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2 unusual facts about The Americans


The Americans

Americans, examination of racial and ethnic groups etc. in USA

Jay and the Americans, American pop music group popular during the 1960s


Grassy Park

Neighboring Parkwood was featured in the National Geographic television series Taboo: Blood Bonds for its street gangs, particularly The Americans, Hard Living and Clever Kids.

Lloyd Bochner

In 1961, he guest starred in The Americans, an American Civil War drama about how the conflict divided families, starring Darryl Hickman.

Sandy Kenyon

In 1961, Kenyon was cast in the role of Ritter on The Americans, a 17-episode NBC series about how the American Civil War divided families.


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.280 British

This effort was to be all in vain, as the Americans adopted the T65 (later to be designated the 7.62×51mm NATO).

145th Armored Regiment

The Paco railway station itself took ten assaults before it was taken by the Americans.

2007 Weber Cup


Team USA captain Tim Mack, together with Tommy Jones, put the Americans in front overall for the first time, with a 226-207 win over Team Europe's captain Tomas Leandersson and Mika Koivuniemi.

6th SS Mountain Division Nord

The Division remained on the western front after the Nordwind offensive, fighting the Americans around Trier and Koblenz on the Moselle River in March before going into 7th Army's reserve in April.

Alan Seeger

On 4 July 1923, the President of the French Council of State, Raymond Poincaré, dedicated a monument in the Place des États-Unis to the Americans who had volunteered to fight in World War I in the service of France.

Álvaro Uribe

On 2 July 2008 a covert rescue operation codenamed Operation Jaque by the Colombian Special Forces disguised as FARC guerillas resulted in the rescue of Senator and former Presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, the Americans Marc Gonsalves, Thomas Howes, and Keith Stansell and eleven soldiers and police officers.

Battle of Lundy's Lane

Evidence compiled by Donald Graves, a Canadian historian employed at the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence Canada, argues that General Drummond failed to use skirmish pickets to protect his guns, which were consequently captured by the Americans.

Byron MacGregor

MacGregor then read the patriotic commentary on CKLW Radio as part of a public affairs program; and, due to the huge response he was asked to record "The Americans" with "America the Beautiful" performed by The Detroit Symphony Orchestra as the background music.

Corral Hollow Creek

Named Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres or Aires by the Spanish, the creek retained this name despite the arrival of the Americans and the 49ers for some time.

Departments of the Continental Army

Although the Americans captured Montreal in November 1775, and established their headquarters at Château Ramezay, the region was never entirely under the control of the Continental Army.

Eduard Deisenhofer

Deisenhofer commanded the division during the heavy fighting against the Americans on the Moselle and in the subsequent withdrawal to Metz.

Fatal Terrain

The crew is captured by the Chinese, but are returned to the US after Sun surrenders to the Americans at Kadena Air Base and threatened to reveal the Chinese plan for recapturing Taiwan, causing Beijing to declare a ceasefire.

Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea

During the Korean War, the Battle of Inchon turned the tide against the Korean People's Army (NKPA) for the Americans who were fighting under the United Nations Command.

Fort Langley

Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, realized that Fort Vancouver built near present day Portland, Oregon might be lost to the Americans if the border did not follow the Columbia River.

Francis Sanford

During World War II he rallied the "Free French" and acted as liaison officer to the Americans in Bora Bora.

G. B. Pegram

Following Marcus Oliphant's mission to the USA in August 1941 to alert the Americans to the feasibility of an atomic bomb, in autumn 1941 Pegram and Urey led a diplomatic mission to the United Kingdom to establish co-operation on development of the atomic bomb.

Great Negotiations: Agreements that Changed the Modern World

Describes the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the roles served by French Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord and François Barbé-Marbois and the Americans James Monroe and Robert Livingston.

Gretel II

Many observers, such as 1977 America's Cup winning skipper Ted Turner, believed that Gretel II was a faster boat than Intrepid but that the tactical cunning of Bill Ficker and Steve Van Dyke and the performance of the American crew were the deciding factors in the Americans' victory.

Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek

This was an attempt to broker talks between the North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh and the Americans and their allies.

Hermann Pister

Pister was arrested by the Americans in 1945; put on trial for war crimes by the American Military Tribunal at Dachau with 30 other defendants where he was charged with participation in a "common plan" to violate the Laws and Usages of war of the Hague Convention of 1907 and the third Geneva Convention of 1929, in regard to the rights of Prisoners of War.

Hospice-Anthelme Verreau

Besides many contributions to the Historical Society of Montreal, of which he was the first president, and to the Royal Society of Canada, he published (1870–73) two volumes of memoirs concerning the invasion of Canada by the Americans.

I Walked with Heroes

It included Romulo's memories of his parents and the first time he met the Americans in the person of soldiers stationed in Camiling, his native town in Tarlac.

Isnilon Totoni Hapilon

In 2002 Hapilon and four other ASG members -- Khadaffy Janjalani, Hamsiraji Marusi Sali, Aldam Tilao, and Jainal Antel Sali, Jr. -- were indicted in Guam and in the United States for their role in the 2000 Dos Palmas kidnappings of 17 Filipinos and three Americans, and the eventual beheading of one of the Americans, Guillermo Sobero.

