Najaf's founding as a city dates back to 791, when the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid supposedly passed through during a hunt. |
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He is generally considered to be the founding father of the animal liberation movement and has turned quite a few meat eaters into vegetarians. |
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The founding principle of human culture in general is exchange, transforming hostility into reciprocity. |
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We shouldn't be tinkering with the checks and balances our founding fathers put in this constitution. |
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The Bab said that a greater manifestation would appear 19 years after the founding of Babism. |
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The Saatchi advertising and point of sale material bears witness to the trust and passion between the 40 founding friends. |
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This is the same advice the organization has been offering since its founding back in the Age of Aquarius. |
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That's an utterly inaccurate reading of the great documents of the founding of this nation. |
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Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive. |
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The watch commemorates the 116th anniversary of the founding of the Taiwanese railway system. |
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He is considered one of the founding fathers of Africanism, a philosophy that espoused an almost militant pride in blackness. |
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Gonzalez is a founding member of Taino del Norte, an organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Taino culture. |
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Limited government is a cornerstone of America's political institutions and is tightly yoked to the country's founding ideology. |
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All founding supporters will be listed in a specially designed book which will have pride of place in the Courthouse entrance. |
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To control for the professional experience of the firm's founding team, I calculated the mean age for the set of founders for each law firm. |
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Its founding in 1906 represented the first step by British workers towards their own independent political party. |
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The original treaty and policies were framed to accommodate the concerns of the founding states, particularly France and Germany. |
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The gallery recently hosted a one-man exhibition of works by the founding member of the rock group Jefferson Airplane. |
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The universality, the sacredness, and the divine origin of freedom are enshrined in our founding document. |
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He prophesies the founding of Rome, after several generations of Trojan descendants are born in Italy. |
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The day also commemorates the founding of the Khalsa by the tenth guru, Guru Govind Singh. |
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But human rights are not trifling matters and the EU, if it is to remain true to its founding principles, must not gloss over such matters. |
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The founding act of this recoding is the repositioning of the tribal object as art. |
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The founding of elementary schools, academies, and universities was an important part of the reform movement. |
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To Bashir Nafi, Arabism is the critical, founding component of Arab nationalism. |
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The area developed with the founding of the town of Katoomba in the 1860s to supply quarried ballast to the railways. |
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Indeed, some of the founding organisations have left the alliance and struck out once again into glorious, and useless, isolation. |
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The words and terms of art used at the time can be interpreted by what they meant under Common Law at the time of founding. |
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According to the registrar of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in the founding year of 1897, names and descriptions of courses are not given. |
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Our founding fathers made this a republic and not a democracy because they feared the mob. |
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An isolated population is a group of individuals who are descended from a founding population who lived some time ago. |
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In Philadelphia, for example, students rallied at the Liberty Bell where they dressed up like the founding fathers for a dramatic reading of the Declaration. |
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That is really a scary thought when you think about our founding fathers. |
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A supine Congress like the present one is rapidly eroding the American founding fathers' vision of a legislature keeping the executive branch on a tight leash. |
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The Risorgimento was made into Italy's founding myth, its narrative carefully doctored to hide the bitter rifts that had in reality separated the moderates and the democrats. |
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But the practice of realism defined the founding generation of the state fully as much as the ideal of self-reliance. |
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Vaisakh, in April, marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year and also is of special importance for Sikhs, since it commemorates the founding of the Sikh Khalsa. |
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These cultural processes have been present in the creation of visual representation in the United States since its founding, beginning with colonial portraiture. |
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Zach Weisberg, the founding editor of The inertia, a surf culture website, covered the U.S. Open of Surfing. |
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As a founding member of JStreet, Peratis could have left her stereotypical beliefs about settlers for once on stand-by mode. |
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Dix, a founding member of the RCP, spoke in a flowing diatribe as we walked amid the crowd that night. |
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Legal institutions brought over from England at the founding of the colonies defined all these dependent relationships and powerful religious traditions sanctified them. |
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From the founding of Botany Bay to 1967, the punishment was administered as the ultimate penalty of the law, in great frequency during the convict era but much less so later. |
