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...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

...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

...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]]

...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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...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

=== 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

...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,

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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

...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]].

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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.

...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

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

...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

...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

...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.

...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

...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

...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

| 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

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

...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

...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]

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]])]]

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

19:24 < ToAruShiroiNeko> british 19:25 < Ironholds> well, not British

...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

...''[[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

...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]]

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...dy and his family were in attendance at the [[Strangers Gallery]] of the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] to hear speeches in support of the [[Un In 1940, Kennedy completed his thesis, "Appeasement in Munich," about British participation in the [[Munich Agreement]]. He initially intended his thesis

In January 1893, a group of Americans living in [[Hawai'i]] [[Kingdom of Hawaii#Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai ...aff, 125</ref> The tribunal awarded the bulk of the disputed territory to British Guiana.<ref>Nevins, 647</ref> By standing with a Latin American nation aga

[18:18:00] <geniice> no I'm british. I don't have any euros ...H is silent. Then it makes sense because its a vowel-initial word. Whjat Americans seem to want to do though is to us "an" and then still pronounce the H beca

...of the 19th century. In a decision that had far-reaching consequences, the British permitted the Hindu Maharaja of Kashmir, a Sikh appointee, to continue in p ...d the same objective as the Congress--self-government for India within the British Empire--but Congress and the League were unable to agree on a formula that

...e can be repaired faster than it accumulates. The expression was coined by British [[biogerontology|biogerontologist]] [[Aubrey de Grey]] and first appeared i ...r no other reason than the inevitable shifting demographics, the number of Americans stricken with AD will rise from 4 million today to as many as 16 million by

...he price drop has many people thinking conspiracy theory. A recent poll of Americans showed that a staggering 42 percent of respondents believe that George W. B ...7/stock-exchange-history.asp">The Birth Of Stock Exchanges</a> - Learn how British coffeehouses helped give rise to the juggernaut that is the NYSE. The Tale

�06[16:58] * BarkingFish lolz at reading stupid exam answers from british GCSE students :) [17:29] <Qcoder00> Speaking of which has anyone here seen any classic British Adaptations of Dickens?

...t for [[Civil Rights|civil rights]] for [[African American history|African Americans]].<ref>See Skidmore (2005); Bunting (2004), Scaturro (1998), Smith (2001) a A distinguished British historian has written that "we must go back to the campaigns of Napoleon to

...to the highest moral standard possible, a standard by which, he believed, Americans would want themselves to be judged.<ref>http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa ...predecessors and supportive of racial desegregation and expanding African-Americans' rights.

...on the grounds that it was an unnecessary conflict. Nevertheless, when the British invaded neighboring [[Maryland]], he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit [[Category:Americans of Scots-Irish descent]]

[21:44] <Tired> Americans are retarded. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-scho ...e to imagine that this news instilled confusion in many Americans, as many Americans are (a) familiar with pizza, (b) familiar with vegetables and (c) sane.

[20:05] <Masconomet> Patrick was British, he came from around the River Severn area, apparently ...he stockings, the chimney, the presents on Christmas Eve, the whole thing. Americans still quote it every Christmas time.

...rance]," time.com.</ref> Although the sentiment was in line with what many Americans felt at the time, it was regarded by later biographers as both inappropriat ...nd under pressure to withdraw from Palestine quickly because of attacks on British forces by armed Zionist groups and Arab militias.<ref>{{cite web |url=http:

..."[[Silent Majority (Politics)|Silent Majority]]" of socially conservative Americans who disliked the [[hippie]] [[counterculture]] and the [[anti-war]] demonst ...a part of China.”<ref>Victor S. Kaufman; ''Confronting Communism: U.S. and British Policies toward China'' (2001), 228–31; Anthony Kubek, "The 'Opening' of

[15:21] <Ironholds> derp: a British asshole is an arsehole. ...21] <Demiurge1000> Ironholds: But what if that view of you is only held by Americans?

�06[19:02] * SpeakFree expects a British wikipedian to torrent it before then. [21:41] <Ironholds> in fact, why are ANY americans here?

09:21 < TeeTylerToe> everybody says how friendly americans are when they visit... WTF 09:21 < TeeTylerToe> who are these friendly americans?

