* 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.

** Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman member of the United States House of Representatives.

** Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.

Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

However, just after her term began, the House held a vote on whether or not to enter World War I. Rankin cast one of 50 votes against the resolution, earning her immediate vilification by the press.

* Narrative footnotes, which continue the story while commenting on it ( e. g. Nabokov's Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Alan Moore's From Hell, Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza, An Abundance of Katherines by John Green, Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff VanderMeer, many books by Robert Rankin and the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett ).

... For example, only he could ( or would dare to ) challenge Congressman Rankin of Mississippi on the House floor in the 1940s for using the word ' nigger.

In 1917 Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.

** Division of Rankin, an electoral district in the Australian Federal House of Representatives, in Queensland

Craig Anthony Emerson ( born 15 November 1954 ), Australian politician, has represented the House of Representatives seat of Rankin in Queensland for the Australian Labor Party since the 1998 federal election.

Following the Peekskill Riots, Democratic House Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi condemned Robeson on the house floor.

When Republican New York Congressman Jacob Javits spoke to the United States House of Representatives, deploring the Peekskill riots as a violation of constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and free assembly, Rankin replied angrily.

Carnatic Halls is the largest of the University of Liverpool's accommodation complexes including 6 halls: Morton House, Lady Mountford House, Dale Hall, McNair Hall, Salisbury Hall and Rankin Hall.

Representative John Elliott Rankin, an economic liberal who was also an avid segregationist and racist, sponsored the bill in the United States House of Representatives.

Specifically, the House managers said Ritter engaged in champerty (" a proceeding whereby a person having no legitimate interest in a lawsuit abets it with money or services in the hope of profit ") by " corruptly and unlawfully " receiving $ 4, 500 from a former law partner, Albert L. Rankin.

The House charged that Ritter had planned with Rankin and others to put Whitehall ( the former Henry Morrison Flagler mansion and then a hotel, and now a museum ) into receivership, and had given Rankin an " exorbitant fee " of $ 75, 000, keeping $ 4, 500 of it.

The Rankin House on Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio

It became known as the Rankin House and is now a U. S. National historic landmark ( see photos ).

* Aboard the Underground Railroad -- John Rankin House.

* The Rankin House.

It occupies the former Rankin Farm prison grounds.

Rankin Hall, a building on the former Tarkio College campus, was named for the Rankin family.

A number of prominent abolitionists lived in the town in the 1800s, mainly on Front Street near the river, including John Rankin, former slave John Parker, Thomas McCague, Thomas Collins and Dr. Alexander Campbell.

Tim Roper left so former Brinsley Schwarz members Brinsley Schwarz and Billy Rankin played on the final tour, with the final gig being at the 100 Club in London on July 1, 1975.

Some 30 years later, from 1979 to 1981, Inuit from Rankin Inlet tried to revive their former homeland, but without success.

Rankin continues as a member of the Dark X-Men alongside former Brotherhood member Mystique, Weapon Omega, and Dark Beast as they try to capture Nate Grey during Osborn's reign.

While former colleague John Tamihere described Maharey as ' smarmy ' in an Investigate magazine interview, Maharey's personality publicly surfaced during the Christine Rankin Employment Court Hearing in 2001, where Rankin and Maharey publicly exchanged insults.

A lawyer and former teacher, Fogal lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where her late husband Harry Rankin was a long time progressive city councillor.

Due to the geographical proximity of the clubs and despite the rivalry, Inverness CT have signed many former Ross County players over the years, including Barry Wilson, Stuart Golabek, Roy McBain, Graham Bayne, Richard Hastings, Steven Hislop, John Rankin, Andrew Barrowman, Lionel Djebi-Zadi and Don Cowiescot boid.

His first wife was former model Joan Rankin.

Formerly known simply as Lock D, the lock was later renamed for John E. Rankin, a former Mississippi First District Representative in the United States House of Representatives and an early champion of the Tenn-Tom.

Crawley's major set-piece interviews with leading cultural figures before live audiences include: the Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney and Amartya Sen, the political activist Noam Chomsky, the last Irish President Mary McAleese, her predecessor Mary Robinson, politicians Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, the writers John Banville, Edna O ' Brien, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Longley and Ian Rankin, the film-maker Ken Russell, former hostage and writer Brian Keenan, musicians Phil Coulter and Brian Kennedy, the historian Roy Foster, and the rugby legend Jack Kyle.

Voters were given the options of Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet, with the former approved by 60 % of voters.

Rankin was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 28 July 1908, the daughter of Colin Dunlop Wilson Rankin ( a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland ) and Annabelle Davidson ( nee Thomson ).

* Mornington Crescent is used by Robert Rankin in many of his novels as the home of the Ministry of Serendipity, a fictional agency whose main activity is to ensure the British Empire rules the globe, via dealings with alien activity and suchlike, the top secret nature of the ministry being the main reason why the station was only open on weekdays and closed for " repairs " for much of the 1990s.

With her term ending in 1943, Rankin knew she didn ’ t have the support to win another election, and so she returned home to Montana to care for her aging mother.

Fernbank is home to the Rankin M. Smith, Sr. IMAX Theatre.

Rankin was born at Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee, and raised in a strict Calvinist home.

Soon, Rankin realized that the home was too accessible a place for him to properly raise his family.

From there the family could raise a lantern on a flagpole to signal fleeing slaves in Kentucky when it was safe for them to cross the Ohio River .< sup ></ sup > Rankin also constructed a staircase leading up the hill to the house for slaves to climb up to safety on their way further north .< sup ></ sup > For over forty years leading up to the Civil War, many of the 2000 slaves who escaped to freedom through Ripley stayed at the family's home, and none was ever recaptured there.

Rankin died at his home in Tupelo on November 26, 1960.

Upon retirement, Rankin and his wife of 63 years, Gertrude, moved to Weston, Connecticut, where they had a summer home.

She grew up in the stately Rankin family home, Brooklyn House, in Howard.