John Shuster

Plys returned to replace lead John Benton against world champion David Murdoch and Great Britain, but a 4-2 loss dropped the Americans to 2-5, all but assuring they would not qualify for the medal round.

Joseph Anthony Miller

Rangers coach and General manager Lester Patrick asked the Americans and the Maroons for permission to use Miller for the remainder of the series.

Junichi Sasai

Unlike the Americans, who treated their airbases with DDT, the Japanese had no similar solution.

La Cambe German war cemetery

Beginning in 1945, the Americans transferred two-thirds of their fallen from this site back to the United States while the remainder were reinterred at the new permanent American Cemetery and Memorial at Colleville-sur-Mer, which overlooks the Omaha Beach landing site.

Lloyd Monsen

In 1954, the Americans won the league title and defeated St. Louis Kutis S.C. to win the National Challenge Cup to gain a double for Monsen and his team mates.

Maria Gulovich Liu

As the winter arrived, Gulovich and the Americans were caught in a blizzard on Mt. Ďumbier, the highest mountain in the Low Tatra range in central Slovakia.

Military history of the Aleutian Islands

However, challenges faced the Americans stationed there from the outset – on the first night that the Americans spent on the ground, harsh winds destroyed many of the Americans' boats, and on the second night a blizzard reduced the base's line of sight.

Mount Drygalski

The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1882 sketch map compiled by Ensign Washington Irving Chambers aboard the USS Marion during the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the American sealing bark Trinity.

Narragansett Pacer

Paul Revere possibly rode a Pacer during his 1775 ride to warn the Americans of a British march.

New Basket Brindisi

Then in 1980 another with Bartolini Brindisi, team, where they played for the Americans Otis Howard, Rich Yonakor, Cliff Pondexter and coach Rudy D'Amico.

New Jersey in the American Revolution

The Americans set up cannons facing Nassau Hall of Princeton University, and two cannonballs made contact with the walls of the hall.

New Year's Day Battle of 1968

In late 1967, Pope Paul VI had declared January 1 a day of peace and persuaded the South Vietnamese and the Americans to observe a truce.

Non-belligerent

The economic support given by the Americans was through the Lend Lease Program which saw the United States provide the United Kingdom "all possible assistance short of war" in the words of Winston Churchill, but they remained a non-belligerent state in the war until President Roosevelt formally declared war on Japan following the attacks on Pearl harbor.

North West Company

The destruction of the North West Company post at Sault Ste. Marie by the Americans during the War of 1812 was a serious blow during an already difficult time.

Obersalzberg

The Americans did not withdraw until 1996, whereafter the Bavarian state government facilitated the erection of a hotel (operated by the InterContinental Hotels Group since 2005) and the Dokumentationszentrum Obersalzberg on the area's history, run by the Munich Institut für Zeitgeschichte.

Quit India Movement

The only outside support came from the Americans, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressured Prime Minister Winston Churchill to give in to Indian demands.

Rochester Knighthawks

In June 2011, the Americans and Knighthawks were split up when Terrence Pegula purchased the Americans; because Pegula also owns the rival Buffalo Bandits, he was ineligible to purchase the Knighthawks, which leaves the team in Styres's hands.

Roger Hale Sheaffe

Early on 13 October the Americans began crossing the Niagara at Queenston, a few miles south of Fort George.

Seattle Totems

Among other notables for the Americans were Val Fonteyne, notable as the least penalized player of all time, future Vezina winner Charlie Hodge, and future National Hockey League general managers Emile Francis and Keith Allen.

Simon Favre

At the outset of the War of 1812, the Americans were interested in assessing the alignment of the native tribes in regards to their loyalty to Britain.

Soviet space program

Although the Americans had secretly moved most leading German scientists and 100 V-2 rockets to the United States in Operation Paperclip the Russian program greatly benefited from captured German records and scientists, in particular drawings obtained from the V-2 production sites.

Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd.

They sued Norwegian Cruise Line under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act after traveling aboard cruise ships (the Norwegian Sea and the Norwegian Star) registered in the Bahamas.

Steuben Township, Warren County, Indiana

The township was named in honor of Baron Von Steuben, a Prussian soldier who fought for the Americans in the Revolutionary War.

Sunchado cannons

The Americans also captured a number of sunchado howitzers in Cuba, including four at the Santa Clara Battery outside Havana.

The Big Green Egg

The mushikamado first came to the attention of the Americans after World War II when US Air Force servicemen would bring them back from Japan in empty transport planes.

Walid bin Attash

On September 11, 2002, his 17-year old brother Hassan bin Attash was taken prisoner by Pakistani forces raiding the Tariq Road House, handed over to the Americans and sent to The Dark Prison.

Willie Horton

Beginning on September 21, 1988, the Americans for Bush arm of the National Security Political Action Committee (NSPAC), under the auspices of Floyd Brown, began running a campaign ad entitled "Weekend Passes", using the Horton case to attack Dukakis.