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S.K. was visiting C.C.B. and, not waiting for breakfast, he was off to the University Club, where he spent hours writing obituaries of living Americans for The Manchester Guardian or The Glasgow Herald.
Also in 1776, Fray Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary, spent a week near Havasupai, unsuccessfully attempting to convert a band of Native Americans to Christianity.
Americans spent more than $ 14 billion on jeans in 2004 and $ 15 billion in 2005.
Defeating Ulfran, Val was reunited with Aleta, and the couple spent that winter with friendly Native Americans.
Native Americans crossed this area, and even spent summers here where the fishing was good and summer berries plentiful.
However, the Japanese were able to use Munda despite regular bombardment from both air and sea, and the Americans ' New Georgia Campaign spent July 1943 closing in on Munda overland, capturing it on 6 August.
In 2011, Americans spent an average of $ 6. 8 billion dollars to celebrate Halloween, an average of $ 72. 31 per household.
What is now known as New Preston came to be inhabited by the Wyantenock tribe of Native Americans, who spent summers at Lake Waramaug, establishing a pattern of seasonal residence that is widely repeated by New Preston's present-day occupants.
In his reminiscence of 1873 Israel Jefferson, former slave at Monticello, recalled a conversation Lafayette had when visiting Thomas Jefferson in 1824, " Lafayette remarked that he thought that the slaves ought to be free ; that no man could rightly hold ownership of his brother man ; that he gave his best services to and spent his money on behalf of the Americans freely because he felt that they were fighting for a great and noble principle-the freedom of mankind ; that instead of all being free a portion were held in bondage ( which seemed to grieve his noble heart ); that it would be mutually beneficial to masters and slaves if the latter were educated, and so on.
The Americans and the French spent the night of the 28th sleeping out in the open, while work parties built bridges over the marsh.
Barbara enjoyed her time spent in China, and often rode bicycles with her husband to explore the cities and regions that few Americans had traveled to.
" If one believes that the trust fund assets are worthless ," argued former Representative Bill Archer, then similar reasoning implies that “ Americans who have bought EE savings bonds should go home and burn them because they ’ re worthless because the money has already been spent .” At a Senate hearing in July 2001, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was asked whether the trust fund investments are “ real ” or merely an accounting device.
* Gunnar Myrdal, professor at the Stockholm School of Economics, and later Stockholm University, spent many years in the U. S. writing the book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, an investigation into the situation of African Americans, funded by the Carnegie Foundation.
Although he was most widely known among Americans for his years being the Surgeon General, the vast bulk of Koop's career was actually spent as a practicing physician.
The only Americans who were shown outsmarting Mercer were: a university student who spent her time laughing at him ( before finally answering ), and a small child who pointed out to his mother, who was also tricked, that Canada had provinces, not states.
Opponents of Georgia's transportation policies have alleged a race-based two-tiered system, where billions are spent by the state on highway expansion to aid the commutes of mostly Caucasian residents of the suburbs and rural areas ( like GRIP ), while service cuts at MARTA have hurt mostly African Americans.
He spent several years in the American Hockey League with the Baltimore Skipjacks, Rochester Americans, and Portland Pirates, and the ECHL with the Hampton Roads Admirals, after playing major junior hockey for the New Westminster Bruins and Tri-City Americans of the Western Hockey League ( WHL ).
He spent much of his Army career until 1893 at difficult postings in the American West, at one point looking after several hundred Apache Native Americans, including Geronimo.
The prescribed $ 41. 6 billion in federal outlays would have been spent for a combination of new investments in physical infrastructure and to help targeted Americans in need as follows:
Pierce has spent years working with the Alzheimer ’ s Association on behalf of Americans with Alzheimer ’ s disease.
Much of the money spent to promote these anti-tax measures were provided by out-of-state backers including Americans for Tax Reform headed by Grover Norquist .< ref >
Barnaby was generally considered a pest and agitator and spent the next few seasons playing between the Sabres and AHL affiliate the Rochester Americans.
When the Nazis invaded Belgium in May 1940, Zygielbojm went to France and then the United States, where he spent a year and a half trying to convince Americans of the dire situation facing the Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Americans and great
In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.
He will be considered not only great among his contemporaries, but as great among all the Americans who have played a part in the country's history since the beginning.
But with all the changes in philosophy, dress and terrain -- a few things remain constant, including the devotion of Americans to the great field sports, hunting and fishing.
We trust you are not one of the 70,000,000 Americans who do not attend church, but who feel that various forms of recreation are more important than worshipping the God who made our country great.
An associate of Douglass wrote of Grant that African Americans " will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of his name, fame and great services.
For certain purposes it assumed that all real Americans live in towns like this, and so great is the power of myth, even the born city-dweller is likely to believe vaguely that he too lives on this shady street, or comes from it, or is going to .”
He remained there while various of his English companions travelled to the other colonies, because he wished to meet some Native Americans who were interested in Quaker ways — though he relates that they had " a great dispute " among themselves about whether to participate in the meeting.
But Americans who serve today in West Berlin -- your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.
The great majority of Americans during this time were farmers working their own land, primarily for their own needs.
" Audubon had great respect for Native Americans: " Whenever I meet Indians, I feel the greatness of our Creator in all its splendor, for there I see the man naked from His hand and yet free from acquired sorrow.
During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.
The river had great significance in the history of the Native Americans, as numerous civilizations formed along its valley.
He enlists the aid of Manjiro, the only man in Japan who has dealt with Americans, and disguised as a great lord, Manjiro gets an answer from them: Commodore Perry announces that he must meet the Shogun within six days or else he will shell the city.
The pregame show held before the game featured dancers in celebration of the culture of Native Americans in the United States, the traditions of the American Old West, and the great outdoors.
Eleanor Roosevelt, in her My Day column for October 12, 1944, eulogized Willkie as a " man of courage ... outspoken opinions on race relations were among his great contributions to the thinking of the world ... Americans tend to forget the names of the men who lost their bid for the presidency.
This little book was the first dictionary of any Indian tongue in the English language and fed the great hunger of the English about the Native Americans.
* Anthony Flanagan as Kenny Archer: a rogue policeman with a great hatred for Americans because of the War on Terror started by the World Trade Center attack.
President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, whom was part of the U. S. 89th Infantry Division, the first Americans to reach a concentration camp of Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's sub-camps.
" Calhoun rejected the belief of Southern Whigs such as Henry Clay that all Americans could agree on the " opinion and feeling " that slavery was wrong, although they might disagree on the most practicable way to respond to that great wrong.
In the South Park episode " Ginger Kids ", Cartman asks a crowd of fellow gingers to name great Americans with red hair, the only name they can think of is " Ron Howard ".
The Hall of Fame honors Americans responsible for great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.
Irving described his childhood in an interview with the American writer Ron Rosenbaum as: " Unlike the Americans, we English suffered great deprivations ... we went through childhood with no toys.

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