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George Washington is the first president in the USA from 1789 to 1797. The most famous story about George Wachinton is that he cut off the cherry tree with his hatchet, but he is honest about it. But, soon, all of the people know it is a fake story. And that story is used to encourage children not to lie to adults.

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Historic Downtown Flemington is a district that includes a lot of historic architecture. This district is now endangered and might be demolished, but the architecture came from different periods, so some of the people are trying to save it. The following Powerpoint will show the architecture in Historic Downtown Flemington.

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Romance film is a love story recorded in visual media. Romance movies will usually combine with another theme, such as time travel, scary, action, comedy, Fantasy. The most famous Romance film in Unite State is Titanic (1997). It describes how Jack and Ross get in love even though the boat is broken.

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Mime is a kind of performance art. The mime aritist act the story with action, and it didn't involve any speech in the performance. Mime were created because the television had no sounds at that time. Sir Charles Chaplin is one of the most famous mime artists in the USA.

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Hunting and fishing are past time enjoy by eighty-two million Americans. And they even have a day called National Hunting and Fishing Day. This day is for them to celebrates hunters, anglers, sports shooters, and their unique and critical contributions to the responsible and sustainable management of the great outdoors.

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Cheerleading is a team activity that combined dance and acrobatics with the slogan to entertain the audience in the sports field and encourage the athlete. Cheerleading will usually take two colorful cheerleading ball on there two hands.

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Donna Karan is an American fashion brand established by Donna Karan, 1984. All of the cloth were design for women. Karan launched Seven Easy Pieces with her first collection in 1984. It includes a bodysuit, a tailored jacket, a skirt, pants, a cashmere sweater, a leather jacket, and an evening look. With Seven Easy Pieces, women could create infinite combinations.

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Abercrombie & Fitch is an American fashion brand established by David T. Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch in Manhattan, New York City, June 4, 1892. The logo for A&F is a deer. The style focuses on casual wear, such as a jacket, t -shirt, pants. There are over one thousand locations in the world today.

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King Kong (8/10) Movie CLIP - Climbing the Empire State Building (2005) HD

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The Washington Post was established in 1878 by Stilson Hutchins. It is the first city daily newspaper in the USA, and its total won fourty-six Pulitzer Prizes. It has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily.

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Amid an early-morning smoky haze, a man cleans the forecourt of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Jan. 5. (Lukas Coch/Reuters)

Jenny Edwards didn't want to go back home to Canberra, the Australian capital. She added seven days to a five-day family vacation "specifically to stay out of the smoke." But it didn't matter.

Within a day of returning, her eyes were irritated, her chest felt tight, her head hurt and a small but persistent cough couldn't clear a tickle in her throat. Three massive fires were still burning about 60 miles away, and even though the heaviest smoke had momentarily lifted, the misery of living in a brownish haze remained. Air quality in Canberra on New Year's Day was among the worst of any major city in the world.

Australia's bush fires have blanketed parts of the continent with pollution, affecting hundreds of thousands of people who are not in immediate danger from the flames. Government agencies and medical officials say distress calls, ambulance runs and hospital emergency room visits have surged. Even some federal departments in the capital had to temporarily shutter offices and tell nonessential staff to stay away.

Stores have seen an overwhelming demand for smoke filtration masks, and in recent days government officials have begun rationing them to particularly vulnerable people, including pregnant women, the elderly and those with chronic heart and lung conditions. On Facebook, residents have posted pictures of doors and windows sealed with thick tape in an effort to keep smoke out their houses. And 7News Sydney posted a "Ciggie Index" - the equivalent number of cigarettes each resident consumes daily from inhaling smoke. In east Sydney, it's 19.

A key question lingers as the fires that began last year continue to burn, in some cases merging into megafires: What are the long-term health implications of so many people exposed to thick smoke for so long?

Wildfire smoke that lingers for weeks doesn't just get into people's eyes and the pores of their skin, researchers say. It enters their minds, settles in their thoughts and affects their mental health. That was a finding from studies following the deadly Black Saturday fires in Victoria in 2009, when both firefighters and residents suffered from post-traumatic stress.

"I'm predicting that the effect is going to be far greater than before because the fires have been burning for such a long time," said Mirella Di Benedetto, a researcher and clinical psychologist at RMIT University in Melbourne. The 2009 fires were isolated to Victoria, but the current fires are burning nationwide, near Australia's largest cities. "Even where there are no fires, smoke is moving down to these areas," Di Benedetto said. "The air quality is really bad in Sydney. I think the mental health and physical health impact will be huge in the months to come."

Little research exists about the long-term consequences of exposure to wildfire smoke, but Kari Nadeau and Mary Prunicki, scientists at Stanford University, are working to change that.

They're closely following hundreds of people affected by devastating wildfires in California, taking blood samples and asking them about everything from their use of air filters to their psychological responses to the experience. Earlier research has linked air pollution from wildfires to a range of acute conditions, including asthma, heart ailments and strokes, but Nadeau and Prunicki hope to solve a deeper mystery.

"Are there irreversible consequences over time?" said Nadeau, director of Stanford's Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research.

The work is urgent, Prunicki said, not only because existing research is limited, but also because the rapidly warming climate is likely to make the unprecedented fires in Australia only more common there and elsewhere around the globe.

"They are not going to go away," she said.

In Australia, the smoke is affecting cities in unexpected ways. At one of Canberra's public hospitals, workers kept the hospital's exterior doors shut to keep smoke from clouding the hallways and patient rooms, said David Caldicott, an emergency room physician.

Some nurses wore breathing masks, and the smoke temporarily incapacitated some local MRI machines, he said. At his own house, the smoke detector kept blaring one day until Caldicott finally muffled it with a towel at 3 a.m.

In an arid country where residents are accustomed to a wildfire season, he said, the past weeks have been unlike any he has experienced. "It's sort of like medicine meets 'Mad Max,'" Caldicott said, referring to the vintage Australian action movie about a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future.

In the state of New South Wales, home to Sydney, health officials said emergency room visits for asthma and breathing problems increased more than 34 percent in the period from Dec. 30 and Jan. 5 compared to a year earlier. Ambulance calls for respiratory issues were also higher, about 2,500 compared to the five-year average of about 1,900. Similarly, hospital admissions increased to more than 430, surpassing the five-year average of 361.

Four of Australia's five largest population centers are experiencing the effects of the fires. At least 25 people have died, nearly 2,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 14 million acres have burned. So much smoke has been produced, there's evidence that some is circumnavigating the planet and has reached South America, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bush fires are a known trigger for asthma attacks, said Bruce Thompson, dean of the School of Health Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. "This is a very significant health concern. Here in Australia, we're making sure people are moving themselves from the outdoors as best they can," Thompson said.

Inside bush-fire smoke, water vapor intermingles with tiny particles measured in micrometers. It also contains gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide. Wood dust from exploded trees and chemicals from melted tires and scorched steel also hitch a ride.

