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  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)

  
 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Voter Toolkit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Elections Canada definition of this term is almost poetic: "The place of ordinary residence of a person is the place that has always been, or that has been adopted as, his or her dwelling place, and to which the person intends to return when away from it.
Elections Canada used to need that much time to prepare the voters' list because it was sending teams of enumerators to every home in Canada to update information from the previous general election.
Victories were granted to Édouard Guilbault (Cons.) during the 1887 general election in the riding of Joliette, Que.; Nicholas Flood Davin (Cons.) during the 1896 general election in the riding of Assiniboia West, NWT; and Paul Martineau (P.C.) during the 1963 general election in the riding of Pontiac-Temiscamingue, Que.
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/voterstoolkit/faqs.html   (6671 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - October 1920
General Richard Gridley, the subject of this sketch, was born in Boston in 1710, and died at Stoughton in 1796.
Generally speaking, there is a Grand Lodge in every State of the republic, which was founded when at least three symbolic lodges had been installed in the State.
It is a well-known and officially established fact that Freemasonry had a considerable, almost decisive, role in calling forth the war, and later, during the war and after the armistice, in the development of defeatism and destruction, as well as in the raising of the Karolyi revolution and of Bolshevism.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1920_october.htm   (9074 words)

  
 Elections BC -- Important Dates in BC Election History
Voters in the general election approve a referendum providing a mechanism to recall sitting Members and to bring citizen initiatives before the Legislature or to province-wide referendum.
British Columbia is the first jurisdiction in North America to offer fully automated Internet voter registration.
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)

  
 thetyee.ca Looks Bleak for Third Parties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The 1920 general election, conducted in the aftermath of the First World War, saw a plethora of upstart political parties, many of which were composed of war veterans.
The 1924 general election also saw the emergence of the Provincial Party, an amalgam of disgruntled Tories and the United Farmers of B.C. Three seats were won by the new party, which disappeared before the next contest, although MLA G.A. Walkem won re-election as a Conservative.
It is evident that relatively few cnadidates win election to the legislature under minor party banners, and that many of those who do had earlier won their seats with a different, and often major, party.
thetyee.ca /Election/Battleground/2005/04/18/ThirdParties   (880 words)

  
 British Columbia general election, 1920 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The British Columbia general election of 1920 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
The election was called on October 23, 1920, and held on December 1, 1920.
In the Sea of Sterile Mountains: The Chinese in British Columbia, Joseph Morton, J.J. Douglas, Vancouver (1974).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Columbia_general_election,_1920   (330 words)

  
 THE HOLOCAUST - Timebase 1920-24
1920 January 14 French General Maurice Janin, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied troops in Siberia, orders the Czecho-Slovak Legion to kidnap Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, leader of the anti-Bolshevik resistance, and hand him over to the Bolsheviks at Irkutsk in exchange for one-third of the bullion of the Russian Imperial Treasury which is under Kolchak's control.
1920 April 15 Italian-born anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are accused of murdering a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts, escaping with the payroll of nearly $16,000.
General Ludendorff is found not guilty and retires to his home in the country.
www.humanitas-international.org /holocaust/1920-24t.htm   (6305 words)

  
 Columbiana’s News Stories: Week August 1-31, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The most intriguing woman of this election season may well turn out to be Doris Haddock, the 94-year-old New Hampsherite better known as Granny D. The nonagenarian became a neo-populist folk hero back in 1999, when she walked from Pasadena, California, to Washington, DC, to champion campaign-finance reform.
And Muqtada al-Sadr and his followers are not just another group of generic terrorists out to kill Americans; their opposition to the occupation represents the overwhelmingly mainstream sentiment in Iraq.
Men who fought in Vietnam told me decades ago of having heard, on their fathers' knees, tales of courage and heroism in fighting the "good war." Those World War II fathers were often perplexed and angered by their sons' disillusionment with and bitter opposition to their own war.
www.columbiana.org /news_aug1-31c_2004.htm   (10206 words)

