Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.
As salvers went out of fashion, almost all were melted for bullion, and a chapter in Jewish history was nearly forgotten.
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This year, Sinclair's summer session had the highest enrollment in the school's nearly 125-year history, with 13, 041 students enrolled, a 3% increase over last year.
For all these reasons, Europe may soon be in for another of the horrific cataclysms that have plagued it for nearly all of recorded history.
For as challenging a decade as the 2000s were for New Orleans, the 2010s may prove to be the brightest time in the city's nearly 300-year history.
This week, the Federal Housing Administration reported that it has exhausted its reserves, possibly requiring a bailout from U.S. taxpayers for the first time ever in its nearly 80-year history.
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Since Linear has been focused pretty much exclusively in its nearly 30-year history as an analog company, you know, over that 30 years we've gotten to be very, very good at analog.
With nearly 1000 years of history, pomp, and furnishings, plus special exhibitions, Windsor Castle is a fun 1-2 hour tour, with free self-guided audio, especially if you catch the changing of the guard ceremony.
These items and collections come from across the country, span nearly 1000 years of history and embody the pivotal moments and periods that have shaped the UK. Discover these items and collections here.
These days, the Church is embattled, the City is in disrepute, and Parliament is floundering, but the National, under the canny stewardship of Nicholas Hytner, is on a roll unmatched in its nearly fifty-year history.
However, one diamond company with a history that spans nearly 160 years is viewing it as an opportunity.
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The Englishman escaped, the Indian survived, and each went home to other matters, but history was not nearly so kind to the Zulus.
The meeting between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was killed in an apparent case of mistaken identity, came as gun control advocates have pressed Congress to pass proposals that include requiring criminal history checks for nearly all gun purchases.
Given this, it is hard to believe that with the advent of the Obama administration, we are seeing history repeat itself with nearly unheard of exactness.
Arguably Colombia's most popular President in its 200 year history -- in nearly eight years, his approval rating has never fallen below 60 percent, peaked as recently as July 2008 in the low 80s and is currently hovering around 75 percent - Mr. Uribe's hope to serve an unprecedented third term was quashed by the country's Constitutional Court in February.
Retired history teacher David Gould took nearly 2, 000 ninth-graders over the years on retreats to Turtle Island from Durham Academy, a prep school.
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Throughout history, there have been nearly 100 sovereign defaults in Europe.
They adopted the largest capital gains tax cut in history, reducing the rate by nearly 30%, from 28% to 20%.
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In his army days he had bought a house in Oxfordshire, and preferred it to the edifices he eventually inherited in 1975 as duke of Norfolk, particularly Arundel Castle in Sussex, the ducal seat, nearly 1, 000 years old, brimming with history, but mostly comfortless.
SECOND, China is the largest foreign holder of US Government debt in the history of our nation, with holdings of nearly 900 billion dollars.
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Sure, at one time in history (and today in subsistence cultures) nearly 100% of employment was anchored in fuel jobs: food for humans and their animals, and fuel for heat and cooking.
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Y. systems engineer Michael Crisafulli , 55, a history buff, has taken a volunteer trip nearly every year since 1991-including the 1994 excavation of a Bronze Age site in Borja, Spain where he met his wife, Karen, a teacher.
Mauritania has a long history of coups, with the military involved in nearly every government since its independence from France in 1960.
And if you remember, that was when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and millionaires were doing pretty well.
Nearly two years after one of the worst recessions in our history -- certainly the worst one in our lifetimes -- our economy is showing signs of real strength.
In the half century since Cloud and Barghoorn began scouring the globe for similar sites, the history of life on Earth has been traced back nearly three and a half billion years.
Bolshoi nearly vanished from the Russian ballet and opera scene after a rich history.
Chile has nearly 800, 000 people jobless, the highest figure in the history of the country.
In face-to-face interviews, teams of researchers surveyed nationally representative samples of people in 18 countries on five continents -- nearly 90, 000 people in all -- and assessed their history of depression using a standardized list of nine criteria.
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Mr Keller has somehow crammed the entire political history of the United States, from the first colonists until nearly the end of George Bush's presidency, into a single slim volume.
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