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Briarwood Presbyterian Church

The first General assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America was held in Briarwood church building in December 4, 1973.


Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church

Two AEPC representatives were present in the PCA 40th General Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky one of them is the current moderator of the Africa Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Charles F. Wishart

At the 1923 General Assembly Wishart defeated William Jennings Bryan in the election for Moderator largely on this issue.

China and the United Nations

From the 1960s onwards, nations friendly to the PRC, led by the People's Republic of Albania under Enver Hoxha, moved an annual resolution in the General Assembly to expel the "representatives of Chiang Kai-shek" (an implicit reference to the ROC) and permit the PRC to represent China at the UN.

Ford County, Illinois

It was the last of Illinois' 102 counties to be formed, and was created at the behest of some residents of Vermilion County, who complained to the General Assembly that they were located too far from the Iroquois County county seat.

Franziska Brantner

She is a member of the General Assembly of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, was member of the Peace and Security Commission of the Green national party and was one of the authors of the party’s manifesto for the European election in 2009.

Global Marshall Plan Initiative

In September 2000 the United Nations (UN) came together at the General Assembly to discuss the most important challenges in the coming decade.

Guy R. Gregg

Guy R. Gregg (born December 14, 1949, Brooklyn, New York) is an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992–2008, where he represented the 24th Legislative District.

Harold Lloyd Henderson

He also served as Presbytery and Synod Moderator, and was a frequent Commissioner to the Presbyterian Church's in Canada's General Assembly.

High Constables and Guard of Honour of the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Dating from the early sixteenth century, they now parade whenever the Sovereign, or the Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, is in residence.

International Bill of Human Rights

The declaration was therefore submitted through the United Nations Economic and Social Council to the General Assembly, meeting in Paris.

L. W. Housel

For Housel’s first thirty years in Iowa (from 1902 to 1932), Republicans dominated the General Assembly and governorship, and the Iowa congressional delegation.

Mark Keam

In February 2010, Keam and fellow freshman delegate James LeMunyon, a Republican, authored an op-ed in The Washington Post about their introduction of a bill to the General Assembly, which would attempt make the voting records of General Assembly members more accessible to the public.

Moscow International Model United Nations

Moscow International Model UN – 2011 includes simulation of the following United Nations’ organs: General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, International Court of Justice, The First and The Second General Assembly Committees, Human Rights Council and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Robert T. Van Horn

Robert Thompson Van Horn (May 19, 1824 – January 3, 1916) was a lawyer, the owner and publisher of the The Kansas City Enterprise, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri during the parts of the Civil War, member of the Missouri General Assembly, and representative to the Forty-seventh Congress of the United States.

Russell M. Nigro

The ousting of Justice Nigro was the direct result of public anger over a pay raise for members of all 3 branches of state government, which the General Assembly passed without public notice or debate in the early morning hours of July 7, 2005 and then-governor Ed Rendell quickly signed.

Samuel P. Colt

The ensuing contest between Colt, Wetmore and Democrat Robert Hale Ives Goddard resulted in 81 deadlocked ballots cast by the General Assembly over the course of four months in 1907 and a vacant seat in Rhode Island's delegation to the 60th Congress.

Tod Robinson Caldwell

Caldwell attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was a member of Dialectic Senate, became solicitor for Burke County, and was a member of the General Assembly.

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194

United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 was adopted on December 11, 1948, near the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 10

United Nations Security Council Resolution 10, adopted on November 4, 1946, determined that the Franco regime in Spain no longer warranted the continuous observation of the Council and turned over all related documents to the General Assembly.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 708

United Nations Security Council resolution 708, adopted unanimously on 28 August 1991, after noting the death of International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Taslim Olawale Elias on 14 August 1991, the Council decided that elections to the vacancy on the ICJ would take place on 5 December 1991 at the Security Council and at the General Assembly's 46th session.


