The set includes versions of both The Guess Who's first hit, a cover of "Shakin' All Over", and their greatest hit, the original song "American Woman".
American | American Civil War | American Broadcasting Company | American football | African American | American Idol | American Revolutionary War | American Revolution | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Red Cross | American Library Association | American Museum of Natural History | American Express | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American League | American Association | American Heart Association | American comic book | Wonder Woman | American Institute of Architects | American Airlines | American Hockey League | Spanish-American War | Pan American Games | American Cancer Society | Whitney Museum of American Art | American Ballet Theatre | American Legion | American University | Union (American Civil War) |
Directed by Carly Lyn, the film stars Cindy Chiu as a Chinese-American woman in the Old West who finds the wreckage of a mysterious aircraft in the California desert.
Amy Elizabeth Fisher (born August 21, 1974) is an American woman who became known as "the Long Island Lolita" by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco.
She was the first African-American woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, and is the mother of former NFL offensive lineman Willie Roaf.
Anne Johnson Davis, American woman who published a memoir about satanic ritual abuse
She was also a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount McKinley and the first American woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.
Also, like some of his predecessors, he would meet an American woman who would become his wife, Marian Hall Munroe, daughter of banker John Munroe.
She was the first American woman to fight on foot in the Plaza México, the world's largest bullfight arena.
In 1945, Fortune magazine named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman; Eleanor Roosevelt was named first.
Betty Reid Soskin (born 1921) is a prominent African-American woman of California, who at age 92 serves as the country's oldest National Park Ranger in her position at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond.
Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.
Carol Scott Carr (born 1939) is an American woman from the state of Georgia who became the center of a widely publicized debate over euthanasia when she killed her adult sons because they were suffering from Huntington's disease.
Mildred Fay Jefferson, First African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School, founding member and former President of the National Right to Life Committee
She moved to Los Angeles in 1994 after falling in love with an American woman, and now teaches not-yet-published writers through the UCLA Writers' Extension Program.
Smith was inspired by a newspaper article in 1913, on the plans of Anna Jarvis, an American woman from Philadelphia, who hoped to introduce mother's day in the UK.
Tania Aebi, first American woman to sail solo around the world
She often encouraged African-Americans and women to seek political office; indeed, her friend Augusta Clark would later become the second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council, eventually becoming the Democratic Majority Whip.
Marjorie Lee Browne (9 September 1914-19 October 1979) was the second African-American woman to receive a doctoral degree in the U.S.
One of her most influential contributions to African Diaspora studies came with her first book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.
In 1946, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School.
Josefa Segovia, also more commonly known as "Juanita", was a Mexican-American woman who was lynched in Downieville, California on July 5, 1851.
She is the first American to graduate from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy’s main training program, and the first American woman to sign a contract with the Bolshoi Ballet.
In 2007 she became the first American woman to podium in the Cyclo-cross World Championships (held in the Cyclo-cross capital of the world that year—Belgium) where she won silver between a French duo composed of Maryline Salvetat (who took the gold) and Laurence Leboucher (who won the bronze).
After a successful career on the London stage, National Shakespeare Tours with Barrie Rutter's award winning Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, a turn as a CGI Gladiator on Ridley Scott's film of the same name and the phenomenal success,of the short film Don't Walk Channel Four/Film Four, Clark moved to New York City, married his 'American Woman' and founded the Digital production company thelostworkers...
Lydia Darragh (1729 – December 28, 1789) was an American woman said to have crossed British lines during the British occupation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War, delivering information to George Washington and the Continental Army that warned them of a pending British attack.
The first was Hannah Wilkinson Slater, wife of industrialist Samuel Slater: she invented two-ply thread, becoming in 1793 the first American woman to be granted a patent.
Margaret O'Neill Eaton, American woman (wife of a United States Senator) involved in the "Petticoat Affair"
Mary Beth Harshbarger (born February 19, 1965) is an American woman who rose to media attention when she shot her husband, Mark Harshbarger, during a hunting trip in Newfoundland, Canada.
The collaboration of Mary and Elizabeth included promoting the speaking career of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, the first Native American woman known to secure a copyright and to publish in the English language.
Mary Carol Winkler (nee Mary Carol Freeman on December 10, 1973) is an American woman who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee.
On 23 December 2012, The Oregonian reported that an American woman named Julie Keith found a letter, written in alternating Chinese and English, stuffed into a Halloween decoration set she had purchased at a Kmart.
The Lilac Days is the story of a secret love affair between the grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales, Lord Fermoy, and an American woman, Edith Travis.
Megan Williams case, Megan Williams, American woman who falsely accused six people of kidnapping, torture, and rape
Debra Milke (born 1964), American woman formerly convicted of murder (as of 2013 the conviction has been overturned, but a retrial is possible)
As for weapons, a recent arrest was of an American woman who was caught in November 2009 smuggling forty one AK-47s in her vehicle.
He was the only son born to first generation emigrants, a Mr. Scibetta from Cammarata in the province of Agrigento, Sicily and an Italian-American woman Mrs. Zicarelli from Bayonne, New Jersey.
The 1994 book Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World (ISBN 1-55970-281-8) by Cleo Odzer describes the experiences of an anthropologist doing field research in Thailand.
Lori Piestewa, a Native American woman killed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
A Native American woman (Rachel McLish) is framed for the murder of her parents and forced to flee her reservation.
When Hazel Carby received her Ph.D. in 1984 from Birmingham University, her thesis, which centered on slave narratives by women, later became the foundation for her book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (ISBN 0-19-506071-7), published in 1987.
In addition to participating in the first Shuttle flight, he also presided over the first five-person crew (STS-7, which included Sally Ride, the first American woman in space), the first satellite repair operation (STS-41-C, which repaired the Solar Maximum Mission satellite), and the first seven-person crew (STS-41-G).
Ruth Ann Steinhagen (December 23, 1929 – December 29, 2012) was an American woman who shot and nearly killed Eddie Waitkus, star first baseman of the Philadelphia Phillies, on June 14, 1949 in one of the first instances of what later became known as stalker crimes.
Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love): A Cuban-American Woman's Search for Sephardic Memories (2002)
He started with Bear, Stearns' partnership in 1937 with $20,000, loaned by his first and only wife, Diana Felger Bonnor Lewis, who was born in Newark, New Jersey of an American woman whose parents were German Lutheran, and an English father, Church of England—and he became a general partner of that firm.
Lynn Jennings, first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the 10,000 m (1992)
Stacy Allison is most famous for becoming the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in 1988.
In Shanghai, Young met explorer Ruth Harkness, another American woman, who captured the first giant panda to be sent the United States.
Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist (born July 31, 1960) is an American woman who on October 30, 1985 opened fire at a Springfield, Pennsylvania shopping mall, killing three people and wounding seven others before being disarmed by a Volunteer Firefighter/EMT who was shopping at the mall.
In 1987, a book titled Not Without My Daughter was published, based on the story of an American woman, Betty Mahmoody.
Among them was Lizzie Breckinridge, an African American woman and daughter of a former slave, who came to work and live with the family in 1856 at the age of thirteen.