1 A half step (or ''semitone'') is the distance from one key on the keyboard to the next adjacent key. 2  Key 1 to Key 2 is a half step since they are next to each other. 3  A half step is not always from a white key to a black key.
The Virginia House of Burgesses established in 1619 is considered the first representative assembly (government) in the US and the Americas.
U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg. U.S. Citizen Services (St. St. Petersburg was the site of the original U.S. Mission to Russia, established in 1780, with Frances Dana as the Minister-designate. Dana spent three years in St. Petersburg, but his credentials were never accepted by the Russian Court. Thus the first Minister Plenipotentiary (Ambassador) of the United States in Russia, was John Quincy Adams, who presented his credentials to Tsar Alexander I on the 5th of November, 1809.