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American Student Government Association The American Student Government Association (ASGA) was founded in 2001 as America's first professional association serving collegiate Student Governments and Student Government Associations. ASGA was founded by Oxendine Publishing, Inc.
American Studies in Britain American Studies is taught at some universities and incorporated in several school subjects, such as history, politics and literature. and H: “American Studies in Britain,” American Quarterly (Summer,1966): 251-269.
American Superconductor American Superconductor is a technology company based in Westborough, Massachusetts specializing in the design and manufacture of superconducting wires and power converters. It is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol AMSC.
American Swedish Historical Museum The American Swedish Historical Museum was founded in 1926, making it the oldest Swedish museum in the United States. It is located in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in South Philadelphia (a district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) on part of a 17th-century land grant provided to Sven Skute by Queen Christina of Sweden.
American Swedish Institute The American Swedish Institute (ASI) is a non-profit educational and research organization and museum based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The organization is dedicated to the preservation and study of the historic role Sweden and Swedish-Americans have played in US culture and history.
American Sweetgum American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), also known as Redgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America. It occurs in the United States from southern New York west to southern Missouri and east Texas and south to central Florida, and in Mexico from southern Nuevo LeĂłn south to Chiapas, as well as in Guatemala.
American Synesthesia Association The American Synesthesia Association (ASA) is a not-for-profit501(c)(3) academic and public society whose mission is to foster and promote the education and the advancement of knowledge of the phenomena of synesthesia, a neurological condition in which stimulation in one sensory modality leads to experiences in a second, unstimulated modality. The ASA attempts to promote and provide a means for the people who experience and/or study synesthesia to be in contact with each other.
American System (economic plan) The American System was an economic plan, based on the "American School" ideas of Alexander Hamilton, expanded upon later by Friedrich List, consisting of a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building, and a national bank to encourage productive enterprise and form a national currency. This program was intended to allow the United States to grow and prosper, by providing a defense against the dumping of cheap foreign products, mainly at the time from the British Empire.
American System of Watch Manufacturing Aaron Lufkin Dennison was inspired by the manufacturing techniques of the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass. The "armory practice" was mainly based on a strict system of organization, the extensive use of the machine shop and a control system based on gauges.
American taskforce Argentina The American Task Force Argentina, or ATFA was formed in November of 2006 in response to concerns over Argentina’s handling of its sovereign debt default. The Task Force works with international lawmakers, the media, creditors and other interested parties in the United States, Argentina, Europe, Asia and Latin America to educate the public and raise awareness about the hazards associated with the Argentine government’s failure to address its default in accordance with international norms.
American trade American Trade, the trade that the United States has with foreign nations or within itself. The Government actively promotes exports and seeks to prevent foreign countries from maintaining trade barriers that restrict imports.
American Taekwondo Association The American Taekwondo Association (ATA) was founded in 1969 by Haeng Ung Lee of South Korea. It is one of the largest Taekwondo organizations in the United States, and in association with the Songahm Taekwondo Federation (STF) and World Traditional Taekwondo Union (WTTU), is one of the largest in the world.
American Taliban American Taliban is a pejorative neologism used by the left to describe some American Fundamentalists. The term was coined in 2001 shortly after the American overthrow of the brutally repressive Afghan Islamic Fundamentalist Taliban in order to draw parallels between that regime and what was claimed to be its politically-rising American equivalent.
American Task Force Argentina The American Task Force Argentina, or ATFA was formed in November of 2006 in response to concerns over Argentina’s handling of its sovereign debt default. The Task Force works with international lawmakers, the media, creditors and other interested parties in the United States, Argentina, Europe, Asia and Latin America to educate the public and raise awareness about the hazards associated with the Argentine government’s failure to address its default in accordance with international norms.
American Task Force on Palestine The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) was founded in 2003 in order to provide an independent Palestinian-American voice in the United States and its capital, Washington, DC. The founding aim of ATFP is to advocate an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the creation of a Palestinian state to live alongside Israeli in peace.
