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The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed. After European colonization of North America began in the late 15th century, wars and epidemics decimated indigenous societies. Starting in 1585, the British Empire colonized ...
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for ...
Headquarters. 105 Chambers Street. Second Floor. New York, NY 10007 U.S. Website. www.nysun.com. The New York Sun is an American conservative news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, New York. [1] From 2009 to 2021, it operated as an (occasional and erratic) online-only publisher of political and economic opinion pieces, as well as ...
v. t. e. Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor. [1][2] Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The ...
Hydeia Broadbent- United-States–based HIV/AIDS activist; Carolyn Tyler Guidry- bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first woman appointed to be a presiding elder in the Fifth Episcopal District of the AME Church and the second woman to become a bishop in the denomination. Marilyn McCoo- Singer, Actress, and Television ...
The Scientific American building at 24-26 West 40th Street, commissioned by Munn and Co. in 1924 [4] Scientific American was founded by inventor and publisher Rufus Porter in 1845 [5] as a four-page weekly newspaper. The first issue of the large-format New York City newspaper was released on August 28, 1845. [6]
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The 2011 survey, the first poll asking UK academics to rate American presidents, was conducted by the United States Presidency Centre (USPC) at the Institute for the Study of the Americas (located in the University of London's School of Advanced Study). This polled the opinion of British specialists in American history and politics to assess ...