Particles as large as 5 micrometers "stick in your nose; you wake up with a runny nose and itchy eyes," Thompson said. Particles as small as 2.5 micrometers - known by researchers as PM 2.5 - are scarier, he said. "They can get to the very edges of the lungs," Thompson said. "We had a coal mine fire a few years ago and it's been demonstrated that four years after, children close to the plume had worse lung function. So this is bad."

Smaller particles in smoke can hinder cardiac function in adults. Thompson said the developing lungs of children can be permanently damaged in varying degrees.

"The lung becomes inflamed, and you cough as the lung tries to adjust," Thompson said. "The lung is bad at repairing itself. It tries to get rid of particles by making you cough, but it produces scar tissue, and you don't want that in the lung because it changes the efficiency of the lung."

Fay Johnston, an environmental health professor at the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research, said most people exposed to the smoke won't be harmed - as long as the fires end soon.

"If the smoke goes away, a healthy person can withstand it," said Johnston, who specializes in the health effects of bush-fire smoke. "Healthy people will come through it without any long-term harm."

But relief from the yearly rainy season isn't expected until February. Like other researchers, Johnston worries about what will happen if the fires continue, particularly for old and young asthma sufferers. "What's the long-term legacy of it?" she said. "We really don't know."

Few studies have delved into the consequences of long-term exposure to bush fires. Johnston and other researchers conducted the study Thompson referenced, on health impacts on children and mothers in the wake of a 2014 fire at a Victoria coal mine that burned for more than a month, blanketing the nearby town of Morwell with smoke.

Young children exposed to the smoke were more likely to get an antibiotic prescription in the year after the fire, and pregnant women were more likely to develop gestational diabetes, Johnston said.

Bin Jalaludin, a professor at the University of New South Wales and chief investigator at the Centre for Air Pollution, Energy and Health Research, said government officials and academics in Australia already have been brainstorming ways to study the long-term health implications of the "truly unprecedented" fires.

"What we want to look at is things like ER visits, deaths, hospitalizations, ambulance call-outs for respiratory problems, birth outcomes - do women who are pregnant and exposed to high levels of smoke, does it have an impact on the newborn?" he said. "It will take time, although we are trying to expedite it and get some of this work done quickly."

Meanwhile, south of Sydney in Bowral, Peggy Stone said she's fighting off feelings of depression. "We haven't seen the sun for weeks," she said. The sky is sometimes fiery orange, sometimes smoky gray. The day she spoke, she said, "The sun is trying to penetrate the smoke. Occasionally it might try to get through and we get a little ray."

Farther south in Canberra, Jenny Edwards, who has asthma, made an appointment to see a doctor.

"I'm quite worried about the next couple of months," Edwards said. "Air quality is so hard to predict with so many large fires in our region and the possibility of new ones starting."

She's thinking of leaving Canberra - again. But she knows that option is also risky because it's hard to escape the reach of the fires.

"I am considering returning to stay with my mother-in-law near Lake Macquarie," she said. "Mind you, there are big fires inland from there, and while staying there last week we had three small fires break out within 10 kilometers of us."

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In Australia, the air poses a threat; people are rushing to hospitals in cities choked by smoke

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Jenny Edwards didn't want to go back home to Canberra, the Australian capital. She added seven days to a five-day family vacation "specifically to stay out of the smoke." But it didn't matter. Within a day of returning, her eyes were irritated, her chest felt tight, her head hurt and a small but persistent cough couldn't clear a tickle in her throat.

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Newsday is a daily newspaper established in 1940 by Harry Guggenheim and Alicia Patterson in Long Island, NY It is mostly about local news. Newsday company win three Pulitzer awards in total. But in 2008, Newsday had been sold to Cablevision Systems Corporation.

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Newsday is a daily newspaper established in 1940 by Harry Guggenheim and Alicia Patterson in Long Island, NY It is mostly about local news. Newsday company win three Pulitzer awards in total. But in 2008, Newsday had been sold to Cablevision Systems Corporation.

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US President Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vowed more sanctions on Iran yet said he was willing to work with those who embrace peace, in a public address after Iran had fired missiles at military bases in Iraq the day before.

He began by justifying last Friday's US drone strike that killed Iran commander Qasem Soleimani, whom he claimed had "murdered thousands of US troops."

Alleging Soleimani was planning new attacks on US targets, Trump dubbed him "a top terrorist," but did not state his role in quelling Islamic State/ISIS.

Saying Iran benefits from the Islamic State's demise, he said the US and Iran should work together against them.

Trump lamented that Iran had been paid billions of dollars as part of "the foolish nuclear deal" from which he had withdrawn the US and which he urged others to leave. He promised to ask NATO to get more involved in the Middle East. Trump said the US has big missiles, with new hypersonic missiles due soon, but did not want to use them.

Saying the US is the world's largest producer of crude oil and natural gas, he said, "We do not need Middle East oil."

Calling for collaboration against ISIS, he said the US wants Iran to have a great future and will work with those who embrace peace.

Trump's speech was broadcast live by the world's media, amidst concerns of any escalation between the two nations, although Iran has said the limited damage caused by its missile strikes signalled its intent to de-escalate the conflict.

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Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing believers only and doing so by complete immersion. John Smyth creat Baptists in Amsterdam in 1609.

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Jehovah's Witnesses is a religion similar to Christian, but there are some differences. They reject Trinitarianism, refusing military service and blood transfusions, and they do not observe Christmas, Easter, birthdays, or other Christian holidays. This religion from in 1870 by Charles Taze Russell.

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Country music originates in the Southern United States in the early 1920s. Country music often consists of songs and dance with simple forms, folk lyrics, and some instruments. The instrument often involved are Guitar bass, drums, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, piano, steel guitar.

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American Folk music, which is also known as Americana, consists of an extensive range of musical styles, including bluegrass, country music, gospel, old-time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, and Cajun. It was most popular in the 1950s to 1970s and died out, until the late 1990s, it is a mini-revival.

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The Bismarck-Mandan Rail Bridge connects Bismarck and Mandan, North Dakota. Constructed in 1883, it was the first rail bridge built across the upper Missouri River. It has been proposed for demolition by railway company BNSF.

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The New Yorker is a magazine company established by Harold Ross in 1925. It can be considered as the most influential magazine in the world. The New Yorker is a weekly magazine, and it includes depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, and humor.

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Rosa Parks was a civil rights leader who refuses to give her seat to a white passenger. Then the driver call the police, which causes Rosa Parks to get arrested. Later on, there's a lot of houses get burned. Finally, in 1965, the government declaring segregation on public transport to be unconstitutional. Later on, Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

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Mohawk And Hudson Railroad starts to build on April 17, 1826, and begin to operate on August 9, 1831. It's the second railroad in the United States, which is after the Granite railroad. It connects between Buffalo and New York City, a total of sixteen miles.

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Players try to travel around the board with their three or four pieces faster than any other player.Originally manufactured by W.H. Storey & Co in England and now by Hasbro, Sorry! is marketed for two to four players, ages 6 and up. William Henry Story of Southend-on-Sea filed for a patent for the game in England, where it was registered as a trade mark on 21 May 1929 . It was subsequently sold in the United Kingdom by Waddingtons, the British games manufacturer who sold it from 1934. In the United States, U.S. Patent 1,903,661 was filed for Sorry! on Aug 4, 1930 by William Henry Storey. A Canadian patent followed in 1932. The US patent was issued on April 11, 1933. Sorry! was adopted by Parker Brothers in 1934.