American Teen American Teen is a new movie directed by Nanette Burstein (On the Ropes, The Kid Stays in the Picture). It is set in Warsaw, Indiana and focuses on graduating high school seniors struggling through school and life.
American Telemedicine Association American Telemedicine Association (ATA), established in 1993 as a non-profit organization, ATA goal is to promote access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology.
American Telephone & Telegraph Company AT&T Corporation (originally American Telephone & Telegraph Company) provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. During its long history, AT&T has at times been the world's largest telephone company, the world's largest cable television operator, and a regulated monopoly.
American Temperance University American Temperance University opened in 1893 the planned town of Harriman, Tennessee, which was developed as a community with no alcohol permitted. In its second year of operation the institution enrolled 345 students from 20 states.
American Terrorist American Terrorist (2001) is a book by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck that chronicles the life of American terrorist Timothy McVeigh from his military experiences in the Persian Gulf War until the Oklahoma City bombing. The book tries to shed light on what turned McVeigh from a decorated soldier into one of the deadliest domestic terrorists in American history and is the only book authorized by McVeigh himself.
American Theater The American Theater of World War II was considered a military area of operations encompassing the mainland United States and extended to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The area also encompassed parts of the Baja California Peninsula and the Pacific Coast.
American Theatre Wing The American Theatre Wing (or the Wing for short; originally part of the WWII Allied Relief Fund) is a New York City-based organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre," according to its mission statement.
American Theocracy American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (ISBN 0-670-03486-X) is the latest work of political commentary by American political writer Kevin Phillips. The book is a harsh critique of the past forty years of the Republican coalition in U.
American Theological Library Association The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is a professional organization of religious and theological libraries in the United States with more than 800 members. ATLA was founded in 1946 and is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the state of Illinois.
American Tobacco Trail The American Tobacco Trail (ATT) is a 22-mile long Rails-to-Trails project located in the Research Triangle region of North Carolina, running along an abandoned railroad bed originally built for the American Tobacco Company in the 1970s. The route crosses through the City of Durham, Durham County, Chatham County, and Wake County.
American Top 40 American Top 40 (commonly abbreviated to "AT40") is an independent internationally-syndicated radio program currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest. Each week, the 40 songs that have received the most number of requests on Mediabase's data and from affiliated stations, as well as user-based votes from the program's website are counted down backwards (from forty to one).
American Tort Reform Association The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), founded in 1986, is an organization that advocates for "tort reform." Its membership consists of more than 300 businesses, corporations, municipalities, associations, and professional firms.
American Tower Management American Tower Management, a management company focused on small telecommunication towers, is located in Boston, Massachusetts. According to FCC, the tallest tower managed by American Tower Management is located in Forestville with a height of 145.
American Tract Society The American Tract Society (ATS) is a publishing organization that publishes evangelistic Christian literature. It was founded on May 11, 1825 in New York City for the dissemination of Christian literature in leaflet form and was a strong supporter of the temperance movement.
American Trad American Trad ("AmerTrad" or simply "Trad" to its adherents) describes a form of men's dress that was influenced by early Brooks Brothers and its amalgam of Anglo-American style, and by American college and university shops that sold the natural-shouldered Ivy League clothing of the 1920s - 1960s, and still, to some extent, continue to do so today.
American Traffic Safety Services Association The American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) is an international trade association, located in Fredericksburg, Virginia whose stated core purpose is: "To Advance Roadway Safety". Since 1969, ATSSA has represented companies and individuals in the traffic control and roadway safety industry.
American Translators Association The American Translators Association (ATA) is the largest professional association representing translators and interpreters in the United States, with over 9,500 members in more than 70 countries. Its home office is in Alexandria, Virginia.
American Tribal Style Belly Dance Tribal Style Belly Dance or American Tribal Style Belly Dance (commonly known as ATS) is a recent movement in the USA that has addressed the feminist philosophy of empowerment of women through Middle Eastern belly dance.
American Troubadour American Troubadour was the 1997 British 2-CD set that chronologized the five albums and various non-album singles that singer/songwriter Phil Ochs released on A&M Records between 1967 and 1974. Released in the same year as Farewells & Fantasies, the three-CD set that chronologized Ochs' career on both Elektra and A&M, there are still many reasons to own American Troubadour, namely the inclusion of the five post-1970 sides that, for whatever reason, did not appear on the box set.
