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• Directory:Island of Consciousness
  ...on of a plan with Tarzan befalls the concluding part. Whether the U.S. and British listen in, such innovative proposal remains anybodies guess! However the st
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• Directory:DualCitizen Consulting
  ...with the mandate to promote Dual Citizenship between North America and the British Isles. While staying true to this higher purpose, Dual Citizen Consulting i ...le= Get Your Irish On. |accessdate=2007-02-02}}</ref> With over 40 million Americans of Irish descent as its primary constituency, the firm quickly established
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Jennifer Fitzgerald
  ...n '''Jennifer Ann Isobel Patteson-Knight''' in 1932) is a [[United Kingdom|British]]-born retired [[United States|U.S.]] [[diplomat]]. During her career, she [[Category:British Americans]]
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• Directory:Ohio
  ...bited the region, which was first explored by La Salle in 1669. The French-British rivalry for control of the area led to the last of the French and Indian Wa ...ettlement W of the Appalachian Mts. Then in 1774, with the Quebec Act, the British placed the region between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes within the bou
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• Directory:The British Influence on Early American Cinema
  {{DISPLAYTITLE:The British Influence on Early American Cinema}} ==The British Influence on Early American Cinema==
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...muel de Champlain in 1609, the region was first permanently settled by the British in 1724. Claims to the area were relinquished by [[Directory:Massachusetts| ...Indian Wars in 1754 briefly suspended interest in the area, but after the British captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759, Wentworth resumed granting la
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• Directory:Wisconsin
  === British-American Struggles === ...ade from the Canadian border. In the War of 1812 Wisconsin again fell into British hands. It was only with the Treaty of Ghent (see Ghent, Treaty of) that eff
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• Directory:Indiana
  ...trol of all land east of the Mississippi River, including Indiana. However British troops did not enter the Indiana region until 1777, during the Revolutionar Settlers from the British colonies on the American east coast began migrating west in the mid 1700s,
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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: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 ...t the formidable Allegheny Plateau barrier was not crossed until after the British government, concerned about French claims to the Ohio valley, granted (1749
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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:Oregon
  ...vessels of several nations engaged in fur trade with the Native Americans. British captains, among them John Meares and George Vancouver, made the coastal are
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...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 We do not know what the Native Americans called the Chesapeake Bay. That name came from the Native American word "Ch
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...ed by small farmers and traders, who pushed the dwindling tribes of Native Americans to the west. ...the 1890s brought more political power to small white farmers, but African Americans were disenfranchised and increasingly segregated.
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...st conflict (1754-63) of the French and Indian Wars between the French and British for control of North America, and Pontiac's Rebellion , a Native American u With the British victorious in both, settlers soon began to enter Kentucky. They came in def
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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  ...s and civilians to stave off a British-inspired attack by about 500 Native Americans between September 4 and September 15. The [[Battle of Fort Harrison]], as i ...ration in the same rule-of-thumb fashion with which he had fought [[Native Americans]].
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• Directory:Zacky Farms LLC
  ...standard way to raise chickens for both eggs and broilers. After the war, Americans continued to consume eggs and chicken at the same rate, although over the l ...e company occurred in 1971, when Zacky acquired a larger poultry business, British-owned Balfour Guthrie, which brought with it the Fresno Feed Mill and exten
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• Directory:Mississippi
  ...he area became part of [[Directory:Louisiana|Louisiana]]. It passed to the British (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States Three major groups of Native Americans lived in the Mississippi region when European exploration of the area began
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...olution came to Alabama. In 1780, Bernardo Galvez captured Mobile from the British. At the close of the American Revolution, Great Britain ceded (1783) to the ...the 31st parallel belonged to the United States and in turn to the Native Americans living there. At the same time the Ellicott Line was being surveyed, “squ
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• Directory:James Madison
  ...protect the United States' economic rights. That conflict began poorly as Americans suffered defeat after defeat by smaller forces, but ended on a high note in ...ot live without American foodstuffs, but Americans could easily do without British manufactures. This same faith led him to the conclusion "that it is in our
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...arrison first gained national fame for leading U.S forces against [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]]s at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] in ...ssett]] on his mother's side. Harrison was the last president to be born a British subject.
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• Directory:Texas
  ...s named Francisco de los Tejas after the so-called tejas [friends]: Native Americans. This is also the origin of the state's name. In general, however, Spanish By the early 19th cent. Americans were covetously eyeing Texas, especially after the Louisiana Purchase (1803
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• Directory:Susan Boyle
  Many British newspapers carried articles on Boyle's performance and subsequent Internet ...nd that of [[Paul Potts]], another unexpected singing talent discovered by British reality television, with ''[[Forbes]]'' magazine predicting that Boyle coul
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...hontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, secured good relations with the Native Americans for a time, but in 1622 Powhatan's son Opechancanough led the Powhatan Conf ...ter planters, and by his refusal to sanction a campaign against the Native Americans who had been attacking frontier settlements. These grievances brought the e
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• Directory:Scoop Jackson
  ...February 1975. Jackson received substantial financial support from Jewish-Americans who admired his pro-Israel views, but Jackson's support of the Vietnam War ...ciety was formed at the University of Cambridge, England. The non-partisan British group is dedicated to "pursuit of a robust foreign policy ... based on clea
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...f the Dutch East India Company, sailed into Delaware Bay. A year later the British captain Sir Samuel Argall, bound for the colony of Virginia, also sailed in ...royed by a Native American attack. This attack notwithstanding, the Native Americans were generally friendly and willing to trade with the newcomers.
