Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

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In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

The World Factbook ( ISSN ; also known as the CIA World Factbook ) is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

At present, the capital city of N ' Djamena hosts 17 embassies, including those of the United States, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, Sudan, Germany, the Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Cameroon, and the European Union.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Apart from the United Nations, Cameroon is very active in other multilateral organisations or global institutions such as the Francophonie, the Commonwealth, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, The Group of 77, the Non-Aligned Movement, the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States.

The United States Department of State approved the lifting of Section 508 aid restrictions triggered by the coup ; U. S. assistance to the Central African Republic had been prohibited except in the areas of humanitarian aid and support for democratization.

The main destination countries are the United States, Spain, Mexico and other Central American countries.

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.

Examples include the European Central Bank ( ECB ), the Federal Reserve of the United States, and the People's Bank of China.

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The name " Central Powers " is derived from the location of these countries ; all four were located between the Russian Empire in the east and France and the United Kingdom in the west.

The coyote ( or, or ; Canis latrans ), also known as the American jackal or the prairie wolf, is a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, ranging from Panama in the south, north through Mexico, the United States and Canada.

Currently, 19 subspecies are recognized, with 16 in Canada, Mexico and the United States, and three in Central America.

Chagas disease is contracted primarily in the Americas, particularly in poor, rural areas of Mexico, Central America, and South America ; very rarely, the disease has been found in the Southern United States.

Superpowers, such as the European great powers, had always felt no compunction in intervening in civil wars that affected their interests, while distant regional powers such as the United States could declare the interventionist Monroe Doctrine of 1821 for events in its Central American " backyard ".

In the United States the Democratic and the Republican Parties both have Central Committees ; these act as the leading body of those organizations at the national / administrative level, as well as local committees in a similar capacity within the local Democratic or Republican governments of individual counties and states.

* Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party

* Faygo Cola is a soft drink distributed in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Central Southern regions of the United States.

* Central Coast Region of California, in California, United States

The wholescale clearance of woodland to create agricultural land can be seen in many parts of the world, such as the Central forest-grasslands transition and other areas of the Great Plains of the United States.

*: King Vajiravudh on the 22 of July 1917 decided to declare war on the Central Powers and joined the Entente Powers in their fight on the Western Front.

Bin Laden sent Arab and Central Asian Al-Qaeda militants to join the fight against the United Front among them his Brigade 055.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

* November 23 – WWI – Eastern Front: Bucharest, the capital of Romania, is occupied by troops of the Central Powers.

Its successor, Bolshevik Russia, made peace with the Central Powers under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, leaving Romania the only enemy of the Central Powers on the Eastern Front.

The Rumcherod Committee ( Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Romanian Front, Black Sea Fleet and Odessa Military District ) proclaimed itself the supreme power in Bessarabia.

The Popular Front coalition, composed of left and centrist parties and led by former Central Planning Committee official Edgar Savisaar, gained a parliamentary majority.

Major historic sites of mining in the Belt included Central City in the Front Range, west of Denver ( 4. 2 million troy ounces ( 131 t ) of gold 1859-1960 ).

It was decided that for the next year, simultaneous offensives would be mounted by the Russians in the east, the Italians ( who had by now joined the Entente ) in the Alps and the Anglo-French on the Western Front, thereby assailing the Central Powers from all sides.

On December 1, Japan ’ s Central Front Army received Continental Order No. 8 which directed it to attack and occupy Nanking.

They were almost viewed as a ' national redoubt ,' permitting the survival and rebuilding of forces if Belgium was again invaded .< ref > David Isby and Charles Kamps Jr, ' Armies of NATO's Central Front ,' Jane's Publishing Company, 1985, p. 59.

The Alpine Front between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was a member of the Central Powers, is usually considered to be a separate front.

Construction began at the east end, with the East Wing constructed from 1701 – 03, the east end of the Garden Front from 1701 – 06, the Central Block ( including dome ) from 1703 – 06, and the west end of the Garden Front from 1707 – 09.

Central Warehouse and the Red Front Warehouse have been torn down razed.

BA 612 was used for support of the B-3 Front in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.

The divisions of the City are linked by three bridges: the Swing Bridge, located at Market Square and North Front Street ; the Belchina Bascule Bridge at the Douglas Jones Street and Youth for the Future Drive junction, and the Belcan Bridge linking Central American Boulevard and the Roundabout leading to the Northern Highway and Caribbean Shores.

Even though Germany sent many divisions to fight in Italy and the Franco-Benelux theater following the collapse of Russia and the Eastern Front in 1917 / 18, the Western Allies still defeated the Central Powers ' forces.

The following January he was elected to the Central Committee of the Lao Patriotic Front ( Neo Lao Hak Xat ).

Shortly before Bokassa's overthrow, Patassé announced his opposition to the Emperor and founded the Front de Libération du Peuple Centrafricain ( FLPC ; Front for the Liberation of the Central African People

* Isby, David, & Kamps, Charles Jr, Armies of NATO's Central Front, Jane's Publishing Company ( 1985 ).

SWC Joint Note 12 declared that, leaving aside improbables such as Central Powers internal collapse or Russian revival, neither side could win a decisive victory on the Western Front in 1918, although decisive results could be had against Turkey ( although, at French insistence, no further troops were to be sent ), possibly leading to diversion of German troops and encouragement of pro-Allied elements in Romania and southern Russia.