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The game was created to be a practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences». She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed by Henry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. There are hints that suggest Elizabeth Magie might have known Zohn Ahl and incorporated some of the game's ideas. A win in the anti-monopolist or Single Tax version , was when the player having the lowest monetary amount has doubled his original stake.

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Currently serving a life sentence for orchestrating nine murders in 1969, Charles Manson has a history of paranoid delusions and schizophrenia, which is always what you want in a religious leader. Manson spent his life in and out of prison and reform schools, before moving to San Francisco in 1967 after being released from prison . By 1969, Manson had his followers killing at his request, first killing music teacher Gary Hinman in July. Then, one day in August, Manson’s followers broke into the home of director Roman Polanski and killed his pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, Folger’s Coffee heiress Abigail Folger, writer Wojciech Frykowski, hair stylist Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent, who was a friend of Polanski’s gardner.

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By the ‘70s, Jones also had followers in Utah, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He, with the help of cult members, created a concoction of Fla-Vor-Aid, Valium, and cyanide, and first fed it to babies and children before dispensing it among the crowd of over 900 people.

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This building is referred to be called as Guggenheim Museum. It is locate at New York City Manhattan in 1071 fifth Avenue. This museum is mostly for arts, such as Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary arts. This museum has a very unique look, so that is why this piece of architecture is really famous in America. This building also appeared in a movie called Mr Popper's Penguins, when Mr. Popper is chasing the penguins.

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The Empire State Building is one of the most loved piece of architecture in the US. This building is located in Manhattan New York, it is now the tallest building in New York. It was build in 1931 and designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. The height of this building is 1,454 feet. This building also appeared in one of the classic American Movie, which is King Kong. It appeared when the King Kong climbed to the top of the Empire State building.

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Although automobiles had been produced from the 1880s they were still mostly scarce,expensive, and often unreliable at the Model T's introduction in 1908. Positioned as reliable,easily maintained, mass-market transportation, it was a runaway success. In a matter of days after the release, 15,000 orders were placed. The first production Model T was produced on August 12, 1908 and left the factory on September 27, 1908, at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan. On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan.

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Stations are located throughout the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.The system offers service 24 hours per day, every day of the year, though some routes may operate only part-time. By annual ridership, the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit system in both the Western Hemisphere and the Western world, as well as the ninth-busiest rapid transit rail system in the world. In 2017, the subway delivered over 1.72 billion rides,averaging approximately 5.6 million daily rides on weekdays and a combined 5.7 million rides each weekend.
On September 23, 2014, more than 6.1 million people rode the subway system, establishing the highest single-day ridership since ridership was regularly monitored in 1985.

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Scientific American is a magazine that is base of Americans popular science. Throughout its early years, much emphasis was placed on reports of what was going on at the U.S. Patent Office. Current issues include a this date in history section, featuring excerpts from articles originally published 50, 100, and 150 years earlier.

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Time magazine is an American classic magazine, these magazines will be display in school libraries and everywhere that has。a section for magazines. And its co-founder is Henry Luce, In every magazine there will be different topic to discuss, this magazines is for teenagers and also for adults.

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State Route 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast Highway , Cabrillo Highway,Shoreline Highway, or Coast Highway. The highway is designated as an All-American Road. In addition to providing a scenic route to numerous attractions along the coast, the route also serves as a major thoroughfare in the Greater Los Angeles Area, the San Francisco Bay Area,and several other coastal urban areas. SR 1 was built piecemeal in various stages, with the first section opening in the Big Sur region in the 1930s. However, portions of the route had several names and numbers over the years as more segments opened. It was not until the 1964 state highway renumbering that the entire route was officially designated as SR 1. Although SR 1 is a popular route for its scenic beauty, frequent landslides and erosion along the coast have caused several segments to be either closed for lengthy periods for repairs, or re-routed inland.

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Route 66 is a American pst time, everybody in America will definitely go on this road-trip.US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles . It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song « Route 66» and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964.

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In the 1950s comedy became more common in science fiction. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a comic science-fiction series written by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it later morphed into other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and 2005 feature film. Back to the Future is also one of the Famous film that is based of Science fiction comedy.

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The Hollywood industry has been founded in 1903. It is one of the biggest industrial film in the world. And the film industry is located in Los Angeles California. And now it is still one of the most liked film company.

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hop is a music genre that is also developed in the United States, it is also called rap music. It was founded by Latino Americans or African Americans. It is the rhythm of the music and the rapping part that made this music still one of the most popular music genre in America. Beatboxing also count as one of the hip hop cultures.

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Rock and Roll is a genre of music that is developed in the United States in the late 1940. It is really popular in that time, and it presumes it's popularity, But now in our society there is not much rock and roll artist left.

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The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City and Los Angeles . CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the company's symbol, in use since 1951.

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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American over-the-air television network that is a flagship property of the Fox Corporation. The network is headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City, with additional offices at the Fox Broadcasting Center and at the Fox Television Center in Los Angeles. It was the highest-rated network in the 18–49 demographic from 2004 to 2012, and earned the position as the most-watched American television network in total viewership during the 2007–08 season. Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U.S. network.

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Coachella is an annual music festival, that they will invite different kinds of artist, such as indie, pop, Kpop, hip hop, rock. The festival started in 1999, and now Coachella is one of the biggest Music festival in America. And now every years Coachella is set on the 3 day weekends in April.

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Pride Parade is a parade celebrating the LGBTQ community. It is one of the largest pride parade in the while world, it is celebrated in New York in June 28th. In the 50th of the pride parade with 150,000 participants and five million visitors to New York Manhattan.

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The National Hollerin Contest is held in Spivey's corner, North Carolina. It is a vocal contest of long-distance communication. And there are four different types of Hollerin.

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This short documentary follows the stories of three unique competitors at the National Hollerin' Contest, an annual competition that's been held in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina since 1969. Hollerin' itself is considered by some to be the earliest form of communication between humans.

Aired: 06/29/17

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Ostrich racing is a race the opponents ride on the Ostrich and see who can ride to the ending line first, or who can stay on the Ostrich for the longest time. There are different kinds of competition. Such as ride, putting a seat behind. And these kind of competition is based on entertainment and is held in Arizona and other places in America.

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Ostrich Racing - Entertainment on the backs of Ostriches

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Askfm is a global networking website, the users in this app can ask question online anonymously, for keeping privacy. The site in founded in 16 June 2010. The site was once subject of cyberbullying and has been linked to suicide. But now the site is still active and have over 215 million users.

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SixDegrees is one of the first manifestations of social networking websites. The website has lasted from 1997 to 2001, this website allows users to add friends and family'f to their list. And it was created by Andrew Weinreich in May 1996. This his company haves about 100 employees, and they have about 3,500,000 members. But the company was bought by YouthStream Media Networks for 125 million dollars in December 1999.

