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For example, in 1785 Benjamin Franklin Bache mocked George Washington by terming him the " Grand Lama of this Country ".

*" Mother Superior ", a song on the album For God and Country by the punk rock band Good Riddance

For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front ( University of Nebraska Press ; 2010 ; 308 pages ).

For instance, in a column discussing Hurricane Katrina, he cited Wikipedia, quoted at length a discussion of Katrina's lessons on American inequality from the Native American publication Indian Country Today, and then included excerpts from a David Brooks column in the New York Times in a discussion of why the events of Katrina illustrated the necessity for global development and redistribution of wealth.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

* For King and Country ( July 2002 ) with Linda Evans, ISBN 0-7434-3539-7

For the next century, the expansion of the nation into these areas, as well as the subsequently acquired Louisiana Purchase, Oregon Country, and Mexican Cession, attracted hundreds of thousands of settlers.

For he laughed at and ridiculed all notions of Publick virtue, and the love of one's Country, calling them the Chimerical school boy flights of Classical learning ; declaring himself at the same time, No Saint, no Spartan, no reformer.

February 27: Over one thousand protesters take part in an Arab nationalist demonstration in Jerusalem carrying banners bearing the slogans " Stop Zionist Immigration " and " Our Country For Us ".

: Examples include Hud starring Paul Newman ( 1963 ); Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway ( 1972 ) and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 ); Simon Wincer's Quigley Down Under ; Robert Rodríguez's El Mariachi ( 1992 ); John Sayles ' Lone Star ( 1996 ); Tommy Lee Jones ' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ); Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ); Wim Wenders ' Don't Come Knocking ( 2005 ); and the Coen brothers Academy Award – winning No Country For Old Men ( 2007 ).

His topical songs took aim at the complacency and indolence of wealthy playboys and the upper class (" A House in the Country ", " Sunny Afternoon "), the heedless ostentation of a self-indulgent spendthrift nouveau riche (" Most Exclusive Residence For Sale "), and even the mercenary nature of the music business itself (" Session Man ").

For that reason, the county teams up with neighboring Elkhart County to promote tourism by referring to the area as Northern Indiana Amish Country.

Also that year he appeared in the film The Mighty Quinn, and as the conflicted and disillusioned Reuben James, a British soldier who, despite a distinguished military career, returns to a civilian life where racism and inner city life leads to vigilantism and violence in For Queen and Country.

* Garret Dillahunt, actor, No Country For Old Men, born in Castro Valley

* Josh Brolin, actor ( The Goonies, No Country For Old Men ( film )), was born in Templeton.

For the neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, see Country Club Estates, El Paso, Texas.

* For many years, the Gardner Municipal Golf Course has been home to the Central Massachusetts High School Cross Country Championships.

For a more thorough history of Carbonado and the surrounding area read, Carbon River Coal Country.

( 2009 ) " A Country Seat Fit For a King: Charles II, Greenwich and Winchester ," in Cruickshanks ( ed ) 2009.

For the next decade Jewison continued to direct feature films released by major studios: In Country ( 1989 ), a drama concerned with Vietnam veterans and the daughter of a war casualty ; Other People's Money ( 1991 ), a social comedy about greed in the 1980s ; Only You ( 1994 ), a romantic comedy set in Italy ; and Bogus ( 1996 ), a fantasy about a young boy and his imaginary friend.

For the full details, see Full Country Rankings for Miss World.

For the Spanish parliament to revoke the autonomy of regions such as Galicia, Catalonia or the Basque Country would be a political near-impossibility, though nothing bars it legally.

* For German American populations, such as Pennsylvania Dutch Country, it is known as Fastnacht Day ( also spelled Fasnacht, Fausnacht, Fauschnaut, or Fosnacht ).

Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Mary Durack ( Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ).

In the final lap of the 2001 Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500, Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by. 006 seconds, the same margin that Earnhardt had won over Bobby Labonte at the same race a year prior, and the images of Earnhardt's longtime gas man, Danny " Chocolate " Myers, crying after the victory, Harvick's tire-smoking burnout on the frontstretch with three fingers held aloft outside the driver's window, and the Fox television call by Mike Joy, Larry McReynolds, and Darrell Waltrip, concluding with " Gordon got loose, but he ( Harvick ) is gonna get him though, it's Harvick!

* 1935 – Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ( d. 2012 )

Gordon continued to act on the stage throughout the 1930s, including notable runs as Mattie in Ethan Frome, Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy The Country Wife at London's Old Vic and on Broadway, and Nora Helmer in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at Central City, Colorado, and on Broadway.

The film starred Josh Brolin, who would go on to win acting awards for his roles in the films W., No Country for Old Men, Milk and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

He made further purchases and became one of the dominant political figures in the West Country controlling seats such as the rotten borough of Old Sarum.

* Oscar winners: Gladiator ( 2000 ), A Beautiful Mind ( 2001 ), Chicago ( 2002 ), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Million Dollar Baby ( 2004 ), Crash ( 2005 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ), Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), The Hurt Locker ( 2009 )

East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee is the only university in the world with a comprehensive program of bluegrass, in its Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music program.

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are the third pair of siblings to win in this category for No Country for Old Men.

In the history of the Academy Awards, established duos have been nominated for Best Director only four times: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins ( who won for West Side Story in 1961 ); Warren Beatty and Buck Henry ( who were nominated for Heaven Can Wait in 1978 ), and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen ( who won for No Country for Old Men in 2007 and were nominated again in 2010 for True Grit ).

The only siblings to both be nominated are Joel and Ethan Coen, who shared nominations for No Country for Old Men ( 2007 ) and True Grit ( 2010 ).

Derived from early British forms of Country dancing, SCD is related to English country dancing, contra dancing, cèilidh dancing, Old time dancing and Irish set dancing due to the combination of some of these dance forms in early Country dance forms and later cross-over introduced by their overlapping influences via dancers and dance masters.

As of February 2005, there are 20 recognized neighborhood associations: Blue Heron ¤, Bryant ¤, Country Club-North Shore ¤, Evergreen ¤, First Addition, Forest Highlands, Glenmorrie, Hallinan Heights, Holly Orchard, Lake Forest, Lake Grove, Lakewood ¤, McVey-South Shore ¤, Oak Creek, Old Town, Palisades ¤, Rosewood, Uplands, Waluga, and Westridge.

* The Old Country ( writer ), 1977

* The Old Country, London: Faber, 1978

In 1994, Webb teamed up with Nanci Griffith to contribute the song " If These Old Walls Could Speak " to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country produced by the Red Hot Organization.

* It's an Old Country ( 1967 )

It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, and the Academy Award winning film adaptation of the same name.

On the 101st anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, he preached a sermon at Old Jewry meeting house entitled " A Discourse on the Love of our Country ", thus igniting a so-called " pamphlet war " known as the Revolution Controversy, furiously debating the issues raised by the French Revolution.

** No Country for Old Men-Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

The widespread prosperity attracted wave upon wave of immigrants, and Moline's immigrant workers often sent for their extended families in the Old Country to join them in America.