With the coming-of-age of railroads superseding canal barge transport, the lake was abandoned by the Commonwealth, sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad, and sold again to private interests and eventually came to be owned by the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club in 1881.

* Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts ( 28 June 1972 ) from the Commonwealth Club of California Records at the Hoover Institution Archives.

On May 19, 1992, Quayle gave a speech to the Commonwealth Club of California on the subject of the Los Angeles riots.

* Speech to the Commonwealth Club of California (" Murphy Brown speech ")

* November 9 – Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, " What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics ", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

* Why Voting Just Encourages Politicians discusses his research at The Commonwealth Club, September 2010

In later years the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Sports Association bought the house, followed by the London Postal Region Sports Club.

In a 2007 lecture to the Commonwealth Club of California, Vilsack stated,

The St Ives Rowing Club was once captained by John Goldie and has had a number of members who have competed at Olympic and Commonwealth championships.

Perry also sits on the Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Club of California and the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington, DC-based think tank that specializes in U. S. national security issues.

* Death of The West, Commonwealth Club speech January 14, 2002

* A Time for Truth about China, Commonwealth Club speech April 5, 1999

Author, activist, and grower " Ask Ed " Rosenthal ( of High Times fame ) was raided and charged by federal agents the same day DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson made a speech to the Commonwealth Club.

* California State Senator John F. McCarthy's speech ' The Situation at the Universities ' to the Commonwealth Club of California

* Former Chancellor Edward Strong's speech ' What's Ahead for the University ' to the Commonwealth Club of California

* Chancellor Roger W. Heyn's speech ' University Tradition and Social Change ' to the Commonwealth Club of California

Geschke serves on the boards of the San Francisco Symphony, the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, the Commonwealth Club of California, and Tableau Software.

In the late 1650s Wildman was associated with the Commonwealth Club, a Republican club meeting at a Covent Garden tavern called The Nonsuch in Bow Street.

According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the Commonwealth of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to his new mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda.

The Haliburton Club, still active at King's College, Halifax, is now the longest-standing collegial literary society in the Commonwealth of Nations or North America.

Havant Hockey Club also contributed two players to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

He was a member of many organizations and societies, including Anti-Slavery Society for the protection of Human Rights ; Phi Beta Sigma fraternity ( Alpha Chapter and Mu Chapter ); West African Students ' Union ; Onitsha Improvement Union ; Zik ’ s Athletic Club ; Ekine Sekiapu Society of Buguma, Kalabari ; St. John ’ s Lodge of England ; Royal Economic Society ; Royal Anthropological Institute ; British Association for the Advancement of Science ; American Society of International Law ; American Anthropological Association ; American Political Science Association ; American Ethnological Society ; Amateur Athletic Association of Nigeria ; Nigerian Swimming Association, Nigerian Boxing Board of Control ; Nigerian Cricket Association ; Ibo State Union ; Nigerian Table Tennis Association ; Nigeria Olympic Committee and British Empire and Commonwealth Games Association.

He has hosted events and currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club of California.

St. Joseph's Amateur Boxing Club is situated on George Street and is the home club of Yemeni-born 2006 Commonwealth bronze medallist Mo Nasir and 2010 Commonwealth Silver medallist Sean McGoldrick.

* Aboriginal welfare: initial conference of Commonwealth and state Aboriginal authorities held at Canberra, 21 to 23 April 1937

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra ( spons.

Canberra, ACT: Commonwealth of Australia, 2005.

Territory legislation can be disallowed by the Commonwealth Parliament in Canberra, with one notable example being the NT's short lived voluntary euthanasia legislation.

In social policy, the Canberra University College was established, while the responsibilities of the Commonwealth Literary Fund were expanded to “ foster new Australian writers and promote the appreciation of Australian literature .”

During the 20th century, use of the portcullis as a symbol of Parliament spread beyond Britain and to the other Commonwealth realms ; for instance, the coat of arms of Canberra features a portcullis in its crest, consciously preserving a connection between the British Parliament at Westminster and the Australian Parliament to which Canberra is home.

In Canberra, a group of Country Party Senators kept Gair occupied in their office, away from the President of the Senate ( to whom he needed to give his resignation ), drinking beer and eating prawns, until 6pm ( the Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that writs would be deemed to have been issued at 6pm irrespective of the time that they were actually issued ).

The coat of arms of Canberra was created by the Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs and Territories in 1927, in response to a request by the Commonwealth Department of Defence, who wanted to use it on the newly commissioned HMAS Canberra.

When the area that was named as Canberra in 1913 was chosen to be the site of the future capital city of Australia — and 910 square miles ( 2, 358 square kilometres ) of land excised from the State of New South Wales ( NSW ) to form the Australian Capital Territory — the Commonwealth Government compulsorily acquired Yarralumla Station, a large pastoral property dating from the 1830s.

Two of these stones are in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, sited between the parallel spans of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge, one of two major crossings of Lake Burley Griffin in the heart of the city.

He was moved from NATO to the Commonwealth of Nations positions as High Commissioner to South Africa ( Pretoria ) in 1998-1999 and to Australia ( Canberra ) in 1999-2000.

She also appeared on screen at the Closing Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games 2006 in Melbourne while 1000 " Commonwealth Dames " danced around the arena, in purple wigs, garish costumes and gladioli, singing along to her song, " We've Made The Most Of Melbourne ": " It's not as small as Adelaide, Compared to Canberra, it's bliss, And if you've been to Melbourne, You can give Sydney a miss.

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Although Commonwealth Day is not observed as a public holiday in Australia, several regional public holidays coincide with this day: Canberra Day in the Australian Capital Territory, Labour Day in Victoria, Adelaide Cup Day in South Australia and Eight-hour Day in Tasmania.

In addition, the second Monday in March is Canberra Day in the Australian Capital Territory ; this is an unrelated holiday on the same day as Commonwealth Day to celebrate the naming of the Australian capital city.

* House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications Transport and Microeconomic Reform, ( 1997 ), ‘ Planning not Patching: An Inquiry Into Federal Road Funding ’, The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Alexander Hore-Ruthven had been elevated to the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Baron Gowrie, of Canberra in the Commonwealth of Australia and of Dirleton in the County of East Lothian, in 1935.

Eventually, identical Australia Acts were passed by the Commonwealth Parliament and the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1986, thus removing what remaining authority London had over affairs in Canberra.

Situated on the Campbell family homestead in Canberra, which had been named " Duntroon " ( 1833 ) after Duntrune Castle — their ancestral home on Loch Crinan in Argyll, Scotland — the college was one of the first Commonwealth facilities established in the newly created capital.