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• Wikipedia Vandalism/Sean Rooney
  {{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}} {{MedalSilver|2007 Rio de Janeiro|[[Volleyball at the 2007 Pan American Games|Team]]}}
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• Directory:Key West, Florida
  The southernmost city in the continental [[United States]], Key West once served as a base of operation against pira ...te of the victims of the USS Maine, whose sinking precipitated the Spanish-American War.
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• Brandywine Springs
  ...e site was then briefly the focus of a military encampment of about 12,000 Continental soldiers and militia led by General [[George Washington]]. In 1827, work b During the American Civil War, a temporary "Camp DuPont" was established on the grounds. First
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• United States dollar
  The word dollar was introduced by the Dutch in the North-American colony. In the 17th century, the Dutch 'Leeuwendaalders' - or Liondollars - An American explanation states that the '$' symbol was historically a combination of bo
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...armed violence was directed against New Yorkers until the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, when the British became the major threat and common ene === The American Revolution and Independent Vermont ===
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• Slogan
  *'''Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine. Continental Liar from the state of Maine''' 1884 U.S. presidential campaign slogan used *'''I propose (to the American people) a [[New Deal]]''' - 1932 slogan by democratic presidential candidat
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...d Providence in 1636. It was granted a royal charter in 1663 and after the American Revolution began the industrialization that is still a major part of the st Until the American Revolution, Newport was the commercial center of the colony, thriving espec
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | nationality=American ...]]. After graduating from William and Mary in 1776, Monroe fought in the [[Continental Army]], serving with distinction at the [[Battle of Trenton]], where he was
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• List of recent automobile models by type
  *[[Ford Fusion (North American)|Ford Fusion]] *[[Bentley Continental Flying Spur (2005)|Bentley Continental Flying Spur]]
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• Directory:Wyoming
  The area that would become Wyoming was inhabited by several Native American groups before the arrival of Europeans. The Shoshone, Arapaho, Cheyenne and ...t in south central Wyoming drains neither to the east nor to the west. The continental divide splits and goes around the desert on all sides leaving the basin wit
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...e Europeans explored the Delaware area, it was inhabited by several Native American groups of the Delaware—notably the Nanticoke in the south and the Minqua ...of the town of Lewes. However, within a year it was destroyed by a Native American attack. This attack notwithstanding, the Native Americans were generally fr
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• Directory:Jon Faddis
  ...ishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-580-8|page=141}}</ref> is an American [[jazz]] trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator, renowned for bo ...Festival USA|USA]] in [[Charleston, South Carolina]], as well as at the [[American Music Theater Festival]] in [[Philadelphia]].
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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 === The American Revolution ===
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  | nationality=American ...ame for leading U.S forces against [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]]s at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] in 1811 and earning the [[nicknam
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...nee were defeated in 1859, and by 1880 war with the Sioux and other Native American resistance was over. With the coming of the railroads, cow towns, such as O * Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert".
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• Directory:Alaska
  ...ful Aleut natives. Consequently, this led to the chartering of the Russian American Company in 1799. Under its first manager, Alexander Baranov, which was a pe The tremendous land mass of Alaska—equal to one-fifth of the continental U.S. was still unexplored in 1867. And with the Civil War, the purchase was
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• Directory:George Washington
  | nationality= American | order2=[[Continental Army|Commander-in-Chief <br /> of the Continental Army]]
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• Directory:James Madison
  | nationality=American ...ref> ([[March 16]] [[1751]] – [[June 28]] [[1836]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[politician]] and the fourth [[President of the United States]] (1809–
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• American Airlines Flight 191
  |name = American Airlines Flight 191 |operator = [[American Airlines]]
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...Native Americans called the Chesapeake Bay. That name came from the Native American word "Chesepiuk," an Algonquian name for a village that the Roanoke, Virgin ...ston Port Bill by burning a boat and the tea cargo, and attended the First Continental Congress in 1774 in Philadelphia. Baltimore served as the country's capital
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