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

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

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* 1947 – André Weinfeld, French and American Film Director / Producer

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

In 1999, the American Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of all time.

The American Film Institute acknowledged the iconic status of the scene from that film in which he and Deborah Kerr make love on a Hawaiian beach amid the crashing waves.

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

The American Registry Of Pathology operates as a cooperative enterprise in medical research and education between the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the civilian medical profession on a national and international basis, under such conditions as may be agreed upon between the National Research Council and The Surgeons General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

The American Institute of Interior Designers has published a recommended course for designers and a percentage layout of such a course.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

The American Institute of Interior Designers is redecorating the White House library.

The American Institute of Decorators has acquired a rare complete set of sofas and chairs which are to be placed in the Executive Mansion's library.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

An American student named Charlotte Adams had refused to take notice of his evident aversion to people and had at last succeeded in getting him to talk to her.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

His paternal grandfather, also named Abner, had fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Situated near the mouth of the Columbia River, the city was named after the American investor John Jacob Astor.

* An American high school, Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas, is named after him

He is alleged to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al-Qassim Province.

During the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, American authorities claim that immigration records show that a person named Abdulaziz al-Omari was visiting the country, although they say they are not sure that this was the same person.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

PAL is used with a variety of 625-line standards ( B, G, D, K, I, N ) but also with the North American 525-line standard, accordingly named PAL-M.

Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association.

* Asimov's Science Fiction, an American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov

* Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, a short-lived American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov

To stop the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Albanians by nationalist Serbs in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo, Clinton authorized the use of American troops in a NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, named Operation Allied Force.

The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).

Of the 128 players named Rookie of the Year, 14 have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame — Jackie Robinson, five American League players, and eight others from the National League.

For his lifetime of work, the American Humanist Association named him the 1969 Humanist of the Year.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action / comedy film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy ( Kristy Swanson ) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

Individual for whom the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ' top award in Biomedical Engineering, the Herbert R. Lissner Medal, is named.

in the 1990 telling of Macbeth in a New York Mafia crime family setting, " Men of Respect " the character of Banquo is named " Bankie Como " played by American actor Dennis Farina.

The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist Alan Guth, who named it " inflation ".

* The Cricket ( magazine ), a 19th-century American general-interest magazine, named after the insect

In 1850 Sultan Selim of Johanna island seized the American whaler Maria and imprisoned her commander, named Moores.

Coolidge's great-great-grandfather, also named John Coolidge, was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War and one of the first selectmen of the town of Plymouth Notch.