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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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American culture
Charles Manson
Culture; American culture
Charles Manson was convicted in 1971 of masterminding 1969 murders at the home of actor Sharon Tate (with coffee heiress Abigail Folger among those murdered), and the butchery of Leno and Rosemary ...
University of California System
Culture; American culture
Chartered in 1868, the University of California (UC) System eventually grew to nine campuses. For much of the twentieth century the UC System, along with the twentythree-campus California State ...
chemistry
Culture; American culture
Chemistry is vital for improving and sustaining the quality of human life, and the chemical process industries continue expanding to meet society’s demands, producing over a million new chemicals a ...
Chicago, IL
Culture; American culture
Chicago, Illinois, located in the center of the Midwestern prairie on the banks of Lake Michigan, has always played a special role in the national imagination. Known as “The City of Neighborhoods,” ...
Surgeon General
Culture; American culture
Chief of the Public Health Service of the US (under the Department of Health and Human Services). Statements on tobacco (now printed as a warning on all cigarette boxes), physical fitness, diet, AIDS ...
children’s literature
Culture; American culture
Children’s literature generally refers to books and stories for readers from infancy through the ages of fourteen or fifteen. The American children’s literature industry includes publishing houses, ...
Eero Saarinen
Culture; American culture
(1910 – 1961) Finnish-born architect, son of Eliel Saarinen. His poetic buildings grace and transform monumental spaces from the soaring TWA terminal at JFK airport in New York City, NY and Dulles ...