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1981 in Afghanistan

During the General Assembly session, UN Secretary-General Waldheim and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, UN special representative for Afghanistan, have separate discussions with the Afghan Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Dost and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Agha Shahi.

Afghanistan National Olympic Committee

The first ever Afghanistan National Olympic Committee Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) was held on Monday, September 28, 2009, at 11 am at Kabul Serena Hotel, as per the statutes approved by the Afghan NOC General Assembly and the IOC.

AIMS International

The decision to change the association's name to AIMS International was taken by the General Assembly at the Annual General Meeting in Cape Town in 2008.

Alan D. Clemmons

He has also been a staunch voice in the S.C. General Assembly in favor of extending Interstate 73 to Myrtle Beach.

Artillery Company of Newport

The Newport Artillery Company of Newport, Rhode Island was chartered in 1741 by the Rhode Island General Assembly during the reign of King George II of Great Britain.

Bath County, Virginia

The county is represented in the Virginia General Assembly by Senator Creigh Deeds and Delegate Ben Cline.

Benjamin Bounkoulou

At an extraordinary general assembly of the UR, held in Nkayi on 18 December 2006, Bounkoulou was unanimously re-elected as President of the UR.

Carolyn K. Justus

The widow of former Rep. Larry T. Justus, she was appointed to the General Assembly to fill the seat of her deceased husband, who died shortly before the 2002 legislative elections.

Charles E. Johnson

Charles Elliott Johnson, Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 2003–2004

Chris Heagarty

Previously Heagarty lobbied at the North Carolina General Assembly for principals NC Association of Electric Cooperatives Inc. and BellSouth Corporation.

Declaration of the Rights of the Child

These ideas were adopted by the International Save the Children Union, in Geneva, on 23 February 1923 and endorsed by the League of Nations General Assembly on 26 November 1924 as the World Child Welfare Charter.

Doug Zohrab

He was a newspaper copyholder and junior reporter on Wellington's Evening Post newspaper from 1934, then graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a masters degree in History in 1937 and became an assistant librarian at Parliament’s General Assembly Library.

Electoral integrity

These standards have been endorsed in a series of authoritative conventions, treaties, protocols, and guidelines by agencies of the international community, notably by the decisions of the UN General Assembly, by regional bodies such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the African Union (AU), and by member states in the United Nations.

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network

On its fourth General Assembly in Marseille, a new action plan was adopted, which saw the network multiplying its activities.

Gordon Allen

Gordon P. Allen (1929–2010), Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Graland

Dan Grossman, ’83 - attorney and a former member of the Colorado General Assembly

Hugh Edward Richardson

He was an advocate of the right of Tibetans to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books, Tibet and Its History (1962) and A Cultural History of Tibet (1968), and at the United Nations when the issue of Chinese oppression of Tibet was raised by the Irish Republic, represented by Frank Aiken, during the 1959 UN General Assembly debate on Tibet.

Jeta Amata

Jeta’s latest film, Black November was premiered at the United Nations during the General Assembly in 2012 and was also screened at the Kennedy Center as well as the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The film inspired sponsoring of a bi-partisan resolution on the Niger Delta of Nigeria members of the 112th United States Congress, H.CON.RES.121.

Joe L. Hensley

He served one term in the Indiana General Assembly in 1961-1962, representing Jefferson and Scott counties.

John Carrington

John H. Carrington (born 1934), Republican former member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Joshua Clayton

The General Assembly there-upon adjourned to the tavern of Thomas Hale, at Duck Creek Cross-Roads and continued their session.

Keith Williams

Keith P. Williams, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Lay Claretian Movement

It was born in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, on July 8, 1983 during his first General Assembly.

Louisa Woosley

Almost a hundred years after Louisa's ordination, the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination elected their first female General Assembly moderator, Beverly St. John.

Marion Higgins

Marion West Higgins (1915–1991), first female Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly

Mefail Shehu

In October 1943, a general assembly was called in Zajas.

