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Many of the members participate in one or more of the 145 "Chapters" that are based on a locality or a special interest (e.g., the local chapter for New York is Chapter 2 and the Tower Clock Chapter is Chapter 134). The vast majority of chapters are based in the United States, though a number are also in Canada, the UK, China, Australia, and Japan.
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki Library & Research Center is one of the world's pre-eminent libraries devoted to horology and is located in Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States.. It is operated by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc., for the benefit of both the public and the members of the association.
The National Watch and Clock Museum, Library & Research Center, and offices of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. The National Watch and Clock Museum (NWCM), located in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is one of a very few museums in the United States dedicated solely to horology, which is the history, science and art of timekeeping and timekeepers.
The New England Society for the Suppression of Vice was founded in 1878 by a meeting of Boston residents following a speech given by Anthony Comstock.Comstock had founded the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873 as a vehicle for a crusade against numerous perceived ills of society, and sought to establish chapters of the organization in other cities.
US Army Aviation units were first organized in Mississippi in 1948 to support artillery units in the northern part of the state and Hattiesburg.These aviation units were located at Grenada Airport 100 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capitol.
The US Armed Forces have generally forbidden military enlistment as a form of deferred adjudication (that is, an option for convicts to avoid jail time) since the 1980s. [162] US Navy protocols discourage the practice, while the other four branches have specific regulations against it. [163] Last meal requests do not have to be fulfilled. [164]
Seafarers' Identity Documents Convention (Revised), 2003 (C185) is an International Labour Organization Convention. [1] [2]It was established in 1958, with the preamble stating:
Watch and Ward is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1871 and later as a book in 1878. This was James' first novel, though he virtually disowned the book later in life.