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- •The United States of America
- •One nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for all.
- •The United States
- •Us State Nicknames
- •Illinois
- •Indiana (no official nickname)
- •Vermont
- •Virginia
- •Some of the benchmark events of American history mentioned in the “Gallery of American Presidents”:
- •Монеты сша
- •White House History
- •About the Building
- •The Oval Office
- •Eisenhower Executive Office Building
- •Camp David
- •Air Force One
- •Us Government The Executive Branch
- •The President
- •The Vice President
- •Executive Office of the President
- •The Cabinet
- •Department of Agriculture
- •Department of Commerce
- •Department of Defense
- •Department of Education
- •Department of Energy
- •Department of Health and Human Services
- •Department of Homeland Security
- •Department of Housing and Urban Development
- •Department of the Interior
- •Department of Justice
- •Department of Labor
- •Department of State
- •Department of Transportation
- •Department of the Treasury
- •Department of Veterans Affairs
- •The Legislative Branch
- •The Legislative Process
- •Powers of Congress
- •Government Oversight
- •The Judicial Branch
- •The Supreme Court of the United States
- •The Judicial Process
- •The Constitution
- •Why a Constitution?
- •The Constitutional Convention
- •Ratification
- •The Bill of Rights
- •Elections & Voting
- •The great seal of the united states
- •Designing a Seal The First Committee
- •The Second Committee
- •The Third Committee
- •Charles Thomson’s Proposal
- •The Final “Device”
- •Charles Thomson’s “Remarks and Explanation,” Adopted by the Continental Congress, June 20, 1782
- •Its simplicity and lack of clutter. His design was
- •Meaning of the Seal
- •Designs of the Reverse
- •In 1782, no die has ever
- •Uses of the Seal and the Coat of Arms
- •Requests To Use the Great Seal and Coat of Arms
- •Great Seal Today
- •The Great Seal of the United States
- •The Great Seal on Display
- •Langley
- •Central intelligence agency
- •The work of a nation. The centre of intelligence. About cia
- •Today's cia
- •Mission
- •The cia Campus: a Walk Outside Headquarters
- •Nathan Hale Statue
- •Memorial Garden
- •The cia Campus: New Headquarters Building
- •The History of the Scattergood-Thorne Property
- •Cia Glossary
- •Laughing at cia?
- •The lapd, the fbi and the cia
- •Federal Bureau of Investigation
- •Laughing at fbi?
- •An fbi investigation
- •9/11 Warnings and fbi/cia Bungling
- •Late-Night Jokes About Sept. 11 Intelligence Failures
- •Foggy Bottom
- •Hitting Bottom in Foggy Bottom The State Department suffers from low morale, bottlenecks, and bureaucratic ineptitude. Do we need to kill it to save it? by matthew armstrong | september 11, 2009
- •The Watergate hotel
- •Us Department of State Headquarters
- •History
- •Duties and responsibilities
- •American entertainment
- •Hollywood
- •Hollywood glossary
- •Capitol Records
- •.. 1750 Vine Street, Hollywood, ca. / (323) 462-6252
- •On Hollywood Boulevard: from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue, and on Vine Street: from Yucca Street to Sunset Boulevard.
- •Hollywood glossary
- •"Celebrity Death Sites" a list of celebrities, whose deaths were the result of murder or suicide, including the location of their death sites
- •John Belushi's Death Site"
- •John Belushi's Death Site.
- •Silicon Valley
- •Вот, что мне особенно понравилось (для людей, изучающих английский, может показаться странным, что некоторые слова попали в разряд «чудных» с точки зрения американца).
- •Distinctive features Phonology
- •Grammatical aspect marking
- •Ebonics Translations
- •Ebonics Prayer
- •Nursery Rhymez
- •The us army
- •Army Commands (acom):
- •Army Service Component Commands (ascc):
- •Direct Reporting Units (dru):
- •Mission
- •“The Army Goes Rolling Along”
- •Пример описания боевых характеристик: Patriot
- •Entered Army Service
- •Description and Specifications
- •Manufacturer
- •Униформа армии сша
- •Знаки различия званий уорент-офицеров (Warrant Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий младших офицеров (Сompany Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий старших офицеров (Field Grade Officers).
- •Знаки различия званий генералов (General Officers).
- •Наградная система армии сша
- •2. Крест за выдающуюся службу (Distinguished Service Cross).
- •8. Медаль Министерства обороны за отличную службу (Defense Superior Service Medal).
- •9. «За боевые заслуги», Орден Почетного Легиона (Legion of Merit).
- •Military Humour
- •Спецназ сша/us special forces
- •Рейнджеры / us Army Rangers
- •Спецподразделения Военно-воздушных сил сша / us Air Force Special Operations
- •Спецподразделения военно-морского флота сша, известны как "морские котики"/us Navy Seals
- •Отряд "Дельта" / Delta Force
- •Разведка Морской Пехоты сша / us Marine Force Recon
- •Воздушно-десантные войска/ us Airborn
- •Десятая Горная Дивизия/10th Mountain Division
- •Полувоенные силы Центрального Разведывательного Управления/cia Paramilitary Forces
- •Начало формы Конец формы
- •Sightseeing in america
- •Visual Landmarks New York
- •Районы Нью-Йорка
- •Управление
- •Культура
- •Планировка города
- •Транспорт
- •Сигналы опасности
- •Мосты и туннели
- •Связь в Нью-Йорке
- •Что раздражает ньюйоркцев?