American Trust and Savings Bank American Trust and Savings Bank is a bank headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa. Known in the area as American Trust, the bank operates a number of bank branches in Dubuque, Dyersville, Farley, Iowa, and Wes Des Moines, Iowa.
American Tune "American Tune" is a song written and first performed by Paul Simon. The song first appeared on Simon's second solo album following the breakup of Simon and Garfunkel, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973).
American Type Culture Collection American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is a private, not-for-profit biological resource center whose mission focuses on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines and other materials for research in the life sciences. Established in 1914 and originally incorporated by scientists in 1925 to serve as a worldwide repository and distribution center for cultures of microorganisms, ATCC has developed into the global leader in research and development expertise for identifying, characterizing, preserving and distributing a wide range of cell lines and microbes.
American Type Founders American Type Founders (ATF) was created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, including Binny & Ronaldson, Boston Type Foundry, Central Type Foundry, Dickinson Type Foundry, and Farmer, Little & Co. Other major competitors were absorbed soon thereafter, including Bruce Type Foundry in 1901 and Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in 1911.
American Underworld Trilogy American Underworld Trilogy is the collective name given to three novels by American crime author James Ellroy. They are American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001, published as American Death Trip in France) and Police Gazette (to be published as American Madness in France).
American Unitarian Association The American Unitarian Association was a religious denomination in the United States and Canada formed of associated Unitarian congregations. In 1961, it merged with the Universalist Church of America to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.
American Unitarian Conference The American Unitarian Conference (AUC) was founded in 2000 by several Unitarian Universalists who felt that the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) had become too liberal, both theologically and politically. They decided their mission was to promote "classical" Unitarianism, which they recognized as being based on Christian beliefs though not solely confined by them.
American University Alumni France American University Alumni France (AUAF) is the official French chapter of American University (AU), located in Washington, DC. The chapter is recognized by French law as a not-for-profit with the status of "Association Loi de 1901" and counts more than 400 AU alumni living in France.
American University College of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences is the oldest and largest academic unit at American University in terms of student enrollment and faculty lines. It offers more than 50 masters, doctoral, and certificate programs taught by award-winning faculty.
American University College of Science and Technology The American University College of Science and Technology (AUST), an educational institute, was established on the 21st of March 1994 under the name of AUC (Decree # 4897), as an external degree program with the State University of New York/Empire State College, New York, USA. It later changed its name to American University of Science and Technology.
American University in Cairo The American University in Cairo (AUC) (Arabic:الجامعة الأمريكية بالقاهرة)in Cairo, Egypt, was founded in 1919 by American Methodist Episcopal Missionaries, but quickly moved away from missionary endeavors in favor of being a more secular educational non-profit institution. While physically is located on Tahrir Square in the center of Egypt's capital, its Board of Trustees and some administrative offices are maintained in New York City, and the university responds to both American and Egyptian regulatory bodies.
American University of Afghanistan The American University of Afghanistan (AUAf) in Kabul, Afghanistan, is a new private, not-for-profit university located in Karte Se, Kabul that started courses in March of 2006. The university is supported by the Government of Afghanistan, USAID and private donors.
American University of Armenia The American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private, nonsectarian, independent university founded in 1991 in Yerevan, Armenia. Its creation inspired in the aftermath of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake, the university is the first Armenian institution modeled on Western-style higher education, committed to teaching, research, and service.
American University of Asia The American University of Asia (AUA) established in 1995 is a non-profit organization which serves as a Board of Trustees to provide policies and oversight for two private institutions of higher education: The Institute of Technological Studies (ITS) in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Sharjah College in Sharjah, UAE. AUA is licensed by the Education Licensure Commission and is registered in Washington, D.
American University of Jenin The Arab American University is a private higher education institution founded in 1995 as the first private university in Palestine. The university is supervised by a selected Board of Trustees, who subscribe to the Ministry of Higher Education in Palestine, implementing an American education system, in affiliation with California State University and Utah State University.
