* National Poetry Month ( United States )

* National Poetry Writing Month

In 1990, the first National Poetry Slam took place in Fort Mason, San Francisco, involving a team from Chicago, a team from San Francisco, and an individual poet from New York.

, the National Poetry Slam has grown and currently features approximately 80 certified teams each year, culminating in five days of competition.

Poetry Slam, Inc. holds several National and World Poetry Slams, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, The National Poetry Team Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam.

The current ( 2011 ) National Poetry Slam Team champions are Denver ( Slam Nuba ), Colorado.

As of 2011, four poets who have competed at National Poetry Slam have won National Endowment of the Arts ( NEA ) Fellowships for Literature:

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

Henry Taylor, winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, competed in the 1997 National Poetry Slam as an individual and placed 75th out of 150.

* Results of the National Poetry Slam

* Documentary Film about the National Poetry Slam

* Poetry Today ( British Council and National British League ).

Williams won the first National Book Award for Poetry, recognizing both the third volume of Paterson and Selected Poems.

In May 1963, he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems ( 1962 ) and the Gold Medal for Poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Financial grants have been received from the National Science Foundation and the ( British ) Institute of Physics for the compilation work and the publication costs.

The American Film Institute ( AFI ) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

* US National Ataxia Foundation

In 2012, " ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions.

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

In 1957, the National Committee Day of Planting Trees / Foundation of National Festival of Trees ( Nationale Boomplantdag / Nationale Boomfeestdag ) was created.

* National Arbor Day Foundation

* National Arbor Day Foundation

The National Science Foundation approved the plan for the creation of the not-for-profit organization to " give the users of IP numbers ( mostly Internet service providers, corporations and other large institutions ) a voice in the policies by which they are managed and allocated within the North American region.

Dogpatch characters were used in national campaigns for the Cancer Foundation, the March of Dimes, the National Heart Fund, the Boy Scouts of America, Minnesota Tuberculosis and Health Association, the National Amputation Foundation, and Disabled American Veterans, among others.

Accordingly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and a Grammy Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

* 1998: Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

* Antarctic Information Program ( National Science Foundation )

* National Heart Foundation of Australia

The largest federal agencies contributing to research are NASA, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy.

Active funding from the National Science Foundation Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Science ( MPS ) for Caltech stands at $ 343 million as of 2011, the highest for any educational institution in the nation, and higher than the total funds allocated to any state except California and New York.

X-Stop was shown to block sites such as the Quaker web site, the National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law, the Heritage Foundation, and parts of The Ethical Spectacle.

According to the National Psoriasis Foundation and the FDA, coal tar is a valuable, safe and inexpensive treatment option for millions of people with psoriasis and other scalp or skin conditions.

The American Film Institute operated the National Film Theatre in Washington D. C .' s Kennedy Center until 1998.

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

* Acid Rain: A Continuing National Tragedy-a report from The Adirondack Council on acid rain in the Adirondack region ( 1998 )

In June 1998, Buyoya promulgated a transitional constitution and announced a partnership between the government and the opposition-led National Assembly.

* Transfer of the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League to the National League ( 1998 )

Five Rivers Metroparks, from 1996 to 1998, Dayton hosted the National Folk Festival.

In Canadian football ( and, until 1998, the National Football League ), the drop kick can be taken from any point on the field, unlike placekicks, which must be attempted behind the line of scrimmage.

Constitutional changes enacted by a specially elected National Constitutional Assembly in 1998 took effect on August 10, 1998.

* 1998 – Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.

" A Policy Framework for Developing a National Nanotechnology Program ", Master of Science thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998, available at Digital Library and Archives

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

Organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic Research and the European Central Bank have charged that hedge funds pose systemic risks to the financial sector, and following the failure of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management ( LTCM ) in 1998 there was widespread concern about the potential for systemic risk if a hedge fund failure led to the failure of its counterparties.

** National Tournament Top 10 finishes: 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000

In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) with several other parties and became the first non-Congress government to complete a full five-year term.

In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance with smaller regional parties, and became the first non-INC and coalition government to complete a full five-year term.

On January 30, 1998, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ), an agency of the U. S. Department of Commerce, issued for comment, " A Proposal to Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses.

Based on information uncovered by the FBI in the 1998 United States embassy bombings case, the National Security Agency ( NSA ) began tracking the communications of Hada, Mihdhar's father-in-law.

In 1998, Kain returned to the National Ballet of Canada as part of the senior management team, in the role of artistic associate.

* Ordre National du Mérite, by Catherine Trautmann, Minister of Culture, in February 1998.

In the meantime, an Interim Political Authority ( IPA ), charged with reviewing the electoral structure in the country, was created in December 1998 and devised a proportional electoral system to ensure that there be opposition in the National Assembly.

* 1998 – Mayor David Hollister signs a 425 Agreement with Alaiedon Township in September to facilitate the development of the headquarters of Jackson National Life Insurance Company.