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  2. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within the culture to invent new names, although many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha, and -aun/-awn are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names.

  3. Culture of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States also developed the Global Positioning System, which is the world's pre-eminent satellite navigation system. [150] U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin saluting the flag on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. The United States is the only country that has sent crewed missions to the lunar surface.

  4. Folk art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Folk art in the United States refers to the many regional types of tangible folk art created by people in the United States of America.Generally developing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when settlers revived artistic traditions from their home countries in a uniquely American way, folk art includes artworks created by and for a large majority of people.

  5. Category:American traditions - Wikipedia

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    Traditions of the United States, beliefs or behaviors passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

  6. Americana (culture) - Wikipedia

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    Americana encompasses not only material objects but also people, places, concepts and historical eras which are popularly identified with American culture. The name Americana also refers to Americana music , a genre of contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American music styles, including country , roots rock , folk ...

  7. Culture of the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Similarly the people kept many African forms in religious rituals, foodways and similar transportable culture, all influenced by the new environment in the colonies. Other, less known African American dialect groups are the rural blacks of the Mississippi Basin, and Africatown near Mobile, Alabama, where the last known ship to arrive in the ...

  8. Folklore of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn ("The Lord is good to me..."). Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

  9. True name - Wikipedia

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    A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature. The notion that language, or some specific sacred language, refers to things by their true names has been central to philosophical study as well as various traditions of magic, religious invocation and mysticism since antiquity. [1] [2]