In 1882, Canadian Pacific transmitted its first commercial telegram over telegraph lines they had erected alongside its tracks, breaking Western Union's monopoly.

For amounts greater than $ 1000, these companies charge commission fees of between 3 %- 4 %, significantly lower than Western Union's 7. 1 % fee and MoneyGram's 7. 2 % fee for sending the same amount to Ethiopia.

In the late 1980s, some Western critics of Mengistu, including Michael Johns of the Heritage Foundation, charged that Mengistu's economic, military and political policies, along with the Soviet Union's support for Mengistu, were key contributing factors to Ethiopian famine, which ultimately took over a million lives.

Western Union's focus will remain money transfers.

Plan 55-A, Western Union's last paper tape based switching system ( 1948 – 1976 ), was fully automatic, with automatic routing.

A related innovation that came from AUTODIN was Western Union's computer based EasyLink service.

Western Union's mobile money transfer service offering will connect its core money transfer platform to m-bank or m-wallet platforms provided by mobile operators and / or locally regulated financial institutions.

Alternatively, a sender may forward funds online to a recipient by using Western Union's online site, westernunion. com.

On occasion, the transfer will fail and Western Union's customer service will inform the sender that the transaction " does not meet our requirements.

The next year they formed the American Telegraph Company and began buying up other companies, rationalizing them into a consolidated system that ran from Maine to the Gulf Coast ; the system was second only to Western Union's.

In 1861 Congress passed the Land-Grant Telegraph Act which financed the construction of Western Union's transcontinental telegraph lines.

Hiram Sibley, Western Union's head, negotiated exclusive agreements with railroads to run telegraph lines along their right-of-way.

For many years, an ample surplus was exported to consumers in Eastern Europe and Western Europe, where it earned most of the Soviet Union's convertible currency.

After serving in the Spanish government under Felipe González ( 1982 – 1995 ) and Secretary General of NATO ( 1995 – 1999 ), he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.

Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, then subordinate to Maj. Gen. John Fremont in the Union's Western Department, assumed command of the District of Southeast Missouri ; Grant established his headquarters at Cairo, Illinois.

* Telegraph History: Some Early Days of Western Union's Stock Ticker Service, 1871-1910 by Charles R. Tilghman

The Organization of African Unity / African Union and United Nations have proposed negotiated solutions, though the African Union's stance on Western Sahara led to Morocco's exit from the organisation.

The Soviets blamed on the Western powers their reluctance to take the Soviet Union's military assistance seriously and acknowledge the Soviet right to cross Poland and Romania if necessary against their will, as well as their failure to send representatives with more importance and clearly defined powers and the disagreement over the notion of indirect aggression.

As fascism grew in Europe in the 1930s, instead of immediate revolution, the Comintern opted for a Popular Front with liberal capitalists against fascism ; then, at the height of World War II in 1943, the Comintern was disbanded on the request of the Soviet Union's Western allies.

In his Western media appearances Pozner was a charismatic and articulate apologist of some of the Soviet Union's most controversial foreign and domestic policy decisions.

At the time, brokers obtained the latest stock quotes, provided by Western Union's telegraph, or wire service, from a glass dome-topped ticker.

The three provincial unions then in existence soon set out to create a unified Western Canadian competition, with the view that the Western champion should be able to challenge for the Canadian Rugby Union's new championship trophy, the Grey Cup.

According to Kommersant, " Libya was one of the Soviet Union's few partners that paid in full for the military equipment it purchased from the USSR ," though the Gaddafi regime still maintained good relations with the Western nations of France and Italy and refused to sign a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation with the Soviet Union.

In 2010, Heart of Darkness was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the " 100 best novels " and part of the Western canon.

* The official website for the Western, MA Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist sangha

* Western Writers of America website

The film is seen by many as a Western masterpiece and has been awarded a 97 % rating on the critical website Rotten Tomatoes.

* Capuchin Franciscan Order-Our Lady of Angels Province, official website of Capuchin Franciscan Order in Western America

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* Evansville Western Railway website

* official Western Pennsylvania Conservancy website

* Official website of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park

As of February 2006, the Western Union website showed this notice:

* Western Union corporate website

* Western Union website agent locations internationally

* Western Digital website

* The Western Reserve Historical Society's website about the lives of Carl and Louis Stokes

* ulcos. org – the website of the ULCOS Program, a European Research endeavor sponsored by the EU under its FP6 and RFCS programs and supported by 48 partners in 14 countries, including most of the major Steel producers in Western Europe

The increasing gap of understanding between so-called Western liberal democracies and the Islamic word is extremely dangerous ,” according to the WJC website.

* official Western Pennsylvania Conservancy website

* Official Western Washington University website

* Bridges of the Western Rother ( reproduced from Volume 10 of the Sussex County Magazine 1936 ) on the Rother Valley Project website

Cetinski has posted an article entitled, " Western Independence Now ", on the Alberta Republicans website.

* The Western Canada Party website ( Defunct )

* Western Independence Party of Saskatchewan website

* Grand Western Canal home page ( on Devon County Council website )

* The Western Writers of America website