Optional characters were available for US ASCII, and UK, French, German, and Italian EBCDIC.

To add to the confusion between "£" and "#", in BS 4730 ( the UK national variant of the ISO / IEC 646 character set ), 0x23 represents "£" whereas in ASCII ( the US variant ), it represents "#".

These strings are case-insensitive and the character set used is ( US -) ASCII.

* The French Minitel: Is There Digital Life Outside of the " US ASCII " Internet?

It just consists in remapping ArmSCII-7 in the higher range above the standard US ASCII range.

It is also known as CP 437, OEM 437, PC-8, MS-DOS Latin US or sometimes it is misleadingly referred to as the OEM font, High ASCII or Extended ASCII.

Elevated levels of americium were also detected at the crash site of a US B-52 bomber, which carried four hydrogen bombs, in 1968 in Greenland.

The same message was conveyed to US President Johnson's emissary Chester Bowles in January 1968.

The character was played by Silvana Mangano in the US production, Ullyses ( 1955 ); by Juliette Mayniel in the European television co-production L ' Odissea ( 1968 ); and by Bernadette Peters in the American TV feature Ulysses ( 1997 ).

According to Herbert Weinstock's 1968 biography ( see below ), the composer's estate was valued at 2. 5 million francs upon his death in 1868, the equivalent of about 1. 4 million US dollars.

In 1968, Hussain Najadi the Bahraini born banker, acquired the Supramar AG and expanded its operations into Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Norway and the US.

The US Atomic Energy Commission and NASA tested a few designs from 1959 to 1968.

This material was later used as an element of his satirical US presidential campaign in 1968, and was included on his 1968 comedy album Pat Paulsen for President.

Soon after the book was published in the US, Kosiński was accused by the then-Communist Polish government of being anti-Polish, especially following the regime's 1968 anti-Semitic campaign.

* 1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.

On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for US $ 168, 000.

Until 1968, visible and infrared LEDs were extremely costly, on the order of US $ 200 per unit, and so had little practical use.

In 1968 James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, John Kenneth Galbraith and another 1, 200 economists signed a document calling for the US Congress to introduce in that year a system of income guarantees and supplements.

* 1968 – Gold standard: The U. S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

With the direct intervention of North Vietnam in the South with the Tet Offensive of 1968, US forces suffered heavy losses.

* 1968 – Vietnam War October surprise: Citing progress with the Paris peace talks, US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of " all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam " effective November 1.

* 1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.

Scottish folk singer Donovan's transformation to ' electric ' music gave him a series of pop hits, beginning with " Sunshine Superman ", which reached number one in both Britain and the US, to be followed by " Mellow Yellow " ( 1966 ) and " Atlantis " ( 1968 ).

In Europe and US, the first object that resembled a snowboard was invented by Sherman Poppen in 1968 and was called the Snurfer ( a portmanteau of " Snow " and " Surfer ").

It premiered on October 1, 1968, and was completed on a US $ 114, 000 budget.

Gilbert has also been honored by the National Academy of Sciences ( US Steel Foundation Award, 1968 ); Massachusetts General Hospital ( Warren Triennial Prize, 1977 ); the New York Academy of Sciences ; ( Louis and Bert Freedman Foundation Award, 1977 ), the Academie des Sciences of France ( Prix Charles-Leopold Mayer Award, 1977 ).

In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U. S. Board on Geographic Names and the U. S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming " Colored Mountain " in 1968 ; and in West Texas, " Dead Nigger Creek " was renamed " Dead Negro Draw ".

The United States Food and Drug Administration lists these items as " Generally recognized as safe " or GRAS ; they are listed under both their Chemical Abstract Services number and Fukda regulation under the US Code of Federal Regulations.

Perhaps the first instrument of modern public international law was the Lieber Code, passed in 1863 by the Congress of the United States, to govern the conduct of US forces during the United States Civil War and considered to be the first written recitation of the rules and articles of war, adhered to by all civilized nations, the precursor of public international law.

In addition to money laundering, the law, contained in section 1957 of Title 18 of the United States Code, prohibits spending in excess of US $ 10, 000 derived from an SUA, regardless of whether the individual wishes to disguise it.

* Text of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 – 38 US Code Chapter 42 §§ 4211 – 4215

In the US, all commercial airport runways are certified by the FAA under the Code of Federal Regulations Title 14 Part 139, " Certification of Commercial Service Airports " although it serves only general aviation traffic.

Title 10 of the US Code states:

* Federal Condition Code, a rating code assigned to materials in US Army supply

US pipeline maintenance rules are covered in Code of Federal Regulations ( CFR ) sections, 49 CFR 192 for natural gas pipelines, and 49 CFR 195 for petroleum liquid pipelines.

In 1954, various acts were codified into Title 13 of the US Code.

After the fall of Napoleon, not only was Napoleonic Code retained by many such countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, but has also been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec.

Some writers, and in particular, the US Code, capitalize " Act ".

Similarly, jointly held property ( in common law systems ), life insurance, annuities, US Tax Code section 401 ( k ) Retirement Plans or Individual Retirement Accounts ( also known as Registered Retirement Savings Plans in Canada ) will also avoid probate as these devices allow property to transfer to beneficiaries outside the probate process.

This is not at all unusual, as the first commonly agreed international broadcast was a Morse Code telegram transmitted from US President Wilson to the German Kaiser ( mid-1918 ) via a high powered longwave transmitter on the US East Coast ( this important event in international broadcasting history was described in depth in the IEEE " The History of International Broadcasting " first volume ).

Weston was ranked as the 97th-wealthiest US ZIP Code in a Forbes survey in 2010.

The Washington section of US 12, other than a concurrency with Interstate 5, is defined at Washington Revised Code § 47. 17. 055.

In 1962 US President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order # 10988 which established the right for public sector employees to form trade unions but made it " illegal " to strike ( United States Code: Title 5, 7311, U. S .).

A 1-watt transmission of very slow Morse Code between G3AQC ( in the UK ) and W1TAG ( in the US ) spanned the Atlantic Ocean for on November 21 – 22, 2001.

The language was used by the Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to transmit secret US military messages, which neither the Germans nor Japanese ever deciphered.

* Text of Civil Rights Act of 1964 – Title VII – 42 US Code Chapter 21 ( Employment Discrimination )

* Uniform Code Council, former name of GS1 US

The National Drug Code is a unique 10-digit, 3-segment numeric identifier assigned to each medication listed under Section 510 of the US Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Each NDC-coded product package in the US bears a barcode with a Universal Product Code that begins with a 3 ( UPC-A ) or 03 ( EAN-13 ).

After the incident, US Code 33 § 2733 mandated the operation of an automated navigation light to prevent future collisions with the reef.