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The United States of America (USA), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major territories and various possessions. The 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., are in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwestern part of North America and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. At 3.8 million square miles (9.842 million km2) and with over 320 million people, the country is the world's third or fourth-largest by total area and the third most populous. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The geography and climate of the United States are also extremely diverse, and the country is home to a wide variety of wildlife.
The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South— is an area in the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its distinct culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles and varied cuisines that have helped distinguish it from the rest of the United States. The South has traditionally shown the strongest instances and rules favoring racism against Blacks and Hispanics.[2][3] The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse.[4] The central factor has been the consequence of plantation dependence on slave labor; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; and the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War. Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was highly...
The United States Armed Forces[5] are the federal military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.[6] The President of the United States is the military's overall head, and helps form military policy with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), a federal executive department, acting as the principal organ by which military policy is carried out. From the time of its inception, the military played a decisive role in the history of the United States. A sense of national unity and identity was forged as a result of victory in the First Barbary War and the Second Barbary War. Even so, the Founders were suspicious of a permanent military force. It played an important role in the American Civil War, where leading generals on both side...
South China Sea - United States Prepares to Challenge China United States prepares to challenge Chinese authority in the South China Sea to assert freedom of navigation. It is considering flying surveillance aircraft and ships to contest Chinese claims to the disputed islands. The Chinese Foreign Ministry voiced serious concern toward US intention to send military aircraft, and ships to the area. It is urging the U.S not to take any risks or make any provocations so as to maintain regional peace and stability. China spokeswoman, Hua Chunying said "China has always advocated freedom of navigation, but freedom of navigation does not give one country's military aircraft, and ships free access to another country's territorial waters and airspace". Tensions over the Spratlys islands have i...
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Just a few short miles from the North Korean border, the United States and South Korea held their largest live-fire drill ever, with thousands of soldiers, hundreds of armored vehicles, and nearly 100 helicopters and fighter jets.
The Chinese navy repeatedly warned the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon plane to leave airspace around disputed islands in the South China Sea. "Foreign military aircraft, this is Chinese navy. You are approaching our military alert zone. Leave immediately," a Chinese naval officer warned the U.S. plane, "Your action is unfriendly and dangerous. Please go away quickly." U.S. Sailors assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 conduct flight operations aboard a P-8A Poseidon over the Spratly Islands in South China Sea, May 20. VP-45 is on deployment supporting U.S. 7th Fleet operations in the Pacific. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Joshua Scott. AiirSource℠ covers military events and missions from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard. http://youtube.com/AiirSource L...
Tensions are rising on the Korean peninsula after the United States flew two nuclear-capable bombers over South Korea. The move is intended as a warning to North Korea after its recent nuclear test.
The United States offers uncountable sights to the visitor, from the White House and the Capitolium in Washington through the skyscrapers of New York and the buildings of Chicago to the clay buildings of Santa Fe. The west, well known from the movies, awaits the visitors with wooden forts, the endless prairie, Indian villages and pueblos. Nature offers the visitor the Niagara Falls, the amazing red rocks of the Monument Valley, while the city of gambling, Las Vegas and the capital of movie making, Los Angeles shows the visitor a different side of the United States. Come along! -------------- Watch more travel videos ► http://goo.gl/HYQdhg Join us. Subscribe now! ► http://goo.gl/QHWi2p Be our fan on Facebook ► http://goo.gl/0xmbQk Follow us on Twitter ► http://goo.gl/334ln5 --------------...
Take a tour of United States - part of the World's Greatest Attractions series by GeoBeats. Hi, this is your host, Naomi. I would like to show you the top 5 destinations of the United States. Number five: Boston, one of the most historic cities of the United States. It has some of the finest academic institutions and many quaint, charming neighborhoods. Number four: Los Angeles. See the famous Hollywood landmarks, shop alongside the rich and famous, and hang out with the locals at pristine beaches. Number three: Las Vegas. It's the entertainment capital of the world. On the famous strip, amidst the glitzy lights, you will find exciting casinos, dining, shows, and nightlife. Number two: San Francisco. The beautiful city is set in spectacular natural settings. World-famous landmarks...
✱ 56.234 Hotels in U.S.A - Lowest Price Guarantee ► http://goo.gl/Rdpbbv Travel video about destination USA - The West. The west of North America is full of amazing contrast and stretches from the pretentious world of the Hollywood glitterati to a landscape that is both natural and spectacular. This journey features some unique and impressive sights such as the historic rock settlements of the Native American Indians and fascinating salt deserts and volcanic areas.Los Angeles is synonymous with Hollywood and it was here that this amazing city attained worldwide fame. The Sidewalk Of Fame is covered with brass stars that bear the names of famous celebrities of both past and present. Universal Studios is the largest and most active film and television studio in the world as well as providin...
http://www.expedia.com/Boston.d178239.Destination-Travel-Guides Come to Boston to discover a city with roots in both the past and future. Classic Boston sightseeing begins with walking the Freedom Trail for a bird’s-eye view of the American Revolution, including Boston Common and “Old Ironsides,” the USS Constitution. Stop by some of the most prestigious colleges in the nation, including Harvard and Tufts University. Continue your Boston tour with a stop at Faneuil Hall, which has served as a marketplace since 1742, and check out a variety of shops and street performers. No trip to Boston is complete without paying homage at Fenway Park, where the Red Sox have held court for over a century. Don’t forget to fuel up with food afterward; Boston boasts a variety of restaurants, ranging fro...