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• Directory:Louisiana
  ...es forces under Andrew Jackson. The victory unified the Spaniards, French, Americans, and others who made up the population of the State. ...in 1868, but forced to accept a new constitution giving rights to African-Americans."The Reconstruction Period" ended in 1877 in Louisiana when President Ruthe
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• Directory:George Washington
  ...moreland County, Virginia|Westmoreland County]], [[Colony of Virginia]], [[British America]] ...Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]], implemented in 1752, altered the official British dating method to the Gregorian calendar with the start of the year on [[Jan
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• Directory:Idaho
  ...lished (1811) a trading post at Astoria on the Columbia River. In 1821 two British trading companies operating in the Idaho region, the North West Company and Native Americans, mostly Kootenai, Nez Percé, Western Shoshone, Bannock, Coeur d'Alene, and
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• Directory:John Adams
  | birth_place=[[Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]], [[British America]] In 1770, a street confrontation resulted in [[29th Regiment of Foot|British soldiers]] killing five civilians in what became known as the [[Boston Mass
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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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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...alect historically spoken by [[African American Vernacular English|African-Americans]] and standard [[American English]]. The song is written in the [[First-per ...s reached the No. 15 spot in the UK charts in 1955. <ref>{{cite book|title=British Hit Singles & Albums|date=2004|publisher=Guinness World Records|location=Lo
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...ory (comprised of present-day [[Oregon]], [[Washington]], [[Idaho]], and [[British Columbia]]), as well as Texas. He sought to purchase California, which Mexi ...5]]. The annexation angered Mexico, however, which had succumbed to heavy British pressure and had lost Texas at the [[battle of San Jacinto]] on [[April 21]
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  Andrew Jackson was born to [[Presbyterian]] [[Scots-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]] immigrants [[Andrew Jackson, Sr.|Andrew]] and [[Elizabeth Hut ...w Jackson brave boy 1780a.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Jackson refusing to clean a British officer's boots (1876 [[lithography|lithograph]])]]
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• Directory:Alaska
  ...d Alexander Archipelago. It is separated from the other mainland states by British Columbia, Canada. Alaska was admitted as the 49th state in [[Year Admitted: Around this time the British, Spanish, and French were exploring the coast of Alaska. The unregulated ex
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• Directory:Zondervan Corporation
  ...okkeeping debacle, and in 1986 a hostile takeover attempt was organized by British financier Christopher Moran. After months of wheeling and dealing, includin Harper & Row (which soon merged with British religious book company Collins Publishing to become HarperCollins) was owne
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...erson rejected it as unsatisfactory, as the treaty contained no ban on the British practice of [[impressment]] of American sailors. As a result, the two natio ...ly to Russia and France, than to come in as a cock-boat in the wake of the British man-of-war." Monroe accepted Adams' advice. Not only must Latin America be
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...t of long-standing claims against France was prepared and trade with the [[British West Indies]] colonies was opened. In the controversy with the [[Second Ban ...he rebels had been using. One American was killed, and an outburst of anti-British sentiment swept through the U.S. Van Buren sent the army to the frontier an
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• Sadhguru
  ...6101600189_1.html|title=Don't vote as part of a tribe, Jaggi Vasudev tells Americans|newspaper=[[Business Standard]]|date=16 October 2016|publisher=[[Indo-Asian ...globe, such as the [[United Nation]]'s Millennium World Peace Summit, the British [[House of Lords]], the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], and the
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...ill]] and the [[Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II|British war effort]] before the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] pulled the U.S. into the ...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
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]], implemented in 1752, altered the official British dating method to the Gregorian calendar with the start of the year on [[Jan ...introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the [[empiricism|British Empiricists]], including [[John Locke]], [[Francis Bacon]], and [[Isaac New
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2012-09-05
  19:24 < ToAruShiroiNeko> british 19:25 < Ironholds> well, not British
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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. ...ng Americans), their violations were not direct attacks on the shipping of Americans or other neutrals, while German submarine warfare directly targeted shippin
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...''[[New York Times]]'' named Hoover one of the "Ten Most Important Living Americans". ...ennessee]] from Smith. As advertising executive [[Bruce Barton]] put it, "Americans knew they may have more fun with Smith, but that they would make more money
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  ...rds a series of armed incursions by Irish-American civil war veterans into British territory in Canada, named the [[Fenian Raids]].{{fact|date=February 2008}} [[Category:Americans of Scots-Irish descent|Johnson, Andrew]]
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...ral of the Philippines, a position in which he was very popular among both Americans and [[Filipino people|Filipinos]]. In 1902, Taft visited Rome to negotiate ...e first time as an independent third branch of government (contrary to the British model) under the administrative supervision of the Chief Justice of the Uni
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• Directory:Montana
  ...nd the N Idaho border, was validated in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with the British. Montana was then still a wilderness of forest and grass, with a few tradin ...876, the U.S. Army arrived at the Little Bighorn River to place all Native Americans on reservations. In the famous battle known as “Custer's Last Stand,” S
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• Directory:WikBack/JzG
  ...nd last touched by you at 17:48, 5 October 2006. Then, by some miracle of British productivity, you researched and created <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/ ...esuits of Quebec and Montreal, for example, managed to convert many Native Americans to Christianity by learning their culture and addressing them in a way they
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  ...ended as commander of AFHQ across the Mediterranean basin to include the [[British 8th Army]], commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery. The 8th Army had a ...worked directly with [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], much to the chagrin of the British High Command who disliked being bypassed. During the advance towards Berlin
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• Directory:Iran
  ...torture, and extrajudicial detentions. A few years later, AIOC was renamed British Petroleum, better known today as BP. ...erican Embassy in Tehran with the support of Ayatollah Khomeini. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days. On April 7, 1980, the [[United States]] bro
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