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.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

The most active preparations obtained by these two groups of investigators appear to be similar in potency, composition and physical properties.

It appeared that most of the mixed liquor suspended solids were active microbial solids with the heavier, less active solids settling out.

Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

and 4 suspected eruptions, have been the most active.

André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.

He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

The most common version of the Sparrow today, the AIM-7M, entered service in 1982 and featured a new inverse monopulse seeker ( matching the capabilities of Skyflash ), active radar fuse, digital controls, improved ECM resistance, and better low-altitude performance.

He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

It is through the most active of these connective routes, the Turkish Straits, that the Black Sea joins the world ocean.

Also, this active attack probably requires custom hardware, since most commercially available Bluetooth devices are not capable of the timing necessary.

These members are the most active in the SIG and have considerable influence over both the strategic and technological directions of Bluetooth as a whole.

Of these features, dark matter is currently subjected to the most active laboratory investigations.

In most bipeds this is an active process, requiring constant adjustment of balance.

This active base would develop the cadre, a core of " professional revolutionaries ", consisting of loyal communists who would spend most of their time organising the party toward a mass revolutionary party capable of leading a workers ' revolution against the Tsarist autocracy.

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

Gravitational collapse of matter into black holes is also thought to power the most energetic processes, generally seen at the centers of galaxies ( see quasars and active galaxies ).

TCP / IP networking allowed most of the remaining BBSes to evolve and include Internet hosting capabilities.

The popularity of Internet cafés has fallen in recent years, as most users prefer to access the Internet from home or work.

Russian is the most widely used language by Belarusians on the Internet, followed by Belarusian, English, and Polish.

Two of the most popular are Penny Arcade, focused primarily on video gaming, and User Friendly, which bases its humor on the Internet and other computer-user issues.

Spectators are generally able to watch the rest of the round from multiple selectable views, although some servers disable some of these views to prevent dead players from relaying information about living players to their teammates through alternative media ( most notably voice in the case of Internet cafes and Voice over IP programs such as TeamSpeak or Ventrilo ).

The Dominican Republic has Cable Internet, ADSL, WIMAX, EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS / HSDPA in most parts of the country.

In the case of most home users, the Internet service provider to which the machine connects will usually supply this DNS server: such a user will either have configured that server's address manually or allowed DHCP to set it ; however, where systems administrators have configured systems to use their own DNS servers, their DNS resolvers point to separately maintained nameservers of the organization.

BIND (), or named (), is the most widely used DNS software on the Internet.

Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, a left-wing cultural association, or Education @ Internet, which has developed from an Esperanto organization ; most others are specifically Esperanto organizations.

The report concludes that, on the basis of information presented, ECHELON was capable of interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including satellite transmission, public switched telephone networks ( which once carried most Internet traffic ) and microwave links.

It was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public, and three decades before most people encountered attempts at natural language processing in Internet services like Ask. com or PC help systems such as Microsoft Office Clippy.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

Laws vary from country to country, but in most cases, constant flaming can be considered cyber harassment, which can result in Internet Service Provider action to prevent access to the site being flamed.

In late 2007, it was the most popular file sharing network on the Internet with an estimated market share of more than 40 %.

According to some sources, genealogy is one of the most popular topics on the Internet.

The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments ( RFCs ), most notably RFC 2616 ( June 1999 ), which defines HTTP / 1. 1, the version of HTTP in common use.

The most fundamental of the Internet Standards are the ones defining the Internet Protocol.

Internet message access protocol ( IMAP ) is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being the Post Office Protocol ( POP ).

Some clients and servers preferentially use vendor-specific, proprietary protocols, but most support the Internet standard protocols, SMTP for sending e-mail and POP and IMAP for retrieving e-mail, allowing interoperability with other servers and clients.

The most notable example of internetworking is the Internet, a network of networks based on many underlying hardware technologies, but unified by an internetworking protocol standard, the Internet Protocol Suite, often also referred to as TCP / IP.