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Cheyenne language is a language that is spoken by people in Montana and Oklahoma. In 2015 there are 1900 people speaking this language, so from that we can know that maybe there is only a few hundred people left that know how to speak this language so this language is also considered as an endangered language.

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Keres language is a Native American language, it is spoken by people In New Mexico. Native speaker of this language is about 10,670 in 2007. And this language is an endangered culture, and people don't really have a solution for this because it's hard for people to learn a new language, and there is nothing that you can do with this language.

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He was lauded as the greatest humorist this country has produced, and William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the latter often called «The Great American Novel». Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.

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Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. Self-educated, he became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator,and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. He became a leader in the new Republican Party and gained national attention in the 1858 debates against national Democratic leader Stephen Douglas in the U.S Senate campaign in Illinois. He then ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North and winning. Southern pro-slavery elements took his win as proof that the North was rejecting the constitutional rights of Southern states to practice slavery. They began the process of seceding from the union. Lincoln called up volunteers and militia to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union.

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Since the mid-1970s, The New York Times has greatly expanded its layout and organization, adding special weekly sections on various topics supplementing the regular news, editorials, sports, and features. And they are more of a Democratic side.

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WASHINGTON - The plane was late and the kill team was worried. International listings showed that Cham Wings Airlines Flight 6Q501, scheduled to take off from Damascus at 7:30 p.m. for Baghdad, had departed, but in fact, an informant at the airport reported, it was still on the ground and the targeted passenger had not yet shown up.

The hours ticked by and some involved in the operation wondered if it should be called off. Then, just before the plane door closed, a convoy of cars pulled up on the tarmac carrying Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, Iran's security mastermind, who climbed on board along with two escorts. Flight 6Q501 lifted off, three hours late, bound for the Iraqi capital.

The plane landed at Baghdad International Airport just after midnight, at 12:36 a.m., and the first to disembark were General Suleimani and his entourage. Waiting at the bottom of the gangway was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, an Iraqi official in charge of militias and close to Iran. Two cars carrying the group headed into the night - shadowed by American MQ-9 Reaper drones. At 12:47, the first of several missiles smashed into the vehicles, engulfing them in flames and leaving 10 charred bodies inside.

The operation that took out General Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, propelled the United States to the precipice of war with Iran and plunged the world into seven days of roiling uncertainty. The story of those seven days, and the secret planning in the months preceding them, ranks as the most perilous chapter so far in President Trump's three years in office after his decision to launch an audacious strike on Iran, and his attempt through allies and a back channel to keep the ensuing crisis from mushrooming out of control.

The president's decision to ratchet up decades of simmering conflict with Iran set off an extraordinary worldwide drama, much of which played out behind the scenes. In capitals from Europe to the Middle East, leaders and diplomats sought to head off a full-fledged new war while at the White House and Pentagon, the president and his advisers ordered more troops to the region.

Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler was so alarmed he dispatched his brother to Washington for a clandestine meeting with Mr. Trump. European leaders, incensed at being kept in the dark, scrambled to keep Iran from escalating. If it did, Americans developed plans to strike a command-and-control ship and conduct a cyberattack to partly disable Iran's oil and gas sector.

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The aftermath of the airstrike on Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani's car early Friday at the Baghdad airport. Altogether, 10 people were killed. Credit... Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office, via Associated Press

But the United States also sent secret messages through Swiss intermediaries urging Iran not to respond so forcefully that Mr. Trump would feel compelled to go even further. After it did respond, firing 16 missiles at bases housing American troops without hurting anyone as a relatively harmless show of force, a message came back through the Swiss saying that would be the end of its reprisal for now. The message, forwarded to Washington within five minutes after it was received, persuaded the president to stand down.

When the week ended without the war many feared, Mr. Trump boasted that he had taken out an American enemy. But the struggle between two nations is not really over. Iran may find other ways to take revenge. Iraqi leaders may expel American forces, accomplishing in death what General Suleimani tried and failed to do in life. And in the confusion, a Ukrainian civilian passenger jet was destroyed by an Iranian missile, killing 176 people.

The episode briefly gave Mr. Trump's allies something to cheer, distracting from the coming Senate impeachment trial, but now he faces questions even among Republicans about the shifting justifications for the strike that he and his national security team have offered. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo initially cited the need to forestall an "imminent" attack and the president has amplified that to say four American embassies were targeted.

But administration officials said they did not actually know when or where such an attack might occur and one State Department official said it was "a mistake" to use the word "imminent." And some Pentagon officials were stunned that Mr. Trump picked what they considered a radical option with unforeseen consequences.

This account, based on interviews with dozens of Trump administration officials, military officers, diplomats, intelligence analysts and others in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, offers new details about what may be the most consequential seven days of the Trump presidency.

The confrontation may have actually begun by accident. For years, Iran has sponsored proxy forces in Iraq, competing for influence with American troops who first arrived in the invasion of 2003. Starting last fall, Iranian-backed militias launched rockets at Iraqi bases that house American troops, shattering nerves more than doing much damage.

So when rockets smashed into the K1 military base near Kirkuk on Dec. 27, killing an American civilian contractor, Nawres Waleed Hamid, and injuring several others, the only surprise was the casualties. Kataib Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia group held responsible, had fired at least five other rocket attacks on bases with Americans in the previous month without deadly results.

American intelligence officials monitoring communications between Kataib Hezbollah and General Suleimani's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps learned that the Iranians wanted to keep the pressure on the Americans but had not intended to escalate the low-level conflict. The rockets landed in a place and at a time when American and Iraqi personnel normally were not there and it was only by unlucky chance that Mr. Hamid was killed, American officials said.

But that did not matter to Mr. Trump and his team. An American was dead and the president who had called off a retaliatory strike with 10 minutes to go in June and otherwise refrained from military action in response to Iranian provocations now faced a choice.

Advisers told him Iran had probably misinterpreted his previous reluctance to use force as a sign of weakness. To reestablish deterrence, he should authorize a tough response. On holiday at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, the president agreed to strikes on five sites in Iraq and Syria two days later, killing at least 25 members of a pro-Iranian militia and injuring at least 50 more.

Two days later, on Dec. 31, pro-Iranian protesters backed by many members of the same militia responded by breaking into the American Embassy compound in Baghdad and setting fires. Worried about repeats of the 1979 embassy takeover in Iran or the 2012 attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, Mr. Trump and his team ordered more than 100 Marines to rush to Baghdad from Kuwait.

The Marines received little information about their mission or what was happening on the ground as they loaded their magazines with ammunition. All they knew was they were being sent to secure the embassy with one clear order: If protesters entered the compound, kill them.

Some of the Marines made dry jokes about the movie, "Rules of Engagement," starring Samuel L. Jackson as a commander whose unit fires on a crowd of embassy protesters, stirring an international episode and a court-martial. But when the Marines reached Baghdad, none had to open fire. They used tear gas to disperse protesters and the siege ended without bloodshed.

