The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.

The State Ballet of Rhode Island, the first incorporated group, was formed for the purpose of extending knowledge of the art of ballet in the Community, to promote interest in ballet performances, to contribute to the cultural life of the State, and to provide opportunity for gifted dance students who, for one reason or another, are unable to pursue a career and to develop others for the professional state ; ;

The Secretary of the Interior or any duly authorized representative shall be entitled to admission to, and to require reports from the operator of, any metal or nonmetallic mine which is in a State ( excluding any coal or lignite mine ), the products of which regularly enter commerce or the operations of which substantially affect commerce, for the purpose of gathering data and information necessary for the study authorized in the first section of this Act.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

One of his initial acts in office was to appoint Philip Coombs of the Ford Foundation as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.

In the evening the former Oregon State science teachers met for dinner at the New Tokyo Restaurant where I had my first raw fish and found it good.

Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

The replica ABC is now on permanent display in the first floor lobby of the Durham Center for Computation and Communication at Iowa State University.

In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.

The first official acknowledgement of the programs came from the State Department in March 1966.

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

His first taste of ministerial office came in 1924, when he served as Under-Secretary of State for War in the short-lived first Labour government, led by MacDonald.

State scholarships to universities were increased, and free milk was made available to all schoolchildren for the first time.

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.

The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

In 1935 the Irish Free State was the first to introduce its own citizenship.

Ten years later he became the secretary and then the president of the first Illinois State Board of Health, which carried out most of its activities in Chicago.

In 1986, Taylor released his first solo album, Knowledge & Innocence, which included songs inspired by the death of his grandfather and the miscarriage of his and his wife's first child.

" Stonehill would later provide backing vocals on a number of DA's projects including Doppelganger and would join DA's lead singer, Terry Taylor, for a duet on his first solo project, Knowledge & Innocence, entitled A Song of Innocence.

Watson is also a record producer who has produced albums for artists like Mike Stand, Terry Scott Taylor and others, including Taylor's first solo album, Knowledge & Innocence, and the EP, LITTLE, big.

* Season 2: " School Hard " ( first appearance ), " Halloween ", " Lie to Me ", " What's My Line, Part One ", " What's My Line, Part Two ", " Surprise ", " Innocence ", " Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered ", " Passion ", " I Only Have Eyes For You ", " Becoming, Part One " ( Also in flashbacks ), " Becoming, Part Two "

His first three feature films Man Is Not a Bird ( 1965 ), Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator ( 1967 ) starring actress and icon of the " black wave " period in film Eva Ras, and Innocence Unprotected ( 1968 ) won Dušan Makavejev international acclaim.

Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence ( 1920 ) at a villa near Hyères, winning the Pulitzer Prize for the novel ( the first woman to do so ).

Spirited Away shared the first prize at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival and won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, while Innocence: Ghost in the Shell was featured at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

On February 25, 2011, Symphony X played the first show of their 2011 tour in Stuttgart, Germany, where they performed two songs from Iconoclast: " End of Innocence " and " Dehumanized ".

Sting adapted the first quatrain of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence for the first four sung lines of " Send Your Love ".

Though it received mixed reviews, Innocence was selected to compete at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for the coveted Palme d ' Or prize, making it the first ( and thus far, only ) anime to be so honored.

According to the Innocence Project, she is the first woman to be exonerated of murdering someone on the basis of DNA evidence.

Kimi ga Nozomu Eien: Special FanDisk features four ending themes for the first chapter: Haruka's theme is by Kuribayashi, Mizuki's theme is " Silver Ring " Ishibashi, Akane's theme is " Innocence " by Tomomi Uehara, and the theme for the normal ending is " Rumbling hearts ".

In 1921 Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, due to her novel " The Age of Innocence ".

* The Age of Innocence, 1920 first edition, scanned book via Internet Archive

* Photos of the first edition of The Age of Innocence

" On first reading I found many of these poems to appear direct and simple, both in statement and in mode of address, but on looking closer I discovered that they were multi-layered, often challenging their own apparent stereotypes and preconceptions, much as Blake did in his Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

The first work, entitled A Touch of Innocence: Memoirs of Childhood, was published in 1959.

Boesak first became known as a liberation theologian, starting with the publication of his doctoral work ( Farewell to Innocence, 1976 ).

Fittingly, the first game reviewed on the show was Castlevania: Lament of Innocence.

The game was also the first game in the series timeline until Lament of Innocence.

Their first single, named " Innocence " from the Reason was played on radio stations and further split the official charts of the highest charting songs in Brazil.

1997 saw the release of their first full-length album, The Slaughter of Innocence ( A Requiem for the Mighty ), which saw the band enter a faster, more brutal direction, with more emphasis on the symphonic interludes.