The Patent Commission of the U.S. was created in 1790. Its first three members were Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph. On July 31, 1790 inventor Samuel Hopkins of Pittsford, Vermont became the first person to be issued a patent in the United States. His patented invention was an improvement in the "making of Pot Ash by a new apparatus & process.". The earliest patent law required that ...

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X-Patent, X-Patent - The USPTO and its earliest days, X-Patent - The 1836 fire, X-Patent - Recovery of the X-Patents, X-Patent - A list of some X-Patents

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The Subcommittee on Investigations ordered the inquiry into the matter, which was broadcast live and on television. For the duration of the proceedings, the chair was temporarily relinquished to Karl E. Mundt (Republican, South Dakota). Acting as Special Counsel for the Army was Joseph Welch of the Boston law firm of Hale & Dorr. This was the first nationally televised congressional inquiry, and was broadcast on the new ABC and DuMont networks. The televised hear ...

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Army-McCarthy Hearings, Army-McCarthy Hearings - Background, Army-McCarthy Hearings - The inquiry and its conclusions, Army-McCarthy Hearings - The famous exchange

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The dancers and choreographers associated with it included George Balanchine, Mathilde Kschessinska, Michel Fokine, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, Alicia Markova, Leonide Massine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein and Lydia Lopokova. Designers included Bakst, Benois, Braque, Picasso, Bilibin, Tchelitchev, and Utrillo. Composers included Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Richard Strauss, and, most notably, Igor Stravinsky, whom Diaghi ...

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Ballets Russes, Ballets Russes - The ballet company and its composers, Ballets Russes - Principal productions, Ballets Russes - End of the Diaghilev era

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A conservative by nature, Brutus never concealed his convictions. He married Porcia Catones who was his first cousin and a daughter of Cato, and wrote a text praising his deceased father-in-law's qualities. Caesar was very fond of him and respected his opinions. However, Brutus, like many other senators, was not satisfied with the state of the Republic. Caesar had been made dictator for life and approved legislation to concentrate power in his own hands. Together with his friend and brother-in-law Cassius and other men, Brutus started to con ...

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Marcus Junius Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus - Background, Marcus Junius Brutus - Caesar's assassination and its aftermath, Marcus Junius Brutus - Chronology, Marcus Junius Brutus - Later evaluations of Brutus

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Obviously, many non-Muslims regard the incident as implausible a priori. However, while most scholars accept that Muhammad claimed to have made this trip, a few dispute this as well. John Wansbrough (a leading exponent of extreme scepticism regarding early Islamic sources, best known for his idea that the Qur'an was compiled only 200 years after Muhammad's death), for instance, argues that the entire story of the Isra and Mir’aj constitutes later Islamic scriptural exegesis designed to explain away the vagueness of ayah 17:1 ...

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Isra and Mi'raj, Isra and Mi'raj - Controversy over its historicity, Isra and Mi'raj - The term Masjid al-Aqsa in the Qur'an, Isra and Mi'raj - External references

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The most distinctive feature of the headwaters of the Little Ouse and the Waveney is the valley in which they flow; the Little Ouse westwards and the Waveney, eastwards. It has a broad, fenny bottom, lies at an altitude of up to 26 metres and both rivers rise in the fen alongside the B1113 road, between South Lopham and Redgrave. (See map). The explanation of this oddity is that the valley was formed, not by these rivers but by water spilling from Lake Fenland. This was a periglacial lake of the Devensian glacial, fifteen or twenty thousand ...

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River Little Ouse, River Little Ouse - Its origin, River Little Ouse - Flood precautions, River Little Ouse - Footnote

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Currently, PTV can be received via satellite in South Asia, East Asia and in the Middle East. Selected programming can be seen on Prime TV in the United Kingdom, across Europe and the United States. Today PTV is split up into the original channel feed, a 24-hour news channel (PTV World News) which can be viewed in many parts of the globe, Channel 3 (broadcasting family-friendly programming), PTV National (with an emphasis in broadcasting programmes in different languages to rep ...

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Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Television Corporation - History, Pakistan Television Corporation - PTV TODAY and its channels, Pakistan Television Corporation - Footnotes

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From a geological perspective, the Iron Range includes: Mesabi Range, largely within Itasca and St. Louis counties; Vermilion Range, northeast of the Mesabi, in St. Louis and Lake counties; Gunflint Range is in the extreme northern portion of Cook County and extends into Canada; and Cuyuna Range, southwest of the Mesabi, largely within Crow Wing County. The size of the Mesabi Range leads many Minnesotans to equate it directly wi ...

