In free states, Republican militias-called " Wide Awakes "-sided with abolitionists in sometimes violent confrontations with Federal authorities.

This resulted in the " Stone's Prairie Riot " on August 25, 1860, at which the Republican Party para-military organization, the " Wide Awakes ", confronted armed supporters of the Democratic Party.

Lyon himself had been extensively involved in the St. Louis Wide Awakes, a pro-union paramilitary organization that he intended to arm from the arsenal and muster into the ranks of the federal army.

He personally organized and equipped a force of several thousand Unionist " Home Guards ", drawn from the " Wide Awakes "-the Republican marching clubs of the 1860 campaign.

The Wide Awakes was a paramilitary campaign organization affiliated with the Republican Party during the United States presidential election of 1860.

In the mid-1850s, an entirely separate group called the " Wide Awakes " existed in New York City.

Wide Awakes Torch Rally ca.

In 1856, across the North, the new Republican party organized young men's marching clubs called " Rocky Mountain Clubs ", " Wide Awakes ", " Freedom Clubs ", and " Bear Clubs " The term " Wide Awakes " became popular in the 1860 campaign.

In Chicago on October 3, 1860, 10, 000 Wide Awakes marched in a three-mile procession.

Each party took unusual pains to mobilize its followers in disciplined political clubs, but the most remarkable of these were the Lincoln " Rail Maulers " and " Wide Awakes ," whose organizations extended throughout the state.

The " Wide Awakes " in particular were well drilled and served as political police in escorting party speakers and in preserving order at public meetings.

The Wide Awakes adopted the image of a large eyeball as their standard banner.

Little is known about the national organization of the Wide Awakes, if indeed any formal governing body existed at all.

Surviving minutes of the Waupun, Wisconsin Wide Awakes chapter restrict membership to males age 18 and older.

Typical Wide Awakes chapters also adopted an unofficial mission statement.

On the way to the rally, the Quincy Wide Awakes passed through Payson, the residents of which had erected a pole with an offensive effigy of Lincoln astride a rail.

The Wide Awakes, however, carried a banner with an equally offensive depiction of a drunken Douglas falling over a pile of rails.

An early confrontation was avoided, with the Wide Awakes proceeding to Stone's Creek.

The Wide Awakes defended the speakers, and a general melee resulted, involving several hundred men.

After the rally, the Wide Awakes returned through Payson, where they found a hundred Democrats guarding their pole.

Although Wide Awakes avoided confrontation, shots were fired at them while leaving town.

The Wide Awakes ' flag was pierced by shots, and several were reported to have been injured.

Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.

Wide carriage printers were often used by businesses, to print accounting records on 11 " x 14 " tractor-feed paper.

The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental " hyperediting " functions in word processors and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later analogous to the World Wide Web.

As new web browsers were released, traffic on the World Wide Web quickly exploded from only 500 known web servers in 1993 to over 10, 000 in 1994.

Historically, HTTPS connections were primarily used for payment transactions on the World Wide Web, e-mail and for sensitive transactions in corporate information systems.

Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.

Wide paved boulevards and gathering places were constructed in the capital city of Antananarivo and the Rova palace compound was turned into a museum.

Statues of Nurmi were also sculpted by Renée Sintenis in 1926 and by Carl Eldh, whose 1937 work Löpare ( Runners ) depicts a battle between Nurmi and Edvin Wide.

Wide receiver Golden Richards and tight end Jean Fugett were also reliable targets in the Cowboys ' passing game, combining for 59 receptions and 939 receiving yards.

Wide receivers Freddie Solomon and Dwight Clark also were deep threats, gaining a combined total of 1, 617 yards and 16 touchdowns.

Wide receivers Ricky Sanders and Art Monk were also deep threats, combining for 80 receptions and 1, 130 yards.

In addition, a survey of nearby stars by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera was completed in 1999, including a search for faint companions to Tau Ceti ; none were discovered to limits of the telescope's resolving power.

Nelson claims some aspects of his vision are in the process of being fulfilled by Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web, but he dislikes the World Wide Web, XML and all embedded markup – regarding Berners-Lee's work as a gross over-simplification of his original vision: HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT — ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

This meant many legal experts were unable to access legal information made available in hypertext on the World Wide Web.

Hyperlinks were therefore integral to the creation of the World Wide Web.

Wide carriage printers were often used by businesses, to print accounting records on 11 " x 14 " tractor-feed paper.

Wide deliveries were outlawed in 1811.

Wide data paths were used, so this was a very fast operation.

It did not proceed past today's intersection with Wide Acres Road, as originally Wide Acres and today's South Golden ( or Old Golden ) roads were the continuation of the thoroughfare into Golden.

Wide Area Networks were later designed by RTU vendors to communicate with the RTU.

Within hours of a major eruption during the night being reported on 25 September 1995, news media were trying to get live video of the eruption and amateur photographers had published eruption images on the World Wide Web.

In 1976, wider-angle units were introduced with a 35-degree horizontal FoV, and were called ' WAC windows ', standing for ' Wide Angle Collimated ', and this became a well-used term.