American University of Puerto Rico The American University of Puerto Rico (AUPR) is a private university in Puerto Rico with campuses in Bayamon and Manati. The university was founded in 1963 as the American Business College, and offers undergraduate studies in arts, business administration, education, and sciences, and graduate studies in criminal justice.
American University of the Caribbean The American University of the Caribbean (AUC) is a medical school on the Dutch side of the island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles. AUC was founded on the island of Montserrat in 1978, but was forced to move to its present location by the eruption of the previously dormant Soufriere Hills volcano.
American University Park American University Park is a neighborhood of Washington, DC, named for the American University. AU Park, as it is often abbreviated, is situated against the Maryland border in the Northwest quadrant, bounded by Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Western Avenues.
American University School of Communication The School of Communication at American University is highly regarded for its faculty, facilities, and high professional standards by The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications The school offers four undergraduate and graduate majors: communication studies], [[journalism|print/broadcast journalism, public communication, and visual media. Interdisciplinary degrees in communication, legal institutions, economics, and government (CLEG, which is housed in the School of Public Affairs); multimedia design and development; and foreign language and communication media are also available.
American University School of Public Affairs The School of Public Affairs at American University is among the nation's leading public policy schools. It's location, programs and professors provide a distinct advantage in educating and preparing leaders for careers in public service.
American Urban Radio Networks American Urban Radio is the result of a merger between the National Black Network, founded by Unity Broadcasting in 1973, and the Sheridan Broadcasting Network, founded in 1972 as the Mutual Black Network. The merger took place in the late 1980s.
American Vecturist Association The American Vecturist Association (or AVA) is an organization of transportation token collectors in the United States and Canada, as well as world-wide. Members of the AVA receive the Fare Box, the monthly newsletter of the AVA.
American Vegetarian Party The American Vegetarian Party was a United States political party formed on July 28, 1947. The party held conventions and nominated candidates for President and Vice-President in several national elections, although they never seriously pursued ballot access or official recognition as a political party by election officials.
American Veterans Committee The American Veterans Committee was founded in 1944, during World War II, as a liberal veterans organization and an alternative to groups such as the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which supported a conservative political and social agenda. With a motto of "Citizens First, Veterans Second," the AVC supported a range of liberal causes: for example, it challenged segrationist policy and maintained racially integrated chapters in Southern states before the era of civil rights.
American Victims of Abortion American Victims of Abortion is an organization comprised of women who have undergone induced abortion and have come to regret their abortions. Membership is also open to others experiencing emotional pain related to abortion, such as the children, parents, siblings, and significant others of women who have undergone abortions.
American Vision American Vision is a "a full service, nonprofit Christian ministry" founded in 1978 by Steve Schiffman. Its mission statement calls for "equipping and empowering Christians to restore America’s biblical foundation.
American Visionary Art Museum The American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM) is an art museum located in the Federal Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The city agreed to give the museum a piece of land on the south shore of the Inner Harbor under the condition that its organizers would clean up residual pollution from a copper paint factory and a whiskey warehouse that formerly occupied the site.
American Viticultural Area An American Viticultural Area (AVA) is a delimited grape-growing region distinguishable by geographic features, with boundaries defined by the United States government's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB). The TTB defines these areas at the request of wineries and other petitioners.
American VI American VI will be the second album of songs from the final recording sessions Johnny Cash made before he died. Like its predecessors, American Recordings, Unchained, American III: Solitary Man, American IV: The Man Comes Around, and American V: A Hundred Highways, American VI is produced by Rick Rubin and will be released on Rubin's American Recordings record label.
American waterweed American waterweed (Elodea canadensis), also known as Common or Canadian Waterweed and Anacharis, is a small, perennial water weed, or submergent macrophyte, native to North America. It is frequently used as an aquarium plant.
American wine In the United States wine is produced commercially in all fifty states including Hawaii and Alaska, although the majority of wine is produced in California. If California, which accounts for about 90% of American wine production, were a country, it would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world.
