentino Bucchi's Il contrabasso.
Lastman continues to live in Toronto with his wife and returned to leading the Lastman's Bad Boy Furniture chain in May 2006.
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Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH, ( 19 May 18792 May 1964 ) was the first woman to sit as a Conservative Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the British House of Commons.
The next morning, May 7, she was asked to sit out the final assault on the Boulevart-Tourelles, but she refused and roused to join the French camp on the south bank, much to the joy of the people of Orleans.
On 6 May 1791, a tearful confrontation on the floor of the Commons ( officially, and rather irrelevantly, during a debate on the particulars of a bill for the government of Canada ) finally shattered the quarter-century friendship of Fox and Burke, as the latter dramatically crossed the floor of the House to sit down next to Pitt, taking the support of a good deal of the more conservative Whigs with him.
Until the re-appointment to the cabinet of Lord Mandelson on 3 October 2008, the former Leader of the Lords, Lady Amos, was the last peer to sit in any other Cabinet post, as Secretary of State for International Development from May to October 2003.
In the last chapter, they sit down to enjoy their Christmas dinner in May.
Tyrone would enter the scene, muttering a song ( usually " In the Merry, Merry Month of May ",) and, spying Gladys on the bench, would sit next to her.
He was re-elected in Malton at the general election in May 1831, but was also returned for the Perth burghs and chose to sit for the latter.
When Amos was appointed Secretary of State for International Development on 12 May 2003, following the resignation of Clare Short, she became the first black woman to sit in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
On May 2, 2011, Green Party leader Elizabeth May became the first elected Green Party MP to sit in the House of Commons.
Sir Erskine May found several precedents for Members disabled to sit for refusing to take the Oath, together with Quaker MP Joseph Pease who was permitted to affirm, and Jewish MPs Baron Lionel de Rothschild and David Salomons who were eventually allowed to take the Oath while omitting the words " on the true faith of a Christian ".
She was elected to Parliament in a by-election in May 1984 following the death of Ioan Evans and became the first woman to sit for a Welsh valleys constituency.
In May 2007 he announced he was withdrawing from the list to sit as an independent.
In May 2008 the fourteenth Earl was elected to sit as a Hereditary Cross-Bench Peer in the House of Lords following the death of Baroness Darcy de Knayth
Additionally, Arthur Cardin quit Mackenzie King's cabinet in May 1942 over the conscription issue to sit as an anti-conscription independent MP.
In May 2011, Mereworth went to court to attempt to force the House of Lords to issue him a Writ of Summons allowing him to sit and vote in the House by virtue of the Letters Patent issued in the creation of the barony.
In May 2002, Fentie left the NDP, crossing the floor to sit with the Yukon Party.
* Shop till you drop, then sit down and buy shoes ( May 1996, ISBN 0-8362-1068-9 )
Lajoie was forced to sit out six weeks of the 1912 season when he sprained his back in May during a practice session in Chicago.
:... the Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance ... May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants ; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.
When commenting on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in May 2008, Honeyball asked whether ministers should be allowed to sit on the front bench of government if they are committed Roman Catholics.
He is one of the 21 senior bishops entitled by length of tenure to sit in the House of Lords, and was introduced on 27 May 2010.
Harris, his wife and daughter attended a high-powered domestic concert at Burney's house in May 1775, of which a vivid description by the 22-year-old Frances ( Fanny ) Burney survives: " I had the satisfaction to sit next to Mr. Harris, who is very chearful ( sic ) and communicative, and his conversation instructive and agreeable.
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