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  2. My Name Is America - Wikipedia

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    My Name Is America is a series of historical novels published by Scholastic Press. Each book is written in the form of a journal of a fictional young man's life during an important event or time period in American history. Seen as a companion to Scholastic's Dear America series, it was primarily aimed at boys 9-12 years old.

  3. United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Americas - Wikipedia

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    The name "America" was first recorded in 1507. A two-dimensional globe created by Martin Waldseemüller was the earliest recorded use of the term. [14] The name was also used (together with the related term Amerigen) in the Cosmographiae Introductio, apparently written by Matthias Ringmann, in reference to South America. [15]

  5. Naming of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. [1] It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. [ 12 ]

  6. Names of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known use of the name "America" dates to 1505, when German poet Matthias Ringmann used it in a poem about the New World. [2] The word is a Latinized form of the first name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, who first proposed that the West Indies discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 were part of a previously unknown landmass, rather than the eastern limit of Asia.

  7. My Name Is Earl - Wikipedia

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    My Name Is Earl is an American television sitcom created by Greg Garcia for NBC. It aired for four seasons from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, with a total of 96 episodes . It was produced by Amigos de Garcia Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television , and starred Jason Lee as the title character, Earl Hickey, a small ...

  8. My Name Is My Name - Wikipedia

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    My Name Is My Name is the debut studio album by American rapper Pusha T.It was released on October 7, 2013, by GOOD Music and Def Jam Recordings.While leading up to the album's announcement, Pusha T released the mixtape Fear of God and the EP Fear of God II: Let Us Pray during 2011, along with collaborating on the GOOD Music's compilation album Cruel Summer (released in 2012).

  9. Who Is America? - Wikipedia

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    Who Is America? is an American political satire mockumentary-style [1] television series created by Sacha Baron Cohen that premiered on July 15, 2018, on Showtime. Baron Cohen also stars in the series as various characters and executive produces alongside Anthony Hines, Todd Schulman, Andrew Newman , Dan Mazer , and Adam Lowitt .