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There are separate demonyms derived from each word and a United States citizen is referred to as 美国人 (Pinyin: měiguó rén; Jyutping: mei5 gwok3 yan4). In the constructed language Esperanto, usonano, similar to Usonian, is the standard term for an American. The United States itself is called Usono, similar to Usonia.
978-1-933392-79-0. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is a 2007 non-fiction book by Naomi Wolf, published by Chelsea Green Publishing of White River Junction, Vermont. Wolf argues that events of the early 2000s paralleled steps taken in the early years of the twentieth century's worst dictatorships and called Americans to ...
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.
The American Cincinnatus: [1] Like the famous Roman, he won a war, then became a private citizen instead of seeking power or riches as a reward. He became the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by Revolutionary War officers who also "declined offers of power and position to return to his home and plough".
Chattanooga State Community College. Chico State. California State University, Chico. City Tech. New York City College of Technology. CIA. The Culinary Institute of America. CMC. Claremont McKenna College.
“Close the border,” “end inflation,” “stop the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, “cure cancer” and similar phrases are statements of intent that cannot be seen as policy.
The long s, ſ , also known as the medial s or initial s, is an archaic form of the lowercase letter s , found mostly in works from the late 8th to early 19th centuries. It replaced one or both [a] of the letters s in a double- s sequence (e.g., "ſinfulneſs" for "sinfulness" and "poſſeſs" or "poſseſs" for "possess", but never ...
The End of America is a 2008 documentary film directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern, adapted from Naomi Wolf 's 2007 book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. The film scrutinizes policy changes implemented during the Bush administration and argues the case that these alterations pose a threat to American democracy.