American wire gauge American wire gauge (AWG), also known as the "Brown and Sharpe" wire gauge, is used in the United States and other countries as a standard method of denoting wire diameter, especially for nonferrous, electrically conducting wire. The steel industry uses a different numbering system for their wire thickness gauges (for example, W&M Wire Gauge or US Steel Wire Gauge or the different Music Wire Gauge) so data below does not apply to steel wire.
American Water Works Association American Water Works Association (AWWA)' is an international professional organization dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply. It was founded in 1881 and, as of 2005, there are approximately 57,000 AWWA members world-wide.
American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute The American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI) is a not-for-profit trade association based in the United States that is dedicated to the advancement of horology. Horology is the study of time keeping devices.
American Way (play) "American Way" is a one-act play by Jeremy Gable. The plot centers around three comic book superheroes who, in the midst of a break, are faced with a tragedy that they could not prevent from happening.
American Weather Observer The American Weather Observer is a newsletter publication presented by the Association of American Weather Observers(AAWO). Each issue has articles pertaining to significant weather events and is also a communications forum for the AAWO membership.
American Wedding American Wedding (also known as American Pie: The Wedding outside of America or American Pie 3) is the 2003 sequel to the comedy films American Pie (1999) and American Pie 2 (2001). It was written by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan.
American Welding Society The American Welding Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the science, technology, and application of welding and allied joining and cutting processes, including brazing, soldering, and thermal spraying. The organization is headquartered in Miami, Florida, but also conducts events and individual section and district meetings throughout the United States and in international locations.
American Whig-Cliosophic Society The American Whig-Cliosophic Society (short form: Whig-Clio) is the oldest college political, literary, and debating society in continual existence in the world. Its precursors, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society, were founded at Princeton University in 1769 and 1765 by James Madison and other Princeton students.
American Whiskey Trail The American Whiskey TrailUnless otherwise indicated, this article is sourced from The American Whiskey Trail. is a cultural heritage and tourism initiative of the Distilled Spirits Council in cooperation with historic Mount Vernon.
American Widescreen Museum The American Widescreen Museum is a virtual museum devoted to motion picture history, especially widescreen processes, early color cinematography, and the technical development of sound film. It has been online since 1997.
American Wigeon The American Wigeon (also American Widgeon or Baldpate), Anas americana, is a common and widespread duck which breeds in northern North America: specifically, in Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Alaska, and the Great Lakes. It is the New World counterpart of the Eurasian Wigeon.
American Wirehair The American Wirehair is a breed of domestic cat that originated in upstate New York. As of 2003, though the breed is well known, they are ranked as the most rare of the 41 CFA breeds, with only 22 registered, down from 39 in 2002.
American Wisteria American Wisteria (Wisteria frutescens) is a woody, deciduous, perennial climbing vine of the Wisteria family. It is native to the wet forests and stream banks of the southeastern United States, with a range stretching from the states of Virginia to Louisiana and extending southeast through Florida.
American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) Formed in 1890, NAWSA was the result of a merger between two rival factions--the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe.
American Woodmark American Woodmark is a fully integrated, stock and semi-custom, just-in-time cabinet manufacturer, headquartered in Winchester, Virginia. The company operates 15 manufacturing facilities, in Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, and 9 builder service centers across the country.
American Woolen Company The American Woolen Company was established in 1899 under the leadership of William M. Wood and his father-in-law Frederick Ayer through the consolidation of eight financially troubled New England woolen mills.
American Working Terrier Association The American Working Terrier Association (AWTA) was founded in 1971 by Patricia Adams Lent to encourage and promote the breeding, hunting, and ownership of terriers of correct size, conformation, and character to perform as working terriers. From modest beginnings, the organization has grown to include about two hundred members and holds field trials across the country and throughout the year.
American Wrestling Association alumni Below is a list of former members of the American Wrestling Association, an American professional wrestling organization based out of Minnesota. For more information and references see the main article for American Wrestling Association.
American Writers Against the Vietnam War American Writers Against the Vietnam War was an umbrella organization created in 1965 by American poets Robert Bly and David Ray. The group organized readings and meetings and joined in rallies, teach-ins, and demonstrations against the Vietnam War, allowing writers to protest under a collective identity of their own.
