The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier Incorporated, 1999 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries A thirty-volume encyclopedia covering important world events while providing major new treatments of selected topics in various academic fields. |
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... American life and create their own gallery of folk characters . The comics are an American institution , and from their beginning they have influenced the Ameri- can language . Cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan , for example , created many ...
... American life and create their own gallery of folk characters . The comics are an American institution , and from their beginning they have influenced the Ameri- can language . Cartoonist Thomas A. Dorgan , for example , created many ...
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... American colonies and then for the states during the years 1774 to 1789. The first and second of these congresses , which assembled in September 1774 and May 1775 , respectively , served as a kind of advisory council for the colonies ...
... American colonies and then for the states during the years 1774 to 1789. The first and second of these congresses , which assembled in September 1774 and May 1775 , respectively , served as a kind of advisory council for the colonies ...
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art : one of its galleries showing 19th - century American paintings . CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART ; PHOTO BY VICTOR AMATO CORBIN , Margaret ( 1751- ? 1800 ) , American Revo- lutionary War heroine . Margaret Cochran ...
The Corcoran Gallery of Art : one of its galleries showing 19th - century American paintings . CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART ; PHOTO BY VICTOR AMATO CORBIN , Margaret ( 1751- ? 1800 ) , American Revo- lutionary War heroine . Margaret Cochran ...
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