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In 1980, Hollywood executives approached him with the idea of a movie about his life. The film, Raging Bull, was a huge success both for director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro, who gained about 60 pounds (27 kg) during the shooting of the film, to play the older, corpulent, broken-down LaMotta in the scenes of LaMotta's later life. The movie depicted a violent and problematic LaMotta who once even went as far as beating his own brother, manager Joey LaMotta, accusing him and his wife ...

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Jake LaMotta, Jake LaMotta - Boxing records, Jake LaMotta - Early life, Jake LaMotta - Film about his early life and its effects, Jake LaMotta - Later life

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On April 12, 1966 Jan was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident, resulting in severe head injuries. Earlier that month, Berry had separated from his girlfriend of seven years, singer-artist Jill Gibson, later a member for a short time of The Mamas and the Papas who had co-written many songs with Jan. As a result of Berry's accident, Jan & Dean did not perform again until the mid-1970s. Jan traveled a long and diffi ...

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Jan and Dean, Jan and Dean - Beginnings, Jan and Dean - Surf's golden boys, Jan and Dean - Jan's car wreck and its aftermath, Jan and Dean - Miscellany

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Currently, Billboard uses a system called Nielsen Soundscan to track sales of singles as well as different genres of albums. Essentially, it's a system that registers sales when the album or single is purchased at the cash register of SoundScan-enabled stores. Billboard also uses a system called Broadcast Data Systems or BDS, which they own as a subsidiary, to track radio airplay. Essentially, each song has something like a fingerprint. When it is played on a radio station that is contracted to use BDS, a detection is made. These detections are added up ...

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Billboard magazine, Billboard magazine - History, Billboard magazine - Radio countdown programs, Billboard magazine - Billboard today, Billboard magazine - Methodology of its charts, Billboard magazine - Corporate ownership, Billboard magazine - A variety of charts, Billboard magazine - At year's end, Billboard magazine - Billboard Charts, Billboard magazine - Singles & Tracks, Billboard magazine - Albums, Billboard magazine - Home Videos

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Based on the genealogies in Genesis and later parts of the Bible, both religious Jews and Christians have independently worked backwards to find the implied time of the Creation of the world, around the beginning of the 4th millennium BC. This dating is based on a literal reading of the creation account and the bases that the six days in which God created the heavens and the earth were 24-hour days, that Adam, Eve, and the Garden of Eden existed, and that a complete trace of events from Creation to a ...

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Genesis, Genesis - Introduction, Genesis - Authorship, Genesis - Historical placement of its content, Genesis - Christian views, Genesis - Main themes, Genesis - Summary, Genesis - Creation, Genesis - Adam and Eve, Genesis - Noah and the great flood, Genesis - Abram and Sarai, Genesis - Abram and Melchizedek, Genesis - Hagar and Ishmael, Genesis - Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis - The birth of Isaac, Genesis - The near sacrifice of Isaac, Genesis - Esau and Jacob, Genesis - Jacob wrestles with God, Genesis - Joseph the dreamer

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Shi`ites [from Arab shi`a sectary]

Moslems are divided into two main groups: the Sunnites, the most numerous, who accept the orthodox tradition (sunna), basing their beliefs on the words of the Koran); and the Shi`ites who uphold `Ali as the representative of Allah, and reject the pronouncements of the other caliphs. The shi`ites are located principally in Iran, although they are represented throughout the Moslem world. They incline towards interpreting the Koran, rather than holding to the letter of the law as do the Sunnites.

(See also: Shi`ites, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary)

Shi'ites

Followers of Islam who believe spirituality passed only thru the Prophet's family, beginning with Ali, his son-in-law

(See also: Shi'ites, Body Mind and Soul)

Definition and meaning of internal transcribed spacer, ITS:

internal transcribed spacer (ITS) - a sequence of RNA in a primary transcript that lies between precursor ribosomal subunits and is removed by splicing when the structural RNA precursor molecule is processed into a ribosome. These sequences are coded by ribosomal DNA. Eukaryotic organisms have two internal transcribed spacers; ITS-1 is located between the 18S gene and the 5.8S gene, and ITS-2 is located between the 5.8S and the 28S gene. Ribosomal genes and spacers occur in tandem repeats that are thousands of copies long. The ITS region is widely used in molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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