Authors: Bill Bryson
Land, Edwin
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Langley, Samuel Pierpont
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language
Dutch
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French
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German
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Italian
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Mexican
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Native American Indian
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,
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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Peruvian Indians
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Scandinavian
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Spanish
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see also
English language
Latham, Greg
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Latham, Otway
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Lawrence (Massachusetts)
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Le Bourget airfield (Paris)
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Le Prince, Louis Aimé Augustin
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see also
sport and pleasure
Leland, Henry
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Leland, Wilfred
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Leroy, Jean
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Levitt, Abraham
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Lewis, Meriwether
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Leyland, Jim
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Liberty Bell
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lifts
see
elevators
lighting
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Lillie, Beatrice
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Lincoln, Abraham
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Lincolnshire (England)
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Lindbergh, Charles
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Linder, Robert
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Lippard, George
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Lippmann, Walter
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Livingstone, Robert R
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Locke, John
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Lombardi, G (restaurant)
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London (England)
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,
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,
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television
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travel
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Long Island
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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,
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Longyear, John M
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Louis XVI, King, of France
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Louis-Philippe
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Louisiana Purchase
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Lowell, James Russell
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Lubitsch, Ernst
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Lucas, Stephen E
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Luce, Clare Booth
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Lumière, Auguste
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Lumière, Louis
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Lutz, William
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Lyly, John
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McCoy, Joseph
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McCutchen, Richard S
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McDavid, Raven, jun.
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McDonald, Maurice
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McDonald, Richard
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McDonald’s (fast foods)
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McGuire, William A
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Mackenzie, Alexander
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McKinney, Henry N
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McLellan, George B
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magazine advertising
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,
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,
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Mailer, Norman
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Maine, Popham Colony
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Manly, Charles
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Mapplethorpe, Robert
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Marchiony, Italo
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Marcy, William E
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Marlowe, Christopher
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Marquette, Jacques
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Marryat Captain Frederick
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Martha’s Vineyard
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Martin, Christopher
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Martin, D.D
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Martin, Norma
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Martineau, Harriet
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Marx Brothers
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Maslow, Jonathan
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Mason, Charles
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Mason-Dixon line
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Massachusetts
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Bill of Rights
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immigrants
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population
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prohibition
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suburbs
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and swearing
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travel
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masturbation
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,
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Mather, Cotton
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Matsuda, Mari
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Maverick, Samuel A
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Maxim, Hiram
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Mayer, Louis B
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Mayflower
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,
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,
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Mayflower Compact
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,
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Mee, Charles I
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Melville, Herman
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Menches, Charles
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Menches, Frank
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Mencken, H.L
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and baseball terms
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on hot dogs
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and jeeps
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on swearing
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Miami Beach (Florida)
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microwave oven
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Midland counties (England)
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Mills, A.G
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Milton, John
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Milwaukee Railroad
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Minter, Desire
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Missouri
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,
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,
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money,
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Monopoly (board game)
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Moore, Francis
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Moore, Marianne
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Morgan, J.P
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Morison, Samuel Eliot
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Morris, Gouverneur
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,
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,
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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
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Moses, Robert
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motels
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motion pictures
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movies
Mount Vernon
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moving film
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myths
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and television
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mules
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Mulford, C.J
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Mullins, William
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Mussolini, Benito
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Muybridge, Eadweard (Edward Muggeridge)
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,
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Myrdal, Gunnar
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Nagasaki
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Nagreen, Charles
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Naismith, James
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names, personal
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changes in pronunciation
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changes in style
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forenames
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servants
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women
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names, place
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from classic & literary
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,
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confusion and duplication of
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from countries
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from foods
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from inns & taverns
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nicknames of States
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from North American Indian
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organization of
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from radio
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from science
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from unofficial sources
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Nash, Charles
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Nashville University
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National Association of Base Ball Players
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national holidays
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National Hydrological Institute of France
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National Museum of the American Indian
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National Railway Time Convention
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National Register of Historical Places, The
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Netherlands
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Neuse river
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New Albion
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New Berlin (Ohio)
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New England
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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New Haven (Connecticut)
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,
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New Jersey
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New Salem (Illinois)
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immigration
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Newark (New Jersey)
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Newfoundland
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Nicaragua
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Nicholas, Saint
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North American Indians
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,
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and football
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as hostages
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murders by
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sign language
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violence to
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North Platte (Nebraska)
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,
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Nova Scotia
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Ogallala (Nebraska)
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Ohman, Edward
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Ohman, Olof
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Old Providence Island
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Olds, Ransom
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Opechancanough (Indian chief)
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Oregon Trail
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Oscars
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Osceola (Seminole chief)
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O’Sullivan, John
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Othneil, Mr
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Otis Elevator Company
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Otis, Elisha Graves
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Otis, James
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Oyster War
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Paine, Thomas
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,
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Paramus (New Jersey)
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Parker, George Swinton
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Parliament, British
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Parsons, Hugh
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passenger pigeon
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pastimes
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see also
sport and pleasure
Patton, Phil
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Paul, Robert
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Peale, Charles W
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peanuts
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Pearl Harbour
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Peck, Helen Dow
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Pei, Mario
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Pella (Iowa)
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Pemberton, John Styth
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Pennsylvania
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,
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,
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,
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Pennsylvania Dutch (language)
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Pepsi-Cola
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Perry, Oliver Hazard
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personal names
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