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... Bush had become the President of the United States and had rejected the Kyoto Protocol in March 2001 as a result the United States delegation to this meeting declined to participate in the negotiations ... Flexible Mechanisms The "flexibility" mechanisms which the United States had strongly favored when the Protocol was initially put together, including emissions trading Joint ...
... See also Intelligent Design and Creation science In the United States some religious communities have refused to accept naturalistic explanations and tried to counter them ... states passed laws against the teaching of evolution in public schools, as upheld in the Scopes Trial ... omitted entirely from school textbooks in most of the United States until the 1960s ...
... Volunteer Infantry The 1st U.S.V.I ... Volunteer Infantry Authorized at Rock Island prisoner camp, Illinois, October, 1864, as a one-year regiment, the 2nd U.S.V.I ... Volunteer Infantry The 3rd U.S.V.I ...
... an act of Congress of March 3, 1863 authorized the award of brevet rank to officers of the United States Volunteers ... Because of the existence of both Regular Army and United States Volunteers ranks and the possibility that an officer could hold actual and brevet ranks in both services, some general and other ... Mackenzie was a brevet major general of volunteers, an actual, full rank brigadier general of volunteers, a brevet brigadier general in the United States Regular Army, and an ...
... The Thirtieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of ... of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1840 ...
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“In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad about the whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“There was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praisworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Mr. Christian, it is about time for many people to begin to come to the White House to discuss different phases of the coal strike. When anybody comes, if his special problem concerns the state, refer him to the governor of Pennsylvania. If his problem has a national phase, refer him to the United States Coal Commission. In no event bring him to me.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)