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The BRICS Bank looks, for all its founding rhetoric, like a platform for Chinese hegemony instead. |
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Henry Tudor, who had a weak claim to the throne, became Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty. |
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The Archduchess Sabine von Wuerttemberg is credited with founding the University of Wuerttemberg-Moempelgard and the Hotel de Kunigunde, a hospital for women. |
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By questioning established authority, founding new colleges, and revivifying evangelical zeal, it helped to prepare the revolutionary generation in America. |
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However in 1820 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in the same year he was a major influence in founding the Royal Astronomical Society. |
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Since its founding in 1997 as a workspace and gallery, the Space, as it's called, has helped nurture careers for just about every artist affiliated with it. |
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Cirque du Soleil obviously sprang to startling success with a variety of shows since its 1987 founding. |
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But they also bequeathed to us a founding racism that we have found it almost impossible to jettison. |
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From its founding in 1914, The New Republic has been the flagship and forum of American liberalism. |
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Photojournalist ana Lira is from the northeastern city of Recife and a founding member of Urban Rights. |
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While the founding figure looms large, the franchise is firmly in the hands of second-generation leadership. |
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The founding discovery of modernism has often been defined as the detachability of art from representation, from mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of unproblematic imitation. |
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Now, he is concentrating his energies on hip-hop, producing his own videos, distributing white labels, mixtapes and founding his Illa State label. |
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I was privileged to be a colleague of its midwife and founding editor, Susan McHenry, now our editorial director, when she was formulating ideas for it. |
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Hermann Julius Oberth, who was born on June 25, 1894, in the Transylvanian town of Hermannstadt, is considered a founding father of rocketry and astronautics. |
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Mr. Hindson decided to supplement his then earnings as an insulation contractor by founding a business reconditioning and selling on electrical goods. |
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Soon, for the first time since its 1914 founding, the magazine stopped publishing unsigned editorials. |
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Current members include the four founding ones, namely, Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. |
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The 11 founding members were Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. |
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The 10 founding members were Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. |
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The founding members of the EFTA were Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. |
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The European Coal and Steel Community ceased to exist in 2002 when its founding treaty expired. |
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Kinnego being is headquarters and founding station It is a voluntary service funded by the district councils bordering the Lough. |
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Each member state is party to the founding treaties of the union and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. |
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Tokyo was also a founding member of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. |
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By 1950, with the founding of the modern welfare state, the 'shopping basket' measurement had been abandoned. |
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In 1867, Nova Scotia became one of the four founding provinces of the Canadian Confederation. |
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Among names associated with the founding period of Methodism in India are Elijah Hoole and Thomas Cryer, who came as missionaries to Madras. |
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This led in 962 to the founding of the Holy Roman Empire, which eventually became centred in the German principalities of central Europe. |
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World Health Day falls on 7 April each year, timed to match the anniversary of WHO's founding. |
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The United Kingdom has been a leading member of the United Nations since its founding. |
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This was arguably the founding organization for the German Expressionist movement, though they did not use the word itself. |
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Charles McEwen Hyde influenced the founding of the Saint Damien Advocates in Hawaii. |
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He became a founding director, publicist, and in due course a contributor, mostly anonymously. |
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Rushdie was involved in the Occupy Movement, both as a presence at Occupy Boston and as a founding member of Occupy Writers. |
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With the departure of the founding members, the band made several small changes to their image and sound. |
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The three people largely responsible for the founding of the National Portrait Gallery are commemorated with busts over the main entrance. |
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In 1966, he played a role in founding Wolfson College, Oxford, and became its first President. |
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The IRFU was a founding member of the International Rugby Football Board, now known as World Rugby, in 1886 with Scotland and Wales. |
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Recreational diving started in Ireland in the early 1950s with the founding of the Belfast Branch of the British Sub Aqua Club. |
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From Syria, the Romans invaded western parts of the region several times, briefly founding Assyria Provincia in Assyria. |
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Adal's history from this founding period forth would be characterized by a succession of battles with neighbouring Abyssinia. |