Moussa Koussa

The letter stated that Brockmann was nominated, as Ali Treki, also a former General Assembly president who was their first choice, was denied a visa to enter the United States under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

Nancy Jacobs

During the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly, Senator Jacobs sponsored Maryland's version of Jessica's Law.

Necdet Karababa

He was elected leader of the Democratic Left Party at its general assembly held on March 7, 1988 following the resignation and leaving the politics of Bülent Ecevit some time before.

Ohio Senate, 31st District

The 31st Senate District of Ohio is represented by Republican Tim Schaffer in the 128th Ohio General Assembly, who was first elected in 2006.

Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom

In Scotland, the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ranks immediately below the sovereign or consort (depending on their respective sex), but only when the General Assembly is in session, and immediately followed by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Parapolice

Coal and Iron Police - a private police force established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly but employed and paid by the various coal companies.

Ramakrishna Sarada Math

Kiran Chandra and other lay devotees of the Math and Mission including Shyamadas Bachaspati, an ayurvedic practitioner who treated the Holy Mother and Bhutnath Mukherjee, a renowned chartered accountant, were opposed by the Belur Math administration during a general assembly session of the Mission in March, 1929.

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games

The official bid was submitted in August 2001 during the XXXIX Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) General Assembly held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Ron Richard

In a caucus meeting, Richard beat out fellow Republican and Budget Committee chair Allen Icet to be preliminarily named Speaker of the 95th General Assembly.

Samuel S. Phelps

He served until March 16, 1854 when the Senate resolved that he was not entitled to the seat on the grounds that he had been legally appointed by the Governor of Vermont when the Vermont General Assembly was not in session, but that the General Assembly had not acted to fill the vacancy at its subsequent session, as required by law.

Shoe incident

Shoe-banging incident, Nikita Khrushchev at the UN General Assembly held in New York

Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly

In the first round of voting, the General Assembly and the Security Council concurrently and independently elected Giorgio Gaja (Italy), Hisashi Owada (Japan), Peter Tomka (Slovakia), and Xue Hanqin (China), but the two organs were deadlocked between two African candidates for the fifth available seat.

Stefan Lux

Stefan Lux (November 11, 1888 Malacky – July 3, 1936 Geneva) was a Slovak Jewish journalist, and a Czechoslovak citizen, who committed suicide in the general assembly of the League of Nations during its session on July 3, 1936.

Stiglitz Commission

Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System, convened by the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann

Tanglewood Festival Chorus

In February 1998, singing from the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, the chorus represented the Americas when Seiji Ozawa led the Winter Olympics Orchestra with six choruses on five continents, all linked by satellite, in the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to close the Opening Ceremonies of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

The Band That Wouldn't Die

When Baltimore was in the running for a National Football League franchise in the 1990s, Ziemann enlisted the band's help in convincing the Maryland General Assembly, the state legislature, to approve funding for a new football stadium.1

The Book of Common Worship of 1932

Henry van Dyke, who chaired the committee that composed The Book of Common Worship of 1906, began in 1928 calling on General Assembly to revise the book.

Thomas G. Dunn

His staunch conservative ideology, dubious ethical standing and irascible personality earned Dunn a spirited primary election challenge from progressive Democrat James J. Devine when he ran for the General Assembly in 1991.

Tony Moore

Tony P. Moore, Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly

Velondriake

The Velondriake General Assembly consists of elected representatives from each of the 25 villages within the LMMA; larger villages, such as Andavadoaka, have six representatives, while smaller villages have only two or three.

Vernon Sykes

In the 128th General Assembly, Speaker of the House Armond Budish appointed Sykes as Chairman of the House Finance Committee.

Washington, Mississippi

The college was created by an act of the first General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory in 1802 and was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, then-president of the United States.

William Mahon

William Mahone (1826–1895), member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress

World Wood Day

WWD is concurrently observed on the same day as the International Day of Forests, which was officially recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013.