* 1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

On this point, their publishing organisation, the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, prefers the translation: " should be born from above ".

Their publishing company, Watch Tower, and official position magazine, The Watchtower, have asserted: " Ever since The Watchtower began to be published in July 1879 it has looked ahead into the future ... No, The Watchtower is no inspired prophet, but it follows and explains a Book of prophecy the predictions in which have proved to be unerring and unfailing till now.

One example is The Watchtower's assertions that the end of the " Gentile times " or " times of the nations " would occur in 1914 ; even prominent Watch Tower representatives such as A. H. Macmillan incorrectly concluded and overstated their expectations.

** Frederick William Franz, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 4th President of Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society ( b. 1893 )

* August 9 – Milton G. Henschel, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and 5th President of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society ( d. 2003 )

* Hayden C. Covington ( 1911 – 1978 ), legal counsel for the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

Prominent Bible Students A. H. Macmillan and J. F. Rutherford were both appointed pilgrims before they joined the board of directors of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania ; the IBSA later adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses and renamed pilgrims as traveling overseers.

Beginning in July 1879 he began publishing a monthly religious journal, Zion's Watch Tower and Herald of Christ's Presence.

In 1881 he co-founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society and in 1884 the corporation was officially registered, with Russell as president.

) The Watch Tower Society officially states that it ceased publication of Russell's writings in 1927, though his books continue to be published by several independent groups.

Later in his career he accepted without protest that many Bible Students viewed him as the " faithful and wise servant " of Matthew 24: 45, and was described by the Watch Tower after his death as having been made " ruler of all the Lord's goods ".

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

Russell blamed the marriage breakup on disagreements over Maria's insistence for a greater editorial role in Zion's Watch Tower magazine, though a later court judgment noted that he had labelled the marriage " a mistake " three years before the dispute over her editorial ambitions had arisen.

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures ( NWT ) is a translation of the Bible published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1961 ; it is used and distributed by Jehovah's Witnesses.

As of 2012, the Watch Tower Society has published 174 million copies of the New World Translation in 110 language editions.

In October 1946, the president of the Watch Tower Society, Nathan H. Knorr, proposed a fresh translation of the New Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses usually refer to as the Christian Greek Scriptures.

... We heartily recommend the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, published in 1950 by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

* List of Watch Tower Society publications

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and its precursor organization, Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society, considers the Great Apostasy to have properly begun before the death of the last Apostle, along with the warning signs and precursors starting shortly after Jesus ' ascension.

The Tour du Guet ( Watch Tower ), situated in Calais Nord on the Places d ' Armes, is one of the few surviving pre-war buildings.

Disfellowshipping follows a decision of a judicial committee established by a local congregation that a member is guilty of a " serious sin ", including " fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation "; Watch Tower publications cite sexual immorality as the most common reason.

Boston's Watch and Ward Society, a largely Protestant creation inspired by Anthony Comstock, made " banned in Boston " a national by-word.

The Watch Tower Society directs that those who voluntarily renounce membership of the religion (" disassociation ") are also to be shunned.

The practices of Jehovah's Witnesses are based on the Bible teachings of Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Bible Student movement, and successive presidents of the Watch Tower Society, Joseph Franklin Rutherford and Nathan Homer Knorr.

Members are expected to participate regularly in evangelizing work and attend all congregation meetings, as well as regular large-scale conventions, which are highly structured and based on material from Watch Tower Society publications.

Witnesses are assigned to a congregation in which " territory " they reside and are expected to attend weekly meetings as scheduled by the Watch Tower Society and congregation elders.

The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine.

Human Rights Watch has cited a number of summary executions as particular examples of violations of the rules of warfare, including the case of Muhammad Swairki, 28, a cook for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, who was thrown to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.

An independent investigation of his death has been requested by Human Rights Watch.

John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton of PR Watch argue that the term " junk science " has come to be used to deride scientific findings that stand in the way of short-term corporate profits.

She has made guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, Cosby, Better off Ted and La Femme Nikita.

* Thought Variance-Even if we consider the Watch the Master, a particular program written has different ways to implement by each developer depending on the framework ( s ) he experienced.

Scott has also twice used songs by Sting during the film credits (" Valparaiso " for White Squall and " Someone to Watch Over Me " for the movie of the same title ).

These claims are supported by media reports about the Herat government of Ismail Khan, who has created a religious police that forces women to obey strict dress and behavior codes, as well as many reports by Human Rights Watch.

FARC has been accused of committing violations of human rights by numerous groups, including the Colombian government, U. S. government, European Union, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and United Nations.

Human Rights Watch estimates that the FARC-EP has the majority of child combatants in Colombia, and that approximately one quarter of its guerrillas are under 18.

Human Rights Watch has noted that " once integrated into the FARC-EP, children are typically barred from leaving ".

According to Human Rights Watch, the FARC-EP has killed civilians not involved in the conflict through the use of gas cylinder mortars and its use of landmines.

However in addition to the 14th Special Forces Division, the 15th Special Forces Division has been identified by Arabic Wikipedia and Human Rights Watch in 2011-2012.

* Samarkand has a large featuring in the originally Russian film Day Watch, originally written by Sergei Lukyanenko as part of a Trilogy.

Human Rights Watch has in their report also put a large portion of the blame of what happened in Block 5A in Sudan on Lundin Oil saying that " no war-related displacement at all took place there until 1998 year when Lundin Oil established themselves in Sudan ".

Sakhalin II has come under fire from environmental groups, namely Sakhalin Environment Watch, for dumping dredging material in Aniva Bay.

More recently, the para-military group known as the Karuna Group, which is apparently a splinter group from the LTTE, has been held responsible for the abduction of children according to UNICEF and Human Rights Watch.

For over half a century, Columbia has been home to the headquarters of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors ( NAWCC ), whose campus on Poplar Street includes a clock tower, clock museum, library, research center, and " School of Horology ," for training professional clock and watch repairers.

For example, in her book Setting the Watch: Privacy and the Ethics of CCTV Surveillance, Beatrice von Silva-Tarouca Larsen argues that CCTV surveillance is ethically permissible only in " certain restrictively defined situations ", such as when a specific location has a " comprehensively documented and significant criminal threat " ( p. 160 ).

He has worked with Human Rights Watch, was on the Board of Advisors of the original Cult Awareness Network, and has been president of Death Penalty Focus for more than ten years, being the first person to be awarded its Human Rights Award, subsequently named after him, in 2006.

According to California Watch, Bell Gardens has the highest percentage of residents who completed less than ninth grade ( 44. 9 %).

Forest River employs nearly 300 in the RV and modular housing industry, Utilimaster Corporation employs around 800, and Livin-Lite RV has been named a " Company to Watch " in the state of Indiana.