I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

On September 16, Sam Rayburn will have served as Speaker twice as long as any predecessor and I am proud to join with others in marking this date, and in expressing my esteem for that notable American, Sam Rayburn.

American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by many Chinese restaurants in the United States.

* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.

He is alleged to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al-Qassim Province.

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay ( 1809 ), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies ( 1809 – 14 ), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations ( 1814 – 16 ), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean ( 1817 – 18 ).

The differences between the more modern and traditional branches of American Judaism came to a head in 1883, at the " Trefa Banquet " at the Highland House entertainment pavilion, which was at the top of the Mount Adams Incline – where shellfish and other non-kosher dishes were served at the celebration of the first graduating class of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

These regiments, which rarely took the field as complete organizations, served throughout the American Indian Wars through the close of the frontier in the 1890s.

Spiral served as a collective of conversation and artistic exploration for a large group of artists who " addressed how black artists should relate to American society in a time of segregation.

These paintings were part of a diptych completed in 1936 depicting the history of medicine in the African American community and Beauford Delaney served as assistant.

In 1796, cranberries were served at the first celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims, and Amelia Simmons ( an American orphan ) wrote a book entitled " American Cookery " which contained a recipe for cranberry tarts.

His father served as a Confederate Army colonel in the American Civil War and was elected as a Kentucky state legislator.

The democratization of the American, British, and French sectors of occupied Germany ( disputed ), Austria, Italy, and the occupied Japan served as a model for the later theory of regime change.

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

His grandson, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, served as a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and was claimed by his mother to bear a strong resemblance to her father.

He was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and after 1816 served as its President.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s, an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.

One ancestor, Isaac Roosevelt, had served with the New York militia during the American Revolution.

Before that day, the flag had served mostly as a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory, flown from forts, embassies, and ships, and displayed on special occasions like the Fourth of July.

He studied law at Columbia University in New York City but his education was interrupted by service with the United States Navy in World War II during which he served with American amphibious forces in Europe and North Africa.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

His charts of the North American northwest coast were so extremely accurate that they served as the key reference for coastal navigation for generations.

He served as Commander in Chief during the Revolution without compensation.

He represented Tennessee in the U. S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until overthrown in the October Revolution.

Clausewitz served in the Rhine Campaigns ( 1793 – 1794 ) including the Siege of Mainz, when the Prussian army invaded France during the French Revolution, and served in the Napoleonic Wars from 1806 to 1815.

Edmund Burke, an Anglo-Irish politician who served in the British House of Commons and opposed the French Revolution, is credited as one of the founders of conservativism in Great Britain.

* Magic Lantern ( theater ), a theater in Prague which served as the headquarters for the Velvet Revolution reform movement

Several attempted coups served to remind President Félix Pavia ( the former dean of law at the National University ) that although the February Revolution was out of power, it was far from dead.

#* Jefferson was raised Anglican and served as a vestryman prior to the American Revolution, but as an adult he did not hold to the tenets of this church.

Captain Casement had served in the 1842 Afghan campaign and went to fight as a volunteer in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 but arrived after the Surrender at Világos.

Liberty Leading the People, embodying the Romantic view of the French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution ; its painter Eugène Delacroix also served as an elected deputy

At the beginning of the American Revolution, he served in the Continental Congress, representing Virginia and then served as a wartime Governor of Virginia ( 1779 – 1781 ).

Having served its original purpose in announcing independence, the text of the Declaration was initially ignored after the American Revolution.

* Before the Industrial Revolution, most manufacturing occurred in rural areas, where household-based manufacturing served as a supplemental subsistence strategy to agriculture ( and continues to do so in places ).

During the Russian Revolution of 1917 Rosenberg supported the counter-revolutionaries ; following their failure he emigrated to Germany in 1918 along with Max Scheubner-Richter who served as something of a mentor to Rosenberg and to his ideology.

The city served as the main port for the Texas Navy during the Texas Revolution and later served as the capital of the Republic of Texas.

Having fled the French Revolution, he had served in Catherine's army against the Turks.

Saying, " All who served the Revolution have plowed the sea ," Bolívar finally resigned his presidency on April 27, 1830, intending to leave the country for exile in Europe, possibly in France.

In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released the album Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name.

In the Wars of the French Revolution, the Fusiliers served in the West Indies in 1793-94, before going to Europe for the Helder Expedition and to Egypt for the Battle of Alexandria.

" The Declaration of Hartwell " was more liberal than his " Declaration of 1805 ", asserting that all those who served Napoleon or the Republic would not suffer repercussions for their acts, and that the original owners of the Biens nationaux ( lands confiscated from the nobles and clergy during the Revolution ) were to be compensated for their losses.