Still, watching television in Florida, Mr. Trump grew agitated by the chaos and ready to authorize a more robust response. And on Dec. 31, even as the protests were beginning, a top secret memo began circulating, signed by Robert C. O'Brien, his national security adviser and, listing potential targets, including an Iranian energy facility and a command-and-control ship used by the Revolutionary Guards to direct small boats that harass oil tankers in the waters around Iran. The ship had been an irritant to Americans for months, especially after a series of covert attacks on oil tankers.

The memo also listed a more provocative option - targeting specific Iranian officials for death by military strike. Among the targets mentioned, according to officials who saw it, was Abdul Reza Shahlai, an Iranian commander in Yemen who helped finance armed groups across the region.

Another name on the list: General Suleimani.

General Suleimani was hardly a household name in the United States, but as far as American officials were concerned, he was responsible for more instability and death in the Middle East than almost anyone.

As the head of the elite Quds Force, General Suleimani was effectively the second-most powerful man in Iran and had a hand in managing proxy wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, including a campaign of roadside bombs and other attacks that killed an estimated 600 American troops during the height of the Iraq war.

At 62, with a narrow face, gray hair and a close-cropped beard, General Suleimani was known for traveling without body armor or personal protection, collaborating with some of the most ruthless figures in the region while sharing meals with the fighters and telling them to take care of their mothers, according to a Hezbollah field commander who met him in Syria.

After decades of working in the shadows, General Suleimani had emerged in recent years following the Arab Spring and war with the Islamic State as the public figure most associated with Iran's goal of achieving regional dominance. Photographs surfaced showing him visiting the front lines in Iraq or Syria, meeting with Iran's supreme leader in Tehran or sitting down with the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. When President Bashar al-Assad of Syria visited Tehran last year, it was General Suleimani who welcomed him.

By the end of 2019, General Suleimani could boast of a number of Iranian accomplishments: Mr. Assad, a longtime Iranian ally, was safely in power in Damascus, Syria's capital, prevailing in a bloody, multifront, yearslong civil war and the Quds Force had a permanent presence on Israel's frontier. A number of militias General Suleimani had helped foster were receiving salaries from the Iraqi government and exerting power in Iraq's political system. And the Islamic State had been defeated in Syria and Iraq thanks, in part, to ground forces he had overseen, one area where he and the United States shared interests.

For the past 18 months, officials said, there had been discussions about whether to target General Suleimani. Figuring that it would be too difficult to hit him in Iran, officials contemplated going after him during one of his frequent visits to Syria or Iraq and focused on developing agents in seven different entities to report on his movements - the Syrian Army, the Quds Force in Damascus, Hezbollah in Damascus, the Damascus and Baghdad airports and the Kataib Hezbollah and Popular Mobilization forces in Iraq.

By the time tensions with Iran spiked in May with attacks on four oil tankers, John R. Bolton, then the president's national security adviser, asked the military and intelligence agencies to produce new options to deter Iranian aggression. Among those presented to Mr. Bolton was killing General Suleimani and other leaders of the Revolutionary Guards. At that point, work to track General Suleimani's travels grew more intense.

By September, the United States Central Command and Joint Special Operations Command were brought into the process to plan a possible operation. Various alternatives were discussed, some in Syria, some in Iraq. Syria seemed more complicated, both because the American military had less freedom of movement there and because General Suleimani spent most of his time with Hezbollah officers and officials did not want to bring them into the mix and risk a new war with Israel.

Agents recruited in Syria and Iraq reported from time to time on General Suleimani's movements, according to an official involved. Surveillance revealed that he flew on a number of airlines and sometimes tickets for a trip were bought on more than one to throw off pursuers. He would be delivered to his plane at the last possible moment, then sit in the front row of business class so he could get off first and depart quickly.

General Suleimani set off on his last trip on New Year's Day, flying to Damascus and then heading by car to Lebanon to meet with Mr. Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, before returning to Damascus that evening. During their meeting, Mr. Nasrallah said in a later speech, he warned General Suleimani that the American news media was focusing on him and publishing his photograph.

"This was media and political preparation for his assassination," Mr. Nasrallah said.

But as he recalled, General Suleimani laughed, and said that, in fact, he hoped to die a martyr and asked Mr. Nasrallah to pray that he would.

That same day, at C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., Gina Haspel was working to fulfill that prayer.

Ms. Haspel, the director, was shown intelligence indicating that General Suleimani was preparing to move from Syria to Iraq. Officials told her there was additional intelligence that he was working on a large-scale attack intended to drive American forces out of the Middle East.

There was no single definitive piece of intelligence. Instead, officials said, C.I.A. officers spoke of the "mosaic effect," multiple scraps of information that came together indicating that General Suleimani was organizing proxy forces around the region, including in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, to attack American embassies and bases. Several officials said they did not have enough concrete information to describe such a threat as "imminent," despite Mr. Pompeo's assertion, but they did see a worrying pattern.

While Mr. Pompeo also claimed later that such an attack could kill "hundreds," other officials said they had no specific intelligence suggesting that. Most American facilities in the region have been heavily fortified for years and such an immense death toll would be unlikely; at no point in the last two decades, even during the worst of the Iraq war, have any hostile forces been able to pull off such a deadly assault on Americans at once.

Nonetheless, Ms. Haspel was convinced there was evidence of a coming attack and argued the consequences of not striking General Suleimani were more dangerous than waiting, officials said. While others worried about reprisals, she reassured colleagues that Iran's response would be measured. Indeed, she predicted the most likely response would be an ineffectual missile strike from Iran on Iraqi bases where American troops were stationed.

"If past is prologue, we have learned that when we enforce a red line with Iran, when Iran gets rapped on the knuckles, they tactically retreat," said Dan Hoffman, a former C.I.A. officer who served in Iraq. "The retreat might be ephemeral before Iran probes its enemies with more gradually escalating attacks, but we've seen it repeatedly."

There was little dissent about killing General Suleimani among Mr. Trump's senior advisers, but some Pentagon officials were shocked that the president picked what they considered the most extreme option and some intelligence officials worried that the possible long-term ramifications were not adequately considered, particularly if action on Iraqi soil prompted Iraq to expel American forces.

"The whole thing seems haphazard to me," said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior C.I.A. official who retired last year.

The Trump administration has said that General Suleimani was going to Baghdad as part of the attack plot, but there are different theories about the purpose of his visit.

General Suleimani had long played a role as power broker in Iraqi politics, and two Iraqi politicians with links to Iran said he was coming to Baghdad to help break an impasse over replacing the prime minister after the collapse of the government in November in the face of anti-Iran protests.

But Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, still serving as a caretaker until a new government is formed, told Parliament after the drone strike that General Suleimani had another goal - to bring an Iranian response to a Saudi offer to reduce tensions. The shadow conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia had been heating up. After Iranian forces were blamed for an attack on two Saudi oil facilities in September and Mr. Trump opted against a military response, Saudi officials worried that they were vulnerable and opened a back channel.

In his speech to Parliament, Mr. Abdul Mahdi said he had planned to meet with General Suleimani a few hours after his arrival in Baghdad. "It was expected that he was carrying a message for me from the Iranian side responding to the Saudi message that we had sent to the Iranian side to reach agreements and breakthroughs," Mr. Abdul Mahdi said.