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The date of the agreement, July 11, 1889, is recognized as the founding of the city. |
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The founding of Perth Academy in 1760 helped to bring major industries, such as linen, leather, bleach and whisky, to the city. |
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It is also a founding member of the Mercosur block, having Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela as partners. |
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Television in Brazil began officially on 18 September 1950, with the founding of TV Tupi by Assis Chateaubriand. |
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Of particular significance was the founding of Charles University in Prague in 1348, Charles Bridge, Charles Square. |
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Indonesia maintains close relationships with its neighbours in Asia, and is a founding member of ASEAN and the East Asia Summit. |
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Rather, the motivation behind the founding of colonies was piecemeal and variable. |
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After its founding, other settlers traveled from England to join the colony. |
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The club had twelve founding members of whom five were known to Robert Burns, and two were once his close friends. |
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Other founding fathers like James Madison had no ancestral connection but were imbued with ideas drawn from Scottish moral philosophy. |
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Among the most famous Scottish American soldier frontiersmen were Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, founding father of Texas. |
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Another member of the founding committee, Henry Brock, became the Bank's first manager. |
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Traditionally, William is credited with founding Arbroath Abbey, the site of the later Declaration of Arbroath. |
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Five of these clubs were, at the time of founding the Scottish Football Union, already members of the previously instituted Rugby Football Union. |
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Two of GIP's founding investors in its first fund, GIP I, were Credit Suisse and General Electric. |
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Belgium is also a founding member of the Eurozone, NATO, OECD and WTO, and a part of the trilateral Benelux Union. |
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Belgium joined NATO as a founding member and formed the Benelux group of nations with the Netherlands and Luxembourg. |
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Offa was a generous patron of the church, founding several churches and monasteries, often dedicated to St Peter. |
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The River Dee was the traditional boundary of the Kingdom of Gwynedd in Wales for centuries, possibly since its founding in the 5th century. |
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The founding members of the rock band Stereophonics originated from the nearby village of Cwmaman. |
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The theme of the fair was technological innovation over the century since Chicago's founding. |
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During the middle ages, herring prompted the founding of Great Yarmouth, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. |
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Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. |
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It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding member institutions of the former federal University of Wales. |
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He became renowned as a teacher and preacher, founding monastic settlements and churches in Wales, Dumnonia, and Brittany. |
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One theory put forth is that it entered the Americas with the initial founding population. |
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In 1759, the founding of the Guinness brewery resulted in a considerable economic gain for the city. |
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On 12 November 2003, the region's founding company Gwent Rugby Ltd entered into administration. |
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Swansea's first ever competitive fixture following their founding in 1912 was against Cardiff in the Southern Football League. |
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He was also instrumental in founding The First Tee, a charity helping underprivileged children become acquainted with the game of golf. |
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Another founding part of BBC Two was to provide educational and community programming on the BBC, as part of its public service remit. |
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On 19 June 2005, founding member Mike Chiplin left the group to pursue other musical opportunities. |
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In 1945, Norway, Denmark and Iceland were founding members of the United Nations. |
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France is a founding member of the United Nations and serves as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council with veto rights. |
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Postwar French foreign policy has been largely shaped by membership of the European Union, of which it was a founding member. |
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Expo '98 took place in Portugal and in 1999 it was one of the founding countries of the euro and the eurozone. |
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His successors moved further, founding the early East Slavic state of Kievan Rus' with the capital in Kiev. |
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The exact founding date of Emden is unknown, but it has existed at least since the 8th century. |
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The Aeneid and Livy's early history are the best extant sources for Rome's founding myths. |
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Both routes may have been taken, although the genetic evidences suggests a single founding population. |
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It has additionally been amongst the most selective colleges in the United States since its founding. |
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Greek colonies were not politically controlled by their founding cities, although they often retained religious and commercial links with them. |
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In 1791 27 districts were created to replace the role of the three founding districts. |
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John Reith, who had been the founding managing director of the commercial company, became the first Director General. |
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With the founding of the Republic of China, Standard Mandarin was designated as the official language, based on the spoken language of Beijing. |
