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    The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State...
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    The Committee for the Five Northern Korean Provinces (Korean: 이북5도위원회; Hanja: 以北五道委員會, literally "The North's Five Provinces Committee") is a South Korean...
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    term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by the United States government in the early federal period of the history of the United States to the five major...
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    authoring the Declaration. Adams, a leading proponent of independence, persuaded the Committee of Five to charge Jefferson with writing the document's original...
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    Roger Sherman (category Signers of the Articles of Confederation)
    the Continental Congress, and he was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence. Sherman served as a delegate to the...
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    Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 2020 the prize is awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo...
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    administered by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Parliament of Norway. Each recipient receives a medal...
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    Administrative Committee of Five Provinces. This was established on 8 October 1945 and was headed by the nationalist and South Pyongan people's committee chairman...
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    Robert R. Livingston (category Presidents of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York)
    office he held for 25 years. He was a member of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin...
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  • Parliament, specifically "a committee of five persons to be elected" by it. A new body had to be created—the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Jurist Fredrik Heffermehl...
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    States Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and then edited by the Committee of Five, which consisted of Jefferson, John Adams...
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    of Independence. The Second Continental Congress's Committee of Five drafted the document listing their grievances with the actions and decisions of King...
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  • a scaled-back redesign of space station Freedom. In its original report, the committee ranked five space activities in order of priority: Space science...
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    House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United...
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    were appointed as the Committee of Five to accomplish this. That same day, Congress decided to establish two other committees to develop the resolution's...
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    The United States Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce was a special committee of the United States Senate which existed...
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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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    The Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly was an anti-Bolshevik government that operated in Samara, Russia, during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922...
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    committees of correspondence, which enabled leaders of each colony to keep in touch. One of the first actions of the Congress was the endorsement of the...
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    balcony. Chancellor of New York Robert Livingston, who had served on the Committee of Five which had drafted the Declaration of Independence, administered...
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    Connecticut Compromise (category Drafting of the United States Constitution)
    house, with five states in the affirmative, five in the negative, and one divided. The problem was referred to a committee consisting of one delegate...
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    ("boss of all the bosses"). However, this led to his assassination that September, and that role was abolished for the Commission, a ruling committee established...
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    These early committees generally consisted of three members for routine business and five members for more important issues. The largest committee established...
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  • Thumbnail for Declaration of Independence (painting)
    depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The painting shows the five-man drafting committee presenting their draft of the Declaration to...
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  • 2017, the Indian economy was premised on the concept of planning. This was carried through the Five-Year Plans, developed, executed, and monitored by the...
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  • committees. The Senate follows similar procedures, with senators being limited to no more than three full committees and five sub-committees. As of June...
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    properties. The countries have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into five geographical zones: Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific...
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    literature by the Academy in Stockholm; and that for champions of peace by a committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Storting. It is my expressed...
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  • formulation of a Five-Year Plan beings with fairly short, general guidelines prepared by the CCP Central Committee in the fall prior to the start of a Plan...
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    member of the CCP Politburo, who replaced Li Qiang on 28 October 2022. The committee is elected every five years by the Shanghai Municipal Congress of the...
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