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U. S. Representative George E. Brown, Jr. ( D-CA ) was quoted as voicing his support for planetary defense projects in Air & Space Power Chronicles, saying " If some day in the future we discover well in advance that an asteroid that is big enough to cause a mass extinction is going to hit the Earth, and then we alter the course of that asteroid so that it does not hit us, it will be one of the most important accomplishments in all of human history.
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The appointment of U Thant of Burma as the U.N.'s Acting Secretary General -- at this writing, the choice appears to be certain -- offers further proof that in politics it is more important to have no influential enemies than to have influential friends.
With the neutralists maintaining pressure for one of their own to succeed Mr. Hammarskjold, U Thant emerged as the only possible candidate unlikely to be waylaid by a veto.
U Thant of course, will hold office until the spring of 1963, when Mr. Hammarskjold's term would have come to an end.
the West may or not remain satisfied with the kind of neutralism that U Thant represents.
If Af are the projections associated with the primary decomposition of T, then each Af is a polynomial in T, and accordingly if a linear operator U commutes with T then U commutes with each of the Af, i.e., each subspace Af is invariant under U.
Near Q, both curves can be represented by analytic functions of U.
In a neighborhood of Q the difference between these functions is also a single-valued, analytic function of U.
The restrained gyro-stabilized platform with reasonable response characteristics operates with an approximate equation of motion, neglecting transient effects, as follows: Af where U is a torque applied about the output axis of the controlling gyro.
Lincoln's assassination was the first assassination of a U. S. president and sent the nation into mourning.
Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U. S. presidents.
In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.
Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.
Lincoln disapproved of slavery, and the spread of slavery to new U. S. territory in the west.
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Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.
In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.
After the state Republican party convention nominated him for the U. S. Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his House Divided Speech, drawing on: " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.
Douglas said that Lincoln was defying the authority of the U. S. Supreme Court and the Dred Scott decision.
The U. S. Navy illegally intercepted a British merchant ship the Trent on the high seas and seized two Confederate envoys ; Britain protested vehemently while the U. S. cheered.
He argued before and during his election that the eventual extinction of slavery would result from preventing its expansion into new U. S. territory.
Anthropologists ' involvement with the U. S. government, in particular, has caused bitter controversy within the discipline.
Austin is the capital of the U. S. state of Texas.
The world's smallest known vertebrate, Paedophryne amauensis, sitting on a Dime ( United States coin ) | U. S. dime, 17. 91mm, for scale
The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized ( or incorporated ) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U. S. on January 3, 1959.
Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U. S. states combined .< ref >
* U. S. House Committee on Agriculture – Glossary of agricultural terms, programs and laws
* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability
* Anti-Deficiency Act, U. S. law that prohibits the federal government from incurring debts not authorized by Congress
In the U. S. federal court system, criminal defendants must file a notice of appeal within 10 days of the entry of either the judgment or the order being appealed, or the right to appeal is forfeited.
Many U. S. jurisdictions title their appellate court a court of appeal or court of appeals.
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* George H. Brickner, U. S. Representative from Wisconsin.
In 2003, U. S. Representative John Conyers paid tribute to Bo Diddley in the United States House of Representatives describing him as " one of the true pioneers of rock and roll, who has influenced generations ".
* Bella Abzug ( 1942 ), Feminist ; political activist ; U. S. Representative, 1971 – 1977
* Barbara Levy Boxer ( 1962 ), anti-war activist, environmentalist, U. S. Representative, 1982 – 1993, and U. S. Senator
* Fisher Ames, U. S. Representative
* Samuel Dexter, U. S. Representative, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, administered the oath of office to Chief Justice John Marshall
* George F. Williams, U. S. Representative, Ambassador to Greece and Montenegro, known as " the sage of Dedham.
Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher ( born June 21, 1947 ) is the U. S. Representative for, and previously the 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989.
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* George Clinton, Jr. ( 1771 – 1809 ), U. S. Representative from New York, nephew of Vice President George Clinton
He was Governor of South Carolina ( 1810 – 1812 ), U. S. Representative ( 1815 – 1819 ), and the minister to Russia ( 1820 – 1830 ).
FIO also assists the U. S. Secretary of Treasury with negotiating ( with the U. S. Trade Representative ) certain international agreements.
Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to be so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency.
* 1960 – Loretta Sanchez, American politician, U. S. Representative from California
Cagney was cleared by U. S. Representative Martin Dies, Jr. on the House Un-American Activities Committee.
* J. Joseph Smith ( 1904 – 1980 ), U. S. Representative from Connecticut
* Joseph Showalter Smith ( 1824 – 1884 ), U. S. Representative from Oregon
* John Randall Walker ( 1874 – 1942 ), U. S. Representative from Georgia
Democratic U. S. Representative John Conyers described this as a " stunning ethical breach that cries out for an immediate investigation.
* 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U. S. Representative from Alabama ( b. 1878 )
U. S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( R-FL ) said that the report " underscores the need for democratic change in Burma, whose military regime arbitrarily arrests, tortures, rapes and executes its own people, ruthlessly persecutes ethnic minorities, and bizarrely builds itself a new capital city while failing to address the increasingly urgent challenges of refugee flows, illicit narcotics and human trafficking, and the spread of HIV / AIDS and other communicable diseases.
In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.
* 1935 – Ronald Vernie Dellums, U. S. Representative from California
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