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American Keuda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American Keuda cats share many physical similarities with the Mau, including body type and a belly flap, not seen in other breeds. Since the belly flap adaptation allows extra extension when running, and thus more speed, this would be a successful adaptation for any cat that needed speed, like a barn cat. Keudas also share a high level of intelligence and athleticism with the Mau, as well as speed and a love for warm conditions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Keuda_cat

Caucasian race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Caucasians typically have the lowest degree of projection of the alveolar bones which contain the teeth, a notable size prominence of the cranium and forehead region, and a projection of the midfacial region. It was used to justify eugenics programs and the persecution and extermination of so-called "inferior" races then living in Europe, such as Jews and Roma. The concept of Caucasian race and its stated or implied superiority over other races was often used as a moral excuse for colonialism by Western European countries, in the 19th and 20th centuries. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caucasian_race   (1678 words)

American Saddlebred - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American saddlebred is a breed of horse that was developed in Kentucky by plantation owners. In the 18th century, American colonists crossed the Narragansett Pacer with the Thoroughbred. The American Saddlebred sports well-defined and prominent withers, while the shoulders are deep and sloping. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Saddlebred   (544 words)

American lobster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lobsters have a greenish or brownish organ called the tomalley that performs the functions of the liver and pancreas in a human, i.e. (At this point, they are ofter referred to as "turds" in the industry.) They will often fall prey to other lobsters, especially egg-bearing females, who become very defensive when carrying their eggs. Food is chewed between three teeth-like grinders in what is called the gastric mill. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_lobster   (1784 words)

Laotian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although many Hmongs are from Laos, Hmong Americans are usually not considered to be Laotian American because they are not of the Lao ethnic group. A Laotian American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Laotian descent and also one group of Asian Americans. Perhaps the most famous Laotian American family is not a real one, but an animated one, found on King of the Hill, a show about life in the fictional city of Arlen, Texas. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laotian_American   (267 words)

General American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The General American accent or dialect is not thought of as a linguistic standard in the sense that Received Pronunciation (RP) is the standard, prestige variant in England and British society historically, but its speakers are perceived as "accentless" by most Americans. General American is also the accent generally taught to individuals from other countries learning English as a second language in the U.S., as well as outside the U.S. to anyone who wishes to learn 'American English'. General American also generally has yod-dropping after alveolar consonants. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_American   (896 words)

American Falls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Falls is one of three waterfalls that together are known as Niagara Falls on the Niagara River along the Canada-U.S. border. The falls are viewable from a steep angle on the American side, where it is possible to approach to within several meters of the edge of the falls. Unlike the wider Horseshoe Falls, which is shared between the United States and Canada, American Falls is completely within the U.S. state of New York. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Falls   (349 words)

American copperhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American copperheads breed in late summer but not to a fixed pattern: sometimes a female will produce young for several years running, then not breed at all for a time. American copperheads are venomous but almost never deadly to humans and are generally non-aggressive. The American copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) is a species of venomous viper native to eastern North America. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_copperhead   (919 words)

Chinese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Legally all ethnic Chinese born in the United States are American citizens as a result of the Fourteenth Amendment and the 1898 United States v. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese Americans, like all overseas Chinese, generally speaking, were viewed as capitalist traitors by the People's Republic of China government. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and are a subgroup of Asian Americans. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_American   (1399 words)

American Atheists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Over the years American Atheists has filed numerous lawsuits against public institutions it considers to have breached the wall of separation between church and state. American Atheists is an organization dedicated to defending the civil liberties of atheists and advocates the complete separation of church and state. Ellen Johnson, a second-generation atheist, assumed control of American Atheists shortly after the disappearance of Madalyn, Jon and Robin from the organization's former Austin, Texas headquarters on August 27, 1995. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Atheists   (967 words)

