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The organisation created a new prototype bar in 1889 at the first General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM: Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures ), establishing the International Prototype Metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar composed of an alloy of ninety percent platinum and ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
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The first Cuban labour organisation, the Cigar Makers Guild, was created in 1878, followed by the Central Board of Artisans in 1879, and many more across the island.
The Committee of 100 was created as a separate organisation partly for that reason and partly because of personal animosity between Collins and Russell.
In August 1990, the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ), an organisation of West African states, created a military intervention force called Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) of 4, 000 troops, to restore order.
The World Organisation for Animal Health is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide and was created by an international agreement as the International Office of Epizootics ( still known by its French acronym Office International des Epizooties-OIE ) on 25 January 1924.
But while others had created Olympic contests within their countries, and broached the idea of international competition, it was Coubertin whose work would lead to the establishment of the International Olympic Committee and the organisation of the first modern Olympic Games.
The term " quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation " was created in 1967 by the Carnegie Foundation's Alan Pifer in an essay on independence and accountability in public-funded bodies incorporated in the private sector.
In the future, a time travel organisation is created to save the " missing " children of history.
He created an organisation called Great Britain 75 and recruited members from the aristocratic clubs in Mayfair ; mainly ex-military men ( often former SAS members ).
During the mid to late 1970s David Stirling created a secret organisation designed to undermine trade unionism from within.
SNTF operates the railways, whilst a new, separate organisation, Anesrif, has been created to manage infrastructure investment.
Angry at this decision, some of the group's leaders, including Lydia Becker and Millicent Fawcett, stormed out of the meeting and created an alternative organisation committed to the " old rules ," called the Great College Street Society after the location of its headquarters.
Meanwhile Oliver Cromwell united his country into the Commonwealth of England and in a few years created a powerful navy, expanding the number of ships and greatly improving organisation and discipline.
In uniting the large majority of Trotskyists in one organisation, the Fourth International created a tradition which has since been claimed by many Trotskyist organisations.
A temporary alliance between them and the Badoglio government was created by the decision of Joseph Stalin and Palmiro Togliatti, secretary of the Italian Communist Party, to postpone the problem of the state organisation and focus all efforts on the struggle against Hitler's puppet state in the North.
The organisation successfully campaigned for the enactment of the Official Languages Act, 2003 which gave greater statutory protection to Irish speakers and created the position of An Coimisinéir Teanga ( The Languages Commissioner ).
The Liberal Association in Birmingham could no longer be relied upon to provide loyal support, so Chamberlain created the Liberal Unionist Association in 1888, associated with the National Radical Union, having extracted his supporters from the old Liberal organisation.
Inspiration came from the post-WW2 nazi organisation Nysvenska Rörelsen created by Per Engdahl.
To this end, Fern created the organisation Plants for a Future ( PFAF ) which compiled a plant database suitable for such a system.
In 1895 he was one of the founding members of the Naturfreunde ( Friends of Nature ) organisation and created their logo.
The mosaic columns at the Southern Entrance were created in 2006 by local public art organisation Urban Eye.
For some of those writers, the BBV audios have offered a chance to revisit their creations: for instance, the range includes a story by Pip & Jane Baker explaining what happened to the Rani ( last seen in Doctor Who being abducted by a group of aliens that were also created by the writing pair ), and a series of stories by Lawrence Miles about his history-spanning terrorist organisation Faction Paradox.
They acquired property and privileges, and created a provincial organisation in the British Isles, with its headquarters in Cheapside London and a subordinate preceptors in Kilkenny.
The Women's Land Army ( WLA ) was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military.
The European Grand Prix was created as an honorific title by the AIACR, the FIA's predecessor in the organisation of motor racing events.
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This new organisation showed promise of being a more efficient organisation of the railways but within a couple of years of its implementation the structure was fragmented by the privatisation process.
This was legally a new organisation ( the headquarters, records, assets and debts of the old party were inherited by the Liberal Democrats ), but its constitution asserts it to be the same Liberal party.
In July 2012 this faction announced it had a new leadership after expelling members who had been working against the organisation.
The new organisation attracted considerable public interest and draw support from a range of interests, including scientists, religious leaders, academics, journalists, writers, actors and musicians.
Because of its genome organisation, this virus appears to belong to an entirely new family.
A new judicial organisation made all magistracies temporary and independent of the throne.
Sinclair merged staff from NID25 and MI1b into the new organisation, which initially consisted of around 25 – 30 officers and a similar number of clerical staff.
Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.
Article 53 of the new Empire's constitution recognised the existence of the Navy as an independent organisation, but until 1888 it was commanded by army officers and initially adopted the same regulations as the Prussian army.
This new organisation would preserve the new prototype metre and kilogram standards when constructed, distribute national metric prototypes, and maintain comparisons between them and non-metric measurement standards.
Following the dissolution of Macquarie University Union Ltd, the outgoing student organisation was replaced with a new wholly owned subsidiary company of the university, known as U @ MQ Ltd.
The new student organisation originally lacked a true student representative union ; however, following a complete review and authorisation from the university Council, a new student union known as Macquarie University Students Association ( MUSRA ) was established in 2009.
Board and members moved over to a new Mars-oriented organisation.
Chief of Staff Captain Aloysius Tom Ur told troops in January 2004 that the 2004 strength of 3, 000 would be reduced by one-third, and that during 2004, the force's personnel branch would merge with the support branch into a new organisation.
However, in 1927-8 the architect and entrepreneur Carl Stahl-Urach ( 1879 – 1933 ) transformed the whole building into a gastronomic fantasy land, financed and further elaborated upon by new owners the Kempinski organisation.
Lutze was appointed SA's new head and it was converted into a sports and training organisation.
Significantly, Solomon Islanders experience as labourers with the Allies led some to a new appreciation of the importance of economic organisation and trade as the basis for material advancement.
" The first such Neo-druidic group to make use of the megalithic monument was the Ancient Order of Druids, who performed a mass initiation ceremony there in August 1905, in which they admitted 259 new members into their organisation.
These writers jointly set up the Mercury Workshop in 1992, which eventually merged with the New Musicals Alliance to become MMD, a UK-based organisation developing new musical theatre, of which Sondheim continues to be patron.
The new organisation underwent a corporate identity review and was subsequently renamed Telstra Corporation Limited (“ Telstra ”) for international business in 1993 and domestic business in 1995.
The University's organisation broke new ground in seeing the campus divided into Schools of Study, with students able to benefit from a multidisciplinary teaching environment.
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