Search results for "USS South America" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • the first structure completed in 1802, the south wing in 1804. In 1818, the ... of soldiers of the Confederate States of America and a Confederate Memorial. ...
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  • to extend their defensive perimeter in the south and central Pacific were ... in chief for Pacific forces, created the South Pacific theater, with Vice ...
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  • #039;s legacy became part of the story of America expressed conceptually in ... in the selection of commanders in the South. It had chosen Robert Howe ...
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  • the Mexican border. San Diego County, just south of Orange County, shares ... Navy's Nimitz class supercarriers, (the USS Nimitz and the USS Ronald ...
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  • includes the North Pole region. Extending south to about 60°N, the ocean ... that joined Siberia to northwestern North America (Alaska). ...
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  • ) are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles ... and Beauchene Island some distance to its south. Speedwell Island and George ...
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  • *United States: Korea south of the 38th parallel, Okinawa, the Amami ... Prefecture. They were followed by the USS Missouri, whose accompanying ...
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  • of dragoons when the British colonies in America proclaimed their independence ... a continuance of the same affection from America." ...
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  • in inter-island shipping, traveling as far south as the Sulu Archipelago. ... spared. Aguinaldo pledged allegiance to America on April 1, 1901, formally ...
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  • 9,000 feet (2,400 to 2,700 m), whereas the south rim of the Grand Canyon sits ... Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern ...
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  • of the northeastern United States of America named after the southern ... Ocean to the east; Massachusetts to the south; and Vermont to the west ...
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  • of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and the south becoming the State of Vietnam ... signed the armistice with Japan onboard the USS Missouri on behalf of CEFEO ...
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  • of Siberia may have migrated from the south, following reindeer migration ... humid air can reach the island from the south-east during summer. Dry and ...
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  • Arctic in the north to the Antarctic in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia ... Hemisphere with the axes of the North and South Equatorial currents coinciding ...
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  • action." This decoration is America's first combat award ... to earn the Medal of Honor at Fort Wagner, South Carolina with the all black ...
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  • masses at different altitudes over North America, carrier suitability certification ... January 31 to February 9, 1971. It was America's third successful ...
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  • hoped, after the type of push to the South that Grant had wanted to ... Ohio, marching from Nashville, and advance south in a joint offensive to seize ...
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  • force when they also introduced to America the paintings, drawings ... market in 1907. This would in turn lead to America's first introduction ...
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  • Iwo Jima is a volcanic island about 1,200 km (650 nautical miles) ... 4th and 5th Marine Divisions to land on the south-eastern beach and initially ...
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  • concealment. Vegetation is densest on the south leg of Wake Island, west ... along the north coast, except along the south shore of Wilkes. At the coastline ...
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  • Clement Vann Rogers (1839–1911) and Mary America Schrimsher (1938–1890 ... two friends separated and Rogers sailed for South Africa, where he took a job ...
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  • the 41st president of the United States of America (1989–1993). Prior to ... of Air Group 51, his squadron was based on USS San Jacinto in the spring ...
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  • of the United States across North America. for U.S. intervention outside of North America. The term fell out of common ...
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  • the western region of the United States of America. The majority of the state ... Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South ...
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  • The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus (SSN-571), put to ... both fast and thermal technology, South Korea and the United States ...
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  • War, radar-picket submarines such as the USS Triton were developed to provide ... to field a submarine. The French-designed USS Alligator was the first U ...
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  • draw the enemy fleet back to the South while avoiding at all costs ... Marching south towards the city of Iquique with 6,000 troops, the ...
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  • Mine is bounded to the south and east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to ... in Maine include Fairchild Semiconductor in South Portland; IDEXX Laboratories ...
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  • In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee ... Maginot Line, built after World War I, further south. In the first ...
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  • vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will ... naval battle groups, the aircraft carriers USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS ...
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  • that threatened war between the North and South. Though Webster made three ... John C. Calhoun's promulgation of his South Carolina Exposition and Protest ...
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  • Northwest region of the United States of America. Washington is located in ... The north-south transportation corridor along Interstate Highway 5 ...
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  • and joined a whaling expedition to the South Pacific where he fell under ... sailed around Cape Horn and traveled to the South Pacific. He has left very ...
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  • 38th parallel and the United States to the south. The Soviet Union] refused ... The split of Korea into north and south has precedent in Korean history ...
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  • his life. Unlike his grandfather, Sam went south across the American border ... *The United States Navy named the USS Edison (DD-439), a Gleaves class ...
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  • Civil War (1861–1865), fought in North America within the territory of ... tariffs that unfairly impacted the South, and the North's burgeoning ...
