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American and tourist
A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians.
Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.
Over the past 25 years there have been 24 crocodile attacks with 4 fatalities, including the death of American tourist Lauren Failla.
In many tourist or travel destinations, a bus is part of the tourist attraction, such as the North American tourist trolleys, London ’ s Routemaster heritage routes, or the customised buses of Malta, Asia and the Americas.
This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.
A 1940 American Magazine article attributed to J. Edgar Hoover denounced the tourist courts as bases of operation for gangs of desperadoes, claiming that " a large number of roadside cottage groups appear to be not tourist camps but assignation camps " and alleging that " marijuana sellers have been found around such places.
He obtained a tourist visa through the Visa Express program and arrived in the United States in June 2001 where he would settle in New Jersey with other American 77 hijackers up until the attacks.
Male Spanish officials strip search an American woman tourist in Cuba looking for messages from rebels ; front page " yellow journalism " from Hearst ( Artist: Frederic Remington )
Alpine skiing is popular wherever the combination of snow, mountain slopes, and a sufficient tourist infrastructure can be built up, including parts of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the South American Andes, and East Asia.
Part of Burton's success was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner ( the randy hotel owner ), Sue Lyon ( the nubile American tourist ), and Deborah Kerr ( the poor, repressed artist ).
The fort is now a tourist attraction, early American military museum, and research center.
The monument also marks the boundary between two semi-autonomous native American governments, the Navajo Nation, which maintains the monument as a tourist attraction, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.
" The building also housed exhibits by France, Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ), General Motors ( GM ), the American Library Association ( ALA ), and RCA, as well as a Washington state tourist center.
Starring alongside Tilda Swinton and Virginie Ledoyen, he played an American backpacking tourist looking for the perfect way of life in a secret island commune in the Gulf of Thailand.
Fragments from those shots struck American tourist Dennis Olson who had been hiding with his wife, Mary, and Winter.
On September 18, 2006, an Iranian American named Anousheh Ansari became the fourth space tourist ( Soyuz TMA-9 ).
The Fundación Valparaíso ( Valparaíso Foundation ), founded by the North American poet Todd Temkin, has executed major neighborhood redevelopment projects ; has improved the city ’ s tourist infrastructure ; and administers the city's jazz, ethnic music, and opera festivals ; among other projects.
In this segment, American tourist Donald Duck visits Lake Titicaca and meets with some of the local yokels, including an obstinate llama.
During the American Revolutionary War, independence as won at nearby Yorktown, a major tourist attraction of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia.
Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History in New York spotted the Adams " giant man tracks " in a tourist shop in Gallup, New Mexico, and, while recognizing them as fakes, was still intrigued enough to travel to Somervell County to see the Glen Rose area for himself.

American and most
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.
A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
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.
No matter what troubles might betide him, this most American of artists knew in his heart he could not function properly outside his native land.
Somewhat daunted, the two American missionaries reached the police station where they were questioned by a most unfriendly clerk.
A good deal of English was spoken on the beach, most educated Greeks learn it in childhood, and there were also American wives and children of our overseas servicemen.
It differed from what an undergraduate receives today from any American college or university mainly in the certainty of what he was forced to learn compared with the loose and widely scattered information obtained today by most of our undergraduates.
The most obvious characteristic of contemporary American writing, apart from the beat nonsense, is its cosmopolitanism.
`` The American press clamored for many days promising President Kennedy would reply to the most vital domestic and foreign problems confronting the United States.
And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.
But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.
One or two of the schools have a five year curriculum, but the usual pattern of American education has limited most of them to the four-year plan which seems to be the minimum in acceptable institutions.
Since most European cars average more miles per gallon of gasoline than American cars, it naturally follows that the cost per kilometer for these models will be less, but the greater seating capacity of the large American cars will equalize this, provided your group is sufficiently large to fill a 7-passenger limousine.
But they deny the values of the city -- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the `` melting pot '' which gave off so many of the most admirable American qualities.
In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.
It is an understandable paradox that most American history and most American literature is today written from an essentially egocentric and isolationistic point of view at the very time America is spreading her dominion over palm and pine.
Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

American and typical
The Miss Rhode Island Pageant is sponsored by the Rhode Island Junior Chamber of Commerce as a part of the nation-wide search for the typical American girl -- a Miss America from Rhode Island.
Authentic restaurants with Chinese-language menus may offer 黃毛雞 ( Cantonese Yale: wòhng mouh gāai, Pinyin: huángmáo jī, literally yellow-feather chicken ), essentially a free-range chicken, as opposed to typical American mass-farmed chicken.
A typical prosthetic limb costs in the range of $ 10, 000 – 15, 000 according to the American Diabetic Association.
The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.
The Herald American was printed in broadsheet format, and failed to target a particular readership ; where the Record American had been a typical city tabloid, the Herald Traveler was a Republican paper.
Story's confusion was apparently typical of 19th century American lawyers, as even the legendary Christopher Columbus Langdell also could not understand the old cases.
Adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent from the Kansas town of Smallville, Clark ( and thus Superman ) was raised with the values of a typical rural American town, including attending the local Methodist Church ( though it is debated by comic fans if Superman is a Methodist ).
American clipper ship, painted in typical style by Chinese artist
Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.
In the American Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ), as was typical of the 19th century, more soldiers died of disease than in battle, and even larger numbers were temporarily incapacitated by wounds, disease and accidents.
The palmation appears to be more marked in North American moose ( A. a. americanus ) than in the typical Scandinavian elk.
Though practices differ by region and format, what follows is a typical arrangement in a North American urban commercial radio station.
The writer William Loren Katz contends that Native Americans treated their slaves better than did the typical European American in the Deep South.
French fries and often hash browns are commonly found in typical American fast-food burger joints and cafeterias.
Rather than belonging ( like Zenaida ) to the American dove clade around Leptotila, the DNA sequence data show Ectopistes to be part of a radiation that includes the " typical " Old World pigeons ( e. g., Domestic Pigeon Columba livia ) and the Eurasian turtledoves ( Streptopelia ) and Patagioenas, as well as the cuckoo-doves and relatives of the Wallacea region and its surroundings.
Family Passions was an hour long, as is typical of American daytime soaps ; all of the others were half hour programs.
Cleveland, Ohio is typical of many American central cities ; its municipal borders have changed little since 1922, even though the Cleveland urbanized area has grown many times over.
The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.
In Kim Newman's view, Hooper's presentation of the Sawyer family during the dinner scene parodies a typical American sitcom family: the gas station owner is the bread-winning father figure ; the killer Leatherface is depicted as a bourgeois housewife ; the hitchhiker acts as the rebellious teenager.
Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye, he fights against typical sexual representations by, for example, dressing as a woman on the side sleeve of his album cover.
102. 7 KIIS-FM Los Angeles is a typical American radio station.
In some countries walking as a hobby is known as hiking ( the typical North American term ), rambling ( a somewhat dated British expression, but remaining in use because it is enshrined in the title of the important Ramblers ), or tramping.
Increasingly, Americans have fought to preserve structures characteristic of a more typical American past that represents the lives of everyday people including minorities.
Some critics have noted the irony of an Italian director who could not speak English, and had never even visited the United States, let alone the American Old West, almost single-handedly redefining the typical vision of the American cowboy.

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