✱ 245 Hotels in Las Vegas - Lowest Price Guarantee ► http://goo.gl/MJvh3s Travel video about destination Las Vegas in the United States of America. A fascinating glimpse into the non-stop entertainment capital of the world, Las Vegas, that offers a great deal more than the gambling casinos for which it's famous. There's the Luxor Hotel that was built at a cost of 400 million dollars and contains 2,526 rooms and an atrium that can accommodate nine jumbo jets. This is in stark contrast to the Excalibur Hotel that evokes King Arthur and his Round Table. Even the New York skyline is on full view and features Greenwich Village, the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty and a screeching roller-coaster ride above the residential quarters of New York! The exclusive Romanesque Caesar's Pala...
http://www.expedia.com/New-York.d178293.Destination-Travel-Guides New York City is an international metropolis built on the shoulders of immigrants and their descendants. New York City is home to eight million people, and the city receives more than 50 million visitors per year. Your New York City tour should include sampling the food of hundreds of different cultures, and you can explore the easily on foot, by taxi, or via the famous subway system. No New York sightseeing is complete without a visit to Times Square, which you’ve no doubt seen in many movies. Take in its billboards, its many people, and its food, then cross over to Central Park, which comprises 850 acres of lakes and meadows, and is the setting for many a romantic comedy. You also have your pick of art and history museu...
http://www.expedia.com/Washington.d178318.Destination-Travel-Guides Take in the many splendors of the nation’s capital when you arrive at Washington, D.C. Your Washington, D.C. tour should start at the National Mall, where you’ll find monuments, memorials, and government buildings instead of tons of shopping. If you’d like to get around town easily but don’t want to rent a car, the Capital Bikeshare program will let you cruise around the city without wasting gas or getting stuck in traffic. Check out the Watergate Hotel and Kennedy Center when you stop at Foggy Bottom, then move on to Georgetown, the oldest district in D.C. It’s filled with 18th-century buildings and, of course, the university itself. After a stop at the National Cathedral, make your way to the Smithsonian National Zoo,...
Travel guide to USA with sample pre-filled immigration forms and customs forms, specially for people flying to USA for the first time or apprehensive about taking a flight and going through immigration and customs procedures. Download a printable travel guide PDF file at http://www.path2usa.com/travel-guide-to-usa.
https://www.expedia.com/Philadelphia.d178297.Destination-Travel-Guides Welcome to Philadelphia, considered the birthplace of the United States. The Declaration of Independence was written and read publicly here in 1776. When you tour Philadelphia, you’ll get a sense of the history that permeates the city through its numerous monuments, symbols, and other landmarks, such as the First Bank of the United States and the warship USS Olympia. Don’t forget to stop by the Liberty Bell and the remains of the Eastern State Penitentiary, which housed notorious criminals like Al Capone. You don’t need a car to enjoy your Philadelphia sightseeing; take public transportation or rent a bike to explore the city streets at your leisure. Fairmount Park is the perfect place for a stroll, and if you’ve go...
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sept. 20 that the Philippines won't break ties with the United States because " ... we need them there in the China Sea."
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VK Madanayake Defence and Strategic Studies - Session II
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“South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, with an age old problem: massive corruption,” Chris Wallace said on Fox News Sunday. The president of the new nation—established in 2011—is Salva Kiir Mayardit. Kiir and his surrogates are battling with former vice president Riek Machar Teny over the nation’s wealth. Actor George Clooney and human rights activist John Prendergast discussed the rife corruption with Wallace, and explained why Americans should care about what is going on half a world away. The pair organized an investigative team to find out how South Sudanese leaders are looting the nation’s wealth. “They are stealing money from their own people to fund militias to kill one another, to gain power,” Clooney said.
Listen to the full audiobook: http://hotaudiobook.com/mabk/30/en/B008RCLF2K/book The mistakes the United States has made in Latin America and the high price it will pay for them. Could it be that for the first time in history, the United States needs Latin America more than the other way round? Since the early 1800s, the United States regarded the region as its backyard, but in the past decade South Americas leaders have increasingly snubbed Us efforts to persuade them to adopt free-market economics and sign trade agreements. While Washington has been distracted by military campaigns elsewhere, rivals such as China, Russia, and Iran have expanded their clout in Latin America, and Us influence in the region has fallen to a historic low at the very time that the United States has become more...
