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Powers was covering the remaining guard.
Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
From October 1784 to September 1786 he was employed by Nepean, who was in charge of the Secret Service relating to the Bourbon Powers, France and Spain, to spy on the French naval arsenals at Toulon and other ports.
No territorial changes were made to either country, but the Bulgarian unification was recognized by the Great Powers.
The Kingdom of Bulgaria participated in World War I on the side of the Central Powers between 15 October 1915, when the country declared war on Serbia, to 29 September 1918, when the Armistice of Thessalonica was signed.
In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.
This alliance between Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Montenegro became known as the Balkan League ; its existence was undesirable for all the Great Powers.
The developments that led to the First Balkan War did not go unnoticed by the Great Powers, but although there was an official consensus between the European Powers over the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, which led to a stern warning to the Balkan states, unofficially each of them took a different diplomatic approach due to their conflicting interests in the area.
But it was unaware of the Bulgarian plans over Thrace and Constantinople, territories on which it had long-held ambitions, and on which it had just secured a secret agreement of expansion from its allies France and Britain, as a reward for participating in the upcoming Great War against the Central Powers.
But in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was toying with the idea of replacing the Balkan area of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.
A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.
Despite occasional entanglements with European Powers such as the War of 1812 and the 1898 Spanish-American War, U. S. foreign policy was marked by steady expansion of its foreign trade and scope during the 19th century, and it maintained its policy of avoiding wars with and between European powers.
The weakness of Germany's strategic position was exacerbated by the rapid collapse of the other Central Powers in late 1918, following Allied victories on the Macedonian and Italian fronts.
First, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the convention, drawing on the inspiration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be seen as part of a wider response of the Allied Powers in delivering a human rights agenda through which it was believed that the most serious human rights violations which had occurred during the Second World War ( most notably, the Holocaust ) could be avoided in the future.
Francisco Franco's quasi-fascist Falangist single-party state in Spain was officially neutral in World War II and survived the collapse of the Axis Powers.
In 1941, Alfa Romeo was confiscated by the fascist government of Benito Mussolini as part of the Axis Powers ' war effort.
World War I enhanced the potential of terror as it was widespread between the Allies and the Central Powers during the conflict.
Francis Gary Powers ( August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977 ) was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, to Oliver and Ida Powers.
After completing his training, Powers was assigned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia, as an F-84 Thunderjet pilot.

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At 9: 30 am the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.
* 1941 – World War II: The Axis Powers in Europe establish the Independent State of Croatia from occupied Yugoslavia with Ante Pavelić's Ustaše fascist insurgents in power.
The Great Powers, most notably France and Austria-Hungary, reacted to this diplomatic sensation by trying to dissuade the League from going to war, but failed.
Powers Fasteners, the makers of the adhesive, revised their product specifications on May 15, 2007 to increase the safety factor from 4 to 10 for all of their epoxy products intended for use in overhead applications.
The Greeks of the autonomous Cretan State proclaimed unification with Greece, though the opposition of the Great Powers prevented the latter action from taking practical effect.
The name " Central Powers " is derived from the location of these countries ; all four were located between the Russian Empire in the east and France and the United Kingdom in the west.
After much procrastination, he won an agreement from the Central Powers for a huge payment and arms provision in exchange for attacking British India.
To decide what happens, the GM considers the rules of Karma ( characters ' statistics and Powers ), Drama ( the needs of the plot ), and Fortune, the result of a card drawn from the Fortune Deck.
Powers ’ U-2, which departed from a military airbase in Peshawar, Pakistan and may have received support from the US Air Station at Badaber ( Peshawar Airbase ), was shot down by an S-75 Dvina ( SA-2 Surface to Air ) missile on May 1, 1960, over Sverdlovsk.
In 2010, CIA documents were released indicating that " top US officials never believed Powers ’ account of his fateful flight because it appeared to be directly contradicted by a report from the National Security Agency, the clandestine US network of codebreakers and listening posts.
Powers worked for Lockheed as a test pilot from 1963 to 1970.
Powers received the CIA's Intelligence Star in 1963 after his return from the Soviet Union.
Kohl is best known for orchestrating reunification with the approval of all the Four Powers from World War II, who still had a voice in German affairs.
The History of Modern Greece covers the history of Greece from the recognition of its autonomy from the Ottoman Empire by the Great Powers ( the United Kingdom, France, and Russia ) in 1828, after the Greek War of Independence, to the present day.
In September 1918, Entente forces broke through the Central Powers ' lines north of Thessaloniki and within days Austro-Hungarian forces began to withdraw from Albania.
The IFTU also proposed including delegates from the Central Powers as equals.
Following the unconditional surrender of Japan to Allied Powers after World War II, Taiwan was relinquished by Japan as a stolen territory from China ( like Manchukuo ) by the San Francisco Peace Treaty in 1951.
# The German Armed Forces, the German people, and the Axis Powers alone had the strength to save Europe from this threat ;
* 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
An America completely isolated from the rest of the world would then be faced with the seizure of those of the remaining positions of the British Empire important to the Tripartite Powers ".