  
 Columbia University Health Sciences Library: Archives & Special Collections, Finding Aids, FREDERIC SCHILLER LEE
Along with his Columbia colleague John G. Curtis, Lee was active in the political defense of experimental science against anti-vivisection legislation.
Although the movement had lost its hold on the public imagination in the first decades of the 20th century, it was still a strong minority movement and biomedical scientists continued to organize against it.
Lee was also responsible for surveying academic opinion both within and without Columbia on whether the medical school (and, by inference, the proposed medical center) should be situated adjacent to Columbia's main campus on Morningside Heights or whether a separate campus was feasible.
library.cpmc.columbia.edu /hsl/eres/countact.cfm?resourceid=5552   (2794 words)

  
 The Builder Magazine - June 1920
His election to the Presidency was, however, by a good majority and was generally accepted by the whole Republic.
The election by the masons of the City in 1315-6 of six paviors to repair the pavements (p.
In the sixteenth century there was a general decay of the old craft regulations, those of masonry among them; but there was also a special reason for the standing of a master mason losing its importance.
www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1920_june.htm   (12674 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   (6467 words)

  
 Varenne: On Pedagogical Authority
In the preface to the British edition of the book she explains that the word "we" is not meant to include the people of Great Britain.
She is also self-consciously manipulative of who is to be included in "we, Americans." Readers who bought the book in the United States are included whether they were born "here" or not.
Dewey unapologetically referred back to the "self evident truths" on which earlier generations have founded the political system we still live under, and that many of us continue to invoke when we have noticed that some policy or other is not consistent with them.
varenne.tc.columbia.edu /hv/pol/pedagog_author.html   (6066 words)

  
 Masonic British Columbia Premiers
British Columbia has had thirty-three Premiers since joining Confederation in 1871 — thirteen of them were freemasons.
Resigned after vote of non-confidence (lost legislative support in fall 1875 election).
Resigned after party defeat in September 1916 election but waited until November because of delay in counting soldiers' votes.
freemasonry.bcy.ca /history/bc_premiers.html   (136 words)

  
 Chronology of Sweden (1920-1939)
In the general election, Hjalmar Branting returns as prime minister of a social democratic government.
A totem pole of the G'psgolox is cut down on the northern coast of British Columbia, Canada, by a native agent, and sold to the Stockholm Museum.
In a general election, Per Albin Hansson forms a Social Democrat ministry government in coalition with the Farmers' Union.
www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/swedhis/swed1920.htm   (1806 words)

  
 Books of General Interest
The extreme proliferation of sound ties in with a general impact of today’s cinematic visual systems that turn cinema into a »cinema of visual and aural effects«: Besides the upgrade of sound systems the reception of film is optimised through special effects, usually being produced digitally.
Funds were provided by Columbia Film Productions Asia, Sony’s Hong Kong branch that was set up in order to produce films for the Asian local markets, Sony Picture Classics in New York bought the US distribution, Columbia Pictures in Hollywood endowed the rights for Latin America and Sony Classical provided the funds for the soundtrack.
The Memphis designers also generated a new richness and sensuality of the surface, deriving stylistic elements from ethnological ornament or distilling them from contemporary »everyday« surfaces such as tram steps, computer patterns or the printed forms on which every bureaucratic procedure depends.
www.tc.umn.edu /~peikx001/Book_Pages/BooksGeneralInterest.htm   (15068 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)

  
 NW BIBLIOGRAPHY-BRITISH NORTH AMERICA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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)

  
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However, because of the general network topology assumed, its efficiency is more limited than in the traditional circuit-switched network environment.
For the problem of leader election we present a simple algorithm that uses $O(n)$ ``messages'' and $O(n)$ time.
Networks available to the general public through telephone companies are in the trial stages.
www.cs.columbia.edu /~hgs/bib/net90.bib   (4621 words)

  
 Columbiana’s News Stories: Weeks September 23 - October 9, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As a secular feminist British Lebanese woman who was reading your column out of interest for the American media, I am astounded that a journalist would make such base sweeping generalisations -- the type of ignorant, arrogant, racist generalisations the people you are criticising make.
Yet polls generally show that all three states are competitive, with Kerry a bit ahead in Minnesota, about even in Iowa and a bit behind in Wisconsin--a state some pundits have slipped into the "Leans Bush" category.
Such oil and gas activity generates millions of dollars in profits for companies like Burlington and British Petroleum--and may be reshaping the politics of the Rocky Mountain West in ways that will reverberate in the presidential election this fall.
www.columbiana.org /news_oct3-14a_2004.htm   (14255 words)

