Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

Over the weeks, America's first Star Route Air Mail settled into a routine pattern despite the vagaries of weather and the lack of ground facilities and aids to navigation.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1851 – The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America.

* 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

America's first legalized casinos were set up in those places.

America's first great white faced clown was stage star George " G. L.

But, as America grew, industry became a larger and larger part of American life ; and, during the term of America's first populist president, Andrew Jackson, economic questions came to the forefront.

" In her early teens, she had her first major exposure to art during visits with Willie to the nearby Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, one of America's foremost art schools and museums.

Magic in Medicine, which depicts African culture and holistic healing, is considered one of " America's first public scenes of Africa ".

The first instance of Captain America's trademark ricocheting shield-toss occurs in Stan Lee's first comics writing, the two-page text story " Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge " in Captain America Comics # 3 ( May 1941 ).

The Federal Government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890 and Congress appropriated $ 75, 000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island.

* 1942 – Lieutenant Edward O ' Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.

His first foray into television was a documentary for NBC's Omnibus, Dancing is a Man's Game ( 1958 ) where he assembled a group of America's greatest sportsmen – including Mickey Mantle, Sugar Ray Robinson and Bob Cousy – and re-interpreted their moves choreographically, as part of his lifelong quest to remove the effeminate stereotype of the art of dance, while articulating the philosophy behind his dance style.

The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.

Lowell and his partners built America's second cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, second to the Beverly Cotton Manufactory After his death in 1817, his associates built America's first planned factory town, which they named after him.

On March 1, 2007, the Library of Congress announced that Paul Simon, one of America's most respected songwriters and musicians, was the first recipient of the annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

Washington called Adams " the most valuable of America's officials abroad ," and Nagel believes that it was at this time that Adams first came to terms with a lifetime of public service.

* 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America's most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.

* 1979 – America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.

America's First Red Scare was beginning, and one of Hoover's first assignments was to carry out the Palmer Raids.

* Fast Company magazine, ' The Hard Life and Restless Mind of America's Education Billionaire '

" America's History of Crazy Political Assassins Didn't Begin with Loughner ", History News Network, Jan. 28, 2011.

The only difference is that in the chorus, instead of singing " These are men, America's best ", they sing " These are men, The Netherlands ' best ".

In U. S. News & World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges List ", the university has been ranked consistently among the " Best National Universities – Top Schools ".

* 1875 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, " America's Oldest Active Gun Club ", is founded.

*" America's Space Program: Exploring a New Frontier ", a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places lesson plan

Multihull sailboats are typically much wider than the equivalent monohull, which allows them to carry no ballast, and the reduced weight also makes them faster than monohulls under equivalent conditions ( see Nathanael Herreshoff's " Amaryllis ", also 1988 America's Cup ).

The 2008 edition of " America's Best Colleges ", compiled by U. S. News & World Report, ranked Northern Michigan University as a Master's ( Midwest )-Third Tier institution.

Bono of U2 has called the Pixies " one of America's greatest bands ever ", and Radiohead's Thom Yorke has said that, while at school, " the Pixies had changed my life ".

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

On May 12, Clemens broke a long silence to denounce an heavily-researched expose by four investigative reporters from the New York Daily News, called American Icon: The Fall of Roger Clemens and the Rise of Steroids in America's Pastime Clemens went on ESPN's Mike and Mike show to call the book " garbage ", but a review by Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called the book " gripping " and compared it to the work of Bob Woodward.

Soon after the liberation of this prominent political hostage, the Vice President of Colombia Francisco Santos Calderón called Latin America's biggest guerrilla group a " paper tiger " with little control of the nation's territory, adding that " they have really been diminished to the point where we can say they are a minimal threat to Colombian security ", and that " After six years of going after them, reducing their income and promoting reinsertion of most of their members, they look like a paper tiger.

* " America's New War ", " War Against Terror ", " America under Attack " ( CNN )

* America's Story: " Solomon Northup Day ", Library of Congress

Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest — Martin Gardner called him " America's greatest puzzler ", and The Strand in 1898 dubbed him " the prince of puzzlers ".

The Signature Theatre, Arlington, Virginia, established a new award, " The Sondheim Award ", " as a tribute to America's most influential contemporary musical theatre composer.

As America's Founding Fathers shared a perfect horror at the concept of arbitrary courts of justice, such as those " of Philip in the Netherlands, in which life and property were daily confiscated without a jury, and which occasioned as much misery and a more rapid depopulation of the province ", they incorporated the right to trial by jury into the Bill of Rights, thereby restoring what soon-to-be United States Supreme Court Justice James Iredell described as that " noble palladium of liberty ", and protecting it from the reach of future legislators.

* December 9 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, " America's Oldest Active Gun Club ", is formed.

Called " America's Main Street ", it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches.

Although it has been called " America's Dead Sea ", the lake provides habitat for millions of native birds, brine shrimp, shorebirds, and waterfowl, including the largest staging population of Wilson's Phalarope in the world.

* Plymouth, Massachusetts, known as " America's Hometown ", the town now on the site of Plymouth Colony

* Plymouth, Massachusetts, known as " America's Hometown ", the town now on the site of Plymouth Colony