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After being debriefed extensively by the CIA, Lockheed, and the Air Force, on March 6, 1962, Powers appeared before a Senate Armed Services Select Committee hearing chaired by Senator Richard Russell and including Senators Prescott Bush and Barry Goldwater Sr.
Powers is buried in Arlington National Cemetery as an Air Force veteran.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the decoration to Powers ’ grandchildren, Trey Powers, 9, and Lindsey Berry, 29, in a Pentagon ceremony.
* 1983 – 1985 Lt. Gen. Winston D. Powers, United States Air Force
* Cosmic Voyage ( 1996 ), a loose remake of Powers of Ten for the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
( The United States Air Force leased a small portion of the Airport to support Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe ( SHAPE ) at Rocquencourt ).
Environmental legislation since 1952, such as the City of London ( Various Powers ) Act 1954 and the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968, has led to a reduction in air pollution.
Additionally, EFILM is selected to film record Contact, The Devils Advocate, Mouse Hunt, Con Air, Spawn, Alien 4: Resurrection, and Austin Powers International Man of Mystery.
A US Air Force C-130 followed, carrying the ground crew, mission pilot Francis Gary Powers and the back up pilot, Bea Ericson.
They played some gigs and produced a 4 track demo in Reading as British Air Powers, before relocating to Brighton in search of a more active music scene.
BASC continued to ensure safety of flight for 24 hours a day with each of the Four Powers being represented by a Chief Controller, with a Deputy and General Duty Controller, all of them Air Force Officers ( the Soviet had a controller and an interpreter on duty ) until its closing on 31 December 1990 following the lapse of Allied responsibilities in Berlin.
Instead, a committee of former NCAA head coaches, chaired by Newton, and including Gene Keady ( Purdue ), Don DeVoe ( Tennessee ), Rudy Davalos, Les Robinson ( NC State ), Reggie Minton ( Air Force ), John Powers and Carroll Williams among others, prepared a list of potential teams in advance.
After the declaration of war on the Central Powers in October 1917 the Brazilian Navy participated in the war, sending the Division Naval Warfare Operations ( DNOG ) in theater from the Mediterranean Sea and sending aviators to fight in the western front, where they were integrated into the British Royal Air Force.
He served two tours at The Pentagon and was Commandant of the NATO School at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Commandant of Air War College, and Vice Commander of Air University.
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Before serving in the US Air Force and playing in the coffeehouses of Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Powers had already performed as " Dino Valenti " with small rock bands in New England lounges.
The 1952 smog gave a momentum for tougher action: as well as this Clean Air Act, its effects also led to the introduction of the City of London ( Various Powers ) Act of 1954, and influenced the Clean Air Act 1968.
If the United States joined the war against the Axis Powers, the fall of Britain would leave no bases in Europe from which the United States Army Air Corps ( AAC ) could bomb Germany.

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