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	British Columbia - Search View - MSN Encarta
		British Columbia, Pacific Coast province in western Canada, bounded on the north by Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories; on the east by Alberta; on the south by the states of Montana, Idaho, and Washington; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean and Alaska.
		British Columbia is represented by 36 members in the Canadian House of Commons and by six senators, appointed by the Canadian governor-general, in the upper house, or Senate of the federal government.
		British Columbia’s economy was largely based on the exploitation of natural resources through mining, lumbering, and fisheries, which produced a range of goods for export.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761574576__1/British_Columbia.html (7370 words)

	Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Elections must be held at least once in five years, but within that period the prime minister may at any time request the crown to dissolve Parliament and call for new elections.
		Domestically the long ministry of Sir Robert Walpole (1721–42), during the reigns of George I and George II, was a period of relative stability that saw the beginnings of the development of the cabinet as the chief executive organ of government.
		In 1945, the first general elections in ten years were held (they had been postponed because of the war) and Clement Attlee and the Labour party were swept into power.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gr/GreatBri.html (7942 words)

	Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
		British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in Canada with recall legislation.
		The next provincial general election is to be held on May 17, 2005.
		British Columbia voters vote on two separate ballots at the May 17, 2005 election; one to choose their elected representatives in the Legislature, the other to decide whether or not the province should adopt the BC-STV electoral system as recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
	www.elections.bc.ca /general/history.html (1531 words)

	Myanmar Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
		Under British rule rice cultivation in the delta was expanded, an extensive railroad network was built, and the natural resources of Burma were developed.
		In the elections of 1951–1952 the AFPFL triumphed.
		Elections were held in May 1990 and the National League for Democracy (NCD) won a large majority of seats in the assembly.
	www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Myanmar.html (2201 words)

	f. Greece. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		British prime minister Winston Churchill and his foreign secretary, Anthony Eden, arrived in Athens to arrange a settlement in the civil war that had developed between Greek factions.
		The Greek civil war ended with a truce between the British forces and the leftist factions opposing British intervention.
		The regent, Archbishop Damaskinos, supported by British occupation authorities, appointed six different ministries during 1945, none of which was able to bridge the gap between moderates and left-wing resistance groups.
	www.bartleby.com /67/3207.html (247 words)

	Coming to terms with Juan Perón is necessary for two reasons
		General discontent provoked the dominant landed and banking sectors to back a military coup against Yrigoyen and on September 6, 1930 General José Felix Uriburu came to power.
		The nationalism of the FORJA was predicated on a "revisionist" interpretation of Argentine history, one that saw the Europeanizing influence of Buenos Aires as an obstacle to future national development.
		In November 1945, Spruille Braden, who attempted unsuccessfully to tarnish Perón as a fascist in the recent elections, made a speech in which he denounced any development policy designed "not to promote an increased productivity and a higher real income, but to serve the purposes of autarchy, neurotic nationalism and military adventure." (Cited in Lambie).
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/state_and_revolution/argentina3.htm (3172 words)

	Tom Langford and Chris Frazer\| The Cold War and Working Class Politics in the Coal Mining Communities of the Crowsnest ...
		The August 1948 provincial election was the last hurrah of the Communists as a mass political party in the Alberta Crowsnest Pass, and indeed in Alberta.
		Uphill’s winning share of the popular vote in the provincial elections in the early 1950s was 34 per cent in a 4 candidate election in 1952 and 44 per cent in a 3 candidate election in 1953.
		He won the elections by winning a plurality of votes in each of the coal mining centres of Fernie and Michel-Natal, and because the population of the constituency was concentrated in those centres.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/49/02langfo.html (10295 words)

	Elections around the World
		This election was the first time that parties were allowed to post representatives at all 40 000 polling stations as well as being given the vote tallies at the end of polling.
		general election of 2 June 1999, Thabo Mbeki took over the presidency from Nelson Mandela after the ruling ANC party won 66.4 per cent of the vote.
		General Wiranto (Golkar) along with at least four other candidates registered to compete for the presidency of the world’s fourth most populous country.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/POL/WorldElections.htm (3308 words)

