Search results for "Petition" - New World Encyclopedia
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- leaders who visited the White House to present a petition favoring federal anti-lynching legislation. As her business developed, she organized ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- mistress Empress Elizabeth of Russia endorsed his petition to establish the university in Moscow. The church of Saint Tatiana was later built in the university ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- as agent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government ... New York and Pennsylvania presented their petition for abolition. Their argument ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- for active military service. In 2007, a petition to the German parliament to revive the Iron Cross decoration received over 5,000 signatures. ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- lifeforms. By 1982, he was able to get a petition advocating the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SETI published in the journal Science ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Occasionally, players will petition the NFL to allow them to wear a number that is not in line with the numbering system. Brad Van Pelt, a linebacker ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 14:44, 11 November 2022
- " "Non-Partisan," "Nom. Petition," "Nomination," "Not Designated," and "Court Order." Although ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- and dangerous problem. Taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces, and hoping that their ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered ... amendments have been proposed by petition to the legislature hundreds ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- but rather as an intermediary figure who can petition her husband for the dispensation of grace upon human beings. In spite of this trend, some Shakta ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Shortly thereafter the association filed a petition with the Department of the Interior for a reservation and submitted to an adjudicative process for ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- ratify all its decrees and definitions. This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- peace proposal known as the Olive Branch Petition. The proposal was quickly ... #039; behalf after the Olive Branch Petition. Many modern British historians ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 17:01, 20 May 2024
- confused about how to treat The Charter; the Petition of Right in 1628 was meant as a reaffirmation of The Charter, but was defeated by the Attorney General ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- President Mário Soares launched a petition urging the European Union to start membership talks with Cape Verde. Cape Verde annually runs a high ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- In the 2001 election, three parties filed a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy Mwanawasa. The new president ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Rutledge chaired a committee that drew up a petition to the House of Lords, and he was responsible for the removal of a concession that acknowledged the ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- when it dissolved itself in April 1793. A petition was made to the king early in 1793, and that year the first enfranchisement of Catholics was ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- were to agree on this issue, that a petition to this effect sent to Rome might result in an annulment. Cranmer was employed to compile a written ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- In 1957, Pauling began a petition drive in cooperation with biologist Barry Commoner, who had studied radioactive strontium-90 in the baby teeth ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
