Now, of course, that the Russians are the nuclear villains, radiation is a nastier word than it was in the mid, when the US was testing in the atmosphere.

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

Dynamite was patented in the US and the UK and was used extensively in mining and the building of transport networks internationally.

In comparison, in 2006, the GDP was estimated to be 6. 6 billion USD per calendar year and the GDP per capita ( purchasing power parity ) was estimated at $ 5, 400 US.

US House Resolution 106 was introduced on January 30, 2007 later referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

As of early 2008, the wholesale price for abalone meat was approximately US $ 40. 00 per kilogram.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

Post merger, the Amex equities business was branded " NYSE Alternext US ".

As part of the re-branding exercise, NYSE Alternext US was re-branded as NYSE Amex Equities.

It was not an overseas possession but national soil, much like Alaska or Hawaii are US National soil despite being ' discontinuous '.

The aim was to secede Cuba from Spain, and annex it as a US state as Florida had been in 1824 through the Adams-Onis Treaty.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

In 2006 Alberta's per capita GDP was higher than all US states, and one of the highest figures in the world.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

In addition, ASU is ranked 78th in the world / 45th in the US by the Academic Ranking of World Universities and was named as one of " America's Best College Buys " by Forbes magazine.

On 19 August 1978 — the anniversary of the US backed pro-Shah coup d ' état which overthrew the nationalists and popular Iranian prime minister, Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh — the Cinema Rex, a movie theatre in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze by four Islamic Revolution sympathizers in an attempt to help the cause of Iran's Islamic Revolution.

Aesthetic coupling between art-objects and medical topics was made by speakers working for the US Information Agency This coupling was made to reinforce the learning paradigm when English-language speakers used translators to address audiences in their own country.

This task force aims to actively address antimicrobial resistance, and is coordinated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), and the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), as well as other US agencies.

High-alcohol liquor, two forms of which were in the US Pharmacopoeia up until 1916 and in common use by physicians well into the 1930s, has been used in the past as an agent for dulling pain, due to the CNS depressant effects of ethyl alcohol, a notable example being the American Civil War.

It should foster mutual regional trade among the member states, as well as with the US and Canada, the Pacific Union, the African Union, and the European Union.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

However, due to concerns over the previous Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution ; the Company moved the ownership of the Company's trademarks, assets and proprietary formulas out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as well as constructing plants in Puerto Rico and Mexico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the US.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardí family members had to the US political elite as well as organizations of state such as the CIA.

The US had already been bombing Vietnamese positions in Cambodia for well over a year by that point.

The University has general exchange agreements with many European and US universities and maintains a special exchange program agreement with National Chiao Tung University ( NCTU ) in Taiwan where the exchange students from the two universities maintains offices for, among other things, helping local students with applying and preparing for an exchange year as well as acting as representatives ( NCTU Europe – NCTU students at Chalmers, Chalmers Asia – Chalmers students at NCTU ).

Due to an affliction affecting bats in the northeastern US known as white nose syndrome ( WNS ), the US Fish & Wildlife Service has called for a moratorium effective March 26, 2009 on caving activity in states known to have hibernacula ( MD, NY, VT, NH, MA, CT, NJ, PA, VA, and WV ) affected by WNS, as well as adjoining states.

By the early 1920s, unit operations became an important aspect of chemical engineering at MIT and other US universities, as well as at Imperial College London.

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

" Chocolate Cake ", a humorous comment on American excesses that wasn't taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public, was released in June 1991 as the first single.

Earning the distinction of being one of the first white artists to appear on the US variety show Soul Train, Bowie mimed " Fame ", as well as " Golden Years ", his November single, that it was offered to Elvis Presley to perform, but Presley declined it.

The US has sought to encourage the progress of human rights to the country by addressing its concerns directly to the government, as well as holding seminars for better police conduct and judicial conferences with US judeges to improve the rule of law.

The group also scored 20 Top 20 UK hit singles, as well as 19 Top-20 hit singles in the US ( as charted by Billboard Magazine ).

