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Land, Edwin
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Langley, Samuel Pierpont
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,
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language

Dutch
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English
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,
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,
(iii)

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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Yiddish
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,
(ii)

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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leisure
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,
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,
(iii)

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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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Lincoln Highway
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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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shopping
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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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,
(iii)

Longyear, John M
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Los Angeles
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Louis XVI, King, of France
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Louis-Philippe
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Louisiana
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,
(ii)

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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Madison, James
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,
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,
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magazine advertising
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Maggio, Rosalie
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Mailer, Norman
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Maine, Popham Colony
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Manhattan
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Manly, Charles
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mapping
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

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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Maryland
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,
(ii)

Maslow, Jonathan
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Mason, Charles
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Mason, George
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,
(ii)

Mason-Dixon line
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Massachusetts
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

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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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Mather, Cotton
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Mather, Increase
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,
(ii)

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
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Mayflower Compact
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

meal times
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

meat
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

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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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

and baseball terms
(i)

on hot dogs
(i)

and jeeps
(i)

on swearing
(i)

Mexico
(i)
,
(ii)

Miami Beach (Florida)
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Michigan
(i)
,
(ii)

microwave oven
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Midland counties (England)
(i)

Milan
(i)
,
(ii)

Mills, A.G
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Milton, John
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Milwaukee
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Milwaukee Railroad
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Minnesota
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Minter, Desire
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Mississippi
(i)
,
(ii)

Missouri
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

money,
(i)

Monopoly (board game)
(i)

Montana
(i)
,
(ii)

Moore, Francis
(i)

Moore, Marianne
(i)

Morgan, J.P
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Morison, Samuel Eliot
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Morris, Gouverneur
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
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Moses, Robert
(i)

motels
(i)

motion pictures
see
movies

Mount Vernon
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movie stars
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)

movies
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

moving film
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myths
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and sexual morality
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,
(ii)

stars
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

and television
(i)

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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,
(ii)

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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changed names
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,
(ii)

from classic & literary
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,
(ii)

confusion and duplication of
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from countries
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

from foods
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from inns & taverns
(i)

nicknames of States
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from North American Indian
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organization of
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from people
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

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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Nast, Thomas
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,
(ii)

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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Nebraska
(i)
,
(ii)

Netherlands
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Neuse river
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New Albion
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New Berlin (Ohio)
(i)

New England
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

New Hampshire
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,
(ii)

New Haven (Connecticut)
(i)
,
(ii)

New Jersey
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New Orleans
(i)
,
(ii)

New Salem (Illinois)
(i)

New York
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

immigration
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

and movies
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

restaurants
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

shopping
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

suburbs
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

television & radio
(i)
,
(ii)

Newark (New Jersey)
(i)

Newfoundland
(i)

newspapers
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Nicaragua
(i)

Nicholas, Saint
(i)

North American Indians
(i)
,
(ii)

food
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

and football
(i)

as hostages
(i)

murders by
(i)

sign language
(i)

tribes
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

violence to
(i)

North Carolina
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

North Dakota
(i)
,
(ii)

North Platte (Nebraska)
(i)
,
(ii)

Nova Scotia
(i)

Ogallala (Nebraska)
(i)

Ohio
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Ohman, Edward
(i)

Ohman, Olof
(i)

Oklahoma
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Old Providence Island
(i)

Olds, Ransom
(i)

Opechancanough (Indian chief)
(i)

Oregon Trail
(i)

Oscars
(i)

Osceola (Seminole chief)
(i)

O’Sullivan, John
(i)

Othneil, Mr
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Otis Elevator Company
(i)

Otis, Elisha Graves
(i)

Otis, James
(i)

Oyster War
(i)

Paine, Thomas
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Paramus (New Jersey)
(i)

Paris
(i)
,
(ii)

Parker, George Swinton
(i)

Parliament, British
(i)

Parsons, Hugh
(i)

passenger pigeon
(i)

pastimes
(i)

see also
sport and pleasure

patents
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Patton, Phil
(i)

Paul, Robert
(i)

Peale, Charles W
(i)

peanuts
(i)

Pearl Harbour
(i)

peas
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Peck, Helen Dow
(i)

Pei, Mario
(i)

Pella (Iowa)
(i)

Pemberton, John Styth
(i)

Penn, William
(i)
,
(ii)

Pennsylvania
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Pennsylvania Dutch (language)
(i)

Pepsi-Cola
(i)

Perry, Oliver Hazard
(i)

personal names
(i)

Philadelphia
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

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