In 1879 the same Clark Wait, with H. H. Holley of South Dorset, formed the `` American Telegraph Line '', extending from Manchester Depot via Factory Point and South Dorset to Dorset.

On 18 January 1994 the SS American Star ( former America, USS West Point, Australis ) was beached in Playa de Garcey during a storm.

The first single, " On Point ," is noted for taking a swipe at another American rapper who claimed Irish heritage, " Marky Mark " ( Mark Wahlberg ) (" Calvin Klein's no friend of mine / So I don't like Marky ").

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

After attending Transylvania University, Davis graduated from West Point and fought in the Mexican – American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment.

* QuickTime sequence of 27 maps adapted from the West Point Atlas of American Wars

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

* 1814 – Battle of North Point: an American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812.

A career soldier, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican – American War.

* July 16 – American Revolutionary War: United States forces led by General Anthony Wayne capture Stony Point, New York from British troops.

* During the Spanish – American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with " Buffalo Soldier " units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.

The American outbreak began in College Point, Queens in New York City and was later spread to the neighboring states of New Jersey and Connecticut.

When the American Revolutionary War started in 1775, Ethan Allen and a troop of his men, along with Connecticut Colonel Benedict Arnold, marched up to Lake Champlain and captured the strategically important military posts at Fort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Fort George, all in New York.

Raised in a military family in the American Old West, MacArthur was valedictorian at the West Texas Military Academy, and First Captain at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated top of the class of 1903.

From the U. S. side, the American Falls can be viewed from walkways along Prospect Point Park, which also features the Prospect Point Park observation tower and a boat dock for the Maid of the Mist.

However, no nation-wide standard was created until the American Point System was decided in 1886.

However, the American Point System standardized finally in 1886 is different from Hawks ’ original idea in that 1 pica is not precisely equal to < sup > 1 </ sup >⁄< sub > 6 </ sub > inch ( neither the Imperial inch nor the U. S. inch ), as the United States Type Founders ’ Association defined the standard pica to be the Johnson Pica which had been adopted and used by Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan type foundry ( MS & J ), Philadelphia.

* Hopkins, Richard L. Origin of The American Point System, Hill & Dale Private Press, Terra Alta 1976.

During the American Revolution, when control of the Hudson River was viewed by the British as strategic to dominating the American territories, Rockland saw skirmishes at Haverstraw, Nyack and Piermont, and significant military engagements at the Battle of Stony Point, where General " Mad " Anthony Wayne earned his nickname.

British Major John André met with American traitor Benedict Arnold near Stony Point to buy the plans for the fortifications at West Point.

Joseph had two American daughters born at Point Breeze, his estate in New Jersey, by his mistress, Annette Savage (" Madame de la Folie "):

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

* 1915 – Warren Avis, American businessman, founded Avis Rent a Car System ( d. 2007 )

* 1963 – Billy Gould, American musician, songwriter, and producer ( Faith No More, Harmful, Fear and the Nervous System, and Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine )

* Latin American Economic System ( LAES )

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.

* The Study of Climate on Alien Worlds ; Characterizing atmospheres beyond our Solar System is now within our reach Kevin Heng July-August 2012 American Scientist

* Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, a book by Paul Fussell

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It also is a member of the OAS, World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, World Customs Organization the Inter-American Development Bank, Central American Integration System, and ACP Group.

The European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System stated: " It seems likely, in view of the evidence and the consistent pattern of statements from a very wide range of individuals and organisations, including American sources, that its name is in fact ECHELON, although this is a relatively minor detail.

Is also a member of many regional groups, including the Rio Group, the Latin American Economic System, the Latin American Energy Organization, the Latin American Integration Association, and the Andean Pact.

satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ); connected to Central American Microwave System

El Salvador is a member of the United Nations and several of its specialized agencies, the Organization of American States ( OAS ), the Central American Common Market ( CACM ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), and the Central American Integration System ( SICA ).

The Central American Integration System ( SICA ) was expected to adopt a co-ordinated position on the issue at its summit in San Salvador on 18 August.

Minority Education and Caste: The American System in Cross-Cultural Perspective.

* Fraternities and sororities, often called the " Greek System ," at American colleges and universities because many of them are named after Greek letters

satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ); connected to Central American Microwave System

Honduras is a member of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), the Central American Parliament ( PARLACEN ), the Central American Integration System ( SICA ), and the Central American Security Commission ( CASQ ).

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

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.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

In truth, we can say that this broke the power of Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was finally exposed in full light to the American people.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

In due time Sandburg was a walking thesaurus of American folk music.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

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.

City editor Victor Watson of the New York American was a man of brooding suspicions and mysterious shifts of mood.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

Just when it was needed for the campaign, Hearst Paper No. 8, the Boston American, began publication.

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.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.