The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (), is an international standards organisation, one of three such organisations established to maintain the International System of Units ( SI ) under the terms of the Metre Convention ( Convention du Mètre ).

The Metre Convention ( Convention du Mètre ) of 1875 mandated the establishment of a permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures ( BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures ) to be located in Sèvres, France.

fr: Bureau exécutif du président des États-Unis

In 1897, the Commission de décimalisation du temps was created by the French Bureau of Longitude, with the mathematician Henri Poincaré as secretary.

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According to the interprofessional French institution BNIC ( Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac ), the official quality grades of cognac are the following:

* Cognac official website Bureau National Interprofessionel du Cognac

The Bureau du Roi was the most famous amongst these famous masterpieces.

Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death ; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.

fr: Bureau du Conseil privé ( Royaume-Uni )

* Transportation Safety Board of Canada ( Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada ), is the agency of the Government of Canada responsible for maintaining transportation safety in Canada

* Bureau de normalisation du Québec ( 2004 ).

Drapeau du Québec, Sainte-Foy: Bureau de normalisation du Québec, 24 pages

Location of Prairie du Sac ( town ), WisconsinAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 30. 4 square miles ( 78. 6 km² ), of which, 29. 5 square miles ( 76. 4 km² ) of it is land and 0. 9 square miles ( 2. 2 km² ) of it ( 2. 83 %) is water.

fr: Bureau d ' impression du gouvernement des États-Unis

The most famous cylinder desk, and perhaps the most famous desk of all times is the Bureau du Roi manufactured for the French royalty in the 18th century.

He completed the Bureau du Roi, which had been started in 1760, under his predecessor Oeben ; his name alone appears in the marquetry.

Bureau du Roi, delivered to Louis XV

:* Bureau, 1783, Musée du Louvre, France

:* Bureau, 1780-85, Musée du Louvre, France

:* Bureau à cylindre ( Bureau du roi ), c. 1760-69, delivered to the ' Cabinet intérieur ' for Louis XV at Versailles, Palace of Versailles, France

The Bureau du Roi (, the King's desk ), also known as Louis XV's roll-top secretary (), is the richly ornamented royal Cylinder desk whose construction was done at the end of Louis XV reign.

The Bureau du Roi was probably started in 1760, when the commission was formally announced.

Riesener later executed a simplified second version of the Bureau du Roi for Pierre-Gaspard-Marie Grimod, comte d ' Orsay ; today this may be seen in the Wallace Collection in London.

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* Bureau du Roi

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.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

Later on in the day Fogg could get a better weather picture from the Burlington Weather Bureau supervised by Frank E. Hartwell.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

* 1984 – Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher is killed by gunfire from the Libyan People's Bureau ( Embassy ) in London during a small demonstration outside the embassy.

* Anti-Bases Campaign, an organisation campaigning to remove foreign military bases and intelligence installations from New Zealand, and to dismantle the Government Communications Security Bureau

The 1913 Handbook of Indians of Canada ( reprinting 1907 material from the Bureau of American Ethnology ), claims that North American natives practicing cannibalism included "... the Montagnais, and some of the tribes of Maine ; the Algonkin, Armouchiquois, Iroquois, and Micmac ; farther west the Assiniboine, Cree, Foxes, Chippewa, Miami, Ottawa, Kickapoo, Illinois, Sioux, and Winnebago ; in the South the people who built the mounds in Florida, and the Tonkawa, Attacapa, Karankawa, Caddo, and Comanche (?

Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.

During World War II, the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated rumors that Kaye dodged the draft by manufacturing a medical condition to gain 4-F status and exemption from military service.

The Bureau has participated to varying degrees, which has ranged from direct involvement in the creative process of film or TV series development, to providing consultation on operations and closed cases.

OCI Special Agents often come from other criminal investigations backgrounds, and work closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Assistant Attorney General, and even Interpol.

Non-prohibited automatic weapons can be legally owned by civilians who pay a $ 200 tax to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, pass a background investigation, and, in some jurisdictions, receive approval from local law enforcement.

For example, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ) supports the United States ' International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ) program " to aggressively enforce this mission and reduce the number of weapons that are illegally trafficked worldwide from the United States and used to commit acts of international terrorism, to subvert restrictions imposed by other nations on their residents, and to organized crime and narcotics-related activities.

After the " Helium Acts Amendments of 1960 " ( Public Law 86 – 777 ), the U. S. Bureau of Mines arranged for five private plants to recover helium from natural gas.

For this helium conservation program, the Bureau built a pipeline from Bushton, Kansas, to connect those plants with the government's partially depleted Cliffside gas field, near Amarillo, Texas.

His Federal Bureau of Prisons ( BOP ) number was 07407-058, and he was released from BOP custody on December 1, 1994.

One of the provisions in that act was the controversial Section 215, which allows the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) to make an application for an order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requiring production of " any tangible thing " for an investigation.

According to the 1969 Annual Report of the Bureau, it had 1, 030 members, of whom 588 were from the UK.

One of federal law enforcement ’ s surveillance tools is ‘‘ Project Carnivore ,’’ a Justice Department Internet surveillance program that is administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) to access information flowing to and from a central processing unit on a network connection.

* History of Missouri Indian Tribes, Access Genealogy, extracts for Missouria from John R. Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145, Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1953.

After Sanger discovered that physicians were exempt from the law that prohibited the distribution of contraceptive information to women — provided it was prescribed for medical reasons — she established the Clinical Research Bureau ( CRB ) in 1923 to exploit this loophole.

Recently, the U. S. Census Bureau has introduced the " Asian-Indian " category to avoid ambiguity for descendants of people from India.

On July 20, 2012, unconfirmed reports from North Korea alleged that Ri had died or been injured in a firefight with Political Bureau troops.

* Historic technical reports from the National Bureau of Standards ( and other Federal agencies ) are available in the Technical Reports Archive and Image Library ( TRAIL )