Thus, he supported funding to the state to assist the expansion of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad.

His area of East Tennessee was a Unionist stronghold, but the secessionists dominated the Middle and Western areas.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

Between Congressional sessions he toured Kentucky and Ohio, trying in vain to convince any Union commander who would listen to conduct an operation into East Tennessee.

Johnson was named to the Joint Committee on Conduct of the War whose purpose was to goad-on laggard Union generals ; Johnson, to no avail, used this platform to voice the urgency of military intervention in East Tennessee.

On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

Boone was served by the narrow gauge East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ( nicknamed " Tweetsie ") until the flood of 1940.

Journal of East Tennessee History, 2002.

The day after she graduated from high school in 1964, Parton moved to Nashville taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her.

Guilt is a main theme in John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire, William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart " and " The Black Cat ", and many other works of literature.

Niall Shanks and Karl H. Joplin, both of East Tennessee State University, have shown that systems satisfying Behe's characterization of irreducible biochemical complexity can arise naturally and spontaneously as the result of self-organizing chemical processes.

Its borders currently encompass the entirety of Alabama ; almost all of Georgia ; all of Middle and East Tennessee, plus a substantial portion of West Tennessee ; a bit of the panhandle of Florida ; and small portion of Kentucky.

* July 28 – The Silent Protest is organized by the NAACP in New York to protest the East St. Louis Riot of July 2, as well as lynchings in Texas and Tennessee.

* May – The Watauga Association is formed in East Tennessee.

The laboratory occupies about of the Oak Ridge Reservation ( ORR ), which it shares with the East Tennessee Technology Park, the Y-12 National Security Complex, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, and the developing Oak Ridge Science and Technology Park.

Both the laboratory and the nearby city of Oak Ridge were built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in less than a year on isolated farmland in the mountains of East Tennessee.

* East Tennessee Technology Park Former K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site

East Tennessee State University First Baseman Paul Hoilman hit 12 home runs in the final round to beat out Fresno State ’ s Jordan Ribera and Georgia Tech ’ s Matt Skole for the title.

These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.

Longstreet accepted Bragg's arguments and agreed to a plan in which he and his men were dispatched to East Tennessee to deal with an advance by Union Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside.

The Cherokee (; ) are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States ( principally Georgia, the Carolinas, and East Tennessee ).

A carpenter ( wearing a contractor's employee badge ) at work during the 1942 construction of the Douglas Dam in East Tennessee.

The Upper Towns, located on the Coosa, Tallapoosa and Alabama rivers, were Tuckabatchee, Abhika, Coosa ( Kusa ; the dominant people of East Tennessee and North Georgia during the Spanish explorations ), Itawa ( original inhabitants of the Etowah Indian Mounds ), Hothliwahi ( Ullibahali ), Hilibi, Eufaula, Wakokai, Atasi, Alibamu, Coushatta ( Koasati ; they had absorbed the Kaski / Casqui and the Tali ), and Tuskegee (" Napochi " in the de Luna chronicles ).

State Department officials refusing to show their passes at the boundary, and driving two blocks into East Berlin under military escort, will not avail.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

" State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East 3rd Ed " Page 57 ISBN 0-415-29714-1

The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.

The myth was perpetuated by Romeyn de Hooghe's Spiegel van Staat der Vereenigden Nederlanden (" Mirror of the State of the United Netherlands ", 1706 ), which also ran to many editions, and it was revived in the atmosphere of Romantic nationalism in the late eighteenth-century reforms that saw a short-lived Batavian Republic and, in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, a capital ( now Jakarta ) that was named Batavia.

The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

In the East, Confucius ( 551-479 ), of the State of Lu, was China's most influential ancient philosopher, whose educational outlook continues to influence the societies of China and neighbours like Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

* Esoterica, East Lansing, Michigan State University ( MSU ).

In 2012, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressed the U. S. policy on East Pakistan, as " Gun boat diplomacy ".

East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

A member on the Indiana State Sycamores ' team was Clarence Walker, an African-American athlete from East Chicago, Indiana.

But its loss of influence in Italy and Germany, and the consequent formation of the Dual State, had at length indicated the proper, and, indeed, the only field for its diplomacy in the future – the Near East, where the process of the crystallization of the Balkan peoples into nationalities was still incomplete.

In November 2007, he was appointed by the U. S. Secretary of State as special envoy for Middle East security.

After World War II, East Prussia was divided between the USSR and Poland, and Königsberg was renamed after the Soviet Head of State Mikhail Kalinin.

Downtown Kansas City is an area of bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line road to the West.

* The Chief Rabbinate of Israel was founded with the intention of representing all of Judaism within the State of Israel, and has two chief rabbis: One is Ashkenazic ( of the East European and Russian Jewish tradition ) and one is Sephardic ( of the Mediterranean, North African, Central Asian, Middle-Eastern and of Caucasus Jewish tradition.

Mein Kampf said Germany's destiny was to turn " to the East " as it did " six hundred years ago " and " the end of the Jewish domination in Russia will also be the end of Russia as a State.

:* Oral History in the Digital Age at Michigan State University ( East Lansing, Michigan )

Since German reunification, the PDS has frequently been the target of suspicions that leading members were connected with East Germany's Ministry for State Security, or Stasi.

At that time, Dejima was no longer in the possession of the Dutch East Indian Company but was kept running by the Dutch State, because of political reasons.

On 14 December 1988, following an outcry from his 13 December General Assembly speech, Yasser Arafat called a press conference in Geneva to clarify his earlier statement by specifically mentioning the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to exist in peace and security, including the State of Palestine, Israel, and their neighbours.

This is because the Reichsbahn was specifically mentioned in several postwar treaties and directives regarding the right to operate the railroad in West Berlin ; had the East German government changed the name of the railways to, for example, Staatsbahn der DDR ( State Railways of the GDR ), it would likely have lost this right.

In the East of the county is Sutton Hoo, the site of one of England's most significant Anglo-Saxon archæological finds ; a ship burial containing a collection of treasures including a Sword of State, gold and silver bowls and jewellery and a lyre.

The defeated Ottoman empire was dissolved into the Republic of Turkey and several smaller nations, including Yemen, plus the new Middle East Allied " mandates " of Syria and Lebanon ( future Syria, Lebanon and Hatay State ), Palestine ( future Transjordan and Israel ), Mesopotamia ( future Iraq ).