  
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These are the results announced by a CEC member on the basis of about 70% of all election protocols.
While it is true, that almost all general decisions were masterminded by Boris III, it is also true that the cabinet and the Prime Minister had some freedom to act and did not consult the King on so many of their actions.
Since the Balkan Wars, which established today's political boundaries, the region of Macedonia is generally understood to include the territory of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, the northern Greek province of the same name, and the Pirin region of Bulgaria, whose provincial capital is Blagoevgrad.
www.cs.columbia.edu /~radev/bulgaria/faq/FAQ-7.txt   (11169 words)

  
 Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » The stupendous Landscape of sting theory vacua
It seems like many pop songs are written in the same 4/4 time signature, with chord progressions fitting into the same sequences of musical notes and scales, usually some minor pentatonic scale (that’s frequently the first scale almost every musician learns when they picked up their first guitar or sat behind their first keyboard/piano).
I would not be surprised if today’s excesses by the aging string theorists will have a similar effect on the next generation.
An analogy would be the difference between the “real revolutionaries” like the Bolsheviks, the Irgun, the solidarity movement in Poland, etc … compared to the “pseudo revolutionaries” like the american hippies from the 1960’s, or the British punk rockers from the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
www.math.columbia.edu /~woit/wordpress/?p=39   (3758 words)

  
 The Butler Era Timeline
Columbia College approves a Bachelor of Science dgree as alternative to the Classics-oriented AB degree
Columbia College drops reading knowledge of Latin as entrance requirement; remaining requirements could be met by attendance at a public high school
Columbia College introduced a year-long Humanities course (Humanities "A"), using many of the books Erskine had used in his Honors Course, and required it of all freshmen.
beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /earlyCU/butler_era_timeline.htm   (1579 words)

  
 Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy -- general news
Columbia, said marijuana is becoming acceptable by all classes of people, pointing to the
As for the Canadian government, Solicitor General Lawrence Macaulay did not respond when asked if Canada is being pressured by U.S. The organization for the reform of marijuana laws says the Americans have a habit of throwing their weight around to influence other country's drug laws.
British Columbia is a major source of marijuana [in the United States].
www.cfdp.ca /general4.htm   (5615 words)

  
 Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 - TOC
Elections BC - Electoral History of British Columbia 1871-1986 - TOC
Statutory History of Election Law in British Columbia 1871-1986
Sessions of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly 1871-1987
www.elections.bc.ca /elections/electoral_history/toc.html   (74 words)

  
 Bibliography of the Baha'i Faith
A brief history of the movement is followed by a general exposition of its teachings, with an emphasis on the fulfilment of prophecy.
[Ireland]: NSA of the Baha'is of the British Isles, n.d.-f.
[Manchester?]: NSA of the Baha'is of the British Isles, 1927.
bahai-library.com /books/biblio/general.introductory.html   (12520 words)

  
 More Canadian Election Fun @ Blogcritics.org
Now that a Candian election is looking imminent, one way or another, I thought perhaps outside observers would like to meet our prime minister and the esteemed leaders of the opposition.
In two of the many scenarios for an election call (if you really want to read about all the possibilities the Globe and Mail breaks it down really well) and the ones they favor most, will see time expire before the energy-rebate bill can get final reading in our Senate.
The result: the governor general, then a direct appointment of the Queen of England was recalled and a new, more amenable replacement was found.
blogcritics.org /archives/2005/11/20/071634.php   (3497 words)

  
 Zionist Israel's Thermonuclear Blackmail Of America
The British had used chemical artillery shells against the Turks at the second battle of Gaza in 1917.
Israel's part was a military success, allowing it to occupy the entire Sinai Peninsula by 4 November, but the French and British canal invasion on 6 November was a political failure.
The Israeli Air Force commanding general issued a statement saying Israel would "consider an attack" if any country gets "close to achieving a nuclear capability."131 The Israelis are obviously considering actions capable of stopping such programs and are buying aircraft such as the F-15I with sufficient operational range.
www.rense.com /general35/isrnuk.htm   (9215 words)

  
 Barnard College Archives--Intriguing Persons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
The last major election that she was involved in was George McGovern’s presidential campaign in 1972.
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)

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