On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* 1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid ( the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurred, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia ( now Kennesaw ).

Structures and other evidence of Ancient Pueblo culture has been found extending east onto the American Great Plains, in areas near the Cimarron and Pecos rivers and in the Galisteo Basin.

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861 – 1901 ISBN 99918-47-99-5

Edited, with an Afterword, by Sharrar, Avery Hopwood's The Great Bordello, a Story of the Theatre, is a roman à clef that tells the story of Edwin Endsleigh — Hopwood ’ s fictional counterpart — who graduates from the University of Michigan and heads for Broadway to earn his fortune and the security to pursue his one true dream of writing the great American novel.

* 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

* Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, North American Great Plains

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

" Despite the common recurrence of depressions, classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.

* Colonial history of the United States, the period of American history from the 17th century to 1776, under the rule of Great Britain, France and Spain

There is also some co-operation between the Central ( Amended ) and Unamended Fellowships in North America – most recently in the Great Lakes region, where numerous Amended & Unamended ecclesias have opened fellowship to one another despite the failure of wider attempts at re-union under the North American Statement of Understanding ( NASU ) in recent years.

" Unfortunately, the rest of the season did not go as well, and The Great American Race was his only victory that year.

* 1960 – Jack Russell, American singer ( Great White )

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward.

In 2011, the Gold Coast and Hamburg Historic District was named as a 2011 America's Great Place by the American Planning Association.

Video game developer Mastiff referenced the dog in promoting their video game Remington Great American Bird Hunt, stating that Rockford, a dog in the game, will never laugh at players for missing the ducks.

Other notable figures in the movement include Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan ( who together initiated the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland ), Mark Van Doren, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Sir Richard Livingstone, an English classicist with an American following.

Tensions had risen between the two nations after the 1796 ratification of the Jay Treaty, made between the US and Great Britain was seen by French leaders as signs of an Anglo-American alliance, and France had stepped up seizures of American ships.

In the American colonies the First Great Awakening of the 1740s greatly expanded the movement ; it was based on revivals led by Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and Methodist George Whitefield.

The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

He was responding to British encroachments on American honor and rights ; in addition, he wanted to end the influence of the British among their Indian allies, whose resistance blocked United States settlement in the Midwest around the Great Lakes.

However, Wilhelm wanted to be his own master and was surrounded by sycophants telling him that Frederick the Great would not have been so great with a Bismarck at his side.

Most of the delegates were not yet ready to break away from Great Britain, but they wanted the British King and Parliament to act more fairly.

" I wanted to do The Lone Ranger with a car ", and " Kind of a sci-fi thing, with the soul of a western ", Larson said in The Last Great Ride.

" Hill got what he wanted, and in January 1893 his Great Northern Railway, running from St. Paul, Minnesota to Seattle, Washington — a distance of more than — was completed.

Charles Emmanuel was one of the most wanted candidates for the crown of a restored Serbian Kingdom, hypothetically presumed after a Christian crusade against the Ottoman Empire during the plannings of the Great Conspiracy of the late 16th and early 17th centuries under the auspices of Serb Patriarch John II Cantul, Herzegovinian Duke Grdan and other chiefs of the Serb clans.

Probably because he wanted to pre-empt Perdiccas, the imperial regent, from staking his claim in this way, Ptolemy took great pains in acquiring the body of Alexander the Great, placing it temporarily in Memphis, Egypt.

Cyrus wanted to place him in the center as the Greeks were his most capable unit, and were thereby most able to defeat the elite Persian cavalry and in the process kill the Great King, thereby gaining the Persian throne for Cyrus.

One story of Tjinimin tells of an argument between him and the Great Rainbow Snake where Tjinimin wanted to have sex with Great Rainbow Snake's consorts, the Green Parrot-Girls.

Rather than write a history, Camden wanted to describe in detail the Great Britain of the present, and to show how the traces of the past could be discerned in the existing landscape.

After the war, patriotic citizens wanted to discard the name that honored Great Britain's King George II.

According to the Daily Records of the Royal Secretariat ( hangul: 승정원일기, hanja: 承政院日記 ) King Yeongjo wanted to revive the glorious times of King Sejong the Great, and so read chronicles of Sejong's era.

The Russians wanted to know the military feasibility of invading Western China, including the provinces of Xinjiang and Gansu, in its struggles with Britain for control of Inner Asia known as " The Great Game.

Originally a temporary building designed by Gustave Eiffel for use as a wine rotunda at the Great Exposition of 1900, the structure was dismantled and re-erected as low-cost studios for artists by Alfred Boucher ( 1850 – 1934 ), a fireman and sculptor, who wanted to help young artists by providing them with shared models and with an exhibition space open to all residents.

She wanted him to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, “ the spiritual head of Great Britain ”.

After her winning role in The Great Ziegfeld, Thalberg wanted her to play a role opposite to her previous character, forThe Good Earth ( 1937 ).

Hiranuma wanted an anti-communist pact, but feared that a military alliance would commit Japan to war against the United States and Great Britain at a time when the bulk of its armed forces were committed to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

As both Ottomans and Great Britain desperately wanted control of the Vilayet of Mosul ( of which Kirkuk was a part ), the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 failed to solve the issue.

Tecumseh was among those who spoke with Wells and assured him that his band of Shawnee intended to remain at peace and wanted only to follow the will of the Great Spirit and his prophet.

They apparently wanted to concentrate on the southern Great Lakes.

Adams wanted Mao to be " the Mao of the huge posters and Great Leap Forward ; I cast him as a heldentenor ".

The Albanian delegation wanted a Kosovo within the borders of the newly founded state of Albania, however the Great Powers conceded them only about a third of the demanded land.