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Americus is traditionally a masculine name but has also been in occasional use for girls in the United States since the 18th century along with variants America, Americana, Ameriga, and Amerique. [3] Americus is a place name used for several American towns, including Americus, Georgia, Americus, Kansas, Americus, Indiana, and Americus, Missouri ...
Americus Vespucius Rice (1835–1904), American politician, banker, and businessman; Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512) Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer whose first name was Americus in Latin; Saint Emeric of Hungary (died 1031), also known as Saint Americus or Emeric, a Hungarian prince; Americus Symmes (1811–1896), son of John Cleves ...
Americus Vesputius was the Latinized version of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, the forename being an old Italianization (compare modern Italian Enrico) of Medieval Latin Emericus (see Saint Emeric of Hungary), from the Old High German name Emmerich, which may have been a merger of several Germanic names – Amalric, Ermanaric and ...
English: PDF version of the US History Wikibook. This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).
John Cleves Symmes Jr. was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, son of Thomas and Mercy (née Harker) Symmes. [8] He was named for his uncle John Cleves Symmes, a delegate to the Continental Congress, a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, Chief Justice of New Jersey, father-in-law of US President William Henry Harrison [9] and pioneer in the settlement and development of the Northwest Territory. [1]
On the heels of the controversy surrounding new press secretary Sean Spicer, the history and role of the oft-beleaguered position is being examined. The role actually started under Abraham Lincoln ...
The United States expropriated from Panama additional areas around the soon-to-be-built Madden Dam and annexed them to the Panama Canal Zone. [365] [373] Caribbean Sea: May 3, 1932 The United States adjusted the border at Punta Paitilla in the Canal Zone, returning a small amount of land to Panama. This was the site for a planned new American ...
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