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American and Black
* 1965 – Frank Black, American singer-songwriter ( Pixies, Frank Black and the Catholics, and Grand Duchy )
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Black sign language is influenced by African American English ( AAE ).
* 1950 – Tommy Aldridge, American drummer ( Black Oak Arkansas and Thin Lizzy )
* 1970 – Killah Priest, American rapper, producer, and actor ( The HRSMN, Sunz of Man, and Black Market Militia )
* 1971 – Michael Ian Black, American comedian, actor, writer, and director
* 1966 – Derek Sherinian, American keyboard player, composer, and producer ( Planet X, Dream Theater, and Black Country Communion )
Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.
* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
* 1969 – Jack Black, American actor, singer, and guitarist ( Tenacious D )
* 1948 – Lewis Black, American comedian, author, and actor
* 1948 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panther Party leader ( d. 1969 )
African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
* American Black Upper Class
* Black or African American ?, Frank Newport.
* 1943 – Jimmy Griffin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Bread, Black Tie, and The Remingtons ) ( d. 2005 )
The racial makeup of the city was 98. 10 % White, 0. 46 % Black or African American, 0. 08 % Native American, 0. 11 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 43 % from other races, and 0. 80 % from two or more races.
The racial makeup of the town was 93. 98 % White, 3. 42 % Black or African American, 0. 30 % Native American, 1. 19 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 46 % from other races, and 0. 60 % from two or more races.
Surveys show that the majority of black Americans have no preference for " African American " or " Black ," although they have a slight preference for " black " in personal settings and " African-American " in more formal settings.
The racial makeup of Berkeley was 66, 996 ( 59. 5 %) White, 11, 241 ( 10. 0 %) Black or African American, 479 ( 0. 4 %) Native American, 21, 690 ( 19. 3 %) Asian ( 8. 4 % Chinese, 2. 4 % Indian, 2. 1 % Korean, 1. 6 % Japanese, 1. 5 % Filipino, 1. 0 % Vietnamese, 0. 3 % Pakistani, 0. 3 % Thai, 0. 2 % Nepalese ), 186 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 4, 994 ( 4. 4 %) from other races, and 6, 994 ( 6. 2 %) from two or more races.
Codebooks and codebook publishers proliferated, including one run as a front for the American Black Chamber run by Herbert Yardley between the First and Second World Wars.

American and Vulture
* Hadrogyps (" American Dwarf Vulture ") Middle Miocene of SW North America
* Aizenogyps (" South American Vulture ") Late Pliocene of SE North America
The featherless head of the American Black Vulture, Coragyps atratus brasiliensis, reduces bacterial growth from eating carrion.
American Black Vulture s on a cow carcass
Though their diet is overwhelmingly composed of carrion, some species, such as the American Black Vulture, have been recorded as killing live prey.
Other species, such as the American Black Vulture and the King Vulture, have weak senses of smell and find food only by sight, sometimes by following Cathartes vultures and other scavengers.
The American Black Vulture and the King Vulture appear in a variety of Maya hieroglyphs in Mayan codices.
In Mayan codices, the American Black Vulture is normally connected with death or shown as a bird of prey, and its glyph is often depicted attacking humans.
While some of the glyphs clearly show the American Black Vulture ’ s open nostril and hooked beak, some are assumed to be this species because they are vulture-like and painted black, but lack the King Vulture ’ s knob.
The Turkey Vulture ( Cathartes aura ), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard ( or just buzzard ), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.
It is therefore not directly related to the much smaller American Black Vulture despite the similar name and coloration.
' Cinereous Vulture ' ( Latin cineraceus, ash-coloured ; pale, whitish grey ), was a deliberate attempt to rename it with a new name distinct from the American Black Vulture.
* A vulture, particularly the American Black Vulture and Turkey Vulture, or as a general term for vultures.
Soon thereafter, that morning, Friday the 22nd, American troops commanded by Col. James Livingston, guarding Verplanck's Point across the river, began firing on the Vulture, which received many hits and was forced to retire down river without André.
The Kern Vulture seems to slightly precede the main bout of the Great American Interchange, and it is notable that the living diversity of New World vultures seems to have originated in Central America.
However, no other naturalists record the Painted Vulture in Florida and sixty years after the sighting its validity began to be questioned, leading to what John Cassin described as the most inviting problem in North American ornithology.

American and Turkey
* 1901 – Turkey Stearnes, American baseball player ( d. 1979 )
After an American Naval ( quarantine ) blockade of Cuba the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove their missiles in exchange the US would remove its missiles from Turkey.
* September 16 – Robert College of Istanbul – Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
In 1896, responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Hamidian Massacres, Barton sailed to Constantinople and after long negotiations with Abdul Hamid II, opened the first American International Red Cross headquarters in the heart of Turkey.
The series imagines the Assassins as being active in various eras and locations: from 12th-century Syria during the Third Crusade ( this incarnation depicted in the first game and the one recorded by the Polos in-universe ), 15th-century Renaissance Italy and Turkey, 18th century North America during the American Revolution, and up to the 21st century.
They are sold under the name of Kinder Joy in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Germany, Greece, India, Croatia, Indonesia, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Hong Kong, Portugal, Colombia, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Argentina, Ukraine, Cameroon, the Middle East, Venezuela and various Latin American countries.
" Hoping to translate his North American success into success back in Turkey, resulted in the hit single, " Turkish Girls.
Although they initially focused on American hip hop by rapping in English to gain Western acceptance, an increase in the groups popularity in Turkey led them to eventually switch to rapping in Turkish.
In January 1949, he was honored to be flown in the personal airplane of the American president Harry Truman to Istanbul, Turkey to assume his new position.
* Tarsus American College, private high school in Tarsus, Turkey
Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.
* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.
The Truman Doctrine was the American policy in 1947 of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were threatened by communism.
American policy makers recognized the instability of the region, fearing that if Greece was lost to Communism, Turkey would not last long.
* Leffler, Melvyn P. " Strategy, Diplomacy, and the Cold War: the United States, Turkey, and NATO, 1945 – 1952 " Journal of American History 1985 71 ( 4 ): 807 – 825.
Also known to be in the area were: Wild Turkey, American Bittern, Broad-winged Hawk, Peregrine Falcon, Pileated Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Scarlet Tanager, American Woodcock, Bicknell's Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Broad-winged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, Scarlet Tanager, and Swainson's Thrush.
Hayes was a young American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey.
On October 6, 1970, while on holiday in Istanbul, Turkey, American college student Billy Hayes straps 2kg of hashish blocks to his chest.
Yellville and the Turkey Trot Festival were also included in the American supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer in 1989 with photographs of the festival and commentary on animal cruelty.
On 26 October, at 11: 16 am, the 10th SMS's launch facility Alpha-06 went on " strategic alert " after it was discovered the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to counter the threat to Moscow and most of the Soviet Union east of the Urals posed by American nuclear-armed Jupiter and Thor missiles based in Turkey.
These birds vary in size from the diminutive King Quail ( Coturnix chinensis ) at 12. 5 cm ( 5 in ) long and weighing 28 – 40 g ( 1 – 1. 4 oz ) to the largest extant galliform species, the North American Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ), which may weigh as much as 14 kg ( 30. 5 lb ) and may exceed 120 cm ( 47 in ).
* Robert Creeley 1982 TV Interview with Hedwig Gorski transcript included in special Robert Creeley Issue, Journal of American Studies of Turkey ( JAST ), No. 27, Spring 2008.
* Turkey Stearnes ( 1901-1979 ), American baseball player

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