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As the Union of South Africa, the country was a founding member of the United Nations. |
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Gregory is commonly credited with founding the medieval papacy and so many attribute the beginning of medieval spirituality to him. |
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 led to the founding of the Soviet Union under the Bolsheviks, and subsequent civil war in Russia. |
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Apart from the military endeavours, Charles is considered to be a founding figure of the European Middle Ages. |
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Following the Second World War, Iceland was a founding member of both the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
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The founding territories retained their separate governance codes and laws. |
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The publication in 1835 of the Finnish national epic, Kalevala, was a founding stone of Finnish nationalism and ethnogenesis. |
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Lenin believed that the USSR would never overtake the developed world if it remained as technologically backward as it was upon its founding. |
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The first of the Conferences was held in 1861, just twenty-five years after the founding of the first deaconess house at Kaiserwerth. |
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Since its founding in 1970, Greenpeace has borne witness against environmental injustice through numerous non-violent direct actions. |
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With the founding of the Royal Society in 1660, science was greatly encouraged. |
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The earliest Welsh genealogies give Maximus the role of founding father for several royal dynasties, including those of Powys and Gwent. |
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Members of a Germanic tribe told tales about the exploits of heroic founding figures who were more or less mythologized. |
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These first established the European Community and the EU, and then made amendments to those founding treaties. |
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James IV put the enterprise on a new footing, founding a harbour at Newhaven and a dockyard at the Pools of Airth. |
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From 787 on, decrees began to circulate recommending the restoration of old schools and the founding of new ones across the empire. |
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By 304 BC, the Romans had effectively annexed the greater degree of the Samnite territory, founding several colonies. |
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Claudius organised a performance of the Secular Games, marking the 800th anniversary of the founding of Rome. |
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In his speech on Gallic senators, he uses a version of the founding of Rome identical to that of Livy, his tutor in adolescence. |
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The founding of a Roman temple to Claudius at Camulodunum was one of the impositions that led to the revolt of Boudica. |
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The city has become a founding National Science City with the creation of a science park near the University of York. |
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As Saint Patrick was the founding bishop of the Irish church, the symbol may have become associated with him. |
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Tudor assumed the throne as Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty and bringing the Plantagenet line of kings to an end. |
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Edward rewarded Henry by including him as a founding knight of the Order of the Garter. |
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The founding of the sanctuary at Braurona is related to the myths of Iphigenia and her brother, Orestes. |
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The success of these voyages led to the founding of a number of companies competing for the trade. |
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After Champlain's founding of Quebec City in 1608, it became the capital of New France. |
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After the founding, the duke gave part of the colony to proprietors George Carteret and John Berkeley. |
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The Statute of Westminster 1931, as a fundamental founding document of the organisation, laid out that membership required dominionhood. |
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When the last Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, died in 1603, King James VI of Scotland came to power as King James I, founding the Stuart monarchy. |
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On 9 May 1867 Thomas Hogg and James Hogg from Skelton introduced football to South America in Argentina, founding Buenos Aires Football Club. |
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Intellectual life was marked by scholasticism, a philosophy that emphasised joining faith to reason, and by the founding of universities. |
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In 2007, the city celebrated the 800th anniversary of the founding of the borough of Liverpool, for which a number of events were planned. |
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Some see the key event as the Dutch East India Company's founding in 1602, while others point to earlier developments. |
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The Tory Reform Committee, consisting of 45 Conservative MPs, demanded the founding of a Ministry of Social Security immediately. |
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In 1714, George I, a German Hanoverian prince, ascended to the British throne, founding the British House of Hanover. |
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It is a founding member of the Developing 8, along with Turkey, Malaysia, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia. |
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The resolution marked the denomination's first formal acknowledgment that racism played a role in its founding. |
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In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a royal charter in the same year. |
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King's College London is a constituent college and was one of the two founding members of the federal University of London. |
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King's is a participant and one of the founding members of the Francis Crick Institute. |
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Each house also has a letter assigned to it, in the order of their founding, to act as an abbreviation, especially on laundry tags. |
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Several of these old menhirs exist in Qohaito, Eritrea, and date to a period before the founding of the Kingdom of Axum. |
