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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...second half of the 17th century, European explorers - French, Spanish, and English began entering the region, and by 1749 land companies were being formed to ...eers of Kentucky and Tennessee were constantly in conflict with the Native Americans. The growing population of Kentuckians, feeling that Virginia had failed to
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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:Alabama
  Conflict between the Spanish and local Indian tribes, as well as French and English explorers, kept the Spanish from establishing a colony. The first permanent The French and British contended for the furs gathered by Native Americans. The British gained control of the area in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris afte
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  Another blow to Adams' presidency was his generous policy toward Native Americans. Westerners, who were constantly seeking to move westward, cried for a more ...Ireland]] in which he subtly associated the [[Roman Catholic Church]] with English aggression, was published in 1832. ''Poems of Religion and Society'', a col
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• Directory:Benjamin Harrison
  [[Category:Americans of English descent]] [[Category:Americans of Scots-Irish descent]]
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• Directory:Akahele/Survey says...
  ...ecially considering how Hispanics under-index for Internet penetration and English fluency. ...impossible configuration would pro-rate to being true for about 1,785,700 Americans. That is, 4 divided by 504, times about 225,000,000 adults.
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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 ...est Indies, he maintained, could not live without American foodstuffs, but Americans could easily do without British manufactures. This same faith led him to th
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...and Nancy (Allison) McKinley, were of [[Scots-Irish]] and [[English people|English]] ancestry.<ref>[http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=:3242853& [[Category:Americans of Scots-Irish descent]]
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• Directory:John Tyler
  [[Category:Americans of English descent]] [[Category:Americans with Huguenot ancestry]]
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• Directory:Goodbye to a River Plot Summary and More
  ...book also contains snippets of history and illustrated sketches of Native Americans and pioneers.'' ...eau. Thousands of freshmen at Texas State will read the novel this fall in English and University Seminar courses. For more information on the “Common Exper
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...on of the unwritten British constitution. Adams used his wide knowledge of English and colonial legal history to show the provincial legislatures were fully s Over the next decade, Americans from every state gathered and deliberated on new governing documents. As ra
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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 ...922, Taft traveled to [[England]] to study the procedural structure of the English courts and learn how they disposed of such a large number of cases in such
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2011-10-12
  �03[13:00] * Topic is 'English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Up: http://status.wikimedia.org/ | Ch �03[14:07] * Topic is 'English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Up: http://status.wikimedia.org/ | Ch
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• User:Badmachine/wikimedia-office-2011-05-26
  ...from Maker Faire: we got to meet a primary school teacher who uses Simple English Wikiepedia in her classroom. ...riend of mine who had a team who went on a gameshow in Britain used Simple English to prepare for it. ;-)
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• Directory:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Mutual Fund
  ...dreams of a second house in the German Alps or a thatched roof pub in the English countryside. For some, mutual funds are a practical and easy way to save fo ...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:OmniMediaGroup/PLR/Real Estate
  ...suggest that racism is dead in America, it is possible that while African-Americans and Latinos pay more for their mortgages, it could be caused by various oth For many Americans, Canada has been a refuge from instability for generations. Canada was the
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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. Under the influence of [[Walter Bagehot]]'s ''The English Constitution'', Wilson saw the [[United States Constitution]] as pre-modern
  78 KB (11,614 words) - 16:36, 1 April 2008
• Directory:Zondervan Corporation
  ...was a scrupulous translation from the original languages into contemporary English, and it appealed to many Christians of different branches of the faith. Wit ...ople with poor reading skills and new immigrants with a limited command of English—it was an instant success.
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...wiss (Huber, Burkhart) descent. His mother, Hulda Minthorn Hoover, was of English and Irish descent. Both were [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]]s. He ...of [[World War I]] in 1914. In 1912, Hoover and his wife published their English translation of the Renaissance mining classic ''[[De re metallica]]'' by [[
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• Directory:Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle
  Last Year, Americans spent added than $40 BILLION on diets and weight accident products! Accordi ...the Center for Disease Control (CDC) acquaint us that added than 120 actor Americans - 60% of the developed citizenry - are overweight! Statistics from the CDC
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