A Saudi official said he was unaware of any message carried by General Suleimani and some analysts doubted Mr. Abdul Mahdi's account. "That is laughable," said Mohammed Alyahya, the editor in chief of Al Arabiya English, a Saudi news site. "Suddenly, this man is a diplomat extraordinaire one day before he died?"

Another theory, advanced by an intelligence official involved in the operation, held that General Suleimani was visiting Iraq to quash anti-Iranian protests by having his Shia militia break them up by force. He hoped to install a new anti-American government that might even throw out United States forces.

Whatever his goals, they died with him in the mangled wreckage at Baghdad's airport. Altogether, 10 people were killed - General Suleimani, Mr. al-Muhandis and their aides. Mr. al-Muhandis had helped found Kataib Hezbollah, the militia held responsible for the Dec. 27 rocket attack that killed the American contractor.

But another Iranian commander escaped. The same night General Suleimani died, American forces tried to kill Mr. Shahlai, the Quds Force commander in Yemen mentioned in Mr. O'Brien's memo. Still, the attack failed because of an undisclosed problem with the intelligence.

Iran braced for more. "There was a state of mobilization to get ready in case that was the first stage in a wider plan," said Mohammed Obeid, a Lebanese political activist with ties to Iran's "resistance axis" in the region. "There could have been other steps that the Americans or the Israelis would take, broadening the circle of confrontation."

Mr. Trump planned to play golf the next morning, Jan. 4, but advisers concluded it would send the wrong message as General Suleimani's death stirred unrest around the Middle East and raised the prospect of a wider conflict with Iran.

The president was initially upbeat, expecting the operation to be greeted with applause much like the raid in October that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State. Indeed, Mr. Trump opened his first statement to reporters on the mission that Friday by describing General Suleimani as the "No. 1 terrorist anywhere in the world," much as he had opened his statement a couple of months ago calling Mr. al-Baghdadi the "world's No. 1 terrorist leader."

But as the president watched television over the weekend, he grew angry that critics were accusing him of reckless escalation. He sought validation from guests at his Florida clubs, recounting details of the Baghdad Embassy protests and drinking in their praise for his decisiveness. He told some associates that he wanted to preserve the support of Republican hawks in the Senate in the coming impeachment trial, naming Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas as an example, even though they had not spoken about Iran since before Christmas.

While Mr. Trump tipped off another hawk, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, who was visiting in Florida, his administration gave no advance warning to its European allies or Persian Gulf partners in advance of the strike. The only foreign leader who appeared in the know was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who had spoken with Mr. Pompeo before the attack and later offered a cryptic public hint hours before it took place.

"We know that our region is stormy; very, very dramatic things are happening in it," Mr. Netanyahu told reporters, unprompted, on the tarmac in Tel Aviv before departing for a visit to Athens. He went on to offer support for the United States "and to its full right to defend itself and its citizens."

Israeli leaders were later pleased by the death of General Suleimani, one of their deadliest enemies, but remained silent lest they provoke retaliation, even as shelter supplies were checked and a ski resort near the Syrian frontier was briefly closed.

Yet some figured that if Hezbollah were to attack Israel on Iran's behalf, it might be better to have that battle now. "This camp believes that there will be such a clash anyway and the best timing is before the U.S. elections - and that Israel may lose this president in the White House," said Ofer Zalzberg, an analyst at the International Crisis Group.

In Riyadh, the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was unsettled. Despite his hawkish approach to Iran, he has been recently accepting offers from Pakistanis, Omanis, Iraqis and others to mediate. Now, he immediately dispatched his younger brother, Prince Khalid bin Salman, the deputy defense minister, on an emergency mission to the White House.

The Saudi view was "hitting Suleimani is great, but what is the plan?" said Sir John Jenkins, a former British ambassador to Riyadh. "If there is a plan, we are down with it. If not, we all have to de-escalate."

Prince Khalid was pleased by whatever Mr. Trump told him, telling diplomats afterward that the royal family was glad the president had dealt Iran a serious blow - and relieved that he did not seem inclined to escalate further.

But many were not sure. Mr. Trump issued bellicose threats to destroy Iran if it retaliated, including cultural treasures in violation of international law, touching off international outrage and forcing his own defense secretary to publicly disavow the threat, saying it would be a war crime.

Mr. Trump was largely alone on the world stage. No major European power, not even Britain, voiced support for the drone strike, even as leaders agreed that General Suleimani had blood on his hands. As Le Monde, the French newspaper, put it, the rift signaled "a new stage in the trans-Atlantic divorce over the Middle East."

Mr. Trump's withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran has been a major point of contention. European leaders deeply resented the unilateral pullout, seeing that as a grave error that started a cycle of sanctions and recriminations that led to the seven-day showdown and now the restart of the Iranian nuclear program.

When Mr. Pompeo phoned his European counterparts after the strike, they expressed concern. In a 15-minute call, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of Germany said the killing had not made it any easier to stabilize the region. Mr. Pompeo responded that the situation was now more stable.

The French and Japanese both offered to serve as mediators, but that only annoyed Mr. Trump, who dislikes middlemen. So the Europeans focused on keeping Tehran from overreacting.

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President Trump authorized the attack early Friday at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.

Suleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel. But we caught him in the act. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.

President Trump authorized the attack early Friday at Baghdad International Airport that killed Iran's top security and intelligence commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. Credit Credit... Ali Mohammadi/Bloomberg News

A senior German diplomat sent a text message to his Iranian counterpart urging calm. He got back a terse, though polite, message. In a series of phone calls, European officials tried to give the Iranians a sense that it was not them against the rest of the world but that in fact there was a global public beyond the United States, according to one European diplomat.

President Emmanuel Macron of France played an active role, reaching out to both sides. "Macron's specificity is that he does not approve, but he also does not condemn," said Michel Duclos, a former French ambassador to Syria.

Mr. Macron reached Mr. Trump on Sunday and emphasized the need for de-escalation. Mr. Trump suggested he was still open to diplomacy. All the Iranians had to do was come to him and they could make a deal, Mr. Trump said, according to a senior French official.

Two days later, Mr. Macron spoke with President Hassan Rouhani of Iran and reminded him that he had "missed a chance in September" to talk directly with Mr. Trump in a phone call Mr. Macron tried to arrange on the sidelines of the annual United Nations session.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany spoke with Mr. Trump, too, and expressed concern for Iraq's stability if allied troops withdrew. If the United States stayed, she said, Germany would also. Mr. Trump joked that Germany was welcome to lead the international force and replace the Americans. Ms. Merkel laughed.

The most important European country in these seven days, it turned out, was Switzerland, which has served as the intermediary between the United States and Iran since they broke off diplomatic relations in 1980.

Hours after the strike, Markus Leitner, the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, headed to the Iranian Foreign Ministry for the first of two visits that day, according to a Swiss analyst. The Americans had sent a letter to the Iranians through the Swiss warning against any retaliation for the drone strike that would incite further military action by Mr. Trump.