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  • from Portsmouth aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31). During the ... Forest cost 24,000 casualties. Further south, Patton's 3rd Army lost ...
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  • Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 — April 5, 1964) was one of ... North Korean forces from overrunning South Korea, and then pursued them ...
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  • from Point Pleasant Park to the north and south mainland. ... strength on the East Coast of North America. Local merchants also took ...
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  • During the Vietnam War, he was almost killed in the 1967 USS Forrestal ... squadrons aboard the aircraft carriers USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise ...
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  • the understanding and development of the South’s economic potential. He ... there was a school for blacks ten miles south in Neosho, Missouri, he resolved ...
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  • region of the United States of America. During North America's ... on the east by the Atlantic Ocean; on the south and southwest by Delaware ...
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  • sentenced him to a seven-year indenture in America. Elizabeth, a strong, blond ... after the Federals retreated to the heights south of town, Lee sent one of ...
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  • S. aircraft spraying chemical defoliants in South Vietnam]] of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known as the ...
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  • Agency operated the "Voice of America" as an official government ... as alleged confessions from the crew of the USS Pueblo. ...
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  • "the best-known young person in America, with the possible exception ... South Dakota|BB-57|6 , but in August were reassigned to the Pacific ...
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  • of the northeastern United States of America. Connecticut is the 29th ... Connecticut is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound, on the ...
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  • region of the United States of America. Known as the Land of Enchantment ... Plains run from a high plateau in the north south to the Pecos River. Rivers ...
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  • See History of North Korea and History of South Korea for the post-World ... to all nations but China. In 1853 the USS South America, an American gunboat ...
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  • deposit is located at the Olympic Dam Mine in South Australia. ... time for propulsion by a submarine, the USS Nautilus, in 1954. ...
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  • Eisenhower worked to bring North and South Korea to a negotiated truce ... and ordered the complete desegregation of America's armed forces. In ...
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  • Plains regions of the United States of America. The central and western ... the state borders North Dakota and part of South Dakota. To the south is Wyoming ...
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  • and inundating coastal communities across South and Southeast Asia, including ... New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java ...
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  • From December 1937, events such as the Japanese attack on the USS ... that Japan would eventually capitulate to America's overwhelming industrial ...
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  • After Kennedy's leadership as commander of the USS PT-109 during ... less than a week at LSE, he sailed back to America only three weeks after he ...
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  • transportation and storage facilities south of the village of Majon-ni ... south of Edwards. After sufficient descent, he turned back toward ...
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  • States, forming the Confederate States of America, and took control of U.S ... was not even on the ballot in nine states in the South. ...
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  • He was the first statewide office holder in the Deep South to say ... In 1972, as U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was marching ...
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  • known in Spanish as the Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich ... Some Argentinians occupied South Georgia March 19, 1982. Initially ...
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  • In 2000, the USS Cole bombing encouraged several members to depart ... quot;We discovered Iran collaborating with America in its invasions of Afghanistan ...
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  • In 1929, Clarence Conrad Crispen, with Inclinator Company of America ... one at the north end, and the other at the south end. The entry doors have ...
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  • seeming suggestion of the possibility of America backing Nazi Germany, and ... considered too liberal. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was initially favored ...
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  • 1911–2004: "Morning Again in America,"] Hoover Digest 2004 ... communist dictatorships throughout Latin America and may have been involved ...
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  • Washington, which was there to investigate America's military might. Historian ... thrusts to the west against India, the south against Australia and the ...
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  • conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First Philippine ... unofficial extensions as part of the war. America's ventures in the Philippines ...
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  • rivals and enemies. For example, colonial America, the American Revolution ... turning white spread through the south and struck fear into the ...
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  • United Kingdom and the United States of America. Substantial Free French ... quot; forces deployed from bases along the south coast of England, the most ...
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  • east, and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south. Iraq has a narrow section ... Iraq shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan ...
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  • Igor Sikorsky created America's first successful helicopter in 1939. ... may easily hit nearby obstacles. In 2001, a South Korean Army CH-47 Chinook ...
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  • south of Johnston Atoll, and 24|km|nmi|abbr=on from Hornet, with ... and with the success of Apollo 11, America had won the Space Race. ...
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  • He was arrested for vagrancy in the Deep South and served a 30-day assignment ... The Intersection of Star Culture in America and International Medical ...
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  • Glenn was ordered to South Korea in October 1952, late in the Korean ... and Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1983. ISBN 978-0933852396 ...
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  • rights in the demilitarized zone south-east of Lake Tiberias." ... the same lines as striking Soviet-hostile America. "Israel today is the ...
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  • during 1916s Pancho Villa Expedition, America's first military action ... The first Patton in America was Robert Patton, born in Ayr, Scotland ...
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