Lion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Other extinct subspecies are the Cape Lion, the European Cave Lion (subspecies Panthera leo spelaea) which coexisted with humans throughout the last Ice Age, and the American lion (subspecies Panthera leo atrox), a close relative of the European cave lion (not to be confused with the mountain lion or puma). Tigons are not as common as ligers because they are more difficult to produce since male tigers are less attracted to lionesses because of their smaller size and are thought to have difficulty with recognizing lioness breeding cues. Lions are recurring symbols in the coat of arms of royalty and chivalry, particularly in the UK, where the lion is also a national symbol of the British people. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lion   (2527 words)

American liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American liberalism (also called in the United States modern liberalism) is a political current in the United States that claims descent from classical liberalism in terms of devotion to certain aspects of individual liberty, but rejects absolute free-market economics in favor of institutions that promote social and economic equity. Liberals generally seek a balanced and flexible "mixed economy" occupying that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability is generally denied by both capitalists and socialists [10]. The political godfather of American liberalism, Franklin Delano Roosevelt never publicly embraced Keynes's theories but there were many similarities between the works of the two men [12]. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States   (3396 words)

Italian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The formal "Italian" that is taught in colleges and universities is generally not the "Italian" with which Italian Americans are acquainted. Because the Italian of Italian Americans comes from a time just after the unification of the state, their language is in many ways anachronistic and demonstrates what the dialects of Southern Italy used to be, before the assimilating programs of the north. Eighty percent of Italian Americans are of Southern Italian origin, therefore the languages spoken by their families who arrived between 1880-1920 were most likely variations of the Neapolitan and Sicilian languages with perhaps some degree of influence from the standardized Florentine dialect. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian-American   (1968 words)

Irish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In fact, the urban Irish cop and firefighter are virtual icons of American popular culture; in many large cities the police and fire departments have been dominated by the Irish for over 100 years, even after the populations in those cities of Irish extraction dwindled down to small minorities. Irish Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who claim Irish ancestry. The most Irish American town in the United States is Milton, Massachusetts, with 43% of its 26,000 or so residents being of Irish descent. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_American   (2169 words)

Ibero American Games Prior to the introduction of the Ibero American Championships in 1983, a short-lived "Juegos Iberoamericanos" was held in 1960 and 1962. www.gbrathletics.com /ic/iag.htm   (2169 words)

Hornbeam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American Hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, ironwood, or musclewood; the first from the resemblance of the bark to that of the American Beech Fagus grandifolia, the other two from the hardness of the wood and the muscular appearance of the trunk respectively. The hornbeams (Carpinus) are a genus of relatively small hardwood trees, placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists separate it off together with the hazels (Corylus) and hop-hornbeams (Ostrya) into a segregate family Corylaceae. Hornbeams are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Autumnal Moth, Common Emerald, Feathered Thorn and Winter Moth (recorded on European Hornbeam). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hornbeam   (521 words)

Hmong American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Hmong American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Hmong descent. Hmong Americans are one group of Asian Americans. Most Hmong Americans live in the states of California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hmong_American   (352 words)

American handball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American handball is played on a court 12.2 meters long by 6.1 meters wide (40 feet long by 20 feet wide) with either a single (front) wall, three walls, or in a fully enclosed four-wall (the most common). American (or court) handball is an American form of fives played against one or more walls. Chinese handball is a street game form of American handball played against one wall using a spaldeen. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_handball   (1097 words)

Handball (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American handball where a sometimes-gloved hand is used to play the ball against a wall. Pelota- a Basque sport, similar to American handball A Handball is a legal method of disposing of the ball and an alternative pass to a kick (or drop punt) in Australian Rules Football. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Handball_(disambiguation)   (210 words)

American football - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Both American football and soccer have their origins in varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, and American football is directly descended from rugby football. American football evolved as a separate sport from rugby football in the late 19th century. Arena football is a variant of American football. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_football   (6188 words)

American Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. But the connection between imperial politics and culture in North America, and in particular in the United States, is astonishingly direct." He identifies the way non-Americans, particularly non-Westerns, are usually conceived of in the US as tacitly racist, in a way that allows imperialism to be justified through such ideas as the White Man's Burden. American Empire, and related phrases such as U.S. hegemony, etc., are terms sometimes used to describe the historical expansionism and the current political, economic, and cultural influence of the United States on a global scale. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Empire   (3497 words)