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This increased population contributed to the founding of new towns and an increase in industrial and economic activity during the period. |
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As an ancestor figure, he compares to Dyfnwal Hen, who is likewise attributed with founding kingly lines in the Hen Ogledd. |
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Croft's founding organisation is called the Original London Pearly Kings and Queens Association. |
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This was followed by gifts from other founding members, such as Gainsborough and Benjamin West. |
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After founding the Friars Minor and seeing a need, Francis created the Secular Franciscan Order, also known as Brothers and Sisters of Penance. |
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Significantly, Milton began with an attempt at writing an epic on King Arthur, for that was the matter of English national founding. |
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In 1696 Harley advocated the founding of a Land Bank that would serve the agriculture interest as the Bank of England served the monied interest. |
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As one of the founding members of United Artists, Chaplin also had a role in the development of the film industry. |
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From 1963 to 1973 he was the founding director of Britain's National Theatre, running a resident company that fostered many future stars. |
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The founding members were Italy, Romania, Netherlands, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden. |
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By 1888, the club had become a founding member of The Combination, a regional football league. |
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The oak leaves represent the 15 founding members of the club who met at the Royal Oak pub. |
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The 15 laurel leaves represent the design detail on the six pence pieces paid by the founding fathers to establish the club. |
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Two of Dial Square's founding members, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, were former Forest players who had moved to Woolwich for work. |
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It was formed in 1974, by representatives of the original fifteen founding members. |
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At the time of its founding in the early 11th century the Republic of Genoa consisted of the city of Genoa and the surrounding areas. |
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In the founding year, six other states joined, only two of which remained members throughout the League's existence. |
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Since its founding, there have been many calls for reform of the UN but little consensus on how to do so. |
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The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a founding member state of the European Union. |
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However, during the founding meetings of the new organization, this Greek word was not invoked, so this explanation may have been imagined later. |
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However, the founding EEC members remained skeptical regarding Ireland's economic capacity, neutrality, and unattractive protectionist policy. |
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On 5 May 1964, the 15th anniversary of its founding, the Council of Europe established 5 May as Europe Day. |
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In the 9th century, Vikings began raiding and founding settlements along Ireland's coasts and waterways, which became its first large towns. |
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David also continued his predecessor Alexander's patronage of the Augustinians, founding Holyrood Abbey with monks from Merton Priory. |
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Modern Irish nationalism with democratic aspirations began in the 1790s with the founding of the Society of the United Irishmen. |
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In Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, much time is spent on the early history of Rome, and on the founding of the city itself. |
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In Sallust's histories, the founding and early history of Rome is almost reduced to a single sentence. |
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Switzerland is a founding member of the EFTA, but is not a member of the European Economic Area. |
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During the parade of nations Greece is always called first, as the founding nation of the ancient precursor of modern Olympics. |
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Orthodox missionaries also worked successfully among the Estonians from the 10th to the 12th centuries, founding the Estonian Orthodox Church. |
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Although Sturm was the founding abbot of Fulda, Boniface was very involved in the foundation. |
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The national folklore of many nations includes a founding myth, which may involve a struggle against colonialism or a war of independence. |
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Such reasoning dates back to the founding of the League of Nations and, later, the United Nations. |
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Some Rouran under Tatar Khan migrated east, founding the Tatar confederation, who became part of the Shiwei. |
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Of the various collateral patrilines, the senior in order of descent from the founding ancestor, the line of eldest sons, was the most noble. |
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The first attributes the founding of the city to the mythological Hercules. |
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In 2008, the country joined the Union of South American Nations as a founding member. |
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Prominent Malaysian artist Syed Thajudeen visually depicted the epic tale of the founding of Malacca on canvas. |
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Its founding datu, Puti, had purchased land for his new realms from the aboriginal Ati hero, Marikudo. |
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On October 11, 1945, the Philippines became one of the founding members of the United Nations. |
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As a founding and active member of the United Nations, the Philippines has been elected several times into the Security Council. |
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An increase of settlement saw the founding of 30 municipalities in the 18th century and 34 in the 19th. |
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Despite this, at first he thought staying and founding a city would serve well for his honor. |
