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The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
In this week, members of the Penobscot Tribe from all over Maine venture to the Penobscot Indian Island Reservation in Old Town and take part in games, Native American arts and crafts, pow-wows, cook-outs, etc.
* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )
* 1932 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Old Dogs )
According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >
* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".
Some such stories are exaggerations of actual events ; others are completely fictional tales set in a familiar setting, such as the American Old West, or the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.
* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
* 1928 – Vassar Clements, American musician ( Old and in the Way ) ( d. 2005 )
Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.
Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.
The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.
The first American production was at the Old Park Theater in New York on 1 February 1841.
Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).
One enduring legacy of Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
* 1942 – Peter Rowan, American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer ( Earth Opera and Old and in the Way )
* 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D. C.
* 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
Category: People of the American Old West
All three companies focus on using smartphones such as the Android and iPhone-Foursquare partnered with AMEX to provide Foursquare points when using an American Express card, and Shopkick partnered with Visa to provide Shopkick points when using a Visa card at locations such as Best Buy, Toys " R " Us or Old Navy.
Perhaps the most enduring legacy of Mitchell's Gone with the Wind is that people worldwide would think it was the " true story " of the Old South and how it was changed by the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

American and West
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
Ex-Oriole Clint Courtney, now catching for the A's is all for the American League's 1961 expansion to the West Coast.
* 1975 – Joel West, American actor and model
A similar French influence is seen in classroom ASL in francophone West Africa, where ASL was introduced along with formal education for the deaf by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster.
* 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor
* 1980 – David West, American basketball player
Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.
Saltwater fish eaten by the American Indians were cod, lemon sole, flounder, herring, halibut, sturgeon, smelt, drum on the East Coast, and olachen and salmon on the West Coast.
Through hardships and eventual establishment of trade with Britain, the West Indies and other regions, the colonists were able to establish themselves in the American colonies with a cuisine similar to their previous British cuisine.
Cooking in the American West gets its influence from Native American and Mexican cultures, and other European settlers into the part of the country.
Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.
* 1977 – Matthew West, American singer-songwriter and musician
* 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
In 1949, the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in West Germany and eventually included all of the American, British, and French zones, excluding those three countries ' zones in Berlin, while the Marxist-Leninist German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Germany.
Airline service to West Berlin was granted only to American, British, and French airlines.
The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.
The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

American and 1874
* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )
* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )
* 1874 – Otto Steffen, American gymnast ( death date unknown )
* 1946 – Francis Newton, American golfer ( b. 1874 )
* 1817 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( d. 1874 )
* 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician ( b. 1817 )
* 1874 – Herbert Hoover, American politician, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )
The first game ever played that resembles the game as it is known today was played between an American team, Harvard, and a Canadian team, McGill University of Montreal in 1874.
* 1874 – Louis Handley, Italian-born American swimmer and water polo player ( d. 1956 )
* 1874 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player ( d. 1955 )
* 1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball umpire ( d. 1951 )
* 1874 – Amy Lowell, American poet ( d. 1925 )
Between 1846 and 1874, an estimated 8, 000 gray whales were killed by American and European whalemen, with over half having been killed in the Magdalena Bay complex ( Estero Santo Domingo, Magdalena Bay itself, and Almejas Bay ) and by shore whalemen in California and Baja California.
The American heiress Alice Vanderbilt Morris ( 1874 – 1950 ) became interested in linguistics and the international auxiliary language movement in the early 1920s, and in 1924, Morris and her husband, Dave Hennen Morris, established the non-profit International Auxiliary Language Association ( IALA ) in New York City.
* 1961 – John F. O ' Ryan, American major general ( b. 1874 )
* 1963 – Robert Frost, American poet ( b. 1874 )
* 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder ( d. 1874 )
* 1954 – Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter ( b. 1874 )
* 1874 – Cochise, Native American chief ( b. 1805 )
* 1874 – Edward Harkness, American philanthropist ( d. 1940 )
* 1874 – Jay Hughes, American baseball player ( d. 1924 )
* 1811 – Charles Sumner, American politician ( d. 1874 )
* 1874 – Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer ( d. 1948 )
* 1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet ( b. 1874 )

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