The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

head ) is a bird of prey found in North America.

In 1542, he left for his first missionary activity among the Paravars, katesar / kadaiyar Pattamkattiyars ( head of fishery coast ) and mukkuvars, pearl fishers along the east coast of southern India, North of Cape Comorin ( or Sup Santaz ).

However, ethologist Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt found that in places as different as Africa and North America, women exhibit similar flirting behavior: prolonged stare followed by a head tilt away with a little smile.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

Heinz Canada's head office is in North York, Ontario and it also has operations in St. Marys, Ontario ; Calgary, Alberta ; and Montreal, Quebec.

During 1942 – 43 Philby's responsibilities were expanded to include North Africa and Italy, and he was made the deputy head of Section V under Major Felix Cowgill, an army officer seconded to SIS.

After three years of consolidating his power, Kim Jong-il became Chairman of the NDC on October 8, 1997, a position described by the NDC as the nation's " highest administrative authority ," and thus North Korea's de facto head of state.

Lord North, the reluctant head of the King's Government during the American War of Independence, " would never suffer himself to be called Prime Minister, because it was an office unknown to the Constitution.

Harrison Storms, the North American designer who was responsible for the X-15 rocket plane, and went on to head the effort to design the Apollo Command / Service Module and Saturn V launch vehicle's second stage was moved by the launch of Sputnik to think of space as being the next step for America.

Also during 1937, King visited Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, becoming the only North American head of government to do so.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been head of state in Unified Yemen since 1990 ( since 1978 in North Yemen ) and was democratically elected in 1999.

The incidence ( number of new cases ) of head injury is 300 of every 100, 000 per year ( 0. 3 % of the population ), with a mortality rate of 25 per 100, 000 in North America and 9 per 100, 000 in Britain.

As King Edward made his way south to face Warwick, he realised that Warwick's brother John, Marquess of Montagu, who had up till then remained loyal to Edward, had defected at the head of a large army in the North of England.

He would wear a tea cosy on his head in cold weather in the North Sea.

The Spanish inventor, as Maxim, suffered four sabotages during the tests: the first of them, in the previous test, in presence of the head of the Spanish State, but, Peral, more cautious than the North American inventor, had success in all of them.

* Mount Fowler ( Hastings Arm ), a mountain near the head of Hastings Arm, Observatory Inlet, on the North Coast of British Columbia

Though Bering seems to have been primarily interested in landing in North America, his recognised the importance of secondary objectives: the list of which expanded rapidly under the guidance of planners Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin ( head of the Admiralty ); Ivan Kirilov, a highly-ranked politician with an interest in geography, and Andrey Osterman, a close adviser of the new Empress, Anna Ivanovna.

United Kingdom, for example, is a proper name with the common noun kingdom as its head, and North Carolina is headed by the proper noun Carolina.

Through the intervention of a group that included former Minnesota North Stars head coach Wren Blair, the team was prevented from folding and remained in Pittsburgh.

The red stripe on each side of the head distinguishes the red-eared slider from all other North American species.

George Shinn, an entrepreneur from Kannapolis, North Carolina, wanted to bring an NBA team to the Charlotte area, and he assembled a group of prominent local businessmen to head the prospective franchise.

With a 97 – 91 opening-night victory on November 2 at Dallas, Gregg Popovich became the fourth head coach in North American professional sports history to post 10 straight opening night victories ( others are: Tom Landry, Bill Fitch and George Allen ).

Then the head of the story department at MGM suggested " North by Northwest ," but this was still to be a working title.

Studio head Darryl F. Zanuck gave the go-ahead for this project, and Blaustein hired Edmund North to write the screenplay based on elements from Harry Bates's short story Farewell to the Master.

After about 4 hours of fighting the war party left and moved their village to the head of Brown's Creek on the north side of the North Platte.

The river drops from an elevation of approximately 6100 ft at South Platte at the head of the gorge to approximately 5500 ft at the canyon mouth.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

It is just west of the head of the Saint Lawrence River that drains the Great Lakes into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

Contemporary bronze head of Claudius found at the River Alde at Rendham, near Saxmundham, Suffolk ( British Museum )

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

At its head, the Madeira on its own is still one of the largest rivers of the world, with a mean inter-annual discharge of, i. e. / yr, approximately half the discharge of the Congo River.

north of the head of Davao Gulf lies the watershed between the Agusan and the tributaries of the Libuganon River, which flows to the Gulf.

The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.

These processional races are known as Head Races, because, as with bumps racing, the fastest crew is awarded the title Head of the River ( as in " head of the class ").

The central plain is a lowland area drained by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries, the country's principal river system, which feeds into the delta at the head of the Bay of Bangkok.

Totnes ( or ) is a market town and civil parish at the head of the estuary of the River Dart in Devon, England within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Located on the Kennebec River at the head of tide, it is home to the University of Maine at Augusta.

They then traveled overland up the Blackfoot River and crossed the Continental Divide at Lewis and Clark Pass and on to the head of the Missouri River.

* The Head of the River Race and other head races over the Championship Course

Other regattas, head races and bumping races are held along the Thames which are described under Rowing on the River Thames.

In 1809, the last major river pirate activity took place, on the Upper Mississippi River, and river piracy in this area came to an abrupt end, when a group of flatboatmen, meeting at the head of the Nine Mile Reach, decided to make a raid on Stack Island and wipe out the river pirates.

The first white settlement in the county was made in 1791 by Amos Todd, Joseph Beebe and Rhoda Todd Beebe, emigrants from Connecticut who paddled up the Tioughnioga River from Windsor, to live near the head of navigation in the Town of Homer.

The Congarees, a frontier fort on the west bank of the Congaree River, was the head of navigation in the Santee River system.

There is a field base of Institute of Taxonomy and Ecology of Animals () by Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences () at northwest part of the lake, about 6 km from head water of Biya River.

Ras al-Ayn, the Ottoman fortress at the head of the Yarkon River

The county seat, previously located near the confluence of Dividing Creek with the Pocomoke River, was transferred to the river port of Snow Hill, at the head of navigation of the Pocomoke, near the center of the new county.

The command of the expedition in Buffalo, New York, was entrusted by Roberts to Colonel John O ' Neill, who crossed the Niagara River ( the Niagara is the international border ) at the head of at least 800 ( O ' Neill's figure ; usually reported as up to 1, 500 in Canadian sources ) men on the night and morning of 31 May / 1 June 1866, and briefly captured Fort Erie, defeating a Canadian force at Ridgeway.

In the game, Phlegyas ferries Dante across the River Styx atop his head, then begins indiscriminately attacking the damned and Dante alike atop the crumbling outer walls along the shore.

Worthy Farm is situated at in a valley at the head of the Whitelake River, between two low limestone ridges, part of the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.