The badge of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in the form of a golden star with white enamel, with a red enamel pentagon behind it ; the central disc bears thirteen gold stars on a blue enamel background ( taken from the Great Seal of the United States ) within a golden ring.

In the last thirteen Presidential elections Jimmy Carter was the only Democrat to carry the county.

Its faculty and graduates have won numerous awards, including the Wolf Prize, the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, as well as thirteen Nobel Prizes.

Unlike the Presidential $ 1 coins from before 2009, " In God We Trust " remains on the obverse and the vacant space on the edge lettering has been taken up by thirteen stars, symbolizing the Thirteen Colonies.

The thirteen Presidential Libraries maintain over 400 million pages of textual materials ; nearly ten million photographs ; over 15 million feet ( 5, 000 km ) of motion picture film ; nearly 100, 000 hours of disc, audiotape, and videotape recordings ; and approximately half a million museum objects.

His first election took place about thirteen years after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, and Sara became the first Presidential mother to vote for her son.

In the last thirteen elections no Democratic candidate for governor has carried Adams County.

The county has favored the Democratic candidate in each of the last thirteen presidential elections and was the only county in the state won by George McGovern.

As of the 2009 elections, two of the thirteen Finnish representatives in the European Parliament are Green: Satu Hassi and Heidi Hautala.

Gerald Ford was then campaigning for what would be his first of thirteen terms as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, and the wedding was delayed until shortly before the elections because, as The New York Times reported, " Jerry was running for Congress and wasn't sure how voters might feel about his marrying a divorced ex-dancer.

However, in the 1949 elections, thirteen years after the party's foundation, National finally won power, and Holland became Prime Minister.

After a poor showing by the ruling UMNO coalition in the elections of 8 March 2008 in which opposition parties gained control of five of thirteen Malaysian state governments, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi identified Deputy Prime Minister Najib as his intended successor.

Henri-Georges Grenier was a perennial candidate who ran unsuccessfully in thirteen federal elections and by-elections between 1945 and 1980 in Quebec, Canada, and in at least one provincial by-election.

There have also been two minority governments resulting from governments being replaced between elections, for a total of thirteen federal minority governments in twelve separate minority parliaments.

Twelve of the thirteen elections won by Mr. Miller were by a margin of victory of greater than 25 %.

The parish council comprises thirteen councillors with elections being held every four years.

The Democratic party took thirteen Republican seats, as well as winning both 1959 Senate elections in the new state of Alaska.

Until 2007, the Party had thirteen members of the Salta legislature, two deputies in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and one senator in the Argentine Senate, Ricardo Gómez Diez, who contested the 2003 Argentine presidential elections as the running mate of López Murphy, coming third.

Since 1974, the year of the Carnation Revolution, thirteen legislative elections were held in Portugal.

In presidential elections held on 19 June 2005, PT leader Aregado Mantenque Té placed fifth out of thirteen candidates, winning 2. 02 % of the vote.

He was re-elected in 1940 ( finishing fourth of eighteen candidates ), 1942 ( third of twelve candidates ), 1944 ( third of twelve ), 1946 ( fourth of thirteen ), and 1948 ( first of twelve ) elections.

However, this would require a lengthening of the season from thirteen to fourteen weeks.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Aside from the loss of the first thirteen books, the remaining eighteen are in many places corrupt and lacunose.

About 1 hour and 22 minutes after arriving, the astronauts departed for station thirteen, a large boulder field about from North Ray.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

* Family Moringaceae ( thirteen species of trees from Africa and India )

In the first election after the Act was passed ( 1885 ), thirteen were elected, up from two in 1874.

These shoals were too shallow to permit passage of larger warships, and so Brueys ordered his thirteen ships of the line to form up in a line of battle following the northeastern edge of the shoals to the south of the island, a position that allowed the ships to disembark supplies from their port side while covering the landings with their starboard batteries.

Mipps then joined Syn in his quest for revenge, pursuing Tappitt and Imogene throughout the thirteen American colonies ( supposedly preaching the gospel to the Indians ) and around the world ( as part of a whaling voyage ) afterwards, and was with him in the Caribbean when Dr. Syn turned again to piracy, assuming the name of Captain Clegg ( taking the name " Clegg " from a certain vicious biting fly he had encountered in America ), hijacking his enemy Tappitt's own ship and crew and sailing off with them ( renaming the ship the Imogene ) to become the most infamous pirate of the day.

: “ No one has yet translated from the Greek into Latin the thirteen books of Diophantus, in which the very flower of the whole of arithmetic lies hidden.

In 1983, the Bombers moved upwards following a slow start to be second after thirteen rounds, but then suffered a five-match slump before recovering to reach their first grand final for 15 years from fourth place on the ladder.

The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states of the United States of America and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain and became the first states in the Union.

Bernini was born in Naples to a Mannerist sculptor, Pietro Bernini, originally from Florence, and Angelica Galante, a Neapolitan, the sixth of their thirteen children.

From ages five to nine, she boarded with her sister Chrissey at Miss Latham's school in Attleborough, from ages nine to thirteen at Mrs. Wallington's school in Nuneaton, and from ages thirteen to sixteen at Miss Franklin's school in Coventry.

Education was now compulsory from five to thirteen and many new board schools were built.

The Peyton Manning era came to a sudden end on March 8, 2012 when Jim Irsay announced that he was officially being released from the roster after thirteen seasons.

* Bar mitzvah and Bat mitzvah-This passage from childhood to adulthood takes place when a female Jew is twelve and a male Jew is thirteen years old among Orthodox and some Conservative congregations.

Each union council comprised thirteen members elected from specified electorates: four men and two women elected directly by the general population ; two men and two women elected by peasants and workers ; one member for minority communities ; two members are elected jointly as the union mayor ( nazim ) and deputy union mayor ( naib nazim ).

He led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death thirteen months later, on 10 March 1985.

After Napoleon's Hundred Days following his escape from Elba, Landau, which had remained French, was granted to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816 and became the capital of one of the thirteen Bezirksämter ( counties ) of the Bavarian Rheinpfalz. In 1840 famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast was born in Landau.

Weber's 1876 Christmas presents to his parents, when he was thirteen years old, were two historical essays entitled " About the course of German history, with special reference to the positions of the Emperor and the Pope ," and " About the Roman Imperial period from Constantine to the migration of nations.

It became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original thirteen states that founded the United States of America.