...De Morgan]], [[William Stanley Jevons]], and [[William Kingdon Clifford]], British mathematicians and logicians whose turn of mind resembled his own. From 18 ...ch, Finnish, and Swedish. Since 1950, there have been French, Italian, and British Peirceans of note. For many years, the North American philosophy department

[12:49] <Jeske_Merensky> And Palestinians hate Americans [12:49] <Jeske_Merensky> And Americans hate anything not white

...y Mouse money'''" is a derogatory term for foreign currency, often used by Americans to describe indigenous currency in a foreign country in which they are trav * In the beginning of the 1980s, the then British [[Prime Minister]], [[Margaret Thatcher]] once called the [[European Parlia

...mber. This is the project that persuades university students (in this case Americans) to help edit articles on particular topics. ...ikimedia events in the UK in order to do translation. Wikimedia outrach to British institutions shouldn't just be about English WP (or indeed just about WP)

[11:43] <geniice> Taiwan is occupied british territory. End of. [13:07] <quanticle> geniice: They don't, but these are Americans we're talking about. We think anything east of Boston is "socialist Europe"

07:18 < ToAruShiroiNeko> Tony_Sidaway your son is quite british then 07:20 < ToAruShiroiNeko> I mean the british have paradropped their queen

[14:27] <bep> Dystopian/Sci-Fi/British [15:08] <kim_bruning> (interestingly, not all americans -like- grok the "-like-" idiom)

[16:38] <bep> americans! [16:38] <Qcoder00> Steven_Zhang: You understand British Humor?

[15:56] <Maryana> oh, geniice! you were so right about the british museum [16:05] <geniice> Maryana british museum is an encyclopedic museum

[17:00] <Qcoder00> bep: You are british? [17:00] <Qcoder00> bep: OK If you are British, How many verses of God Save the Queen are there?

00:16 < wctaiwan> you rich spoiled wasteful americans >.> 08:21 < yutsi-mobile> i thought british ppl were good at tennis

�06[02:43] * LtNOWIS|TV should remember that Americans are mostly asleep at this hour [02:44] <LauraHale> If the Americans live in America, yes.

[15:34] <WilliamH_UK> Americans and Canadians are friends again [15:34] <ToAruShiroiNeko> WilliamH_UK Americans and Canadians are never friends.

[15:02] <Demiurge1000> Supposedly it's one of the two things that British soldiers always wanted during World War Two. Tea, and something to complai [15:03] <SpeakFree> My british friend complained about my tea making I apparently do it all wrong. :)

[16:33] <SpeakFree> I was in the British Museum last month and they don't have bans on taking pictures, saw dozens o [16:33] <geniice> SpeakFree british museum allows photos yes

13:31 < Qcoder02> If it's anything like a British Parish Council, just wearing seomthing conservative but casul will be fine 14:20 < Qcoder02> It needs a British English female voice

[19:55] <Alpha_Quadrant> tommorris: Americans didn't kick out the English language, we just dropped out all of those extr ...Alpha_Quadrant> although it /is/ easier to get something to DYK if you use British English

15:24 < Pharos> Americans: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_United_States_Federation#Wikimedi ...Tony_Sidaway> Also if you were watching it and didn't know much about the British, you'd come away with the impression that we really love the 1960s!

00:19 -!- muahaha|surfer is now known as muahaha|british 00:21 -!- muahaha|british is now known as muahaha|monk

May 05 02:06:59 <foks> Doc_glasgow, I prefer "It's amazing what the Americans can do when the PlayStation Network is down" ...been discussed on and off for years but eh unless someone does a sweep of british and colonial care homes and turns up some other veterans it looks like we m

...it's latin, and should be italicized and conjugated per latin rules....but americans don't speak english worth a damn. 08:50 < ToAruShiroiNeko> americans speak american

May 02 04:05:28 <archanamiya> mindspillage: nono, americans do xD May 02 04:28:26 <MuZemike> Ironically, "We Are the Champions" is from a British band, though (that is what people I hear are also singing right now)

04:13 < Pharos> any british here? ...co.uk/news/article-2331367/Woolwich-murder-Thousands-Youtube-videos-urging-British-Muslims-maim-kill-seconds-online.html - Hmm Didn't take long

May 07 08:48:31 <Ironholds> the British public really are fucking imbeciles May 07 10:45:43 <Pesky> That's the Great British Public for you …… vote with the propaganda ….

08:00 < BobTheWikipedian> oh good, my british expert friend is here 17:13 < NotASpy> they're making British Rail look like the paradigm of safety.

