One of the earliest purely " American " rifle-shooting competitions took place in 1775, when Daniel Morgan was recruiting sharpshooters in Virginia for the impending American Revolutionary War.

Screenwriters consulting American works to build the character Tavington based on Tarleton would have commonly found descriptions of him as barbaric and accounts of his name being used for recruiting and motivation during the Revolutionary War itself, even if those accounts were fiction.

Each of the Allies captured a share of the available members of the German rocket team, but the United States benefited the most with Operation Paperclip, recruiting von Braun and most of his engineering team, who later helped develop the American missile and space exploration programs.

Built by Samuel May in 1817, the house was utilized by the Confederate forces as a recruiting station during the American Civil War.

During the American Civil War, no battles were fought in Edina, but both the Union and the Confederacy engaged in recruiting in the area.

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Nearing authored a series of pamphlets, published by the Rand School, one of which, The Great Madness: A Victory for the American Plutocracy, resulted in his indictment under the Espionage Act for alleged " obstruction to the recruiting and enlistment service of the United States.

David Curtiss " Steve " Stephenson ( 21 August 1891 – 28 June 1966 ) was an American politician who was appointed in 1923 as a Grand Dragon ( state leader ) of the Ku Klux Klan in the U. S. state of Indiana, and head of recruiting for seven other states.

An American recruiting scout will be attending.

Topsfield sent 113 soldiers to the American Civil War and appropriated funds for recruiting and supporting them.

Previously, in the 1840s when American companies began recruiting cheap, accessible labor from Asia to develop Hawaii and the frontier West, Taiwan was too small to be a target for recruiters.

He began recruiting from amongst American supporters of slavery and the Manifest Destiny Doctrine, mostly inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee.

In addition, Howe was involved with recruiting American troops for the Crimean War.

While at North Carolina, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting the University ’ s first African American scholarship basketball player, Charlie Scott, and pushing for equal treatment for African Americans by local businesses.

The British responded by recruiting Native American tribes to form part of their defence in the Michigan, Canada area in case the Americans attacked Canada.

While Luisi was still a student, Argentine liberal feminist Petrona Eyle wrote to her, in her capacity as president of the Universitarias Argentinas ( Argentine Association of University Women, affiliated with the American Association of University Women, or AAUW ), recruiting her to join the organization.

Seni, a conservative aristocrat whose anti-Japanese credentials were well established, organized the Free Thai Movement with American assistance, recruiting Thai students in the United States to work with the United States Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ).

The guards work for recruiting agencies such as Askar Security Services, which are hired by Beowulf International, a receiving company in Iraq, which subcontracts their services to EOD Technologies, an American company hired by the U. S. Department of Defense to provide security guards for Camp Victory in Baghdad.

During his administration, Dartmouth became more proactive in recruiting and retaining minority students and revived its founding commitment to provide education for American Indians.

The 2003 / 04 season represented a change in the recruiting process ; rather than a club with lots of North American players, Stan Marple brought in more British and Slovakian players.

When the American War Between the States started, Belknap, a loyal Democrat, joined the Union Army in the Autumn of 1861 and was commissioned Major in charge recruiting the 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry on December 7.

All Star duly adapted to meet the challenge, recruiting a new generation of wrestlers such as Dean Allmark and Robbie Dynamite and signing up such stars as " American Dragon " Brian Danielson.

Months after his return, he was arrested for shooting Army soldiers at a recruiting office, killing one, telling authorities after his arrest that his motive was that he was a Muslim angry about the killing of Muslims by American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

A poster for a circa | c. 1884 American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene.

Reviewing the posters of several 1999 films, David Hochman of Entertainment Weekly rated American Beautys highly, saying it evoked the tagline ; he said, " You return to the poster again and again, thinking, this time you're gonna find something.

Ryan Wayne White ( December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990 ) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV / AIDS in the United States, after being expelled from middle school because of his infection.

An American poster encouraging Americans to send contributions to help the Serbian war-effort during the First World War.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein-the film's poster title-or Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein-the onscreen title-( although the film is often referred to as simply Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ) is a 1948 American comedy horror film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

An American poster from World War II.

* A poster for The Unseen is featured in the 2007 American comedy Superbad, appearing on the bedroom wall when the Michael Cera character is having sex.

C. 1884 poster advertising an American production of the play, showing many key scenes.

" Ted Coconis produced a one-sheet poster for the film's North American release.

Because of her love of dance and as a salute to creativity, Jemison took a poster from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Company along with her on the flight.

File: Bat Zion I want your Old New Land join Jewish regiment. jpg | A recruitment poster published in American Jewish magazines during WWI.

One poster from that year's fair, issued by Borden's Milk had Elsie the Cow proclaiming " makes you proud to be an American ".

The red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farrah in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History ( NMAH ) on February 2, 2011.

* June 17-Alton Kelley, American poster and album artist ( d. 2008 ).

Argentina, described by some as " the poster boy of the Latin American economic revolution ", came crashing down in 2002.

In addition, a sword held by Jet Li's character in the original promotional poster was replaced by weapon resembling a katana, a Japanese weapon, in the North American promotional poster, which was both anachronistic and culturally misplaced.

This 1869 Swedish anti-emigration poster contrasts Per Svensson's dream of the American idyll ( left ) and the reality of his life in the wilderness ( right ), where he is menaced by a mountain lion, a big snake, and wild Indians who are scalping and disembowelling someone.

In the United States, Hugo Montenegro released a cover version as did Billy Strange and Leroy Holmes who released a cover version of the soundtrack album with the original American poster art.

American head shops originated in the 1960s in cities with high concentrations of college-age youth, often growing out of independently owned poster or candle stores.

Arabic-language campaign posters produced by Pascrell supporters reportedly encourged the “ Arab diaspora community ” to elect Pascrell, “ the friend of the Arabs .” The poster touted the race as “ the most important election in the history of the American community .”

1879 poster for an American theatre production of L ' Assommoir by Augustin Daly

Throughout the ' 70s and ' 80s Struzan produced poster work for such films as Blade Runner, The Cannonball Run, the Police Academy series, Back to the Future, Coming To America, First Blood, Risky Business, D. C. Cab, Stroker Ace, An American Tail, and The Goonies.

While continuing to create artwork for such 1990s and 2000s films as Hook, Hellboy and the American poster for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, he started exploring other outlets for his work, including comic books, limited-edition art, and the collectible market.