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unusual facts about American people



Carlos Bertulani

Carlos A. Bertulani is a Brazilian & American theoretical physicist and professor at the Department of Physics of the Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Cathy Silvers

Cathy Silvers (born May 27, 1961) is an American actress and author, and the daughter of actor/comedian Phil Silvers.

Charles Divins

Charles Divins (born January 29, 1976 in Dallas, Texas) is an American model-turned-actor who played the role of Chad Harris-Crane on the television soap opera Passions from 2002 to 2007, when he decided not to join some of the other cast members when Passions moves from NBC to DirecTV.

Christmas Kisses

Christmas Kisses is an extended play by American recording artist Ariana Grande, and was released on December 17, 2013, as a festive collection of classic Christmas covers.

Demi Harman

Harman was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1993 to an American father and an Australian mother, who formerly worked as a weather girl on the Seven Network.

Edward Yataro Hosaka

Edward Yataro Hosaka (1907 - 1961) was an American botanist.

Golden Johnson

In 2006 he breathed new life into his career with an upset win over prospect Oscar Diaz, setting up a fight for the vacant WBO Inter-Continental Welterweight Championship against American Antonio Margarito.

Jimmie Foxx

James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx (October 22, 1907 – July 21, 1967), nicknamed "Double X" and "The Beast", was an American professional baseball player.

Liddle's syndrome

It is named after Dr. Grant Liddle (1921–1989), a Pioneering American Endocrinologist at Vanderbilt University, who discovered it in 1963.

Lignum nephriticum

In 1915, the source of the wood was rediscovered by the American botanist William Edwin Safford.

Marla Mason

The Marla Mason series is a series of seven books and several short stories written by American author Tim Pratt under the pseudonym of T.A. Pratt.

My Resistance Is Low

My Resistance Is Low is a 1951 song by American singer, song writer and band leader Hoagy Carmichael, with later lyrics by Harold Adamson.

Shades of Ray

The film stars Zachary Levi as a half-American, half-Pakistani male wrestling with his mixed identity while waiting for his girlfriend to respond to his marriage proposal.

Skye Bennett

Skye Deva Bennett (born 2 May 1995) is an English American teen actress, best known for her role as Sarah in the 2008 film Dark Floors, as well as for her role as Martha in The Pillars of the Earth.

Stan and Jan Berenstain

Stan and Jan Berenstain, often called The Berenstains, were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series The Berenstain Bears.

Vaneza Pitynski

Vaneza Pitynski (born "Vaneza Leza Pitynski" on September 1, 1988 in Whittier, California, USA) is an American former actress and singer of German-Russian-Puerto Rican descent.


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2010 Stavropol bomb blast

The United States Department of State's Coordinator for counterterrorism, Daniel Benjamin, offered condolences "on behalf of the American people" following the attack, saying that both countries "suffered from terrorist attacks" and that they "should expand their cooperation in the fight against terrorism".

99 Percent Declaration

The petition was to be publicly presented to the American people and copies are to be served to the United States Congress, Supreme Court and President Barack Obama.

Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame

Representative Howard McKeon, Chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services, said transferring Warsame out of Guantanamo "directly contradicts Congressional intent and the will of the American people", and Senator Susan Collins stated that captured foreign nationals "should be tried in a military commission, not a federal civilian court in New York or anywhere else in our country".

Anne Mary Lawler

In 1938 Theodore Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth compiled and selected poetry for their book “The Desk Drawer Anthology - Poems for the American People.”

Apurinã

Apurinã people: An indigenous South American people from western Brazil

Bahia incident

Morison, Samuel Eliot, The Oxford History of the American People: Troubled Waters, Oxford University, (1965) Catalogue # 65-12468

Bannock

Bannock people, a Native American people of what is now southeastern Oregon and western Idaho

Chumash

Chumash people, a Native American people located off the coast of California

Einar Haugen

Lovoll, Odd S. The History of the Norwegian-American People (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1999)

Florida arrowroot

The toxin can however be removed by careful leaching, and the roots and half-buried stems of this cycad were used by Native American people (notably the Tequesta and Mayaimi Indians, the Seminole Indians and the Maroons) to produce this starch.

Hectare

The Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French people to the American people dedicated on 28 October 1886 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the French and American Revolutions, is located on Liberty Island at the entrance to New York Harbor.

I Saw Poland Betrayed

I saw Poland betrayed: An American ambassador reports to the American people (1948) is a book written by Arthur Bliss Lane, former United States ambassador to Poland, who observed what he considered to be the betrayal of Poland by the Western Allies at the end of World War II.

Metric Conversion Act

The Act also established the United States Metric Board with representatives from scientific, technical, and educational institutions, as well as state and local governments to plan, coordinate, and educate the American people for the Metrication of the United States.

National Park Service Ranger

While all employees of the agency contribute to the National Park Service mission of preserving unimpaired the natural and cultural resources set aside by the American people for future generations, the term Park Ranger is traditionally used to describe all National Park Service employees who wear the uniform.

Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge

This golf tournament is a first of its kind, entirely funded and operated by Indian Nations (title sponsors include San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians of California and Oneida Indian Nation of New York) and will support Begay's mission of bringing Native American people together to benefit Indian youth.

Parnell, Iowa

Parnell, in Fillmore Township, Iowa County, Iowa, was named after Charles Stewart Parnell, a noble Irish statesman who had come to the American people to plead the cause of Ireland's land-impoverished peasants.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Berkman had hoped to awaken the consciousness of the oppressed American people—an attentat—but, as the book goes on to detail, America lacked the political culture to interpret his actions.

Quileute

Quileute people, also known as the Quillayute, a Native American people of western Washington state in the United States

Quinn brothers' killings

Reaction from America was also noted as United States President Bill Clinton extended the condolences of the American people to the Quinn family.

Saint Malo, Louisiana

It wasn't until journalist Lafcadio Hearn published an article in Harper's Weekly in 1883 that their existence was finally exposed to the American people.

Since Pearl Harbor

It is a "report to the American People" regarding the wartime activities of the American Red Cross since the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

Singaporean response to Hurricane Katrina

American Ambassador to Singapore Frank Lavin said the American people were deeply grateful for Singapore's help.

Songs of My People

The African-American people who appeared in the project's photographs included Zina Garrison, Quincy Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Thurgood Marshall, Gordon Parks, Colin L. Powell, Willy T. Ribbs, and Louis Wade Sullivan.

St. David's Island, Bermuda

Only two Mohawk boys were recorded as having been imported to Bermuda following Dutch-Mohawk wars, but to many English in the 17th Century, the Mohawks were the best known Native American people, and any Native American was likely to be described as a Mohawk.

Tamien

Tamyen people (or variant spelling Tamien, Thamien) are a Native American people in Santa Clara Valley, California

Temperature record of the past 1000 years

The paper was quickly dismissed by scientists in the Soon and Baliunas controversy, but on July 28, Republican Jim Inhofe spoke in the Senate speech citing Soon and Baliunas to claim "that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people".

The Other Iraq

H.E. Masoud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq said: "The United States has never wavered in its quest to help Iraqis build a democracy that rewards compromise and consensus. The ever generous American people have paid a tragic price, the lives of their finest men and women, to advance the banner of freedom and democracy, a sacrifice for which we are profoundly grateful."

Timuquana Country Club

They adopted the name "Timuquana," a variation of the name of the Timucua, a Native American people who once lived along the St. Johns River.

Whip inflation now

The campaign began in earnest with the establishment by the 93rd Congress, of the National Commission on Inflation, which Ford closed with an address to the American people, asking them to send him a list of ten inflation-reducing ideas.