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Committee of Fifty could refer to one of the following:

  • Committee of Fifty (1829), met in New York City and advocated redistribution of property between the poor and rich
  • Committee of Fifty (1893), formed by scholars to investigate problems associated with the use and abuse of alcoholic beverages
  • Committee of Fifty (1906), called into existence by Mayor Eugene Schmitz during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

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Committee of Fifty

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Committee of Fifty could refer to one of the following: Committee of Fifty (1829), met in New York City and advocated redistribution of property between...

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Committees of correspondence

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the committee and appoint others as they may see fit. At the meeting on May 19, Francis Lewis was also nominated and the entire Committee of Fifty-one...

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Committee of Sixty

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Association, a boycott of British goods enacted by the First Continental Congress. It was the successor to the Committee of Fifty-one, which had originally...

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Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction

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content of textbooks endorsed by the WCTU were increasingly criticized by leading scientists and educators. The Committee of Fifty for the Study of the Liquor...

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1891 New Orleans lynchings

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the 1891 riot of a large number of African-American lynchers. For example, Colonel James Lewis, a member of the elite Committee of Fifty, was a mixed-race...

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France Galop

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officials. The organization is run by a 12-member board of directors and an oversight committee of fifty representatives. Each year, France Galop organizes...

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First Continental Congress

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List of delegates to the Continental Congress Journals of the Continental Congress Future U.S. president. Appointed by the Committee of Fifty-one of the...

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Province of New York

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were selected for a Committee of Correspondence. The Committee of Fifty was formed which was dominated with moderates, the Sons of Liberty only obtained...

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Mary Hunt

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WCTU's program of temperance instruction and the textbooks endorsed by Mary Hunt were increasingly being criticized. The Committee of Fifty, a group formed...

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Frankfurt Parliament

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transitional period until the actual formation of that assembly, the Vorparlament formed the Committee of Fifty (Fünfzigerausschuss), as a representation to...

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Petition of Fifty

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The Petition of Fifty (Indonesian: Petisi 50) was a document protesting then President Suharto's use of state philosophy Pancasila against political opponents...

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Annie Nathan Meyer

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she created a committee of fifty prominent New Yorkers willing to support the college she was founding. She then overcame the opposition of the Columbia...

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Hecker uprising

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be elected to the Fünfzigerausschuss, a committee of fifty chosen to bridge the period until the formation of a proper national parliament and their political...

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Owenism

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spontaneously out of strike action by journeymen in 1829 who protested having to work more than 10 hours a day. They appointed a Committee of Fifty to discuss...

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1952 Egyptian revolution

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end the 'reactionary mentality' of the old system. On February 21, Naguib created the constitutional committee of fifty. Ali Maher served as president...

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Sachar Committee

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length of time for a party which had ruled the country for forty four out of fifty-seven years between 1947 and 2004. It returned to power as head of a coalition...

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Charles Stetson Wheeler

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American attorney who served as a Regent of the University of California, and he was a member of the Committee of Fifty working to maintain order after the...

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Cowles

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basketball coach at the University of Minnesota and University of Michigan Paul Cowles, a member of the Committee of Fifty (1906) Raymond B. Cowles (1896–1975)...

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John Lilburne

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specifying the charges against Hesilrige. Parliament thereupon appointed a committee of fifty members to examine witnesses and documents; who reported on 16 Jan...

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