The term pit bull is used in reference to multiple breeds of dog, namely, the American Pit Bull Terrier, the American Staffordshire Terrier, and crosses between the two.

In the 90's, the American Bully was created from the American Staffordshire Terrier and the American Pit Bull Terrier.

In 1936, they were accepted by the American Kennel Club ( AKC ) as " Staffordshire Terriers.

Since January 1, 1972, it was renamed to " American Staffordshire Terrier " to make a separate breed from the lighter Staffordshire Bull Terrier of England.

Many jurisdictions that restrict pit bulls, including Ontario, Canada, Miami, Florida, U. S., Denver, Colorado, U. S .,, and Malden, Massachusetts, U. S. apply the restriction to the modern American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, or any other dog that has the substantial physical characteristics and appearance of those breeds.

As used herein, " Pit Bull Terrier " is hereby defined as any Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Pit Bull Terrier breed of dog, or any mixed breed of dog which contains as an element of its breeding of Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, or American Pit Bull Terrier, as to be identifiable as partially of the breed commonly known as Pit Bull Terriers by a qualified veterinarian duly licensed as such by the state.

The American Pit Bull Terrier is the product of interbreeding between Old English Terrier and English Bulldogs to produce a dog that combined the gameness of the terrier with the strength and athleticism of the bulldog.

The United Kennel Club ( UKC ) was the first registry to recognize the American Pit Bull Terrier.

UKC founder C. Z. Bennett assigned UKC registration number 1 to his own dog, " Bennett's Ring ", as an American Pit Bull Terrier in 1898.

These dogs began to find their way into America as early as 1870 where they became known as Pit Dog, Pit Bull Terrier, later American Bull Terrier, and still later as a Yankee terrier.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.

Mr. Reama, who retired as vice president of the American Screw Co. in 1955 said, `` Both parties in the last election told us that we need a five per cent growth in the gross national product -- but neither told us how to achieve it ''.

American Catholic colleges and universities are, in a very real sense, the product of `` private enterprise '' -- the `` private enterprise '' of religious communities.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

His estimated net worth, if calculated as a fraction of the U. S. gross domestic product at the time, would have been equivalent to $ 110. 1 billion in 2006 U. S. dollars, making him the fourth richest person in American history .< ref name = forbes >

Sportvision provides a product called 1st & Ten which allows broadcasts of American football to include a visible line which may represent the line of scrimmage or the minimum distance that the ball must be moved for the offensive team to achieve a first down.

Progestin-only EC is available as a dedicated emergency contraceptive product under many names worldwide, including: in the U. S., Canada and Honduras as Plan B ; in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy as Levonelle ; in South Africa as Escapelle ; in 44 nations including France, most of Western Europe, India, and several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as NorLevo ; and in 44 nations including most of Eastern Europe, Mexico and many other Latin American countries, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore as Postinor-2.

* Paid co-branding ( Eragon in American Chopper-two episodes ), or co-advertising ( Aston Martin and James Bond films ) of a product with the film

The integrity of certain Native American artworks is protected by an act of Congress that prohibits representation of art as Native American when it is not the product of an enrolled Native American artist.

From 1973 ( when construction began ) until 1982 ( when it ended ), gross domestic product grew more than 8 percent annually, double the rate for the previous decade and higher than growth rates in most other Latin American countries.

National Geographic magazine introduced the American cultured pearl as a commercial product in their August 1985 issue.

The best known examples of consumer protection laws for product defects are lemon laws, which became widespread because automobiles are often an American citizen's second-largest investment after buying a home.

The American synthesis was independently confirmed in 1973 and secured the identification of rutherfordium as the parent by the observation of K-alpha X-rays in the elemental signature of the < sup > 257 </ sup > Rf decay product, nobelium-253.

In 1960 its gross domestic product per capita was $ 79, lower than most Latin American and some sub-Saharan African countries.

The launch of the product, American version being named the ' Surf-Ski ' was in 1984 at Chicago's IMTEC show.

FDDI, as a product of American National Standards Institute X3T9. 5 ( now X3T12 ), conforms to the Open Systems Interconnection ( OSI ) model of functional layering of LANs using other protocols.

American imperialism concepts were initially a product of capitalism critiques and, later, of theorists opposed to what they take to be aggressive United States policies and doctrines.

A similar product, portable gelatin, was developed by American inventor Peter Cooper in 1845, as a staple meal or dessert for families.

According to historian Richard B. Morris, they are an " incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer.

( These are often called " play clay " or " play dough " for their similarity to " Play-Doh ", a trademarked product marketed by American toy manufacturer Hasbro ).

Taurine is now a requirement of the Association of American Feed Control Officials ( AAFCO ) and any dry or wet food product labeled approved by the AAFCO should have a minimum of 0. 1 % taurine in dry food and 0. 2 % in wet food.

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