- •Manhattan
- •Башня Банка Америки (Bank of America Tower)
- •Эмпайр Стейт Билдинг Why do we call New York City the Big Apple?
- •Statue of Liberty
- •The National Park Service commemorates the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty annually on October 28th. Mount rushmore
- •The grand canyon
- •Niagara Falls
- •Alcatraz
- •History
- •Military history
- •Military prison
- •Prison history Federal prison
- •Notable inmates
- •Post prison years
- •Native American occupation
- •Landmarking and development
- •Arlington National Cemetery
- •Placing of burial flag over a casket
- •A firing party
- •Сто вопросов и ответов о сша one hundred questions and answers about
- •2. What are the ingredients of a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner?
- •3. What do the terms "melting pot" and "salad bowl" mean to u.S. Society and culture?
- •Impressionists?
- •67. Which American President was the first to live in the White House?
- •Isbn 987–5–932050–42–2
- •191104, Г. Санкт-Петербург, наб. Р. Фонтанки, 32/1
67. Which American President was the first to live in the White House?
- John Adams
68. Which country presented the United States with the Statue of Liberty? What was the occasion?
- France; the 100-year anniversary of the Franco- American alliance during the American Revolutionary War
69. Which American astronaut first stepped on the surface of the Moon and what was the year? What was the name of his spaceship?
- Neil Armstrong; 1969; Apollo II
70. Which American general, who later became the 34th President, commanded all U.S. forces during World War Two?
- Dwight David Eisenhower
71. Which American architect is called the "Father of the Skyscraper”?
- Louis Henry Sullivan .
72. Who were the two brothers who invented the air plane and where did the first flight take place?
- Orville and Wilbur Wright; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; 1903
73. What is the name of the American naval base that the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941? In which state is it located?
- Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
74. Which American president attended the Potsdam Conference?
- Harry Truman
75. Who was the American president during the Cuban missile crisis?
- John F. Kennedy
76. In which U.S. city was the Federal Building bombed on April 19, 1957?
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
77. Which U.S. astronaut spent almost four months during 1995 aboard the Russian space station "Mir"?
- Norman E. Thaclard
78. In which U.S. city was the United Nations' charter approved in 1945?
- San Francisco (CA)
79. Who was the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China?
- Richard Nixon
80. Who is the Texas billionaire who ran for U.S. president in 1992 and 1996?
- Ross Perot
81. What major American historical event did Rip van Winkle miss in his sleep?
- The American Revolution
82. Which 19th century American writer is said to be the founder of detective genre?
- Edgar A. Рое
83. What pen name did an American writer use to sign the humorous stories which he wrote in prison?
-0’ Henry
84. Which famous event happened in California in 1849 was glorified in films and books?
-The Gold Rush
85. Name the American science fiction writer born in Russia who wrote "I, Robot".
- Isaac Asimov
86. Volkov's book,1 The Wizard of the Emerald Town", is an adaptation of a book written by an American writer. What is the title of the book and who is the American author?
- 'The (Wonderful) Wizard of Oz"; L. Frank Baum
87. Name the American senator who was the proto type of the main character in Robert Penn Warren's novel, 'All the King's Men"?
- Huey Long
88. Which American family compiled the first dictionary of the American variant of the English language?
-Webster
89. Which two novels by Mark Twain are often called "the first modern American novels"?
- (1) Huck Finn, (2) Tom Sawyer
90. Which famous novel of Herman Melville is concerned with an aquatic mammal?
- Moby Dick
91. During which periods in American history was the novel "Gone with the Wind" set?
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
92. Name the 1954 Nobel Laureate in Literature who wrote. "The Sun Also Rises".
- Ernest Hemingway
93. Who was the only American to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate and win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry?
- Robert Penn Warren (poetry; "Brother to Dragons ('53)", "Promises ("57)", fiction: "All the King's Men ('46)", PL ('86)
94. Name the Russian-born poet who was expelled from the USSR, emigrated to the USA, and recently passed away in New York City.
- Joseph Brodsky
95. Which famous poem of Longfellow was translated into Russian by Ivan Bunin?
- "Song of Hiawatha"
96. Which famous Edgar A. Рое poem is named for a bird?
- "The Raven"
97. Which American author wrote "The Last of the Mohicans"?
- James Fennimore Cooper
98. Which famous American document begins with the words, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..."
- The Constitution of the United States
99. Name the largest library in the U.S.
- Library of Congress
100. Name the Afro-American author of “Song of Solomon”, «The Bluest Eye” and “Beloved” who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
- Toni Morrison.
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The Popular Encyclopedia of the
United States of America
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