The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

In 2003 he performed in Bob Balaban-directed Off-Broadway dramatic stage play The Exonerated in New York during its 18 – 23 March, week run.

Onstage in Oslo, Norway, on 18 June, Bowie was hit in the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan ; a week later he suffered chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany.

Following an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in his ear and burst ; he endured intense pain for a week and died at 2am on 18 January 1873 just short of his 70th birthday.

Delegates voted to fill 18 seats on the 23-seat Central Committee of Fatah, and 81 seats of the 128-seat Revolutionary Council after a week of deliberations.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

Peter Schweizer points out several examples of insider trading by members of Congress, including action taken by Spencer Bachus following a private, behind-the-doors meeting on the evening of September 18, 2008 when Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke informed members of Congress about the imminent financial crisis, Bachus then shorted stocks the next morning and cashed in his profits within a week.

In 2008, the Seahawks held the first three weeks of camp in Kirkland, then moved to the new Virginia Mason Athletic Center ( VMAC ) on August 18 for the final week of training camp.

With Tesla's salary of $ 18 per week, the payment would have amounted to over 53 years ' pay and the amount was equal to the initial capital of the company.

A 10-day week, called décade, was used in France for nine and a half years from October 1793 to April 1802 ; furthermore, the Paris Commune adopted the Revolutionary Calendar for 18 days in 1871.

Some modern Church uses also preserve the idea of an eight-day period, starting and finishing on the same day of the week, and retain the name " octave " for them ; for example, many churches observe an annual " Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity " on 18 – 25 January or in the week that begins with Pentecost Sunday.

Despite this, only 18 % of the population, of any religion, attend a place of worship once a week or more.

Students are required to attend from ages 13 to 18, scheduling between 32 and 36 hours of class a week.

He kicked six goals in round 14 against Melbourne, and the next week, against West Coast, Carey kicked five goals and had a season high 18 disposals in his final game in North Melbourne colours matched up against long time adversary Glen Jakovich.

She moved to Los Angeles, where she supported herself working in a shoe store, receiving $ 18 per week ( 2009: $).

The system is in operation 18 hours a day, seven days a week serving the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.

At Fort Knox, he was a platoon guide and graduated from United States Army Basic Training January 18, 1964, one week before his marriage to Karolyn.

Combining rock with an orchestra and choir, the concert was recorded and released on 18 May, where it topped the UK album charts on entry for one week.

The 18 week maximum waiting period target thus includes all the times taken for the patient to attend the first appointment with the specialist, any tests called for by the specialist to determine precisely the root of the patient's problem and the best way to treat it.

* Guardian. co. uk-' No more Mr. Scrupulous Guy: How one of the two brains behind the Iran-Contra scandal this week became one of America's most powerful men ', John Sutherland, The Guardian ( February 18, 2002 )

However, just one week later at the Lipton International Players Championships in Miami, Sampras defeated two top-40 players before losing to world number 18 Emilio Sánchez.

One week in 18, it's a " Puns and Anagrams " puzzle, a relic of a 1940s attempt to introduce cryptic puzzles to the US.

The film had its premiere on March 18, 1931, a week after Murnau died, at New York's Central Part Theater.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

During this period he published 18 plays and 3 novels, including the murder mystery The Red House Mystery ( 1922 ).

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

* Borschberg, Peter, " O comércio de âmbar asiático no início da época moderna ( séculos XV-XVIII ) – The Asiatic ambergris trade in the early modern period ( 15 to 18 century )" Oriente, Lisbon: Fundação Oriente, vol.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

Most soldiers are conscripts serving for a period 12 months ( with higher education ) or 18 month ( without ).

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

The earlier period would place Obadiah as a contemporary of the prophet Elijah as reflected in 1 Kings, Chapter 18, Verses 1-16.

R Centaurus is a Mira variable star with a minimum magnitude of 11. 8 and a maximum magnitude of 5. 3 ; it is 2100 light-years from Earth and has a period of 18 months.

Other composers that have written concertos from this period include Johann Baptist Vanhal, Franz Anton Hoffmeister ( 3 concertos ), Leopold Kozeluch, Anton Zimmermann, Antonio Capuzzi, Wenzel Pichl ( 2 concertos ), and Johannes Matthias Sperger ( 18 concertos ).

Production of cacao, the most important export product in the late 19th century, grew from 6. 5 million kilograms to 18 million kilograms during the same period.

Requiring an € 18. 2 billion investment in Energy, Communications and Water infrastructure over a four year period, it was promoted as a way to enhance energy security and digital reputation of Ireland.

Female hellbenders lay 150-200 eggs over a two-to three-day period ; the eggs are 18 – 20 mm in diameter, connected by 5 – 10 mm cords.

During this period, the 18 year old Bonewits was recruited by the Church of Satan, but left due to political and philosophical conflicts with Anton LaVey.

To the period before his settlement at Bethlehem and the following five years belong a series of short Old Testament studies: De seraphim, De voce Osanna, De tribus quaestionibus veteris legis ( usually included among the letters as 18, 20, and 36 ); Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim ; Commentarius in Ecclesiasten ; Tractatus septem in Psalmos 10-16 ( lost ); Explanationes in Michaeam, Sophoniam, Nahum, Habacuc, Aggaeum.

During this 18 day period Jain scholars and monks visit temples and explain the Jain philosophy.

Even until the mid-nineteenth century zoologists were unaware of the gestation period of elephants but Jahangir on the other hand had accurately estimated the gestation period of elephants to be 18 to 19 months in the early-seventeenth century itself.

He took silk in 1816, and from this time till the close of 1834 he was the most successful lawyer at the bar ; he was particularly effective before a jury, and his income reached £ 18, 500, a large sum for that period.

After a short period of internment on the Lofoten Islands, Schwitters fled to Scotland with his son on the icebreaker Fridtjof Nansen between 8 and 18 June 1940.

On 18 February 2011, the day after the first protests that were to lead to the 2011 Libyan civil war, Libya appeared to have withdrawn all of its BGP prefix announcements from the Internet for a short period, cutting it off from the rest of the global Internet.

By 20, 000 to 18, 000 BCE the climate and environment had changed, starting a period of transition.

The largest component of Earth's nutation has a period of 18. 6 years, the same as that of the precession of the Moon's orbital nodes.

The principal term of nutation is due to the regression of the moon's nodal line and has the same period of 6798 days ( 18. 6 years ).