On April 14, after its first session, the PRA announced that Khieu Samphan would chair the State Presidium for a 5-year term.

It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

* 1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The 1954 PRC Constitution provides that the State Chairman ( President ) directs the armed forces and made the State Chairman the chair of the Defense Commission ( the Defense Commission is an advisory body, it does not lead the armed forces ).

Although the Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces is legally the Sovereign: under constitutional practice the Prime Minister can declare war, and through the Secretary of State for Defence ( whom he may appoint, dismiss or even appoint himself as ) as chair of the Defence Council the power over the deployment and disposition of British forces.

* December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US ( a black nationalist group ) and later chair of Black Studies, at California State University, Long Beach from 1989 to 2002.

Some cities or counties also have an annual State of the City Address given by the mayor, county commissioner or board chair, including Sonoma County, California ; Orlando, Florida ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Parma, Ohio ; Detroit, Michigan ; Seattle, Washington ; Birmingham, Alabama ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Los Angeles, California ; Buffalo, New York ; Rochester, New York ; San Antonio, Texas ; McAllen, Texas ; and San Diego, California.

* murdering Sergey Kirov, Valerian Kuybyshev, State Political Directorate ( OGPU ) chair Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and writer Maxim Gorky and his son

The monarch is also ex officio chair of the Council of State, which advises the cabinet on every piece of legislation and is the final court for administrative law.

The setting for Cold Mountain State Penitentiary is inspired by Louisiana State Penitentiary, although unlike in the book, Louisiana only instated the electric chair in 1938, while the book is set in 1932.

Sheen also developed an ongoing relationship with Wright State University, where he performed Love Letters as a benefit for scholarships in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, and hosted a trip of donors to the set of The West Wing with the department's chair, W. Stuart McDowell, in September 2001.

One example of a failed effort to create a new NSC organ in the hopes of improving interagency coordination and reducing friction among the Departments of State and Defense, the CIA, and the NSC, was President Reagan's order on March 24, 1981, naming then Vice President George Bush as chair of a proposed administration crisis management team.

On March 20, 1933, after spending only 10 days on Death Row, Zangara was executed in Old Sparky, the electric chair at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.

* New cinema chair studies " narrative IEDs " SF State News.

On April 3, 1936, Hauptmann was executed in " Old Smokey ", the electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison.

The practical details of the chair were finalized by the first " State Electrician ", Edwin Davis.

He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936, at 8: 44 in the evening.

In 2000, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees of California State University by Governor Gray Davis, becoming chair of the Board in May 2006.

While he was chair of the department of philosophy at UVA, he vigorously defended to the Virginia State Legislature the University's refusal to award honoris causa degrees.

In the late 1930s Hatfield worked as a tour guide at the new Oregon State Capitol Building in Salem, using his key to enter the governor's office, where he sat in the governor's chair.

" After the war, Mr. Ciardi returned briefly to Kansas State, before being named instructor 1946, and later assistant professor, in the Briggs Copeland chair at Harvard University, where he stayed until 1953.

He was a member of the California State Senate, serving as the chair of that body's judiciary committee during his one term.

It should be installed over a door that is in full view of everyone, and a chair should be placed under it, a little to one side.

The truth is, however, that when Mel Chandler first reported to the regiment the only steed he had ever ridden was a swivel chair and the only weapon he had ever wielded was a pencil.

He doesn't think that potting them from a deck chair on the south side of the house with a quart glass of beer for sustenance is entirely sporting.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.

She is a serene woman who, after taking care of the housework, sits quietly in a chair.

* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )

Licenses for TV and radio broadcasters are issued by the Republican Commission on Television and Radio Broadcasting, the chair of which is the minister of information.

It is headed by a four-star general, and the chair rotates among the services.

In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Anglican cathedrals there is a special chair set aside for the exclusive use of the bishop.

In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

The chair of this council is held by the member from the state holding the presidency ( see section above ).

Similarly, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council is composed of national finance ministers, and they are still one per state and the chair is held by the member coming from the presiding country.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The Council is made up of the chair of CND, the treasurer, three vice-chairs, 15 directly elected members, a representative of each of the specialist sections, one from Student CND, three from Youth CND and 27 from the regional groups.

One is the chair of the university's student senate, and the other is non-voting and is the chair of the university's faculty senate.

Kelli Kling, marketing and public relations chair for the Festival since 1999, said that the name Black Swamp was chosen for the festival because it is a common term for this area of the state.

Two years afterwards, on the recommendation of Gronovius, he was chosen to succeed that scholar at Deventer ; in 1662 he moved to the University of Utrecht, where he occupied first the chair of rhetoric, and in addition, from 1667 until his death, that of history and politics.

Whiston was expelled from his chair on 30 October 1710 ; at the appeal of the heads of colleges, Queen Anne awarded Saunderson a Master of Arts degree on 19 November 1711 so that he would be eligible to succeed Whiston as Lucasian professor, and he was chosen as the fourth Lucasian professor the next day.

In 2000, the first chair of a preceptor's council was chosen by Sangharakshita.

In 1919 he was chosen as chair of the party's executive committee, and was also elected to the National Assembly as a representative of Paris.

In August 2010 Palmer was chosen to chair a UN Inquiry panel into the fatal Israeli raid on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship participating in a Gaza-bound protest flotilla in May of that year.

Other presiding officers, the Deputy Chair of Committees and the Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees, are chosen each session to occupy the chair when the Speaker and Deputy Speaker are not available.

She then became the first woman in Louisiana elected to the Public Service Commission, where she served seven years, where she was chosen to preside as the first woman chair of the PSC.

Some time previously Bernard had been chosen the first occupant of the newly instituted chair of physiology at the Sorbonne.

In 1880 he was chosen professor of mineralogy in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and in 1833 he was appointed to the chair of geology in Haverford College, Pennsylvania.

The presiding officer is chosen by the Speaker of the House and is normally a member of the majority party who does not hold the chair of a standing committee.

Michael Badnarik was chosen as the party's presidential candidate, beating out Gary Nolan and Aaron Russo on the third ballot ; Richard Campagna was chosen as the party's vice-presidential candidate over Tamara Millay, and Michael Dixon was elected chair of the Libertarian National Committee.

He was chosen as chair of the committee on resolutions and in a speech on July 5, bitterly condemned President Jackson.

On May 27, 1861, Crittenden was chosen chair of the convention and called it to order.

from Princeton, New Jersey, in 1841, was chosen by the Assembly of the Free Church to succeed Chalmers in the chair of divinity in the New College, Edinburgh.

In 2006 the principal of Derrimut Heath Primary School ( Now Baden Powell College ), Julie Mason, was chosen as the " Wyndham Citizen of the Year " for her key role in the development of the Wyndham Community Education Plan 2004-2007 and serving as chair of the Quality Community Plan Education Committee.

He was chosen to chair the conference's Compromise Committee.

The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £ 40 per year, and the holder is still chosen by The Crown.

Carl Sagan noted that the names chosen were extraordinarily obscure ( a fact that Tobias Owen, chair of the Task Group, admitted was intentional in a response to Sagan ) and suggested his own names in 1976 ; these preserved some of the names from the 1955 proposal.

A condition of the endowment was that the first appointee to the chair would be chosen jointly by the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith and the former Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour.

Near the end of its existence, the regional chair was chosen by direct election.

In 1969, he was chosen as chair of Winnipeg's traffice commission.