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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | nationality=[[United States|American]] ...ish, Welsh, or Scottish descent. He was the first president to be born an American citizen<ref>http://www.hoover.nara.gov/exhibits/cottages/middleclass/vanbur
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...hird of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a final uprising of the Confederacy in 1644. However ...many newcomers from Pennsylvania—German Lutherans, English Quakers, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and a lesser number of Welsh Baptists.
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | nationality=American ...He was a polarizing figure who dominated [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] in the 1820s and 1830s. His political ambition combined with th
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...ogressiveness, and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American [[Foreign policy in the United States|foreign policy]], serving as a model ...in political philosophy and history. He was active in the undergraduate [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society|discussion club]], and organized a separate Liberal
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...ll]], the [[Space Race]], the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]] and early events of the [[Vietnam War]]. ...ef>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/35_kennedy/kennedy_legacy.html American Experience: John F. Kennedy], [[PBS]]. Retrieved on [[February 25]] [[2007]
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...evins, 6</ref> On his mother's side, Cleveland was descended from [[Anglo-Irish]] Protestants and [[German people|German]] [[Quaker]]s from Philadelphia.<r ...ounty, New York|Erie County]].<ref>Graff, 15; Nevins, 46</ref> With the [[American Civil War]] raging, Congress passed the [[Conscription Act of 1863]], requi
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  ...rty]]. As Southern states declared their secession in the lead-up to the [[American Civil War]], he held that [[secession]] was illegal, but that going to war ...ary Dix ordered Treasury agents in New Orleans, "If any man pulls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot".
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• Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More
  ...uage, naturalist philosophy and beautiful prose, the book is considered an American classic and heralded as a masterpiece of conservation and history, often co ...his guy named two-feathers and his band of Comanche brothers heckles these Irish people then rapes, tortures, and kills them except for one which turns out
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• List of unusual personal names
  ...[Brazil]]ian football player named after [[Creedence Clearwater Revival|an American music band]].<ref>[http://football.guardian.co.uk/theknowledge/story/0,,205 ...ted in the [[Battle of Kennesaw Mountain]] as a Union surgeon during the [[American Civil War]].<ref>http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alum
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• Corporation
  ...mited liability company]]) and "S.p.A" or "Società Per Azioni" (similar to American stock corporation). ...ated according to the laws of a particular state is called ‘corporation’. American corporations can be either profit-making companies or non-profit entities.
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• Wikipedia Vandalism/IKEA
  ...><ref>[http://www.americanforests.org/planttrees/af_info.php?campaign=ikea American Forests<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ...sposable Architecture|author=Christopher Hawthorne|publisher=[[Metropolis (American magazine)|Metropolis]]|month=February | year=2003|accessdate=2007-06-08}}</
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  ...s friends resigned for high paying business jobs. He was assigned to the [[American Battle Monuments Commission]], directed by General [[John J. Pershing]], th ...military officials, 1945.JPEG|thumb|Eisenhower (seated, middle) with other American military officials, 1945. General Patton is seated second from the left.]]
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• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...rge Nixon III had been killed at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]] during the [[American Civil War]] while serving in the 73rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Richard Nixo ...tier Friends Church, where he remained a member all his life. A lifelong [[American football]] fan, Nixon practiced with the team assiduously, but spent most o
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  | nationality=American ...Burkhart) descent. His mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, was of English and Irish descent. Both were [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]]s. He was named
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  |nationality=American |battles= [[Mexican-American War]]
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...cratic-Republican Party]], which dominated [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] for a quarter-century. Jefferson served as the wartime [[Governo ...delegates to a national congress. The pamphlet was a powerful argument of American terms for a settlement with Britain. It helped speed the way to independenc
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  ...esidency was marked by several major crises, including the takeover of the American embassy and [[Iran hostage crisis|holding of hostages]] by students in Iran ...crisis]], during which the United States struggled to rescue diplomats and American citizens held hostage in [[Tehran]]. By 1980, Carter was so unpopular that
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...anor Roosevelt]], remain touchstones for [[modern American liberalism]]. [[American conservatism|Conservatives]] vehemently fought back, but Roosevelt usually ...States as it became the [[Arsenal of Democracy]], putting sixteen million American men into uniform.
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• User:Boxstuf/RockyMarcianoAmateurRecordIs9-4
  it's on its way. But I am deeply disappointed in american & wbc statue committees Both of Rocky's parents came from Italy. Rocky was first generation Italian-American.
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