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Americans and travelled
He remained there while various of his English companions travelled to the other colonies, because he wished to meet some Native Americans who were interested in Quaker ways — though he relates that they had " a great dispute " among themselves about whether to participate in the meeting.
He travelled widely across Europe, and in 1971 visited America for the first time, meeting some of the Native Americans whose culture had long been a source of fascination for him.
In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez travelled through what was likely the Mobile Bay area, encountering Native Americans who fled and burned their towns at the approach of the expedition.
In 1868, Muybridge travelled to the newly-acquired American territory of Alaska to photograph the Tlingit Native Americans, occasional Russian inhabitants, and dramatic landscapes for the US government.
Its settlement by Americans began when James Moore, Larken Rutherford, and James Garretson, settlers from Maryland and Virginia travelled to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1781 and after wintering there, settled at or near Bellefontaine ( French for Beautiful Spring ) the next spring, in 1782.
As it become evident that British troops would not arrive to relieve the Americans until after winter had passed, Governor Shirley travelled to Louisbourg to reassure the troops.
* In Cantonese, Northern California is called Gum Shan ( Gold Mountain ) ( Mandarin: Jin Shan ) because of the gold fields the Forty-Niners travelled to and because Chinese Americans regarded it as a place to get rich by starting their own business.
They travelled into Corning to watch the Fourth of July parade, but they remained apart from the anglophone Americans.
He became increasingly agitated as he became aware of his plight of black Americans, and he travelled north in search of a better life.
The Department of Justice has brought IEEPA charges against Americans who travelled to Iraq in advance of the 2003 invasion to act as human shields, on the basis that they spent money while in Iraq.

Americans and Florida
From Douglass to Duvalier: U. S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan-Americanism, 1870 – 1964 ( University Press of Florida ; 2010 ) 292 pages ;
" Southern cuisine " is recognized by many Americans as suggested by this sign on a restaurant in the Florida Panhandle.
In the 2006 election, the Latin American vote aided tremendously in the election of Florida Senator Mel Martinez, although in the 2004 presidential election, about 44 % of Latin Americans voted for Republican President George W. Bush.
Famed artist Jacques le Moyne de Morgues joined Laudonnière on this colonizing effort and created the first known artistic depictions by a European of Native Americans in the New World, specifically the Timucua tribes in the modern-day areas of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia.
The Birmingham Americans weren't paid for their last five games, the Florida Blazers weren't paid for the last three months of the season ( and reportedly survived on McDonald's meal vouchers ), and the Sharks weren't paid for what turned out to be their last six games ; the most dire situation, however, was that of the Detroit Wheels.
The league championship – the World Bowl, or " World Bowl I " – was staged in Birmingham between the hometown Birmingham Americans and the Florida Blazers.
After removal, some Native Americans remained in their ancient homelands-the Choctaw are found in Mississippi, the Seminole in Florida, the Creek in Alabama, and the Cherokee in North Carolina.
During the Jim Crow era, there were three large state-funded universities in Florida for white males, white females, and black Americans ( UF, FSU, and FAMU, respectively ); in this accord, UM was founded as a white, coeducational institution.
Created by the Native Americans of southern Florida, Seminole strip piecing is based on a simple form of decorative patchwork.
The Seminole Wars, also known as the Florida Wars, were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole — the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of native Americans and Black people who settled in Florida in the early 18th century — and the United States Army.
The Americans rebuilt it when they invaded East Florida, and then burned it down to prevent it falling into enemy hands.
The Native Americans had come after fleeing the British and their Creek Indian allies from what is now from Leon County, Florida.
Semialachee got its name indirectly from the union of " Seminole " and " Apalachee ", two primary groups of Native Americans in the United States from the north Florida region.
The area around Chokoloskee Bay, including the site of Everglades City, was occupied for thousands of years by Native Americans of the Glades culture, who were absorbed by the Calusa shortly before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, but by the time Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States in 1821, the area was uninhabited.
In 1949, Harry T. Moore, the executive director of the Florida NAACP, organized a campaign against the wrongful conviction of four African Americans for the rape of a white woman in Groveland.
Prior to the 1960s civil rights movement, decent affordable housing for African Americans professionals in South Florida was difficult to find.
Pineapples, tomatoes, mangoes, and citrus fruit were packed in crates and shipped by the ton on the newly-built Florida East Coast Railroad to satisfy the appetites of hungry Americans across the country.
The town was founded by European Americans in 1793 on the anniversary of the discovery of Florida by Juan Ponce de León.
The Gullah describes a group of Black African Americans along the southeast coast of the United States from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.
* World Bowl I – Birmingham Americans won 22 – 21 over Florida Blazers ( at Birmingham, Alabama )
" GM gave him a Florida Cadillac franchise as a retirement gift, and DeLorean did in fact take over the presidency of The National Alliance of Businessmen, a charitable organization with the mission of employing Americans in need, founded by Lyndon Johnson and Henry Ford.
The history of Florida can be traced back to when the first Native Americans began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14, 000 years ago.
The Seminole nation emerged in a process of ethnogenesis out of groups of Native Americans, most significantly Creek from what is now Georgia and Alabama, who settled in Florida in the early 18th century.