The Americans "said that if you want to get revenge, get revenge in proportion to what we did," Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, told Iranian state television.

American officials disputed that characterization and analysts doubted it was that explicit, although that could be how Tehran interpreted it. In any case, Mr. Leitner went back to the Foreign Ministry at day's end for the Iranian response.

Unbeknown to the Iranians, Mr. Trump had agreed to targeting the other sites originally considered - the oil and gas facility and the command-in-control ship - as part of any further retaliation that might be necessary if Iran responded to the drone strike. Despite Mr. Trump's threat, none of the targets on the list were actually cultural, an official said; that was just presidential bluster, aggravated by an instinct to double down in the face of criticism.

On Tuesday, the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center, part of the National Security Agency, pulled together multiple strands of information, including overhead imagery and communication intercepts, to conclude that an Iranian missile strike on Iraqi bases was coming, officials said. The center sent the warning to the White House.

Vice President Mike Pence and Mr. O'Brien immediately headed to the Situation Room in the basement, joined later by the president and Mr. Pompeo. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by its chairman, Gen. Mark A. Milley, convened in a third-floor conference room and discussed how to move troops and families in the region to safer locations.

Just after 5:30 p.m., an almost robotic voice came over a speakerphone in the Situation Room. "Sir, we have indications of a launch at 22:30 Zulu Time from western Iran in the direction of Iraq, Syria and Jordan." Reports began coming in faster. The missiles were staggered but most were streaking toward Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, home to 2,000 American troops.

The barrage ended after an hour but base commanders ordered troops to remain in shelter in case more missiles came. Around 7:30, about an hour after the strikes concluded, Mr. Esper and General Milley headed to the White House to meet with Mr. Trump.

The missiles damaged a helicopter, some tents and other structures but, thanks to the advance warning, inflicted no casualties. And through the Swiss came another message: That was it. That was their retribution.

The Americans were struck by the speed of the communication - it was shown to Mr. Trump and Mr. Pompeo within five minutes after the Swiss received it from Tehran. They passed the message by encrypted fax to Brian H. Hook, the special representative on Iran in Washington, two minutes after the Iranians gave it to them.

Mr. Esper, a veteran of the Persian Gulf war of 1991, counseled caution. "Let's stay calm," he said. "The ball is in our court. There's no rush to do anything. Let's all sleep on it."

By the time Mr. Trump retired to the residence for the night, advisers said, he was relieved there had been no casualties and eager for a reset, a path away from a deeper conflict. He posted a reassuring tweet: "All is well!"

The next morning Mr. Trump addressed the nation from the White House, and while he excoriated Iran's "campaign of terror," he made clear he would not retaliate further.

"Iran appears to be standing down," he said, without revealing the secret message sent through the Swiss, adding that he was "ready to embrace peace with all who seek it."

The immediate crisis over, Mr. Trump sent top officials to brief Congress, but the closed-door sessions in a secure facility where lawmakers had to surrender their telephones did little to quell concerns about the justification for the drone strike.

In the House briefing, Mr. Pompeo offered a brief introduction followed by presentations by Ms. Haspel, Mr. Esper, General Milley and Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence. All three offered vague but emphatic assertions of intelligence indicating an imminent threat by General Suleimani. General Milley said the evidence could not be clearer and was the "best intelligence" he had seen during his career.

But they refused to describe it in detail. One lawmaker said the information was no more secret than what could be found on Wikipedia. At one point, General Milley said the intelligence showed discussion by General Suleimani of potential terrorist attacks on three specific dates in late December or early January.

"What were the threats?" several lawmakers in the audience shouted, but General Milley declined to say.

Another lawmaker noted that the three dates General Milley cited were all before the strike on General Suleimani and no attacks actually occurred then.

"What really came across was a sense of disdain and contempt for the legislative branch," said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia. "They didn't even pretend to be engaged in information sharing and consultation."

Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, called the session for senators " probably the worst briefing " in his nine years in office. "We never got to the details," he said. "Every time we got close, they said, 'Well, we can't discuss that here because it's sensitive.'"

If it was too sensitive for Congress, it was not too sensitive for Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host. In an interview broadcast on Friday, Mr. Trump told her that the threat had been to four American embassies, even as other officials said privately that they did not have concrete evidence of General Suleimani's targets.

After seven days of saber rattling and fresh deployments, the immediate march to war had ended. But inside the security establishment, few consider the crisis to be over. In the months to come, they expect Iran to regroup and find ways to strike back.

"Suleimani as a person inspired the masses, he was a national icon, he symbolized the struggle," said Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington who studies Iran. "But he was also a very small part of a very large organization."

"Yes, it is decapitated," he added, "but the organization is not destroyed."

Peter Baker and Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington, Ronen Bergman from Tel Aviv, David D. Kirkpatrick from London, and Alissa J. Rubin from Baghdad. Reporting was contributed by Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Lara Jakes, Mark Mazzetti, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Michael D. Shear, Noah Weiland and Edward Wong from Washington; Rukmini Callimachi; Maggie Haberman and Farnaz Fassihi from New York; Adam Nossiter and Constant Méheut from Paris; Steven Erlanger from Brussels; Katrin Bennhold from Berlin; Nick Cumming-Bruce from Geneva; David M. Halbfinger and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem; Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad from Beirut; and Falih Hassan from Baghdad.

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President Trump on Saturday described Democrats of being "unhinged" and accused them of "defending the life" of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani -- who was taken out by a U.S. strike last week in what the Trump administration has described as an act of self-defense against an "imminent" attack.

"Where have the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats gone when they have spent the last 3 days defending the life of Qassem Soleimani, one of the worst terrorists in history and the father of the roadside bomb? He was also looking to do big future damage! Dems are 'unhinged,'" he tweeted. He did not give any examples of Democrats defending the military leader.
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Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Forces, was killed last week in Baghdad, days after Iranian-backed militia supporters stormed the U.S. embassy. Administration officials have said that the strike was conducted to deter imminent attacks on U.S. interests.

Democrats in Congress - and those seeking their party's nomination for president -- have described the killing as a dangerous escalation and accused Trump of making the region less safe.

"Donald Trump may have been an arsonist that lit a fuse that plunges the Middle East into a catastrophic war, though he's trying to pretend as if he's a firefighter," said Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., this week "That's a problem."

However, while many have opposed the strike, no Democrats have defended Soleimani or his actions as head of the Quds -- with many saying in statements that he will not be missed.

"No American will mourn Qassem Soleimani's passing," former Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement hours after Soleimani was taken out. "He deserved to be brought to justice for his crimes against American troops and thousands of innocents throughout the region. He supported terror and sowed chaos."
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But Trump has attacked Democrats for their response, telling a crowd in Toledo, Ohio that Democrats are outraged over his death.

"The radical left Democrats have expressed outrage over the termination of this horrible terrorist," Trump said. "Instead, they should be outraged by Soleimani's savage crimes and the fact that his countless victims were denied justice for so long."
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The narrative that Democrats have in some way sided with Iran was given some fuel when a number of Democrats appeared to implicate Trump for the death of 176 civilians killed when an Iranian missile brought down a passenger jet.

