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E Pluribus Unum
E Pluribus Unum [Lat.,=one made out of many], motto on the Great Seal of the United States and on many U.S. coins. Although selected in 1776 by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson for the Continental Congress, it was not officially adopted as a national motto until six years later.... Read more |
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Great Seal of the United States
Great Seal of the United States official impression that validates a United States government document. It was adopted by the Continental Congress in 1782 and, with only minor changes in the design, remains in use today. In the center of the seal is an American eagle. It holds in its beak a scroll... Read more |
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UNUM Corp
UNUM Corp. 2211 Congress StreetPortland, Maine 04122U.S.A.(207) 770-2211Fax: (207) 770-4387 Public Company Founded: 1985Employees: 5,760Total Assets: $13.13 billionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 6311 Life Insurance; 6321 Accident & Health Insurance; 6719 Holding Companies Not Elsewhere... Read more |
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coin
coin piece of metal, usually a disk of gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, aluminum, or a combination of such metals, stamped by authority of a government as a guarantee of its real or exchange value and used as money . Coinage was probably invented independently in Lydia or in the Aegean... Read more |
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Socialist Party of America
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Boy Scouts of America
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Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee
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Democracy in America
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, by Alexis de Tocqueville. The most influential study of the United States ever written, Democracy in America owes its enduring significance to the complexity of Tocqueville's analysis. This child of aristocracy was "a liberal of a new kind"... Read more |
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America
America [for Amerigo Vespucci ], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. In English, America and American are... Read more |
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E Pluribus Unum: A new religious America
...the idea of America is the challenge...One thing E pluribus unum clearly does...participation here in America. For assimilationists...relationship of the pluribus and the unum can be sounded...this image of ... |
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TEACHING BY AMERICA'S MOTTO: E PLURIBUS UNUM
...dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against America. First, I could not care less...and work against the motto of America -- e pluribus unum, "from many, one." English... |
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A Motto That Welcomes; Loudoun Schools Offered Posters That Declare 'E...
...posting of 'E pluribus unum' would achieve this affirmation...try to distribute "E pluribus unum" posters statewide...phrase "enacted in 1782, America's original motto...nor opposes posting "E pluribus ... |
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'A LITTLE LESS PLURIBUS, AND A LITTLE MORE UNUM'
...hard. It would be easier if "E Pluribus Unum," the national motto displayed...s book, "The Disuniting of America," Burns said that America today could use a "little less pluribus and a little more unum." We see this in our ... |
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Bradley Project on America's National Identity Issues Statement by...
...Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCulloughon theE Pluribus Unumreport WASHINGTON, June 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire...following is a statement by David McCullough on the E Pluribus Unumreport: This is the clearest, most powerful summons... |
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E PLURIBUS UNUM
...epic poem The Aeneid. He used "E Pluribus Unum" in the poem Moretum when describing...blending of many colors into one. "E Pluribus Unum" has taken on additional meaning over the years as America has welcomed people from all over... |
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E pluribus unum
E pluribus unum The nation's motto was forever cast...played out his role as a citizen of an America that will find a solid new identity under our motto, "one out of many"--E pluribus unum. One purpose is pursued now, as American... |
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The Bradley Project Releases Its Report, 'E Pluribus Unum' - Calls for...
...Report Finds That America is Facing an Identity...Many, One - E Pluribus Unum - But Its Opposite...its Report, E Pluribus Unum,the product...report finds that America is facing an identity...selecting the title E ... |
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Pluribus or unum?
...the discoverer" of America, but as someone who...maintained a balance between pluribus and unum. The report, it seems to me, is saturated with pluribus and neglectful of unum...dead-end conflict. America's schoolchildren ... |
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AU Okla. Chapter helps public schools support E Pluribus Unum.(People &...
...encouraging display of America's national mottoes...Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum" posters and even...for "E Pluribus Unum" posters. Enter...poster that reads "E Pluribus Unum." Below that it...United States ... |