Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1967 – Jeff Tweedy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Wilco, Loose Fur, and Uncle Tupelo )

His American Fur Company founded Fort Astoria at the site in 1811.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

Fur colour in American wolves ranges from white, black, red, yellow, brown, grey, and grizzled skins, and others representing every shade between, although usually each locality has its prevailing tint.

( This company is now known as North American Fur Auctions.

With the permission of President Thomas Jefferson, Astor established the American Fur Company on April 6, 1808.

His American Fur Company purchased ten tons of Turkish opium, then shipped the contraband item to Canton on the packet ship Macedonian.

The American Fur Company came to dominate trading in the area around the Great Lakes.

In 1822, Astor established the Astor House on Mackinac Island as headquarters for the reorganized American Fur Company, making the island a metropolis of the fur trade.

Astor withdrew from the American Fur Company, as well as all his other ventures, and used the money to buy and develop large tracts of Manhattan real estate.

* April 6 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.

* Around the Fur, album by American rock band Deftones

The York Factory Express trade route evolved from an earlier express brigade used by the North West Company between Fort George ( originally Fort Astoria founded in 1811 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company ), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort William on Lake Superior.

of the American Fur Company, outfitted an expedition ( known as the Astor Expedition or Astorians ) under Wilson Price Hunt to find a possible overland supply route and trapping territory for fur trading posts.

American Fur Company partner Robert Stuart led a small group of men back east to report to Astor.

The documented westward migration over time has been strongly associated with their roles as traders and hunters in the North American Fur Trade.

The county is named after Norman W. Kittson, an early fur trader & partner of the American Fur Company.

The Hudson Bay and the American Fur Companies were also situated in Pembina as the fur trading industry increased.

Joe Rolette, who started a fur post for the American Fur Company in Pembina, and Norman W. Kittson, were two " explorers " that predominately opened this area by developing the Red River Ox Cart trails and broadening the use of the ox carts.

Sibley was a partner in the American Fur Company, and considerable fur trade occurred at Mendota due to the accessibility of the confluence.

* American Fur Company Store

The name comes from Major Andrew Dawson, manager of the Fort Benton Trading Post for the American Fur Company from 1856 to 1864.

Among his clients were the New York Times, American Hebrew, Underwear and Hosiery Review, Advertising Age, Cracker Baker, American Magazine, Printers ' Ink, Nation's Business, National Costumer, American Hatter, Fur Age, and Playthings.

With the 1994 passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the following words were used to label the United States Section of that organization: in French, étatsunien ; in Spanish, estadounidense.

* 1992 – Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ).

On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda Islamic extremists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the southwestern side of the Pentagon building, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania in a terrorist attack.

On September 11, 2001, Omari boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

* North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA )

The Latin American Free Trade Association ( LAFTA ) was created in the 1960 Treaty of Montevideo by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

He signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Some of his policies, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform, have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of governance, while on other issues his stance was left-of-center.

On January 1, 1994, Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement into law.

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as " Ol ' Man River ", " Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man ", " A Fine Romance ", " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ", " All the Things You Are ", " The Way You Look Tonight ", " Long Ago ( and Far Away )" and " Who ?".

The first single, entitled " Far Cry ", was released to North American radio stations on March 12, 2007 and reached No. 2 on the Mediabase Mainstream and Radio and Records Charts.

Confidential ( 1997 ), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ( 2003 ) Cinderella Man ( 2005 ), American Gangster ( 2007 ), 3: 10 to Yuma ( 2007 ) and Robin Hood ( 2010 ).

This famous bay was the center of American settlement in the Far West during the 19th century.

Regional Games were another kind of multi-sport event that was established, such as the Far Eastern Championship Games or the Central American and Caribbean Games.

In 1957, she sang for President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inauguration and toured India and the Far East as a goodwill ambassadress through the U. S. State Department and the American National Theater and Academy.

* Seconds of Our Lives: Life in suburbia ( a la American Beauty, Far From Heaven, and The Ice Storm ).

From 1934 to 1942, he taught classes in Far Eastern and Latin American history, and also lectured some years on Greek and Roman history.

It was originally created to release Latin American compilations, but it has grown to include music from Cuba, Africa, the Far East and beyond, releasing the work of artists such as Cornershop, Os Mutantes, Los De Abajo, Jim White, Zap Mama, Tom Zé, Los Amigos Invisibles and King Chango.

The 1977 epic war film A Bridge Too Far, depicting the events of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, has a lengthy scene showing the construction of a Bailey bridge at Son in the Netherlands by units of both the American 101st Airborne Division and the British XXX Corps.

The African American collection is a body of historically significant and current books by and about African Americans and includes papers and memorabilia of such persons as the late Emmett P. Scott, secretary to Booker T. Washington, and Arthur J. Smith, who was associated with the Far East Consular Division of the State Department.

In addition to her TV special, Raquel !, her television appearances include the TV movies The Legend of Walks Far Woman and Right to Die in which she turned in a stirring performance as a woman stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease, and in the PBS series American Family, about a Mexican American family in East Los Angeles.

Braathens ASA, until 1997 Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A / S and trading as Braathens SAFE, was a Norwegian airline which operated from 1946 until it merged with Scandinavian Airlines Norway ( SAS ) in 2004 to become SAS Braathens.

Braathens South American & Far East Airtransport A / S was founded on 26 March 1946 by Ludvig G. Braathen through his shipping company Ludvig G. Braathens Rederi and its holding company Braganza.

In January 1941, the intelligence officer ( G-2 ) of the Philippine Department had recommended, to his superior in Washington D. C., that a American high command in the Far East be created, with the commander of the Philippine Department as the designated commander of said command.

Charles Patrick Ryan O ' Neal, Jr. ( born April 20, 1941 ), better known as Ryan O ' Neal, is an American actor best known for his appearances in the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place and for his roles in such films as Paper Moon ( 1973 ), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon ( 1975 ), A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 ), and Love Story ( 1970 ), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor.

The Nielson Airport became the base of the American Far Eastern School of Aviation.

The 7, 000 or so American troops in Siberia were strictly neutral regarding " internal Russian affairs " and served only to maintain the operation of the Trans-Siberian railroad in the Far East.

* Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska, and the American West ( includes materials on Russian Far East )

After the war, he was arrested by the American Occupation Authorities and was convicted by International Military Tribunal for the Far East as a Class A War Criminal and given a life sentence.

Equally important has been the effort to recover earlier Asian American authors, started by Frank Chin and his colleagues ; this effort has brought Sui Sin Far, Toshio Mori, Carlos Bulosan, John Okada, Hisaye Yamamoto and others to prominence.

* Isabella Bird ( October 15, 1831 – October 7, 1904 ) – the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society ; she travelled extensively, exploring the Far East, Central Asia, and the American West.