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The conquerors set off to the rest of the empire, founding cities and overpowering their people. |
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Jauja, which flourished for a short time, was once the capital of Spanish Peru, prior to the founding of Lima as the new capital. |
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Other founding families created enterprises based on textiles and such traditional Huguenot occupations in France. |
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The community and its congregation remain active to this day, with descendants of many of the founding families still living in the region. |
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The name of Canada has been in use since the founding of the French colony of Canada in the 16th century. |
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Tasmania was the founding place of the first environmental party in the world. |
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Dunning's thesis is that modern Russia begins in 1613 with the founding of the Romanov dynasty. |
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Even by the time of the founding of Lawrence in 1845, there were questions being raised about its viability. |
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The Hague, with the court, was an early example, where artists split into two groups in 1656 with the founding of the Confrerie Pictura. |
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The history of these peoples is sketchy and it is not known when the first settlements were founding in the region. |
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Later other orders arrived, founding monasteries but they did not evangelize the indigenous. |
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Pentecostal conversions surged during the 1950s and 1960s, when native Brazilians began founding autonomous churches. |
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The Episcopal Church was a founding member of the Consultation on Church Union and participates in its successor, Churches Uniting in Christ. |
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The 1889 Declaration of Utrecht is one of three founding documents together called the Convention of Utrecht. |
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The treasurer was Henry Thornton and the founding secretary was Thomas Scott, a biblical commentator. |
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As the founding story, it is covered in the schools, memorialized by a national holiday, and commemorated in innumerable monuments. |
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The founding of the Reformed Episcopal Church followed a 1873 controversy about ecumenical activity. |
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Within six months of its founding in 1873, the REC grew to about 1,500 communicants, two bishops and 15 other ministers. |
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Many of the Canadian Reformed Episcopal Churches joined the United Church at its founding. |
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George David Cummins, the founding bishop of the REC, was the son of a slaveholder. |
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Mason Gallagher, one founding minister, argued that the true episcopate had come through the 1785 line of evangelicals. |
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Much academic discussion occurs over the circumstances and times of their founding. |
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As the British crown took control of type founding in 1637 printers fled to the Netherlands. |
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The founding Goryeo dynasty ruled until 1392, succeeded by the Joseon, which ruled for approximately 500 years. |
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At this point Darby decided to leave the brass company and concentrate on his iron founding pursuits. |
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The founding of this body was major step in the development of an indigenous Indian coal sector. |
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In the postwar period Belgium was a leader in European unification, as a founding member of what has become the European Union. |
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The terrible conditions helped to fuel rebellions that led to the founding of the Ming dynasty. |
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Cromwell capitalised on that phrase, abolishing both upon founding the Commonwealth of England. |
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Its founding came about as a result of King James II's wish that Scotland have two Universities, to equal Oxford and Cambridge of England. |
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Daniel has been credited with founding the first Moscow monasteries, dedicated to the Lord's Epiphany and to Saint Daniel. |
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The monasteries helped develop vast sheep farms and the founding of drove roads, which can still be seen and walked today. |
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The use of the moor by the military has been a major concern of the DPA since its founding. |
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Acropyga spp. ants show obligate trophophoresy with mealybugs, in which newly mated queens carry a mealybug with them when founding new colonies. |
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The Abbassid dynasty took over the caliphate in 750 AD, founding Baghdad as its capital and as a centre of knowledge and learning. |
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Since founding The Well-Heeled Society blog six years ago, Bennett has amassed an international readership and subscriber base. |
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Elie Abu Aoun, a founding member of human rights group ALEF, blamed violence on a lack of communication between various segments of society. |
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Among them were 72 letters written by Frenchman RenAe Descartes, the founding genius of modern philosophy and analytic geometry. |
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Brennan was a retired Nurse Anesthetist and a founding member of the New England branch of the Nurse Anesthetist Assoc. |
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This year is the centenary of the founding of the Parliamentary Labour Party with Keir Hardie as its first chair. |
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But these insurgent parties often quickly backslid on their founding principles when it became politic to do so. |
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Vigdor served as lead investor and founding Chariman of the Board of Fort Lauderdale-based Balize, Inc. |
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He is also the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Creed, of which he is a founding member. |
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McMordie, the bass guitarist and founding member of the punk bank Stiff Little Fingers, now runs his own Ali McMordie Tour Management business. |
