A veteran diplomat with an extraordinary knowledge of Russian language, history and literature, Kennan recalls how, at the time of Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he penned a private note to a State Department official, expressing the hope that `` never would we associate ourselves with Russian purposes in the areas of eastern Europe beyond her own boundaries ''.

Among these languages, only Khmer, Vietnamese, and Mon have a long-established recorded history, and only Vietnamese and Khmer have official status ( in Vietnam and Cambodia, respectively ).

It was in use during the entire history of Hungary, albeit not as an official writing system.

This official " air-brushing from history " may imply punitive internal exile to a remote location, similar to that inflicted on the contemporary poet, Ovid, who in AD 8, for an unknown offence, was ordered by Augustus to spend the rest of his life in Tomis ( Constanţa ) on the Black Sea.

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

* Bovril: A short official history

The Chinese recorded the first official account of the practice in 2300 BC, but it is generally believed that gambling in some form or another has been seen in almost every society in history.

The leading hypothesis is that Anyang, ruled by the same Shang in the official history, coexisted and traded with numerous other culturally diverse settlements in the area that is now referred to as China proper.

* Canon of Dutch History, official list of several key moments in Dutch history

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

The Chinese tradition since the Jin Dynasty ( 3rd century AD ) that emperors of one dynasty would sponsor the writing of the official history of the immediately preceding dynasty has been cited in favor of an ethnically inclusive interpretation of history.

The traditionalist school of scholarship resorts to official imperial records and colloquial history works and analyzes the different dynasties ' rises and falls using a Confucian philosophy, albeit modified by an institutional administration perspective.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933 they made the legend an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the " November criminals " who used the stab in the back to seize power while betraying the nation.

The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm published in 2009, tacitly confirmed that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

Hamburg's official name, Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( German: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg ), reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League, as a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, and that Hamburg is a city-state and one of the sixteen States of Germany.

* Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.

In 1985, under the management of Giovanni Trapattoni, who led the Torinese team to thirteen official trophies in ten years until 1986, including six league titles and five international titles ; Juventus became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major competitions organised by the Union of European Football Associations: the European Champions ' Cup, the ( now-defunct ) Cup Winners ' Cup and the UEFA Cup ( the first Italian and Southern European side to win the tournament ).

By the 14th century, when this " official history " begins, the speakers of early Lao-related languages had probably developed a reasonable base of population among the prior inhabitants of ( what is now ) Laos over the prior century or two.

In the history of bilateral relations, the first Russian president to come on an official visit to Luxembourg was Vladimir Putin on 24 May 2007.

* The official works of Albert Phelps and Grace King and the publications of the Louisiana Historical Society and several works on the history of New Orleans ( q. v.

Rereadings into abstract art by art historians such as Linda Nochlin, Griselda Pollock and Catherine de Zegher critically show, however, that pioneering women artists who produced major innovations in modern art had been ignored by official accounts of its history.

For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a ' Swiss ' national identity, a national history and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.

Severe measures are directed toward religious sects that have not been able to establish official ties of state recognition, especially Baptists, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Hare Krishna, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Bahá ' ís.

Jehovah's Witnesses published the booklet Loyalty, making the matter an official doctrine of the faith before the end of 1935.

The Seventh-day Adventists would be the first in line to oppose the right-wing incorporation of religious agenda into politics, not only because Seventh-day Adventists and other Christians ( such as Jehovah's Witnesses ) have been arrested and tried for offenses such as draft evasion, but because the politicization of any religious agenda may lead to an official religion and not only first criminalize the losers, but if there is a power shift, also come to criminalize the ex-winners, too.

As of 2008, the " Field Service " report does not appear in The Watchtower but continues to appear in the annual Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses., and on the official website

Since 1997, Jehovah's Witnesses ' official web sites have carried articles formatted for the Internet, and began hosting digital downloads in 2008.

Attendance figures for Witness events include " Jehovah's Witnesses and associates "; such statistics may be cited for comparison of Witness numbers with membership figures of other religions, but only those sharing in their ministry are counted by Jehovah's Witnesses when reporting their official statistics.

Other religious groups to oppose the legislation include the Salvation Army, the Council of Interfaith Search Fiji, the Jesus Christ Apostolic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and a dissident faction of the Methodist Church ( as opposed to the official Methodist stance in support of the bill ).

Despite its century of activity in the country, France's Ministry of Finance opposed official recognition of the religion ; it was not until June 23, 2000 that France's highest administrative court, the Council of State, ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses qualify as a religion under French law.

Other publications of Jehovah's Witnesses, including Jehovah's Witnesses — Proclaimers of God's Kingdom ( their official history ) and Revelation — Its Grand Climax at Hand ( their exposition of the Book of Revelation ) make reference to Studies in the Scriptures.

Witnesses can be trees, rocks, or trenches dug in the ground ; their exact locations relative to the corner, and the markings made on them, are also recorded in the surveyor's official field notes.

Unlike those who continued to follow only his " Alpha Gospel ", these refused to adopt any official name, although they came to be known among themselves as the " Message People " or " The Witnesses ".

Many denominations do not have any official stance on drug use, some more-recent Christian denominations ( e. g. Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah ’ s Witnesses ) discourage or prohibit the use of any of these substances.

The epistates ( ἐπιστάτης ), an official selected by lot for a single day from among the currently presiding prytany, chaired that day's meeting of the boule and, if there was one, that day's meeting of the assembly ; he also held the keys to the treasury and the seal to the city, and welcomed foreign ambassadors.

A year later, in the season 2010 – 11, AFAS Erp Software took over as official shirt sponsor, also taking over duties as stadium sponsor.

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

There are also immigrants from other countries such as Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Morocco, many of whom are under illegal alien status and therefore are not accounted for in official population figures.

The official party flag also has the emblem of the party incorporated onto the flag.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

The Clinton administration also launched the first official White House website, whitehouse. gov, on October 21, 1994.

The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.

To determine whether a run is earned, the official scorer must reconstruct the inning as it would have occurred without the errors ( for purposes of this rule, the " errors " also include passed balls ).

It was influenced by its non-Slavic neighbors in the Balkan language area ( mostly grammatically ) and later also by Turkish, which was the official language of the Ottoman Empire, in the form of the Ottoman Turkish language, mostly lexically.

The song also appears on eight of their official live recording releases.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

Anheuser-Busch has also placed Budweiser as an official sponsor of the Premier League.

Eating an enemy's heart and liver was also claimed to be a feature of both official punishments and private vengeance.

The first negotiated cease-fire with the M-19 ended when the guerrillas resumed fighting in 1985, claiming that the cease-fire had not been fully respected by official security forces, saying that several of its members had suffered threats and assaults, and also questioning the government's real willingness to implement any accords.

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

Czech can also be used in all official proceedings in Slovakia as granted by Article 6 of Slovak Minority Language Act 184 / 1999 Zb.

Czech is also one of the 23 official languages in the European Union ( since May 2004 ).

Traditional dishes are so important to regional culture that, for example, the local version of Caribbean goat stew has been chosen as the official national dish of Montserrat and is also one of the signature dishes of St. Kitts and Nevis.

United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to coordinate international practice.

It is also plausible that the hidden nature of an administrative census means that users are not engaged with the importance of contributing their data to official statistics.

The brothers also have an official Animal-Vehicle Biologist and Wildlife Guru named Kieran Lindsey.

The Chinese calendar was also called the " old calendar " ( 舊曆 / 旧历 ) as opposed to the " new calendar " ( 新曆 / 新历 ), i. e., the Gregorian calendar, was adopted as the official calendar.