Colombia planned to finance US $ 4 billion of the estimated US $ 7. 5 billion overall cost, most of which would go towards the social portion of the project, but was ultimately unable to do so due to the state's 1997 – 1998 economic crisis.

Prior to 2001, the northern end of the freeway portion of US 131 was located at the southern entrance to Cadillac.

As of 2010 US Military spending is about 43 % of the world total .. Only a handful of countries spent a larger portion of GDP on military in 2010 and of these only Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates spent more than US $ 10 billion.

* 1893 – Grover Cleveland undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw ; operation not revealed to US public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.

An increasingly significant portion of Kenya's foreign inflows is from remittances by non-resident Kenyans who work in the US, Middle East, Europe, Asia and Antarctica.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

Because nearby loads are often correlated ( hot weather in the Southwest portion of the US might cause many people to use air conditioners ), electricity often comes from distant sources.

In the US, generation is growing 4 times faster than transmission, but big transmission upgrades require the coordination of multiple states, a multitude of interlocking permits, and cooperation between a significant portion of the 500 companies that own the grid.

The next month, another US federal court in New York struck down the portion of the CDA intended to protect children from indecent speech as too broad.

* Communication Management Unit A portion of a US federal prison facility that restricts an inmate's access to other inmates and ability to communicate with the outside world.

In 2003, the portion of 101 in Ventura County was named Screaming Eagles Highway in honor of the US Army 101st Airborne Division.

The short portion of US 1 in New Hampshire follows the historic Lafayette Road, staying close to I-95, before leaving the city of Portsmouth on the former Memorial Bridge over the Piscataqua River, which has been demolished and being replaced, leaving a temporary gap in US 1, with two other nearby bridges carrying U. S. Route 1 Bypass and Interstate 95.

There US 1 turns east as a mostly two-lane road along the coast to Calais ; much of this portion is advertised as the " Coastal Route " on signs.

In 1846, the Virginian portion of Washington, DC, contributed from Virginia, was " retrocessioned " ( returned ) to Virginia to protect slavery and today has had all US Citizen rights restored to that area.

Congress uses the same portion of the US Constitution to exclusively manage local and State level law for the citizens of Washington, DC and US Military Bases in the US.

From 1789 until 1802, the portion of Maryland converted into Washington, DC, was part of two US Congressional Districts, represented in 1801 by US Rep. John Chew Thomas from Maryland's 2nd, and US Rep. William Craik from Maryland's 3rd.

Residents of the former portion of the District of Columbia that was returned to Virginia ( through retrocession ) vote under the same rules as other Virginia residents, despite a significant Federal presence, including the Pentagon, Washington Reagan National Airport, the Patent and Trademark Office, US Marshals Headquarters, Drug Enforcement Agency Headquarters, US State Department's training campus, and Central Intelligence Agency offices.

* 1975 – General Cao Van Vien, chief of the South Vietnamese military, departs for the US as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on victory.

* 1861 – American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

OnStar relied heavily on North American AMPS service for its subscribers because, when the system was developed, AMPS offered the most comprehensive wireless coverage in the US.

As part of this defense, Canada and the US established the North American Air Defense Command ( now called North American Aerospace Defense Command NORAD ).

The sites were Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its Safeguard facility was already under construction, for the US.

Although a considerable quantity of equipment was seized or destroyed by US and South Vietnamese forces, containment of North Vietnamese forces proved elusive.

The North Vietnamese moved deeper into Cambodia to avoid US and South Vietnamese raids.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

* 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

In the US, the Doctor of Science, Sc. D., is an academic research degree that was first conferred in North America by Harvard University in 1872.

In the US, emeralds have been found in Connecticut, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina and South Carolina.

After returning to the US, Douglass produced some abolitionist newspapers: The North Star, Frederick Douglass Weekly, Frederick Douglass ' Paper, Douglass ' Monthly and New National Era.

Petroleum seeps on the North Slope have been known for many years, and in 1923, the federal government created US Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 to cover the presumed oil fields beneath the seeps.

In May 1801, Pasha Yusuf Karamanli demanded from the United States an increase in the tribute ( then $ 83, 000 ) which the US government had paid since 1796 for the protection of US commerce from piracy by Ottoman tribes along the North African coast.

Recorded almost entirely on the road at various North American studios, it was an even greater commercial success than their first album and reached the number one chart position in the US and the UK.

Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territories of Nunavut and Northwest Territories to the north, and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.

* 1965 – The US and South Vietnamese Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

* 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.

The US residences for the groups were in Heavenly Mountain, North Carolina.

While US POW's captured by North Korea were brutalized with starvation, beatings, forced death marches, exposure to extremes of temperature, binding in stress positions, and withholding of medical care, the abuse had no relation to indoctrination or collecting intelligence information " in which they Korea were not particularly interested.

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

Kim visited Beijing in May 1975 in the hope of gaining support for this plan to invade South Korea again, but Mao Zedong refused, saying the China would be unable to assist North Korea this time because of the lingering after-effects of the Cultural Revolution and because they had recently restored diplomatic relations with the US.

The latter term is also sometimes used by Washington residents to refer to the Washington section of the Cascades in addition to North Cascades, the more usual US term, as in North Cascades National Park.

Much of the northern half of the Cascades, from Rainier north, have been preserved by US national or British Columbia provincial parks ( such as E. C.

If defined as Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest has four US National Parks: Crater Lake in Oregon, and Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascades in Washington.

* SR 20 connecting US 101 and Sidney, British Columbia with Newport, Washington via the North Cascades Highway.

It took several years for the US Army to defeat the Yakama, during which time war spread to the Puget Sound region west of the Cascades.

* Stevens Pass ( US Route 2 ) through the Cascades, and also the route he surveyed for the Railroads is named for him.

The summits of the rest of the Canadian Cascades are not glaciated in the same way and feature rock " horns " rising from plateau-like uplands, with the Manning Park and Cathedral Park areas known for their extensive alpine meadows, as is also the case with the eastern flank of the US portion of the range.

Portions of the US side of the range are protected as part of North Cascades National Park.

Near the Cascades waterfall on the western edge of the park is an 1876 statue of Edward Bates, who was US Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.

Ross Lake National Recreation Area is a major recreation destination in the Northern Cascades, attracting visitors from across the US and Canada with fishing, hunting, canoeing, kayaking, climbing and hiking opportunities.

On the western side of the Cascades, U. S. Route 26 follows more or less the same route from Sandy to Government Camp ; south of Government Camp, US 26 follows a valley just west of the Barlow Road's route along Barlow Creek.