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Armstrong, who died in 1971 and was known as Satchmo, is widely recognized as a founding father of jazz. |
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The four founding fathers are believed to be Jack Hughes, William H Price, George Matthews and William H Scattergood. |
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He had worked for Monsanto, Masonite and PPG before founding Crop Pro-Tech, one of the nation's largest independent crop consulting firms. |
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Since its founding in 1993, MCL Fresh has been a major supplier of specialty produce to both retail and foodservice. |
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Since its founding in 2008, FSFMI has been dedicated to supporting individuals and families coping with mental illnesses. |
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Looking pack on the development of MFM 12 years ago, Landry, the organization's founding executive director, admits it was an ambitious project. |
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Prior to founding Sniglet, Brown directed product introduction of the Apple Macintosh computer line. |
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Before founding A10, Chert was co-founder of Foundry Networks and Centillion Networks. |
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Namira is the only Pakistani founding member of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, the world's first private space line. |
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Booty Luv comprises Cherise Roberts and Nadia Shepherd who began their careers as two of the founding members of Big Brovas. |
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Our lineage at The Toggery goes back to the founding in 1948 of a better children's store on Kavanaugh. |
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Chiru, who is a founding member of the band, created the group in 2009 with a few musicians who belonged to the same church. |
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New Democratic Party of Japan leader Banri Kaieda, one of the founding members of the party's predecessor in 1996, is an expert on the economy. |
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Like many founding legends, the Scottish version is larded with myth. |
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Cogman has served as a senior counselor with PulsePoint Group since the firm's founding. |
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Vieau and his team at Turning Point learned this again in the early years after the organization's 2003 founding. |
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Tall and imposing, with gray hair and a warm smile, Smiley is well known in Arkansas for founding Systematics Inc. |
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With the founding of micro systems and microprocessor technology, informatics was added as main part to the definition of Mechatronics. |
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Despite this, he became a founding member of the West Waterford Old IRA association. |
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Robert Cleland of Crail, a founding member, is believed to have been related to the author. |
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He is a founding member and currently the Executive Director of the Association of California Cremationists. |
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He worked as an optometric physician at Family Vision Center for 42 years, where he was a founding partner. |
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This future Saint Margaret of Scotland was a member of the royal House of Wessex which had occupied the English throne from its founding until the Norman Conquest. |
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Since 1889, the Federal Charter of 1291 among the rural communes of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden has been considered the founding document of the confederacy. |
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In the decades following unification, Italy started to create colonies in Africa, and under Benito Mussolini's fascism conquered Ethiopia founding in 1936 the Italian Empire. |
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The former in 27 BC became princeps civitatis and got the title of Augustus, founding the principate, a diarchy between the princeps and the senate. |
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Even one of its founding members has accused its slain athiest editor Patrick Charbonnier of dragging the team down by releasing increasingly provocative and racist cartoons. |
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Upon the death of Mian, there apparently was little question that a member of the founding three abbots would succeed Luang Por Yai to the abbotship. |
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In 1945, the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the United Nations organization, part of a special agreement at the Yalta Conference. |
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The history of Lancashire begins with its founding in the 12th century. |
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Of course, circumstances have changed unrecognizably since then, Libya's founding fathers embarked on a mission to dismantle the barriers created by foreign colonialists. |
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Beverly Guy-Sheftall, founding director of the Women's Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies at Spelman. |
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Beckham is a founding member of the Malaria No More UK Leadership Council and helped launch the charity in 2009 with Andy Murray at Wembley Stadium. |
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Pride of place goes here to Dionysius the Areopagite, anachronously treated before Augustine, in recognition of his status as founding father of the tradition. |
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A founding member of Dykes Can Dance, a troupe that stages interventions at New York clubs, Samson shares music duties, makes art, and choreographs the stage show. |
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Heaton, a founding member of Embrace, is also the manager of an up-and-coming Leeds band, Anechoic, as well as mentoring a number of bands in the Yorkshire area. |
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Millions left the British Isles, with the founding settler populations of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand coming mainly from Britain and Ireland. |
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Even now, when the rest of Canada celebrates the founding of the country on July 1, many Newfoundlanders take part in solemn ceremonies of remembrance. |
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As World War I neared its end, Lithuania's Act of Independence was signed on 16 February 1918, declaring the founding of the modern Republic of Lithuania. |
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In addition to that, all founding members of the League were national societies from countries of the Entente or from associated partners of the Entente. |
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