The Anti-Masonic Party ( also known as the Anti-Masonic Movement ) was the first " third party " in the United States.

The third party Anti-Masonic Party, based anti-Masonry, gained eight seats, and Nullifier Party, a John C. Calhoun-led state's rights party that supported South Carolina in the Nullification Crisis, picked up five seats, including seven of the nine Representatives in the South Carolina delegation.

The Anti-Masonic Party, an aspiring third party which was based on a single issue ( distrust of Freemasonry ), was actually able to gain several seats, and four South Carolina Congressman who called themselves Nullifiers ( based on the principle of states ' rights ) were also elected.

The Anti-Masonic Party, a single issue faction based on distrust of Freemasonry, became the first third party in American history to garner a seat in the House.

On May 18, at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Lincoln's friends promised and manipulated and won the nomination on the third ballot, beating candidates such as William H. Seward and Salmon P. Chase.

The Apollo program was the third human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ), the United States ' civilian space agency.

In 1994, the prayers announced " allowed " by the 1982 Bishops Council of the Anglican Church of Korea was published in a second version of the Book of Common Prayers In 2004, the National Anglican Council published the third and the current Book of Common Prayers known as " seoung-gong-hwe gi-do-seo " or the " Anglican Prayers ", including the Daily Masses, Special Masses, Baptism, Confirmation, Funeral Mass, Wedding Mass, Rite of Ordination Mass, and all of the other events the Anglican Church of Korea celebrates.

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute found that human subjects who ate beef rare or medium-rare had less than one third the risk of stomach cancer than those who ate beef medium-well or well-done.

" The third pillar of internal security, the National Gendarmerie, consisted of a headquarters staff, four legions ( corresponding to the four military regions ) and a professional training academy, the Gendarmerie School ( Ecole de Gendarmerie ).

In 1936 the federal government established the Cape Breton Highlands National Park covering across the northern third of the Highlands.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

Perhaps not surprisingly given the injury to Walker and the trading of two of the team's most popular players, the Rockies finished third in the National League in attendance in 2000, marking the first time in club history that it did not lead the league in attendance.

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

The Rockies ended the season finishing third in the National League West with a 74 – 88 record, failing to make the playoffs.

The Parliament of the third republic is also bicameral, with a National Assembly and a Senate.

The largest island of the Tuscan Archipelago, Elba is also part of the Arcipelago Toscano National Park, and the third largest island in Italy, after Sicily and Sardinia.

Come June, the third estate, joined by members of the other two, declared itself to be a National Assembly and swore an oath not to dissolve until France had a constitution and created, in July, the National Constituent Assembly.

A third of the student body are National Merit Scholars, and at one point, about 40 percent of graduates were going on to earn a Ph. D. — the highest rate of any college or university in the nation.

Harvey Mudd today still maintains the highest rate of science and engineering Ph. D. production among all undergraduate colleges and second highest ( Caltech ranks second and MIT third ) compared to all universities and colleges, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.

The Astros finished third in the National League West.

* Five NCAA National Championships ( 1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987 ), placing them in a tie for third most all-time

A third campus is due to open at the site of the erstwhile National Instruments ( CSIR India ), opposite the main campus along the Raja S. C. Mullick Road.

In turn, Maoism became the theoretical basis of some third world revolutionary vanguard parties, e. g., the Communist Party of Peru – Red Fatherland, the Communist Party of Cuba, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, et al.

For his effort, he finished third in the 2007 National League Most Valuable Player voting, garnering 284 total points including 5 first place votes.

With the threat of a New York team in a third league, the National League expanded, adding the New York Mets.

Twice ousted by the Panamanian military, he was again ousted ( for the third time ) as president by the National Guard after only 10 days in office.

On September 30, 2009, they clinched a third consecutive National League East Division title for the first time since the 1976 – 78 seasons.

At the time the presidency was constitutionally limited to two terms, but a constitutional amendment was forced through the National Assembly in 1969 to allow him to seek a third term.

