When the First Transcontinental Railroad was proposed in the 1850s, Atchison called for it to be built along the central route ( from St. Louis through Missouri, Kansas, and Utah ), rather the southern route ( from New Orleans through Texas and New Mexico ).

When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits.

When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

When negotiating for the possibility of annexation to the US in late 1836, the Texan government instructed its minister Wharton in Washington that if the boundary were an issue, Texas was willing to settle for a boundary at the watershed between the Nueces River and Rio Grande, and leave out New Mexico.

Other songs performed by Amos include The Doors ' " People are Strange ", Depeche Mode's " Personal Jesus ", Joni Mitchell's " The Circle Game ", Madonna's " Live to Tell " and " Like a Prayer ", Björk's " Hyperballad ", Led Zeppelin's " When the Levee Breaks " ( which she debuted in Austin, Texas, just after the events of Hurricane Katrina ), Kate Bush's " And Dream of Sheep " and Crowded House's " Don't Dream It's Over ", dedicating it to drummer Paul Hester who had died a week before.

Rickman was one of the many artists who recited Shakespearian sonnets on the 2002 album When Love Speaks, and is also featured prominently in a music video by the band Texas entitled " In Demand ", which premiered on Europe MTV in August 2000.

When Texas achieved independence in 1836, it initially sought to be annexed by the United States.

When the S. S. Grandcamp exploded in the Texas City Disaster on April 16, 1947, one fragment of that blast was a two ton anchor which was hurled nearly two miles inland to embed itself in the parking lot of the Pan American refinery.

When the Senate could not muster a two-thirds vote to pass a treaty of annexation with Texas, Calhoun devised a joint resolution of the Houses of Congress, requiring only a simple majority ; Texas joined the Union.

When oil began to gush in West Texas in the early 20th century, and again in the late 1970s, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.

When Commodore released its first calculators, combining an LED display from Bowmar and an integrated circuit from Texas Instruments ( TI ), it found a ready market.

When she was in the 9th grade, she was sent to live with her mother's younger sister, Kay Beall, in Mexia, Texas.

When they debuted in Dallas for the 1993 – 94 season, they kept the same uniform design from their Minnesota days, except for the addition of the Texas logo patch on the shoulders.

Their 1984 album produced the singles " Roll On ( Eighteen Wheeler )", " When We Make Love ", " If You're Gonna Play in Texas ( You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band )", and "( There's A ) Fire in the Night ".

* 1984: " Roll On ( Eighteen Wheeler )"; " When We Make Love "; " If You're Gonna Play in Texas ( You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band )"

When the General Colonization Law went into effect in 1824, followed by the 1825 State Colonization Law of Coahuila y Tejas, Robert Leftwich obtained a grant to settle 800 families in Texas.

When the Texas and Pacific Railway was constructed through the county, a new town named Texarkana was founded.

When the formation of the county was authorized by the Constitutional Convention of 1907, the county was so named because it was wholly included within the limits of the Texas Cession of 1850, whereby the ownership of the area was passed from the State of Texas to the United States Government.

When the Mexican War broke in 1845 following the annexation of Texas into the United States, Union County enthusiastically provided men, totalling over 30.

When formed in 1843, Texas County was named after William H. Ashley, the first lieutenant governor of Missouri, but when the county was officially organized on February 14, 1845, it was renamed for the Republic of Texas.

When Arkansas achieved statehood the same year Texas declared itself an independent republic in 1836 a dispute over the common border arose, with the area in Miller County having representation in both the Arkansas legislature and the Texas congress.

When Arminius died before he could satisfy Holland's State General's request for a 14-page paper outlining his views, the Remonstrants replied in his stead crafting the Five articles of Remonstrance.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

When Michael Heseltine became Secretary of State for Defence, Massiter prepared a report on CND for him.

When he returned to Washington to give his report, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave Capra his commendation for " virtually single-handedly forestalling a possible Communist take-over of Indian films.

When they are the longest serving State Governor, the Governor of New South Wales holds a dormant commission to act as the Administrator of the Commonwealth when the Governor-General of Australia is absent from Australia, a role held by the current Governor.

When he completed his B. S., professors Joseph Budd and Louis Pammel convinced Carver to continue at Iowa State for his master's degree.

When Baum had been touring New York State in the title role, the actor playing the ghost fell through the floorboards, and the rural audience thought it was part of the show and demanded that the actor repeat the fall, because they thought it was funny.

When acting as Lord of Mann, the Queen acts on the advice of the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom having prime responsibility as Privy Counsellor for Manx affairs.

When Adams appointed Clay as Secretary of State — the position that Adams and his three predecessors had held before becoming president — Jacksonian Democrats were outraged, and claimed that Adams and Clay had struck a " corrupt bargain.

When he was two years old, his father was killed in a railway accident, and his name was changed to Karl Friedrich Benz in remembrance of his father .< ref > Karl Benz family gravestone Karl is the spelling of his first name on all of his official personal and municipal documents throughout his life, such as birth, school, honorary doctorate, the Baden State Metal certificate, and on his family grave marker as displayed to the right.

When referring to the territory, the word concelho is used, when referring to the organ of State, the word município is used.

When, in 1974, Labour returned to office under Harold Wilson, Foot became Secretary of State for Employment.

* Gisela Bock " Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany: Motherhood, Compulsory Sterilization, and the State " from When Biology Became Destiny: Women in Weimar and Nazi Germany edited by Renate Bridenthal, Atina Grossmann, and Marion Kaplan, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1984.

When the voice of the individual can be heard, the danger of arbitrary interference by the State is greatly reduced.

Jewish variations of process theology are also presented in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ( New York: Anchor Books, 2004, ISBN 1-4000-3472-8 ) and Sandra B. Lubarsky and David Ray Griffin, eds., Jewish Theology and Process Thought ( Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995, ISBN 0-7914-2810-9 ).

When an individual, or entity, has no " minimum contacts " with a forum State, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits that State from acting against that individual, or entity.

When French emperor Napoleon I completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towards the edges of the northern territories of the Papal State, San Marino found itself forced to choose between maintaining the alliance with the Papal State or creating a new one with France.

When he was a child, his family moved from Atlanta to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he lived during his adolescence, then moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where his father became Dean of Education at Louisiana State University ( LSU ).

When Éamon de Valera led Fianna Fáil to victory in the Irish Free State election of 1932, he began removing the monarchical elements of the constitution, beginning with the Oath of Allegiance.

When he and other people marched in front of the White House, the State Department and Independence Hall only five years earlier, their objective was to look as if they could work for the U. S. government.

When State Legislatures selected Senators, if Congress had been able to prescribe the place for choosing Senators, it could have in effect told each State where its state capital must be located.

When Adams later appointed Clay his Secretary of State, many — particularly Jackson and his supporters — accused the pair of making a " Corrupt Bargain ".