	British Columbia general election, 1945 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Columbia general election of 1945 was the twenty-first general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
		It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
		The election was called on August 31, 1945, and held on October 25, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_1945 (245 words)

	earlyCTBThistory
		Letters ensued between Eisenhower and General Secretary Khrushchev, and on April 8 Eisenhower proposed a meeting of technical experts, as envisioned at the London Conference, a proposal which Khrushchev initially rejected on the grounds that the conclusion of a test ban was a political, not a scientific, matter.
		Panelists generally agreed that tests in the first category could be readily detected by their output of acoustic and radio waves and radioactive debris, and oceanic tests could be easily detected with hydroacoustic waves.
		The British and Americans rejected this proposal, arguing that existing seismographic stations were not adequate for the task, and could serve only as a supplement to a future system of new seismographic stations or control posts.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /~richards/earlyCTBThistory.html (13192 words)

	Yale and the Vietnam War
		A generation later, on the eve of the entry of the United States into World War II, faculty, students, and alumni were as divided on the issue of isolation or intervention as were the American people and Congress.
		Lynd was described by one senior historian at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D., as "Just about the best student I have ever run across."7 Yale first offered him a job in 1962, but Lynd declined in order to teach at Spelman College, a fl woman's college in Atlanta.
		Only then did the course of study committee begin a serious review of ROM "The issue of credit for ROTC courses," said committee chairman William Kessen, "is an academic curricular matter with no implications for national policy."53 The purely academic goal was to identify and remove credit from "how-to" courses, such as photography for beginners.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /cuhistory/yale.htm (11065 words)

	The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
		In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
		The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
		The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
	www.friesian.com /british.htm (6479 words)

	election: General History
		In the Middle Ages elections were abandoned, except for such processes as elections to the papacy and, in a more limited sense, of the Holy Roman emperor by a small and partly hereditary body of electors.
		Elections were associated with the parliamentary process in England from the 13th cent.
		and were gradually regularized by acts prescribing the frequency of elections (the Triennial Act of 1694, and the Septennial Act of 1716), by successive reform bills widening the franchise in the 19th cent., and by the adoption of the secret ballot in 1872.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0857930.html (325 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		he 1945 election was the first to be fought in Britain for 10 years, and the first since the Second World War.
		The image of John Major as a decent, honest, humble man was a strength for the Conservatives in the 1992 general election.
		The Green Party is traditionally strong on local issues, and a vote for Green in a general election is sometimes understood as a protest vote from the left.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122211 (736 words)

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		The Constitutional Court is empowered to rescind legislation it considers unconstitutional, settle disputes over the conduct of general elections, and resolve conflicts over the division of powers between the various branches of government.
		With the exception of the mayoral election in Kurdjali, all major political parties accepted the results and agreed that the elections were conducted in a free and orderly manner.
		Enforcement has been generally effective in the state sector, although there are reports that state-run enterprises fall into arrears on salary payments to their employees if the firms incur losses.
	www1.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/bulgaria/faq/FAQ-1 (10503 words)

	Native American Rehabilitation
		In the recent election of council members, three of the members elected were females and two of these were elected officers.
		Unemployment on the reservation generally runs among the highest in the state of Montana, particularly among the tribal population.
		It is bounded on the east and south by the Columbia River, on the west by the Okanogan River, and on the north by the line between township 34 and 35 north of the Willamette Meridian baseline.
	library.law.columbia.edu /urlmirror/CLR/101CLR702/NAR.html (19128 words)

	US People--Eisenhower, Dwight D., General of the Army and 34th President of the U.S..
		In November 1942 Lieutenant General Eisenhower led the invasion of North Africa and the subsequent operations that, after hard fighting that produced vital combat experience for the as yet unseasoned Army, drove the Germans and Italians from the southern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Promoted to the rank of General early in 1943, Eisenhower commanded the invasions of Sicily in July and of the Italian mainland in September of that year.
		Placed in charge of the forthcoming Allied invasion of France at the end of 1943, General Eisenhower was responsible for the massive Normandy operation in June 1944 and the dynamic, and frequently difficult, land campaign that ended with Germany's surrender eleven months later.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-e/d-eisnhr.htm (892 words)

	Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 21st General Election 1945
		Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 Part One 21st General Election 1945
		REASON Death of J.A. Paton 19 February 1946 and of R.L. Maitland 28 March 1946.
		REASON Resignation of W.A.C. Bennett 17 May 1948 to contest federal by-election (Yale, 31 May 1948).
	www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/21ge1945-3.html (121 words)

