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The first federally owned refuge in America is Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge and was established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 as part of his Square Deal campaign to improve America .. At the time, setting aside land for wildlife was not a constitutional right of the president.
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When news of the natural wonders of the Yellowstone were first promulgated, the land was part of a federally governed territory.
President Grant sponsored two federally funded scientific discovery projects ; the Polaris Expedition, America's first large scale attempt to reach the North Pole, and the Hayden Geological Survey into the Yellowstone, that led to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park.
* June 20 – Augusta AVA becomes the first federally recognized American Viticultural Area.
It was the first large-scale, federally run psychiatric hospital in the United States.
Frances Perkins had first suggested a federally financed public works program, and the idea received considerable support from Harold L. Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace.
TVA was one of the first federal hydropower agencies, and today most of the nation's major hydropower systems are federally managed.
The university was on the verge of building a brand new campus, to be one of the nation's first federally funded urban renewal projects.
Navajo County has of federally designated Indian reservation within its borders, the third most of any county in the United States ( neighboring Apache County and Coconino County are first and second ).
Eight years later, Desjardins provided guidance for the first credit union in the United States, where there are now about 7, 950 active status federally insured credit unions, with almost 90 million members and more than $ 679 billion on deposit.
The Buffalo National River, the nation's first federally protected river, is one of the last free-flowing streams in mid-America and offers clear blue water for fishing and canoeing along the towering limestone bluffs.
Approximately to the north of Ash Fork is Beale Road, which has the distinction of being the first federally funded highway.
The City is also known for its police department, as it was the first — and for almost a decade the only — Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies federally accredited law enforcement agency in the State of Mississippi.
United States Army Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt founded Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1879 as the first federally supported school for American Indians off a reservation.
Back to work legislation was first used in 1950 during a railway strike, and has been used 33 times by the federal government for those parts of the economy that are regulated federally ( grain handling, rail and air travel, and the postal service ), and in more cases provincially.
The airport was the first federally certified airfield to serve all aircraft types, including seaplanes.
After that conflict, in April 1955, the Air Guard acquired its first special operations unit when the 129th Air Resupply Squadron was federally recognized and two C-46 Commandos were delivered to it at Hayward, California.
Stokes was born in Cleveland to Charles Stokes, a laundryman who died when Carl was three years old, and Louise ( Stone ) Stokes, a cleaning woman who then raised Carl, and his brother, Louis Stokes, in Cleveland's first federally funded housing project for the poor, Outhwaite Homes.
Built in 1935 and possibly named after Joseph H. Outhwaite, it was the first federally funded public housing in the Cleveland area and one of the first in the U. S ..
The United States District of Louisiana had two incarnations: first, as a federally administered military district ( March 10, 1804-September 30, 1804 ); then as an organized territory ( October 1, 1804-July 4, 1805 ) under the jurisdiction of the Indiana Territory.
She was the first federally appointed woman judge in Canada.
It is one of nineteen museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution and was the first federally funded community museum in the United States.
Founded in 1874, the SUNY Maritime College was the first college of its kind ( federally approved, offering commercial nautical instruction ) to be founded in the United States.
Summum is Utah's first federally bonded winery.
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Those Dodgers won their first 10 games and owned a 21-2 mark and a nine-game lead by May 8.
In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
At the turn of the 19th century, immigrants from Naples and Genoa opened the first pizza bars, though Spanish residents subsequently owned most of the pizza businesses.
In 2004, Atari ( now owned by Infogrames ) released the first Atari Flashback console.
Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.
* 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California.
The first plane Kaye owned was a Piper Aztec.
At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.
The Bolshevik revolution in October 1917 did not eliminate the privately owned film companies at first, though production was reduced through 1918.
At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the New World, sailing with his second cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives, the Hawkins family of Plymouth.
* Pork: Gerald O ' Hara's valet and the first slave he owned.
It is plain that the innovator in these examples becomes a partial owner of the tangible property ( e. g., land and logs ) of others, due not to first occupation and use of that property ( for it is already owned ), but due to his coming up with an idea.
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program that was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail. ru Group.
In 1979, while still owned by American Motors, AM General began the first steps toward designing the Humvee.
The island's first known sighting by Europeans was on 21 August 1821 by the British ship Eliza Francis ( or Eliza Frances ) owned by Edward, Thomas and William Jarvis and commanded by Captain Brown.
Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, said that Hoover and Tolson sat in boxes owned by and used exclusively by gay men at the Del Mar racetrack in California.
The rebels made the first move in the war, seizing the strategic Rochester Castle, owned by Langton but left almost unguarded by the archbishop.
The first kit Moon owned was a blue Premier kit bought on hire purchase ( credit ) and co-signed by his father, Alf.
The 1904 race was won by Elwood, the first Derby starter and winner owned by a woman, Laska Durnell.
Scepter was first owned and run by GamBit ( of Minneapolis, Minnesota ), founded by Bob Alberti.
This marked the first time in franchise history the team had not been solely owned by the Mara family.
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