Crow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Crows, and especially ravens, often feature in legends or mythology as portents or harbingers of doom or death, because of their dark plumage, unnerving calls, and tendency to eat carrion. In Native American folklore, Crow is often seen as a similar trickster to Coyote. In mythology and folklore as a whole, crows tend to be symbolic more of the spiritual aspect of death, or the transition of the spirit into the afterlife, whereas ravens tend more often to be associated with the negative (physical) aspect of death. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crow   (1176 words)

American Beech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Beech Fagus grandifolia is a species of beech native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario in southeastern Canada, west to Wisconsin and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida in the United States. American Beech is an important tree in forestry. A related beech native to the mountains of central Mexico is sometimes treated as a subspecies of American Beech, but more often as a distinct species, Mexican Beech Fagus mexicana. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Beech   (457 words)

Beaver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Beavers are nearly allied to the squirrels (Sciuridae), agreeing in certain structural peculiarities of the lower jaw and skull. Additionally the beavers, when faced with a pipe allowing water to pass through their dam, eventually stopped the flow of water by plugging the pipe with mud and sticks. Beavers are sociable animals, living in streams, where, so as to render the water of sufficient depth, they build dams of mud and of the stems and boughs of trees felled by their powerful incisor teeth. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beaver   (2048 words)

American Beaver (Castor canadensis) Beavers are essentially aquatic and require water in the form of a pond, stream, lake, or river for their well-being. The average beaver colony consists of six or seven animals, usually including parents and their young of two age classes; rarely is it as large as 12. Thousands of their pelts were harvested annually, and it was not many years before beavers were either exterminated entirely or reduced to very low populations over a considerable part of their former range. www.nsrl.ttu.edu /tmot1/castcana.htm   (681 words)

American Alligator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is a member of the one of the three families of crocodile-like reptiles, whose members are living fossils from the Age of Reptiles, having survived on earth for 200 million years. Alligators are protective parents, and a very young alligator may have a mother nearby who protects her young by attacking anyone or anything that poses a threat. As with all crocodilians, and the extinct traditional dinosaurs, alligators are of the reptilian branch known as archosaurs. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Alligator   (1567 words)

American Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American is reliant upon its dominant position at Dallas/Fort Worth for its continuing financial solvency, and is lobbying for the preservation of the Wright Amendment, which regulates Southwest Airlines' operations at Love Field in Dallas. American is a founding member of the oneworld airline alliance. American Airlines is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported, and the second-largest airline in the world (behind Air France-KLM) in terms of total operating revenues. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Airlines   (3472 words)

African American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia African American culture, especially African American music, is one of the most pervasive cultural influences in the United States today. In 2004, African American workers had the second-highest median earnings of American minority groups after Asian-Americans, and African Americans had the highest level of male-female income parity of all ethnic groups in the United States [4]. African Americans have significantly improved their social and economic standing since the Civil War, and even more so since the Civil Rights Movement, and recent decades have witnessed the expansion of a robust, African American middle class across the United States. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_American   (3972 words)

Serbia Info News / American terrorist units are preparing attacks on Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia American terrorist units are preparing attacks on Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia Serbia Info News / American terrorist units are preparing attacks on Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia Small part of that terrorist unit stayed stationed at airport Petrovac near Skoplje, where are several pilotless planes. www.serbia-info.com /news/2000-07/15/19897.html   (3972 words)

American rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American rock and roll had an impact across the globe, perhaps most intensely in Britain, where record collecting and trend-watching were in full bloom among the youth culture prior to the rock era, and where color barriers were less of an issue. Throughout the early and mid-'60s Americans seemed to have an insatialble appetite for British rock; one of the groups who made a greater mark in the USA than on the UK was Herman's Hermits. The song was a breakthrough for both the group and for all of rock and roll music. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_rock   (2293 words)

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