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• February 13
  ...Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans. ALSO: Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden ...aded not-guilty in federal court in Alexandria, Va., to conspiring to kill Americans and supporting the Taliban and terrorist organizations.
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• Directory:Garth Franklin/George Clooney "The Good German"
  ...view: [[Interview Subject:=George Clooney]] "[[Interview Subject:=The Good German]]" == ...latest film - the post-WW2 Berlin set black-and-white thriller "''The Good German''" which he shot with good friend Director [[Directory:Steven Soderbergh|St
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  ...fter Jay's Treaty (1794), northwestern strongholds were turned over to the Americans, but the British continued to dominate the fur trade from the Canadian bord ...dges, trails, and roads throughout the region. The hostility of the Native Americans toward the incursions of aggressive settlers culminated in the Black Hawk W
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• Directory:Derek Michael Sheldon
  [[Category:German Americans]]
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...rophone was now on and recording he joked [[Five minutes speech|"My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outla | title = "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation<br/>that will o
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• Directory:Missouri
  ...ri groups, and by the end of the 17th century French trade with the Native Americans flourished. ...ana Purchase. French influence remained dominant, even though by this time Americans had filtered into the territory, particularly to the lead mines at Ste Gene
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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 ...ue Ridge Mts. from Virginia but rather down the valleys from Pennsylvania. German families established (c.1730) a settlement on the Potomac and named it Meck
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• Directory:North Dakota
  === Native Americans and the Fur Traders === ...irst farmers in the region of whom there is definite knowledge were Native Americans of the Mandan tribe. Other agricultural tribes were the Arikara and the Hid
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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. ...Southern Delaware's population continued to be made up largely of African Americans and persons of English origin.
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• Directory:American Journals and the Strategic Bombing of Germany
  During the course of the war, Americans at home stayed informed of the happenings abroad through the media of lette Undoubtedly, average Americans relied heavily upon the popular magazine as a source of opinion, policy, an
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...ch]] and [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and a familiarity with [[German language|German]] and other European languages. After returning to America, he had become f Another blow to Adams' presidency was his generous policy toward Native Americans. Westerners, who were constantly seeking to move westward, cried for a more
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...ere pushed, and a new, smaller wave of immigrants (predominantly Irish and German) arrived after the Cherokee and the Chickasaw were banished West in the lat ...home in Henning is the first state-owned historic site devoted to African Americans in Tennessee.
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...litary affairs, but provided the funding and food supplies that helped the Americans in the war and hastened Allied victory in 1918. ...e not direct attacks on the shipping of Americans or other neutrals, while German submarine warfare directly targeted shipping that benefited their enemies,
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• Directory:Susan Boyle
  ...|title=Die Maus, de Brullte |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |author=Staff |language=German |date=2009-04-16 |accessdate=2009-04-16}}</ref> China's [[Xinhua News Agenc ...on the unusual power this story seemed to have in the U.S., stating that "Americans can be very moved by this sort of thing." He likened Boyle's rise to fame f
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...implement store owner, of [[German people|German]] (Pfautz, Wehmeyer) and German-Swiss (Huber, Burkhart) descent. His mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, was of ...her [[United States Senate|Senate]] Republicans, Hoover saw to it that the German people received aid, and he extended aid to famine-stricken [[Bolshevist Ru
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• Directory:Susun Weed
  ...ear - are used by more than a million women, and have been translated into German and French. Many Americans have food phobias. Think about how many people are frightened of drinking m
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Mutual Fund
  ...ple start very early (the smart ones) with dreams of a second house in the German Alps or a thatched roof pub in the English countryside. For some, mutual fu ...complex investments have become one of the most popular ways to invest and Americans have been taking part in mutual fund investing for many, many years.
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...e American|Japanese-Americans]] as well as thousands of Italian and German-Americans. As the Allies neared victory, Roosevelt played a critical role in shaping ...ara Ann Delano]], were each from wealthy old New York families, of [[Dutch-Americans|Dutch]] and [[French American|French]] ancestry respectively. Franklin was
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...coast of the Neuse River. That same year New Bern was established. Native Americans grew angry as white settlers took their lands. In Sept. 1711, Tuscarora Ind * The Swiss and German settlement of New Bern was named in honor of the founder's home, Bern, Swit
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  ...ey could be compelled to serve as [[unfree labor]] (see ''[[Eisenhower and German POWs]]''). Eisenhower was an early supporter of the [[Morgenthau Plan]] to ...his life. The nearest he came to being under enemy fire was in 1944 when a German fighter strafed the ground while he was inspecting troops in Normandy. Eise
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