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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...]] – [[October 8]], [[1869]]) was an [[Politics of the United States|American politician]] and the fourteenth [[President of the United States]], serving ...[[United States Senate|Senate]]. Later, Pierce took part in the [[Mexican-American War]] and became a [[brigadier general]]. His private law practice in his h
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...stern Panhandle attracted the first settlers. They were Germans and Scotch-Irish, and they came not over the Blue Ridge Mts. from Virginia but rather down t === The American Revolution ===
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• Directory:America's Got Talent
  '''''America's Got Talent''''' is a [[United Kingdom|British]]-owned American [[reality television series]] on the [[NBC]] [[television network]]. It is The show concept can be traced back to the American talent contest ''[[Major Bowes Amateur Hour]]'', broadcast in the United St
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• Directory:Benjamin Harrison
  | nationality=American Harrison served in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] and was appointed Colonel of the 70th Indiana Volunte
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | nationality=American ...m in a bitter dispute with the Radical Republicans.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Legal History |last=Hall |first=Kermit |coauthors= Paul Finkelman, James W.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  | nationality=American (US) ...with Britain. He is even more famous for leading the successful [[Mexican–American War]]. He lowered the [[tariff]] and established a treasury system that la
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...fth [[President of the United States]], and the last veteran of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] to be elected. ...this one focused on foreign policy. As president, he fought the [[Spanish-American War]]. McKinley for months resisted the public demand for war, which was ba
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• Module:WPSHIPS utilities/data
  ['LÉ'] = true, -- Long Éireannach – Irish ship ['American'] = true,
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...western boundary of New Hampshire, the dispute flared up again during the American Revolution and was not settled until Vermont became a state. ...Hampshire units, 3,160 enlisted in the U. S. Navy, and 396 joined African-American regiments. By war's end, 1,934 New Hampshire soldiers and sailors had died
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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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• Module:Lang/data
  ["en-ie"] = {"Irish English"}, ["en-us"] = {"American English"},
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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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