American Yorkshire pig The American Yorkshire pig is a breed of domestic pig. It is the American version of the Yorkshire pig (now usually known as the English Large White pig), white in color, and the most recorded swine breed in the United States.
American Youth Basketball Tour The American Youth Basketball Tour is a summer, High School and Middle school based, youth basketball organization. The tour hosts five on five basketball events throughout the Midwest and East Coast called District Series Events.
American Youth Congress American Youth Congress (AYC) was an early youth voice organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930's. It met several years in a row - one year it notably met on the lawn of the White House.
American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras The American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras (AYPO) is group of orchestras belonging to the Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association. Comprised of two full orchestras (the American Youth Philharmonic [AYP] and the American Youth Symphonic Orchestra [AYSO]), a training orchestra (the American Youth Concert Orchestra [AYCO]), a string orchestra (the American Youth String Ensemble [AYSE]) and several chamber groups.
American Youth Soccer Organization The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) is a national, non-profit organization which provides soccer development and instruction for children between the ages of 4 and 19 in all fifty states and some territories of the United States. AYSO is mostly run at local levels by teams of volunteers, including administrators, coaches and referees, many of whom are parents or family of the youth they coach.
American Zen Teachers Association The American Zen Teachers Association was founded in the late 1980s as the Second Generation Zen Teachers Group. It is a peer-group organization of ordained and lay Zen Buddhist teachers, all of whom have received either teaching authorization or dharma transmission from the mostly Asian Zen teachers who brought their practices to America in the second half of the twentieth century, or their heirs.
American Zoetrope American Zoetrope is the name of the studios founded by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, named after a collection of zoetropes Coppola was given in the late 1960s by filmmaker and collector of early motion picture making equipment, Mogens Skot-Hansen.
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage. ADC, which is non-sectarian and non-partisan, is the largest Arab-American grassroots civil rights organization in the United States.
American-born Chinese An American-born Chinese or "ABC" is a person born in the United States of Chinese ethnic descent, a category of Chinese American. Many, but not all, are second-generation born (parents who are naturalized U.
American-British-Dutch-Australian Command The American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command, code name ABDACOM, was a short-lived, supreme command for all Allied forces in South East Asia, in early 1942, during the Pacific War. The main objective of the command, led by General Sir Archibald Wavell, was to maintain control of the "Malay Barrier" (or "East Indies Barrier"), a notional line running down the Malayan Peninsula, through Singapore and the southernmost islands of Dutch East Indies.
American-style lager American-style lager beer is a common variety of beer, a type of pale lager, traditionally made and drunk in North America, but also popular in much of the rest of the world. It derives ultimately from the Czech Pilsner, but is characterized by a much lighter color and body and the frequent use of rice or corn as adjuncts.
American-Soviet friendship movement The American-Soviet friendship movement arose during the late 1920s and early 1930s among American leftist intellectuals whose goals were to promote the establishment of a joint American-Soviet anti-fascist alliance. From the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the movement focused on promoting friendly relations between the US and USSR by distributing information to the American public regarding daily life in the Soviet Union.
Americana Americana refers to artifacts of the culture of the United States. Examples of this culture include baseball, apple pie, jazz, Superman, the Diner, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the music of Aaron Copland (notably his Fanfare for the Common Man), and American folk art, such as that of Norman Rockwell.
Americana (music) Americana is a loose subset of American roots music, that is perhaps best defined as "classic American music"—ranging in style from folk, country blues, bluegrass, alternative country, rockabilly, neotraditional and roots rock. Americana music is one of the focuses of the bi-monthly U.
Americana (novel) Americana is Don DeLillo's first novel, published in 1971. The narrator, David Bell, was a television executive in the late sixties, and in the novel he is looking back at those times from some 30 years in the future.
Americana Exchange The Americana Exchange or AE, of San Francisco, California, is an online service for the antiquarian and rare book fields. It offers a suite of both free and subscription services targeted to those who collect or sell rare, antiquarian, and other collectible books.

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