Japan Plans Joint Patrol in South China Sea Japan’s defense minister, Tomomi Inada said that her country will boost South China Sea activities in Maritime Self Defense Force joint training patrols with the United States and bilateral and multilateral exercise with regional navies. She said that Chinese actions constitute a deliberate attempt to unilaterally change the status quo, achieve a fait accompli, and undermine the prevailing norms. If the world condones coercive attempts to change the rules of the road in the East China Sea and South China Sea and allow rule-bending in their waters and airspace, its consequences could become global. Last month, French defense minister announced similar plan to joint South China Sea patrol and urged 27-nation European Union to do the same. French d...
The U-S Navy says they seek to enhance cooperative efforts with the Japanese to contribute to the security and stability of the region. This comes after Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said Tokyo is to step up its activity in the South China Sea through joint training patrols with the U-S and bilateral and multilateral exercises with regional navies. Inada also said Japan, which has its own territorial dispute with China in the East China Sea, will help build the capacity of coastal states in the South China Sea. Japan has already expressed readiness to provide Vietnam and the Philippines, which have claims over the South China Sea, with new patrol ships and surveillance aircraft. Guest: Jeff Brown, Expert in Sino-Western Relations Watch Live: http://www.presstv.com/live.html T...
Stephen Fry in America is a six part BBC television series in which Stephen Fry travels across the United States of America, a country in which he was almost born. Just before Fry was born, his father was offered a job at Princeton University, in New Jersey, but chose to turn it down in favour of Hampstead. In the six-part series he travels, mostly in a London cab, through all 50 U.S. states. Episode 02 Stephen Fry tries to find out what makes the South so distinctive.
Please join us for a special roundtable discussion on South Korea's role and efforts in global humanitarian development. This event is in cooperation with the Global Peace Foundation (GPF) and is on the record and open to the public. Featured Remarks by: Ambassador Kim, Young-mok President, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Moderated by: Dr. Victor Cha Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS Professor and Director of Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University http://csis.org/event/united-states-south-korea-and-civil-society-cooperation-global-humanitarian-development
History of US Rule in Latin America; Elections and Resistance to the Coup in Honduras - Professor Noam Chomsky PhD. Filmed by Paul Hubbard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on 12-15-09 www.socialistworker.org
Slavery in the United States began soon after English colonists first settled Virginia in 1607 and lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865. It continues illegally to this day. Before the widespread establishment of chattel slavery, much labor was organized under a system of bonded labor known as indentured servitude. This typically lasted for several years for white and black alike, and it was a means of using labor to pay the costs of transporting people to the colonies. By the 18th century, court rulings established the racial basis of the American incarnation of slavery to apply chiefly to Black Africans and people of African descent, and occasionally to Native Americans. A 1705 Virginia law stated slavery ...
Produced in 1938 by United States Steel, "Steel: Man's Servant" presents a lavish Technicolor look at the steel industry prior to WWII. Narrated by Edwin Hill and directed by Roland Reed, with amusical score by Robert Armbruster, the 37-minute film typically accompanied a dramatic feature film in release. The film presents mining activities on the Mesabi Range, with an Oliver Iron Mining Co. steam shovel ripping iron ore from the ground at the film's start. The film goes on to show the path of iron ore to Duluth's docks and steel plant before most of it arrived in the mills and manufacturing facilities of the eastern United States. The movie contains rare color images of pre-WWII American including open pit and underground mines, steel mills, blast furnaces, Great Lakes ore carriers, s...
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The United States Navy examines the challenges of flying in the Antarctic region, from Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's first polar flight to Operation Deep Freeze. The film focuses on the C-130 Hercules aircraft operations in the antarctic during the 1960's. . . WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.
The United States-South Korea FTA: The Foreign Policy Implications (Continuation) - mars-5:hrs05I_R2237_070613b - Rayburn 2237 - Committee on Foreign Affairs - 2007-06-13 - Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
Tired eyes
Closed for days
There's no regret
'Cause there's no place
I don't know
What I believe
But if I feel safe
What do I need
A home
A home
A home
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution blues
What will they do
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution blues
What will they do to me
What will they do to me
What will they do to me
What will they do to me
Dulcet tongues
Whisper fast
The future yearns
Right now's the past
Rouse me soon
The end draws nigh
Who's side are you on
Your blood you cannot buy
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution blues
What will they do
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution blues
What will they do to you
Well I
I feel alright
So tonight
I got to ask you why
Why deny it
It's no surprise
I've got to survive
Freedom shines the light ahead
I'll lead the last charge to bed
I said my last rights
I don't have to run scared no more
Fight
I wanna fight
I wanna fight a revolution
Tonight
I wanna fight
I wanna fight a revolution
Tonight
At the light
At the light
Do you wanna watch me die
Let me be something good
Let me prove something real like I should
Let me embrace every single living thing