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"Don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) was the official United States policy on military service of non-heterosexual people.Instituted during the Clinton administration, the policy was issued under Department of Defense Directive 1304.26 on December 21, 1993, and was in effect from February 28, 1994, until September 20, 2011. [1]
Dodd, who was the first to be tried, escaped from jail before his trial was completed and fled to Canada. On October 10, 1864, he was found guilty, convicted in absentia, and sentenced to hang. Charges against Bingham, Harrison, Yeakel, and Wilson were dismissed. Heffren was released before the proceedings against Milligan began. [11]
Celebrity Big Brother 5 winner Shilpa Shetty. The fifth British series of Celebrity Big Brother began on 3 January 2007. [1]: 1.2 On the first day, eleven celebrity housemates entered the Big Brother house, including the model Danielle Lloyd, the S Club 7 singer Jo O'Meara and the Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.
In a June 1966 essay, Neal Knox wrote that what was then called the Dodd Bill was opposed by outdoorsmen and conservationists Harry R. Woodward, C. R. Gutermuth of the Wildlife Management Institute, Richard H. Stroud of the Sport Fishing Institute, Howard Carter Jr. of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, E. C. Hadley of the Sporting Arms ...
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called “The Poet of the Yukon" and "The Canadian Kipling". [2]
For the first century and a half of its existence, Danbury and Main Street were one and the same. The arrival of the railroads in the mid-19th century and the growth of the city's hatmaking industry began to expand it beyond Main's immediate neighborhood, and by the end of the century what had been a small village was a city with Main Street as its civic and commercial core.
The true origin of the name Balkh is unknown. Wilhelm Eilers proposed that the region was named after the Balkh River (in Greek transliteration Βάκτρος, i.e. Baktros) from underlying Bāxtri-, itself meaning 'she who divides', etymologically from the Proto-Indo-European root *bhag-'to divide' (whence also Avestan bag-and Old Indic bháj-).
A neo-Gothic style red-brick school which now serves as the local community centre was built in the 1870s at Donacarney Cross. Designed in 1872-3 by P.J. Dodd of Drogheda, [48] with an extension in 1885, it features separate doors for girls and boys at the front of the building. Its twentieth-century replacement, with a water tower, was ...