In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

Foreign courts needed to have American grievances laid before them persuasively in a “ manifesto ” which could also reassure them that the Americans would be reliable trading partners.

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

Rod Dreher writes the following: “ unshakable devotion to the land, to localism, and to the dignity of traditional life makes him both a great American and, to the disgrace of our age, a prophet without honor in his native land.

* The various ethnicities originating from early social factors of Race in the United States and the gastronomy and cuisines of the “ New World ,” Latin American cuisine and North American cuisine:

The work contexts in which African-Americans sang songs comparable to shanties included: boat-rowing on rivers of the south-eastern U. S. and Caribbean ; the work of stokers or “ firemen ,” who cast wood into the furnaces of steamboats plying great American rivers ; and stevedoring on the U. S. eastern seaboard, the Gulf Coast, and the Caribbean — including " cotton-screwing ": the loading of ships with cotton in ports of the American South.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Mike Scioscia, manager of the American League West Division Champion Los Angeles Angels, dismissed the decision as “ Ridiculous.

Wilfred Bailey Everett “ Bill ” Bixby III ( January 22, 1934 − November 21, 1993 ) was an American film and television actor, director, and frequent game show panelist.

Early 20th century American preacher Billy Sunday epitomizes the Evangelical focus on " going to heaven " in his sermon “ Heaven: A Wonderful Place ; Where There is No More Death ; Blessed Hope of the Christian .” In the message Sunday characteristically explained the feelings of his audience by saying “ Everybody wants to go to Heaven.

A footnote in the New American Bible says: “ Some scholars take the call be eunuchs for the sake of heaven to be meant for those who have been divorced by their spouses and who have refused to enter into another marriage ” ( p. 1041 ).

Gerrit S. Miller still had in his 1924 edition of List of North American Recent Mammals in the section “ Genus Canis Linnaeas ,” the subordinate heading “ Subgenus Thos Oken ” and backed it up with a reference to Heller.

The American impressionist Mary Cassatt, who at one point lived in Paris to study art, and joined his Impressionist group, noted that he was “ such a teacher that he could have taught the stones to draw correctly .”

“ NUVUE ”, the first cable television system, was set up in Baguio City spearheaded by American expatriate Russel Swartley in 1969.

Terms invented by Adams in relation to the strip, and sometimes used by fans in describing their own office environments, include “ Induhvidual .” This term is based on the American English slang expression “ duh !” The conscious misspelling of individual as induhvidual is a pejorative term for people who are not in the DNRC ( Dogbert's New Ruling Class ).

“ Clark Ashton Smith: Beauty Is for the Few ,” chapter 2 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry.

Simek says that Snorri ’ s description is further proven faithful by way of the ( above mentioned ) 10th century skaldic kenning “ Kvasir ’ s blood ” ( Old Norse Kvasis dreya ), and that strong parallels exist between the Old Norse tale of the theft of the Mead of Poetry by Odin ( in the form of an eagle ) and the Sanskrit tale of the theft of Soma — beverage of the gods — by the god Indra ( or an eagle ), and that these parallels point to a common Proto-Indo-European basis.

Like his colleagues and counterparts, Sumarokov extolled the legacy of Peter I, writing in his manifesto Epistle on Poetry, “ The great Peter hurls his thunder from the Baltic shores, the Russian sword glitters in all corners of the universe ”.

*"“ Long Live the Vortex !” and “ Our Vortex ” ( 1914 ) by Lewis at the Poetry Foundation

Local film and digital media agency Screen West Midlands referred to the event as “ Personal, Instinctual & Organic Video Poetry of everyday life .” The event was a way of embracing the Black Country's distinctive cultural characteristics in the medium of film.

* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Julie Sheehan, “ Brown-headed Cow Birds ”

* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Timothy Donnelly, “ His Long Imprison'd Thought ”

* Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “ Circus Fire, 1944 ”

* William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry ( collected essays including the influential critical essays “ The Intentional Fallacy ” and “ The Affective Fallacy ” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley ).

The orchestral song cycle “ Sing, Poetry ” on the 2011 album Troika consists of settings of Vladimir Nabokov ’ s Russian and English-language poetry by three Russian and three American composers.

Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).

Among his better known works are Sonetos espirituales 1914 – 1916 ( 1916 ; “ Spiritual Sonnets, 1914 – 15 ”), Piedra y cielo ( 1919 ; “ Stones and Sky ”), Poesía, en verso, 1917 – 1923 ( 1923 ), Poesía en prosa y verso ( 1932 ; “ Poetry in Prose and Verse ”), Voces de mi copla ( 1945 ; “ Voices of My Song ”), and Animal de fondo ( 1947 ; “ Animal at Bottom ”).

Through studies of works by T. S. Eliot as well as discussions of topics such as “ The Augustan Mode in English Poetry ” and “ The Criticism of Comedy ” ( xi ), Wimsatt attempts to add to the efforts to justify and improve literary criticism ( xix ).

Understanding Poetry was an unparalleled success and remains “ a classic manual for the intellectual and imaginative skills required for the understanding of poetry ” ( Singh 1991 ).

* Raud, Rein, “ The Lover ’ s Subject: Its Construction and Relativization in the Poetry of the Heian Period ”.

The poems “ Poetry, Prophecy, Survival ”, “ Paradox and Equilibrium ”, and “ Poetry and Peace: Some Broader Dimensions ” revolve around war, injustice, and prejudice.

C. peltata has been nominated as one of the “ 100 of the World ’ s Worst Invasive Alien Species ” by the Global Invasive Species Database.

* Painting of the fireboat “ The New Yorker ,” 1893, in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database

According to the Placenames Database of Ireland the name Malahide is possibly derived from the Irish “ Baile Átha Thíd ” meaning “ the town of the ford of Thíd ”.

* S. Lightstone, T. Teorey, T. Nadeau, “ Physical Database Design: the database professional's guide to exploiting indexes, views, storage, and more ”, Morgan Kaufmann Press, 2007.

Balancing individual rights and the public interest in the governance and use of the National DNA Database, which said that “ the profiles of over three quarters of young black men between the ages of 18 and 35 are recorded .”

According to the NPIA, the database is a successful tool in fighting crime and points out that “ between April 09 and 28th January 2010 the National DNA Database produced 174 matches to murder, 468 to rapes and 27, 168 to other crime scenes .”

In addition, the NPIA says that the “ National DNA Database continues to provide police with the most effective tool for the prevention and detection of crime since the development of fingerprint analysis over 100 years ago.

Tellingly, the NPIA points out that of all of the subject profiles retained on the DNA Database by ethnic appearance as at 16 October 2009, 77. 57 % were “ White North European ”, 2. 06 % were “ White South European ,” 7. 83 % were black, 5. 67 % were Asian, 0. 82 % were Middle Eastern, 0. 69 % were Chinese, Japanese or South East Asian, and 5. 365 were unknown.