Jul 05 23:29:28 <Swob> even the British talk like Americans now Jul 05 23:29:42 <Swob> according to the British who were born 50+ years ago

Jul 12 12:54:21 <Qcoder00> What's more he's making wild claims about the British agencies that he can't possibly have direct knowledge off Jul 12 13:03:50 <Qcoder00> NotASpy; Did the British Empire ever invade places on the pretext of liberation ?

May 03 04:20:39 <Headbomb> that`s better than 95% of americans, if not more May 03 12:51:55 <foks> Ironholds, it's because you're a British white male

[18:38] <Narson> Ironholds is the British version of Bobcat Goldthwait [18:38] <Narson> Ironholds is the British version of Bobcat Goldthwait

08:18 < Tony_Sidaway> Anybody who thinks British monarchy has good taste is invited to tour Buckingham Palace. ...already think they're ruled by a British subject from Kenya who hates the British.

...'slot machine''' ([[American English]]), informally '''fruit machine''' ([[British English]]), '''puggy''' ([[Scottish English]] slang),<ref>{{cite book |last [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] casinos located in [[Indian reservat

03:27 < Steven_Zhang> why do americans pronounce "hyundai" as "hundye" 03:28 < Revent> *lols* Americans don't pronounce anything right.

07:03 < TeeTylerToe> 46% of americans die with an estate worth $10,000 or less. Basically living off social secu ...your balls on commons and they were nominated for deletion, why not e-mail british government lawyers and get them to sort it out? they did a good job last ti

06:09 < IRWolfie-> British diplomats would be put at risk ...is making non-Israelis rule the country... How about para-dropping in the british queen?

11:11 < foks> Also, according to xkcd, by 2036 the majority of Americans will be too young to recall 9/11 ...my Kyle's american show is just a glorified Jerry Springer ripoff, but his british version is not so bad :) Plenty of juicy drama and dna tests :P

[01:30] <JackO> I tend to find Americans love their founding fathers too. And I find that to be the most annoying th [17:33] <juancarlos> tuition sounds british

09:02 < Qcoder00> "huh,Huh Boris, I don't see why the Americans are worried, Comradr Commisar ALWAYS heard OUR Pollitical jokes..!" 09:03 < TheDruId> When I was working, rerouting everything through British proxies so their intel could peek was the default non-action.

[17:53] <tommorris> Logan_: British Library �06[20:49] * SigmaWP melts the americans

04:41 < Ironholds> because americans are silly ...Spy> Qcoder00: Jimmy Savile - he was in charge of seat belt safety for all British citizens. Clunk click every grope.

09:13 < SoapX> http://www.johnlewis.com/ <----0--- looks British, thats prob' why ive never heard of them 09:13 < JohnLewis> SoapX: It is British.

[01:05] <log> Americans... [01:06] <Moe_Epsilon> no Americans care about Kate Middleton log shhh :p

18:26 < Qcoder02> The thing is a lot of British Kids TV by reputation as opposed to actually having seen it... Liek Childr 19:57 < jorm> americans get confused by a lot of stuff fairly easily.

02:54 < foks> I have very little faith in Americans during elections 12:57 < russavia> he's definitely not british-born

...5 <tommorris> SMasters: Bacon butty? Amateurs. If you really want to gross Americans out, give them Marmite. May 04 16:38:30 <Fluffernutter> tommorris: sounds persuasive if the british populace is anything like the american

06:50 < Swob> its just like how Americans confuse Belgium and Bulgaria ...'s nowhere for tax dodgers to move to. All the major economies and all the British Overseas Territories formerly behaving as tax havens tell HMRC who has what

...d one on Y!A, and it's got me utterly stumped - if the answer is something british, I've sure never heard of it. ...* Ironholds (Ironholds@wikipedia/Ironholds) Quit (Quit: do not put cats or americans near your keyboard�)

May 01 04:41:33 <slakr> ...because americans can't handle gay stuff, apparently. May 02 04:05:28 <archanamiya> mindspillage: nono, americans do xD

...ey Gov. Chris Christie Says Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Know Concerns of 'Real Americans' [18:52] <foks> and was british

[11:49] <JohnLewis> Supplying British Beef Burgers which had Horse and Pig. ...56] <JohnLewis> Yep, We cant afford 100% British Beef so... Have this 100% British Beef, Horse and Pig Burger!