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The siege of the Alamo: “On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texans and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together ...”
Source: thealamo.org
Thomas Edison: during his life he filed 1,093 patents for things he invented, the most famous of which was the light bulb.
"He led no armies into battle, he conquered no countries, and he enslaved no peoples... Nonetheless, he exerted a degree of power the magnitude of which no warrior ever dreamed. His name still commands a respect as sweeping in scope and as world-wide as that of any other mortal - a devotion rooted deep in human gratitude and untainted by the bias that is often associated with race, color, politics, and religion."
http://www.thomasedison.com/
Once Upon a Time in America (1984): directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern. Tagline: As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did. Plot Outline: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Source: IMDb
44.3 million: number of Americans ages 18 and older—about 1 in 5 adults— who suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year. This is 22.1% of the adult population. In addition, 4 of the 10 leading causes of disability in the U.S. and other developed countries are mental disorders—major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time.
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/numbers.cfm
Turkey: roasted, is the standard food on Thanksgiving Day. During rainstorms, turkeys have the habit of looking upwards, with their mouths open. Many have been known to drown by doing so.
Source: The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopaedia, Hartson & Dawson, Allen & Unwin, 1984
American Pie by Don McLean
Listen to song, see lyrics and read an analysis of their meaning
Apple Pie
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The following are all USA-related anagrams:
The United States of America = Attaineth its cause, freedom
Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future
William Clinton = I'm it, an ill clown
George Herbert Walker Bush = Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog
Ronald Reagan = A darn long era
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/hof.html
I'm nobody, who are you? by Emily Dickinson.
I ’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody! 5
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
America became top nation and history came to a full stop. (W. C. Sellar)
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. (Oscar Wilde)
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. (Arnold Toynbee)
America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got. (Charlotte Bunch)
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron. (Barbara Mikulski)
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. (William S. Burroughs)
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. (E. M. Forster)
America is the best half-educated country in the world. (Nicholas Butler)
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