:* International: Access to important cable links between US and Canada as well as between NZ and Australia ( Southern Cross Cable Network ); satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean )

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

A study of granite countertops was done ( initiated and paid for by the Marble Institute of America ) in November 2008 by National Health and Engineering Inc of USA, and found that all of the 39 full size granite slabs that were measured for the study showed radiation levels well below the European Union safety standards ( section 4. 1. 1. 1 of the National Health and Engineering study ) and radon emission levels well below the average outdoor radon concentrations in the US.

The US natural gas industry started in 1821 at Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, when William Hart dug a well to a depth of into gas-bearing shale, then drilled a borehole further, and piped the natural gas to a nearby inn where it was burned for illumination.

More recently, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, `` admitted '' to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the US might fall behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain.

Towards the early 1990s, the BBS industry became so popular that it spawned three monthly magazines, Boardwatch, BBS Magazine, and in Asia and Australia, Chips ' n Bits Magazine which devoted extensive coverage of the software and technology innovations and people behind them, and listings to US and worldwide BBSes.

The population density was 16, 422. 08 people per square mile ( 6, 341. 98 / km² ), making Cambridge the fifth most densely populated city in the US and the second most densely populated city in Massachusetts behind neighboring Somerville.

Radon gas poses significant health concerns, and is the number two cause of lung cancer in the US behind smoking.

Then US President George W. Bush accused Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the faces behind the attacks.

Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to the horse's back by means of a girth ( English-style riding ), known as a cinch in the Western US, a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.

President Woodrow Wilson had been a driving force behind the League's formation and strongly influenced the form it took, but the US Senate voted not to join on 19 November 1919.

Nevada ranks second in the US, behind Alaska, and ahead of California, Montana, and Washington.

" That a community has different components whose interests must be balanced in any good regime is an idea with classical precedents, but Machiavelli's particularly extreme presentation is seen as a critical step towards the later political ideas of both a division of powers or checks and balances, ideas which lay behind the US constitution ( and most modern constitutions ).

A Quest for the truth behind the Mystery of Pope Joan, Heineman, London 1998 ISBN 0-434-02458-9 Published in the US as The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth, Henry Holt & Company, 1999.

The Ohio River as a whole is ranked as the most polluted river in the US based on 2009 and 2010 data although the more industrial and regional Ohio tributary, Monongahela River, which the data names as home to the biggest polluter in the state, ranked behind 16 other American rivers for pollution at number 17, while the Allegheny is not cited as a polluted river.

* Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN 0-19-516343-5

The price per kilogram has oscillated between US $ 4, 600 and $ 13, 300 in the period from 1959 to 1998 for 99. 9 % purity, and it was second highest for lanthanides behind lutetium.

Unnamed US officials quoted by the Associated Press said al-Qaeda's explosives expert in Yemen, Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, was the likely suspect behind the bomb-making.

There were other persons in the US who independently thought of " Father's Day ", but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd, who was the driving force behind its establishment.

Although the satellites and other assets and technology behind Iridium were estimated to have cost on the order of US $ 6 billion, the investors bought the firm for about US $ 25 million.

Mitchell conceived that US troops could be rapidly trained to utilize parachutes and drop from converted bombers to land behind Metz in sychronisation with a planned infantry offensive.

In response, the EU decided to fill the gap left behind by the US under the Sandbaek report.

* Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN 0-19-516343-5

The US team was running behind the heavily favored Germans, but the Germans dropped the baton, allowing Robinson ( who handed off the baton to Helen Stephens ) to win her second Olympic title.

Throughout the years the band has been established, they have had little radio or television exposure, although a cult following began to build behind the group with the release of albums such as 1991's Butchered at Birth and 1992's Tomb of the Mutilated which both reached over one million in worldwide sales by 2003, including 558, 929 in the United States, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time in the US.

The Goonies grossed US $ 9 million in its opening weekend in the US, second on the charts behind Rambo: First Blood Part II.