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  * 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed * 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to
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• Directory:John McCain
  ...paign for president african american coalition american indians for mccain americans with disabilities for. John mccain what obama needs most beyond readiness t ...paign for president african american coalition american indians for mccain americans with disabilities for.</p>
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Jennifer Fitzgerald
  [[Category:British Americans]] [[Category:English Americans]]
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• Directory:Derek Michael Sheldon
  ...en]], [[Dawn Langstroth]]; [[Anne Murray]]'s daughter and [[English people|English]] [[musician]] [[Imogen Heap]]. [[Category:German Americans]]
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• Directory:Hawaii
  ...h explorer Captain James Cook, who named them the Sandwich Islands for the English Earl of Sandwich. At that time the islands were under the rule of warring n ...er, the period of Kamehameha's rule was also one of decline. Europeans and Americans brought with them devastating infectious diseases, and over the years the n
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...royed by a Native American attack. This attack notwithstanding, the Native Americans were generally friendly and willing to trade with the newcomers. English colonists from Connecticut tried to establish trading posts in the Delaware
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• Directory:Mesothelioma Attorney Oregon
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...8|1788]]. The colony was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1634 as a refuge for English Roman Catholics. Annapolis is the capital and Baltimore the largest city. P ...reat bison and caribou. By 1,000 B.C., Maryland had more than 8,000 Native Americans in about 40 different tribes. Most of them spoke Algonquian languages. They
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...trait as senator June 1920.jpg|thumb|right|President Harding's poor use of English became notorious during his presidency.]] [[Warren Harding]]'s poor grasp of the English language, coupled with his insistence on writing his own speeches, produced
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• Directory:South Carolina
  The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poo ...ed by small farmers and traders, who pushed the dwindling tribes of Native Americans to the west.
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...e first settlement in the area at Providence on land purchased from Native Americans of the Narragansett tribe. In 1638, Puritan exiles bought the island of Aqu ...owned land that, following Williams' practice, was bought from the Native Americans. Fishing and trade supplemented the living won from the soil. Moreover, liv
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• Directory:Katy Independent School District
  ...n School Districts]] in Dishman, Schlipf, Sills and a school for [[African-Americans]]. ...ce of Katy ISD is changing rapidly, with steady increases in minority, non-English-speaking, and low-income students.
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...iver until it met with our [i.e., the king's] other Governments. Since the English crown had never publicly proclaimed the eastern limits of the colony of New ...annexing Vermont to Canada. The talks were inconclusive and ended when the Americans finally triumphed at Yorktown in 1781. For ten years Vermont remained an in
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...hunting ground (and therefore a battleground) for the settlers and Native Americans. This part of Virginia, which later became West Virginia, was penetrated by ...lamation of 1763, which, in the hopes of avoiding conflict with the Native Americans, forbade settlement W of the Alleghenies.
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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...an American Vernacular English|African-Americans]] and standard [[American English]]. The song is written in the [[First-person narrative|first person]] from That it [[Texan English#like't'a|like to]] broke my heart,
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...ninsula in the James River they founded (May 13, 1607) the first permanent English settlement in America, which they called Jamestown. It soon became clear th ...the colony, killing 350 settlers (about one third of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a fina
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...cific coast from the 16th to the 18th cent., hoping to claim the area. The English may first have arrived in the person of Sir Francis Drake, who sailed along ...e with the vessels of several nations engaged in fur trade with the Native Americans. British captains, among them John Meares and George Vancouver, made the co
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...l North Carolina was the scene of the first attempt to colonize America by English-speaking people. Two colonies were begun in the 1580's under a charter gran ...born. Virginia Dare, as the baby was named, became the first child born to English-speaking parents in the new world.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...rea, but they suffered continual harassment from the Chickasaw. Meanwhile, English fur traders and long hunters (frontiersmen who spent long periods hunting i ...Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation, was the first American winner of the English Derby in 1881. Such modern thoroughbreds as Secretariat trace their bloodl
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• Directory:American Express
  ...ornіa hаd recently joined the υnion in 1848, and gold had been discovered. Americans were flocking westward to stake claims and get rich. Wells and Fargo knew t ...the country through his New Deal (1932) economic policies, whіch put mаny Americans baсk to work. Then camө the beginning οf World Wаr II (1939-45), wһich
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