Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

In 1703 ( other sources say 1658 ), the Sultanate of Sulu received North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei, after Sulu sent aid against a rebellion in Brunei.

This functional definition still holds true in North America, where two other sizeable groups, Unamended Christadelphians and the CGAF, are not received by most North American Amended ecclesias.

An artist's impression of Thompson based on historical accountsThompson's decision to defect to the North West Company in 1797 without providing the customary one-year notice was not well received by his former employers.

Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, graduating in 1953, and he received a Ph. D. in Applied Mathematics ( Computer Science ) from Harvard University in 1956.

On 22 May 2005 the SPD received a devastating defeat in its former heartland, North Rhine-Westphalia.

North received a PhD in history from the University of California, Riverside in 1972.

North never received a salary or book royalties for the 25 years of its existence.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

The band, with which she sang and played bass guitar ( as well as some guitar and piano ), was signed to North Carolina's Mammoth Records and received a fair amount of airplay on college radio through the early 1990s.

Several songs from the album received regular airplay on major North American rock stations, with Hatfield's song " My Sister " becoming the biggest hit of her career, with a # 1 placing on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and the video becoming an MTV staple.

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

For example, TransEnterix of Durham, North Carolina received U. S. Food and Drug Administration approval in October 2009 for its SPIDER Surgical System using flexible instruments and one incision in the navel area instead of several, allowing quicker healing for patients.

For example, in the 1998 North Carolina Writing Assessment, less than 1 percent of fourth graders received the highest possible score for writing content.

The victims are from the North Eastern Province and Coast Province of Kenya, which had received heavy rain in recent months, causing floods and creating breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which spread the virus of the fever from infected livestock to humans.

In 1962 he moved to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1974 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received appointment to an endowed professorship in 1990 and where he now teaches.

Benedict wrote her dissertation " The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America ", and received the PhD in anthropology in 1923.

The satellite feed of one station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast ; the image ( a remote-camera shot of the burning towers ), viewable across North America ( as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas ), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities.

When they reached the nearest train station at North Creek, at 5: 22 am on September 14, he received another telegram informing him that McKinley had died a few hours earlier.

While managing clients ' portfolios, he began to invest his own money, banking on a tip he had received from an uncle about the workers ' takeover of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, making approximately $ 6 million off his $ 100, 000 initial investment.

Alternative proposals for English regional government have stalled, following a poorly received referendum on devolved government for the North East of England, which had hitherto been considered the region most in favour of the idea, with the exception of Cornwall, where there is widespread support for a Cornish Assembly, including all five Cornish MPs.

Other candidates who received votes were Robby Wells from North Carolina, former football coach at Savannah State University ; Dr. Laurie Roth of Washington state, who has a radio talk-show program ; and Susan Ducey of Kansas.

During its investigation into the outbreak, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services ( NCDHHS ) received over 180 reports of illness, and documented 33 culture-confirmed cases of E. coli O157: H7 associated with attendance at the fair, with 15 children developing HUS.

With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

Under the North American Numbering Plan, almost all North American area codes reserve telephone numbers beginning with 958 and 959 for internal local and long distance testing ( respectively ), sometimes called plant testing.

The steep face of basaltic North Mountain shelters the valley from the adjacent Bay of Fundy and rises to almost in elevation in some parts.

* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

In eastern North America, marine beds are more common in the older part of the period than the later part and are almost entirely absent by the late Carboniferous.

It is also less geographically cohesive than the Muslim world, which stretches almost continuously from North Africa to South Asia.

DECT has almost universally replaced other standards in most countries where it is used, with the exception of North America.

The New World version of the film was almost universally criticized by North American critics.

The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be ported overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous circumnavigation of Jutland.

The population of Italy almost doubled during the twentieth century, but the pattern of growth was extremely uneven due to large-scale internal migration from the rural South to the industrial cities of the North, a phenomenon which happened as a consequence of the Italian economic miracle of the 1950-60s.

In Europe and North America, karaoke tracks are almost never done by the original artist, but are re-recorded by other musicians.

By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.

Recorded almost entirely on the road at various North American studios, it was an even greater commercial success than their first album and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK.

However he shocked the Assembly members and Welsh public when he called for the legalization of heroin: " I have never had heroin but since I moved to London from North Wales in ' 67 I have mixed with junkies on a casual and almost daily basis ," he said.

* 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2, 100 men.

In 1997, owner Carl Pohlad almost sold the Twins to North Carolina businessman Don Beaver, who would have moved the team to the Piedmont Triad area.

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere.

Located almost exactly halfway between the Equator and the North Pole ( 44º 39 ' N Longitude ), its provincial capital is Halifax.

It is technically possible to be a North Korean citizen without being an ethnic Korean-James Dresnok, a European American, acquired North Korean citizenship in 1972-but immigration is almost unheard of, and ethnic minorities are negligible.