	Labour party: 1914 to 1945
		Heavily defeated in the election of 1931, the Labour party moved slightly to the left, advocating nationalization of major industries and more progressive taxation.
		The British Labour Party and 'ethnic entryism': participation, integration and the Party context.
		The British general election 1945: Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0859159.html (508 words)

	NW BIBLIOGRAPHY-BRITISH NORTH AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Neunherz, Richard E. "'Hemmed In': Reactions in British Columbia to the Purchase of Russian America." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 80 (1989): 101-111.
		Sage, Walter N. "The Birth of British Columbia." The Beaver Spring (1958): 4-11.
		Judson, Katharine B. "The British Side of the Restoration of Fort Astoria." The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society XX (1919): 243-260.
	oscar.ctc.edu /history/british.htm (9609 words)

	N.B. Liberals release energy platform as election talk heats up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP) - Although a provincial election has yet to be called, New Brunswick's political leaders are busy wooing voters in anticipation of an announcement that could come any day.
		Liberal Leader Shawn Graham released the first instalment of his party's election platform Tuesday, promising to soften the blow of rising energy costs with direct subsidies to homeowners for conservation upgrades and tax rebates for hybrid cars.
		To be sure, a late-summer election campaign would be dominated by cost-of-living issues.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/Atlantic/060808/t080812.html (707 words)

	Barnard College Archives--Intriguing Persons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Russell’s ability to stand firm in the face of social norms, which frowned on Delsartism, on dress reform, on her two marriages, and in general on the fact that a woman was able to lead a public life independent of her husband and earn her own income.
		In 1945, during her first year in Congress, a dinner in her honor was given by the Washington, D.C. Alumnae Club, and she, in return, invited the alumnae to come hear her first speech in the House.
		Douglas herself recalled that, as election day neared and she began to realize that she would lose, her main concern was not to become bitter about it.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /archives/Persons.htm (13932 words)

	Elections and Electoral Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Information and photos about my experience as an OSCE election observer for the 2004 Kazakhstan parliamentary elections.
		The first election under the new electoral system is on 12th October 1996.
		US election map bank features a variety of maps showing the results of past presidential elections by county and by state, from 1960 to 1992
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfsdr/elect.htm (583 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 2
		The Labour Party wins the general election by a landslide, leaving the Conservative Party in tatters after 18 years in power.
		The General Belgrano is destroyed in a controversial move by the Royal Navy off the disputed Falklands Islands - a thousand men are believed to be on board.
		About 200 students calling for educational reforms at Columbia University give up their sit-in after a supreme court judge issues a warrant for their arrest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/2/default.stm (206 words)

	Barnard College Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She became personal secretary to one of the most popular and highest-paid writers of her time, Fannie Hurst, who was greatly impressed after reading one of Hurston's short stories, “Spunk.” Thus Hurston became Hurst's protégé, and was greatly influenced by her throughout her years as her secretary.
		Little-known Beat Generation poet Elise Nada Cowen '56 was born in 1933 in Long Island, the daughter of wealthy Jewish parents.
		While at Barnard, she took up French, explaining to her friend Leo Skir that it was because she “wanted to read Rimbaud in the original.” It was at Barnard that she first earned the nickname Beat Alice, having fallen among a loose-knit group of anti-establishment artists and visionaries known to outsiders as beatniks.
	www.barnard.columbia.edu /archives/persons.html (14766 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
		Scott hung on to power in a closer race in 1997, and in 2000 earned a third term by defeating Tory Raj Venugopal by 3,256 votes.
		In 2003, was a recipient of the Governor General's merit award for an act of bravery in providing assistance to others
		Provincial: Between 2003 and 2005, served as the Conserative party's regional organizer for the Maritime provinces.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/025 (795 words)

	ACP - Canadian Chapters - British Columbia
		What the College stands for and what it can offer must be made better known to its membership in British Columbia.
		What the British Columbia members want from the College should also be better defined, so that the College can become more responsive to the need of its British Columbia Chapter members.
		Web-based technology and in person regional meetings with members will be used to re-establish and enhance the connectivity between the College and its membership in British Columbia.
	www.acponline.org /chapters/canada/bc_man_bio.htm (309 words)

	Comparing Democracies: Election Links
		Regional and Country specific election and survey research links
		Voter turnout from 1945 to 1998: A Global report on voter participation
		Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) specialist group of the Political Studies Association of the UK Publishes the annual British Elections and Parties Review
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~leduc/links.html (175 words)

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