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West Point is a federal military reservation established by President of the United States Thomas Jefferson in 1802.
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to West Point, N.Y., the famous military academy in a beautiful setting on the Hudson River.
The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.
But he is a West Point graduate and therefore must be born to command ''.
McClellan, a young West Point graduate, railroad executive, and Pennsylvania Democrat, took several months to plan and attempt his Peninsula Campaign, longer than Lincoln wanted.
In 1826 Johnston graduated eighth of 41 cadets in his class from West Point with a commission as a brevet second lieutenant in the 2nd U. S. Infantry.
One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.
Doubleday was a cadet at West Point in the year of the alleged invention and his family had moved away from Cooperstown the prior year.
Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.
He attended and graduated from West Point, and later was married with two sons.
His later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was " rather wicked ," but she did not overrule him.
Eisenhower requested consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U. S. Senator, Joseph L. Bristow.
He then accepted an appointment to West Point in 1911.
At West Point, Eisenhower relished the emphasis on traditions and on sports, but was less enthusiastic about the hazing, though he willingly accepted it as a plebe ; he was also a regular violator of the more detailed regulations, and finished school with a less than stellar discipline rating.
In athletics, Eisenhower later said that " not making the baseball team at West Point was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.
Controversy persists over whether Eisenhower played minor league baseball for Junction City in the Central Kansas League the year before he attended West Point, where he played amateur football.
Eisenhower ( 2nd from left ) and Omar Bradley ( 2nd from right ) were members of the 1912 West Point football team.
John, coincidentally, graduated from West Point on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Eisenhower, far right, with three unidentified friends, in 1919 four years after graduating from West Point.
Eisenhower Hall, the cadet activities building at West Point, was completed in 1974.
In 1983, the Eisenhower Monument was unveiled at West Point.
She continued to make minor and frequently nostalgic period musicals such as Starlift, The West Point Story, On Moonlight Bay, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, and Tea For Two for Warner Brothers.
* Francis Goes to West Point ( 1952 )
On May 4, 2008, while Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addressed the graduating cadets at West Point, a cadet asked what would happen if the next administration were supportive of legislation allowing gays to serve openly.
The prisoners were eventually transported to West Point, where they remained in " easy imprisonment ".
In 1895, Nikola Tesla was able to detect signals from the transmissions of his New York lab at West Point ( a distance of 80. 4 km / 49. 95 miles ).
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Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.
He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.
The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.
The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.
The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.
They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.
West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.
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* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that was re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany.
However, the fasces, as a widespread and long-established symbol in the West, has avoided the stigma associated with much of fascist symbolism, and many authorities continue to display them, including the federal government of the United States.
In the 1990 federal elections, taking place post-reunified Germany, the Greens in the West did not pass the 5 % limit required to win seats in the Bundestag.
Bennett won the seat of Calgary West in the 1925 federal election and was returned to government as Minister of Finance in Meighen's short-lived government in 1926.
After the war the West Germany judicial system awarded Heydrich's widow a federal pension.
About June 1984, the Key West Police Department located in the County of Monroe, Florida, was declared a criminal enterprise under the federal RICO statutes after a lengthy United States Department of Justice investigation.
The Caddo Fork, shown as " Caddo Creek " on federal maps, rises in two tributary forks, the East Caddo Fork and the West Caddo Fork, in northwestern Hunt County.
During the Hughes, Stone, and Vinson Courts ( 1930 – 1953 ), the Court gained its own accommodation in 1935 and changed its interpretation of the Constitution, giving a broader reading to the powers of the federal government to facilitate President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal ( most prominently West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, Wickard v. Filburn, United States v. Darby and United States v. Butler ).
Former Justice of the Peace Harry C. Staton was killed, and Ephraim Morgan, Governor of West Virginia, pleaded in person with President Harding for federal military support.
Against the will of the president of the German federal bank, he allowed a 1: 1 exchange rate for wages, interest and rent between the West and East Marks.
The Reclamation Act ( also known as the Lowlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act ) of 1902 () is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.
The South, as the poorest region of the United States, received 75 percent less in federal relief and public works funds per capita than the West.
CDU Chairman Helmut Kohl became the new Chancellor of West Germany and his CDU-FDP coalition was confirmed in the 1983 federal election.
The negotiations ended with the common conclusion, that a democratic and federal West German state was to be established.
These papers-amongst other points-summoned the Ministerpräsidenten to arrange a constitutional assembly, that should work out a democratic and federal constitution for a West German state.
When Pierce bought the West Virginia property, he named it the " Cosmotheist Community Church " and applied for federal, state, and local tax exemptions.
An abortive anti-Republic coup in Bandung and Jakarta by Westerling's Legion of Ratu Adil ( APRA ) on 23 January 1950 resulted in the dissolution of the populous Pasundan state in West Java, thus quickening the dissolution of the federal structure.
* Huron West, a historic federal electoral district in Ontario
Kelly and Otto Schily after the West German federal election, 1983
The citizenship issue arose partly because of his high position within BSA, and the federal charter West was attempting to obtain for the BSA required its board members to be United States citizens.
Robertson further speculated that a different outcome was likely if the case had been tried in a court within the 9th Circuit ( a federal appellate court that serves the West Coast ) instead of a court within the 2nd Circuit ( a federal appellate court that serves portions of the East Coast ).
Kemerovo Oblast (, Kemerovskaya oblast ), also known as Kuzbass () after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia ( an oblast ), located in southwestern Siberia, where the West Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains.
Pendleton County was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War, but in 1863 it was included by the federal government in the new state of West Virginia against the inhabitants ' wishes.
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