In 1892, Boies ran a distant third in the presidential nominating contest at a Democratic National Convention handily dominated by former ( and future ) president Grover Cleveland.

Again according to convention he posted his most experienced legions on the flanks ( the first and the third legion on his left with Pompey himself commanding, the Syrian legions in the center with Scipio, the Cilician legion and the Spanish cohorts on the right with Afranius ), dispersing his new recruits along the center.

Officials on the third day of the Fatah convention in Bethlehem unanimously accepted the proposal put forth by the chairman of the Araft Institute stating that Israel had been behind the " assassination " of the late Palestinian Authority Chairman and affirmed Fatah's request for international aid to probe the issue.

The third convention, held in London in 1912 allocated the first radio callsigns for use by aircraft.

In 1844, Davis was sent to the party convention for a third time, and his interest in politics deepened.

Learning of Woodhull's planned address, suffrage leaders postponed the opening of the 1871 National Woman Suffrage Association's third annual convention in Washington in order to attend the committee hearing.

* July 15 – U. S. politics: The Democratic Party begins its national convention in Chicago, and nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term as president.

The debate on the platform opened at the start of the third day of the convention, July 9, 1896.

André Cherpillod writes of the third Volapük convention,

: In August 1889 the third convention was held in Paris.

In contrast to the Western convention of referring to a sovereign using a regnal name ( e. g. George V ) or by a personal name ( e. g. Queen Victoria ), a governing emperor was to be referred to simply as Huangdi Bixia ( 皇帝陛下, His Majesty the Emperor ) or Dangjin Huangshang ( 當今皇上, The Imperial Highness of the Present Time ) when spoken about in the third person.

Initially, the favourite among Red Tories was Flora MacDonald ; however she did worse than expected while Clark placed a surprising third in a field of eleven on the first ballot of convention delegates, behind only Claude Wagner and Brian Mulroney.

Wilson himself tried to get a third term in 1920, by deadlocking the convention.

He appeared in " The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary " ( 2009 ), the fifth episode of the third season of the situation comedy The Big Bang Theory, playing a fictionalized version of himself, as the focus of Sheldon Cooper's ire for not having attended a Star Trek convention at which his appearance was scheduled.

The third convention protects prisoners-of-war and in doing so revises the 1929 convention in the light of the second world war experience.

The band held their third official fan club convention at Drummonds Convention, King's Cross, London.

He met Tracy, his third wife, in a drug recovery convention and the two have founded " The Darryl Strawberry Foundation ," an organization dedicated to children with autism.

The issue is tied to the convention of using ordinal numbers to count millennia ( as in " the third millennium "), as opposed to using cardinal numbers ( as in " the two thousands "), which is unambiguous as it does not depend on which year counting starts.

At the 1932 Democratic convention, he swung the Mississippi delegation to Franklin D. Roosevelt on the crucial third ballot and became welcome at the White House.

The 1949 Worldcon took place in Cincinnati, and the first Midwestcon followed in 1950, and has been held every year since, making it the second longest-running SF convention to be held in the same city, and the third oldest in the U. S.

He resigned in 1849 when his anti-slavery vote at Kentucky's third constitutional convention resulted in much criticism from slavery proponents and a threat on his life.

He ran for the 1983 Quebec Liberal Party leadership convention but finished third behind Pierre Paradis and winner Robert Bourassa.

Despite his inexperience, Peterson nevertheless came within 45 votes of defeating Stuart Smith on the third and final ballot of a delegated convention held on January 25, 1976.

If there were more than 99 numbers in a subclass, the number series extended to the next value of the third digit ; thus, since there were more than 200 locomotives in class ' 47 / 4 ', subclasses ' 47 / 5 ' and ' 47 / 6 ' did not exist, and the next valid subclass by convention was ' 47 / 7 ' starting with ' 47 701 '.