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.

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

many of us in public relations were flattered that Richard L. Tobin chose to devote his editorial in the March 11 Communications Supplement to the merger of the Public Relations Society of America and the American Public Relations Association.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

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.

The Symposium, which was jointly sponsored by the American Institute of Physics, the Instrument Society of America, and the National Bureau of Standards, attracted nearly one thousand registrants, including many from abroad.

It can also contribute to the education of America and to more intelligent American participation in the world.

Other memberships include the American Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, Allied Artists of America, Audubon Artists, Baltimore Watercolor Society.

And the emphasis on nationalism in America is in proportion to the growth of American influence across the world.

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.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

Gershwin explained in Musical America, " My purpose here is to portray the impressions of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city, listens to the various street noises, and absorbs the French atmosphere.

The ASA became the United States of America Standards Institute or USASI and ultimately the American National Standards Institute.

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

Many songs have used this term, including the American patriotic songs " America, The Beautiful " and " God Bless the USA ".

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

* American Premier League, A Twenty20 cricket league in United States of America

The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

In English, " American " was used especially for people in the British America, and came to be applied to citizens of the United States when the country was formed.

* The Letterboxer's Companion by Randy Hall was published in 2003 and focuses on letterboxing in North America ; ISBN 0-7627-2794-2.

A Companion to Colonial America ( 2003 ),

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled " Adventures in Contentment " under the pseudonym David Grayson.

* Schleifer, James T. The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America ( U of Chicago Press, 2012 )

For his work on the Princeton Companion, Gowers won the 2011 Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America.

Other works include the short story collection A Companion Volume ( 1923 ), the autobiographical novel Post-Adolescence ( 1923 ), Distinguished Air ( Grim Fairy Tales ) ( 1925 ), the poetry collections The Portrait of a Generation ( 1926 ) and Not Alone Lost ( 1937 ), the 1, 200 line epic poem North America, Continent of Conjecture ( 1929 ), and his memoir Being Geniuses Together: An Autobiography ( 1938 ).

Events leading up to the formation of Sisters in Crime included a conference at Hunter College on Women in the Mystery Genre in 1986, at which Sara Paretsky spoke on growing use of graphic sadism against women in mysteries ; a letter by Phyllis Whitney to the Mystery Writers of America, pointing out that women weren't being nominated for awards ; an initial meeting of interested women at the October 1986 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Baltimore convened by Sara Paretsky ; and a meeting at Sandra Scoppotone's loft during the annual Edgars week, at which the organization was formed .< ref > Carolyn G. Hart " Sisters in Crime " The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing.

Since Women's Home Companion retained the rights to the name, he simply renamed the organization to Boy Pioneers of America.

“ The Transoceanic Emergence of American ‘ Postcolonial ’ Identities .’ In A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America, edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer.

* Who Was Who in America: A Companion Volume to Who's Who in America.

Thus `` America '', the most widely sung of the patriotic songs, was written by a New England Baptist clergyman, Samuel Francis Smith ( 1808-1895 ), while a student in Andover Theological Seminary.

Later in the century the dream again found expression in the lines of Katherine Lee Bates ( 1859-1929 ), daughter and granddaughter of New England Congregational ministers, in her widely sung hymn, written in 1893, `` America The Beautiful '', with the words `` O beautiful for pilgrim feet whose stern impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.

* Barbara Younger has written a children's book about the writing of the song: Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and " America the Beautiful ".

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

Among his various musical credits, Mumy has recorded and written songs with America, toured with Shaun Cassidy, and played in Rick Springfield's band in the film, Hard to Hold.

In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").

This means that while the abbreviation of Doctor is usually written as " Dr " in most of the Commonwealth, it is usually written as " Dr ." in North America.

Fellow critic James Russell Lowell called him " the most discriminating, philosophical, and fearless critic upon imaginative works who has written in America ", suggesting – rhetorically – that he occasionally used prussic acid instead of ink.

The American Prisoner is a novel written by Eden Phillpotts, published in America in 1904 and adapted into a film in 1929.

" In North America, music for the instrument is usually written in the bass clef at concert pitch ( that is, without transposition ), though treble clef euphonium parts, transposing down a major ninth, are included in much concert band music.

As the rules of rugby's scrimmage were written when the game came to North America by Mike Newell, they had a significant flaw which was corrected by custom elsewhere, but by the invention of the snap in American football.

She has also “ been responsible for the production of some twenty-two books … and at least five hundred articles .” “ Rosemary Ruether has written on the question of Christian credibility, with particular attention to ecclesiology and its engagement with church-world conflicts ; Jewish-Christian relations …; politics and religion in America ; and Feminism.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

Other books written by Ashcroft are On My Honor: The Beliefs that Shape My Life and Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice.

A planned series of lectures in North America in 1962 was cancelled due to an illness, but the illustrations and text for the lectures, written out in full by Escher, were later published as part of the book Escher on Escher.

In the chapter nine of the first part of the Cosmographiae Introductio, written by Mat ( t ) hias Ringmann ( died in Sélestat in 1511 at the age of 29 ), it is explained why the name America was proposed for the then New World, or the Fourth Part of the World:

On 20 May 1932 Baba arrived in New York and provided the press with a 1, 000-word written statement, which was described by devotee Quentin Tod as his Message to America.

An official Nation of Islam platform referred to as " The Muslim Program " was written by Elijah Muhammad in his book Message to the Blackman in America ( 1965 ).

The first Pascal compiler written in North America was constructed at the University of Illinois under Donald B. Gillies for the PDP-11 and generated native machine code.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

Many wrestlers, particularly in America, have music and lyrics specially written for their ring entrance.