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  * 1778, English navigator Capt. James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed * 1912, English explorer Robert F. Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to
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• Directory:John McCain
  ...paign for president african american coalition american indians for mccain americans with disabilities for. John mccain what obama needs most beyond readiness t ...paign for president african american coalition american indians for mccain americans with disabilities for.</p>
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• Directory:Article Heaven/Jennifer Fitzgerald
  [[Category:British Americans]] [[Category:English Americans]]
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• Directory:Derek Michael Sheldon
  ...en]], [[Dawn Langstroth]]; [[Anne Murray]]'s daughter and [[English people|English]] [[musician]] [[Imogen Heap]]. [[Category:German Americans]]
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• Directory:Hawaii
  ...h explorer Captain James Cook, who named them the Sandwich Islands for the English Earl of Sandwich. At that time the islands were under the rule of warring n ...er, the period of Kamehameha's rule was also one of decline. Europeans and Americans brought with them devastating infectious diseases, and over the years the n
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...royed by a Native American attack. This attack notwithstanding, the Native Americans were generally friendly and willing to trade with the newcomers. English colonists from Connecticut tried to establish trading posts in the Delaware
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• Directory:Mesothelioma Attorney Oregon
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...8|1788]]. The colony was founded by Lord Baltimore in 1634 as a refuge for English Roman Catholics. Annapolis is the capital and Baltimore the largest city. P ...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
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...trait as senator June 1920.jpg|thumb|right|President Harding's poor use of English became notorious during his presidency.]] [[Warren Harding]]'s poor grasp of the English language, coupled with his insistence on writing his own speeches, produced
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• Directory:South Carolina
  The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poo ...ed by small farmers and traders, who pushed the dwindling tribes of Native Americans to the west.
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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:Katy Independent School District
  ...n School Districts]] in Dishman, Schlipf, Sills and a school for [[African-Americans]]. ...ce of Katy ISD is changing rapidly, with steady increases in minority, non-English-speaking, and low-income students.
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...iver until it met with our [i.e., the king's] other Governments. Since the English crown had never publicly proclaimed the eastern limits of the colony of New ...annexing Vermont to Canada. The talks were inconclusive and ended when the Americans finally triumphed at Yorktown in 1781. For ten years Vermont remained an in
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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 ...lamation of 1763, which, in the hopes of avoiding conflict with the Native Americans, forbade settlement W of the Alleghenies.
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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...an American Vernacular English|African-Americans]] and standard [[American English]]. The song is written in the [[First-person narrative|first person]] from That it [[Texan English#like't'a|like to]] broke my heart,
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...ninsula in the James River they founded (May 13, 1607) the first permanent English settlement in America, which they called Jamestown. It soon became clear th ...the colony, killing 350 settlers (about one third of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a fina
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• Directory:Oregon
  ...cific coast from the 16th to the 18th cent., hoping to claim the area. The English may first have arrived in the person of Sir Francis Drake, who sailed along ...e with the vessels of several nations engaged in fur trade with the Native Americans. British captains, among them John Meares and George Vancouver, made the co
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...l North Carolina was the scene of the first attempt to colonize America by English-speaking people. Two colonies were begun in the 1580's under a charter gran ...born. Virginia Dare, as the baby was named, became the first child born to English-speaking parents in the new world.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...rea, but they suffered continual harassment from the Chickasaw. Meanwhile, English fur traders and long hunters (frontiersmen who spent long periods hunting i ...Nashville's Belle Meade Plantation, was the first American winner of the English Derby in 1881. Such modern thoroughbreds as Secretariat trace their bloodl
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• Directory:American Express
  ...ornіa hаd recently joined the υnion in 1848, and gold had been discovered. Americans were flocking westward to stake claims and get rich. Wells and Fargo knew t ...the country through his New Deal (1932) economic policies, whіch put mаny Americans baсk to work. Then camө the beginning οf World Wаr II (1939-45), wһich
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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
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• 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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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...n before the revolution); he is also the only president not to have spoken English as a first language, having grown up speaking [[Dutch language|Dutch]]{{Fac [[Category:Dutch Americans]]
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• Directory:George Washington
  ..., and in his funeral oration, [[Henry Lee III|Henry Lee]] said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his count ...e]] to drive out the French.<ref name="GEN WASHINGTON"/> With his [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] allies led by [[Tanacharison]], Wash
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2015-07-04
  ...re war in Feburary but they wanted to make sure the next 30 generations of Americans would have their major holiday in the hottest part of the year [18:26] <foks> canaima, do stick to English please
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2012-09-05
  17:28 < mareklug> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/03/ 19:17 < Natterer> You could actually start talking about the English Wikipedia by thinking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_rep
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2015-07-14
  [04:40:48] <{soap|bed}> or just the english wikipedia [04:41:08] <Eatmeimaredbean> English Wikipedia
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2012-01-01
  [00:10] <darkfalls> probably an example of anglo bias tbh, lack of english sources etc. ...to make that assumption unless you're in a place that is specifically for Americans. :)
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...raff3>Graff, 3–4</ref> On his father's side, Cleveland was descended from English ancestors, the first Cleveland having emigrated to [[Massachusetts]] from n In January 1893, a group of Americans living in [[Hawai'i]] [[Kingdom of Hawaii#Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawai
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...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 ...of ''rue'' or ''root'', while Franklin used [roʊzəvəlt], with the vowel of English ''rose''.
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2011-12-30
  �03[18:32] * Topic is 'English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Status: Up (http://status.wikimedia.o �03[18:39] * Topic is 'English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/ | Status: Up (http://status.wikimedia.o
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