Americans and face
The Soviets derided " the futile attempts of the Americans to save face and to maintain their untenable position in Berlin.
In an editorial published by the The Wall Street Journal, historian and Author Dr. Paul Moreno argued that the requirement of all Americans to purchase health insurance or face a penalty could be construed as a direct tax that must be apportioned and thus unconstitutional.
The painted rocks located at the southern end of the lake on the eastern cliff face depict an American Flag, Tee-pee, and several Native Americans.
The underdog Patriots demonstrated team unity in the face of a formidable foe, just as Americans felt a spirit of national solidarity in the recovery from terrorist attacks.
When she began work on this project in 1873, most Americans thought the U. S. would never again face a calamity like the Civil War, but Barton finally succeeded during the administration of President Chester Arthur, using the argument that the new American Red Cross could respond to crises other than war.
The Americans in the novel respond to their conquerors ' racism by often referring to them in unflattering terms, such as " flat face ", " slanty " ( a derisive reference to the look typical of Asian eyes ), and " monkey boy ".
Two masses of Native North Americans face each other in the center, firing at each other with bow and arrow.
Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has bestowed an annual award on " outstanding individuals in our society who have succeeded in the face of adversity " and scholarships " to encourage young people to pursue their dreams with determination and perseverance ".
A " Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the United States Senate ," prepared by U. S. Senators John Kerry and Hank Brown, noted that a key strategy of " BCCI's successful secret acquisitions of U. S. banks in the face of regulatory suspicion was its aggressive use of a series of prominent Americans ," Clifford among them.
Americans understand viscerally for the first time the risks they face.
Furthermore, Asian Americans who do not fit into the model minority mold can face challenges when people's expectations based on the model minority myth do not match with reality.
As the Americans rejoice, the British march to quarters, knowing that they face certain defeat.
* Given the town's association with magical realism, many Latin Americans would portray the everyday illogical or absurd news and situations they or their respective countries face as more aptly belonging to Macondo.
So the Muslims in the eastern and western parts of the earth are faced with humiliation and degradation at the hands of Atheistic Kuffaar, and they made the Afghan society and its state to face destruction and ruin and to the falling of this state-and now they cry of over it with false tears of crocodiles-all at the hands of the Americans and Northern Alliance which was led by the Ikhwaan al-Muslimoon.
The retreat was turned into a near rout when Carleton marched these fresh forces, along with most of his existing garrison, out of the city to face the disorganized Americans.
The MDL goes through the conference rooms and down the middle of the conference tables where the North Koreans and the United Nations Command ( primarily South Koreans and Americans ) meet face to face.
Once the medals became sought after by Native Americans during the period of European colonization of the Americas, many private corporations commissioned their own medals, often featuring the president of the corporation on the face of the medal, which was to be given out by their representative.
In particular, Waldinger challenges Wilson's argument that the labor market problems African Americans face today are largely due to deindustrialization and consequent skills mismatches.
He regained some face from his defeat when in November that same year the Americans, suffering severe food shortages, withdrew from Fort Erie and allowed what remained of Drummond's army to secure the frontier.
The nation is at war in Iraq ; we face crises in Iran, North Korea and Lebanon ; the federal deficit is soaring out of control as more and more U. S. debt is controlled by countries like China ; energy costs continue to rise and Americans wait for Congress to act to increase the minimum wage.
On May 29, 2004, Pachachi said of the US invasion of Iraq " The Americans thought they were marching into an underdeveloped country, expecting to face little resistance and be welcomed with flowers.
President Bill Clinton said in a statement issued from the Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile: " His work and his influence literally changed the face and future of the South, making him one of the most influential Americans of the last 50 years.
When taken captive after the attack on Lancaster, Rowlandson was forced to face new environments and learn to adapt around the Native Americans, or " savages.
Employers resisted integrating textile mills ; when they were forced to do so by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, researchers found that African Americans were accepted overall by other employees, although they continued to face discrimination in job training and advancement.

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