"If what is being projected is true, this is yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken in a provocative way by the president of the United States," Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., said Thursday.
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Simpson is an American animated TV series streamed by FOX which came out in 1989 December 17th. It was created by Matt Groening. Since the Simpsons came out it has over 673 episodes, it is one of the longest scripted film. Simpson is a brainless film which haves interesting characters, so that is why it is still lots of peoples favorite animated series. It is still one of the most popular TV series.

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Friend is an American TV series which started in 1994 September 22nd. At t this point this TV show is the American classic, Every one from that time will have definitely watched it before, and yet it is still super popular now. You can always see a lot of brands cooperating with them. The show is about six friends In their 20s and 30s and they live in the New York City. This series was created by Kauffman, and Crane.

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Shin kicking a basically a kicking game, that both opponents need to kick each other in the shin. and they need to try and force their opponents TO the ground. It is an English Martial art. It is a popular pastime game in the United States, there are still some competition in some states. And the event always draws crowds of millions of spectators.

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Jousting is a martial game or hastilude between two horsemen using spears with blunted tips, regularly as a major aspect of a competition. The essential point was to recreate a conflict of overwhelming rangers, with every member making a decent attempt to strike the adversary while riding towards him at rapid, breaking the spear on the rival's shield or jousting defensive layer if conceivable, or unhorsing him. The joust turned into a famous attribute of the knight in Romantic medievalism. The members experience near three and a quarter times their body weight in G-powers when the spears slam into their protective layer.

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Granite Railway is the first chartered railroad in the United States. It began operations on Oct. 7, 1826. Granite Railway runs three miles, from Quincy, Mass to the Neponset River. The primary purpose of this railroad is to transport granite for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument.

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Roadkill Cook-off is an American tradition since 1991, and it is usually in West Virginia. The main purpose of this tradition is to share unusual foods. Such as turtle soup, alligator meat, bear meat, or even deer meat, which is " unusual" foods in the United States.

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Punkin Chunkin is a tradition in the USA since 1986. It is a kind of competition, usually in autumn. The goal of all of the players is to throw the Punpkin as far as they can by slingshots, catapults, centrifugals, trebuchets, or pneumatic cannons. The world record is 4694.68 ft.

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The Burning Man is a festival in the western United States at Black Rock City. It is usually at the end of August to the start of September. The ten main principles of this festival are radical inclusion, radical self-reliance, radical self-expression , communal effort, civic responsibility, gifting, decommodification, participation, immediacy, and leave no trace. The main event in this festival is to burn the large wooden effigy on Saturday night.

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The Color Run is a five-kilometer run. At each kilometer mark, Color Runners are doused from head to toe in a different colored powder. Participants wear white shirts at the starting line and finish the race covered with color. This festival also includes music , dancing, photo ops, activity booths, and more.

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All in the Family is an American sitcom television series, and it has nine seasons total. It was aired from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. It combined many themes in the show, such as racism, women's liberation, rape, religion, the Vietnam War, menopause.

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Full House is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin. It is mainly about story happen in a family, with a total of 8 seasons, 192 episodes. It is not the most popular television show in America, but this series was consistently in the Nielsen Top 30 from 1988 till now.

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Benjamin West was born in 1738 October 10th, and he died at the age of 81. He is a British North American artist, he is known as painting famous historical scene, such as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe. Hes painting impressed King George III and all of his painting techniques are all self taught.

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John Singleton Copley is born in 1738 july 3rd, and he dies at the age of 77. He was an Anglo-American painter. He was born in Boston, but he moved to London in 1774, and he never returned to America. He is famous for his portraits, he is considered a success portraitist in London for two decades. At the end he became not that famous, and he died heavily in debt.

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District Messenger Boy is a "spin-and-move" board game. The arrow will tell the player to move how many steps. Before a player begins navigating the board, they must spin a one to be placed on "Apprenticeship," a two to move to "Training School," and a three to begin work on the "Messenger Force," thus gaining entrance into the maze. Each player's goal is to become President of the Telegraph Company.

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The Mansion of Happiness is a children's board game designed by George Fox, which inspired by Christian morality in the game, and combined virtues and vices in the game. The board had about 66-space spiral track. Some of the space will lead the player toward the "The Mansion of Happiness," but some of the space will lead the player faraway from "The Mansion of Happiness." The goal of the player is to get to the Mansion of Happiness at track's end. This game can be known as the first board game in the USA.

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ABC Studios initially established as Touchstone Television on March 21, 1985. It is an American television production under Walt Disney. ABC Studios now broadcast TV programs are over 20 programs. Such as, The Amazing Race, The Good Doctor, Station 19, Bless This Mess, and more programs that influence American society nowadays.

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W3XK was the first television in the USA, Charles Jenkins operated it since 1928. The frequency of the station starts at 1650 kc., and moved to 2-2.1 mc. later on. At that time, the way to view television is by mechanical television sets.

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Friendster is a social network site established in 2003. Users can post photos, articles, videos, messages, and comments on other user's posts. In 2011, Friendster turned from a social network site into a gaming site, and there's were over115 million users using Friendster. In 2015, Friendster citing "the evolving landscape in our challenging industry" and lack of engagement by the online community, suspended their services.

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Ralph Earl was an American painter. Most of his painting is portrait and landscape. His artwork is different from Thomas Sully. In his artwork, the light will not only focus on the person, and the background will be clear too.

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video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnnxc1Dfm0

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Thomas Sully was an American portrait painter. He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence. Most of he's painting is portrait, mainly about political leaders. In his art, the light will be focus on the person. Background and other things will be black or blurry.

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Quechan language is the native language of the Quechan people in Lower Colorado River Valley and the Sonoran Desert. There are only about 290 people still using this language. Their vowels were as same as English, but they have more constant, which didn't appear in English. These are the letter used in Quechan language:

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Ga-ga is a kind of sport that is similar to dodge ball, but it is play in a ga-ga pit (usually an octagon or hexagon). The player hit the ball with their hands to each other. If the other player get hit under the waist, then that player was out of the game. The last person who is still in the ga-ga pit is the winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzYv1583BxU

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It is a dessert that usually eat in Easter or Christmas time. It will usually contains pineapple, mandarin oranges, marshmallows, coconut, sour cream, and whipped cream.

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Alabama is a language spoken in Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas since 1540. There are only about 370 people in the world who are talking in this language. In Alabama, there were a total of seventeen letters, which is made up of three vowels and fourteen consonants. The three vowels are i, o, and a. Most of the letters were the same in English, but there are two unique letters: ʧ and ɬ. ʧ pronounce a sound of "ch." in English; ɬ pronounce a sound of "fl" in English.

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Jello salad is basically a jello that is made with vegetable, cheese, meat, fruits. So you put those ingredients in the mold and add flavored gelatin in it which it will look transparent. This dish is invented in 1904 in a cooking contest which it won third prize. This dish is a common meal in the US some family do eat this very often based on their appetite.

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This culture started at 1986, and they eat Turducken for celebration usage such as Christmas, Thanksgiving or others. But not every family eats this, most people prefer just plain turkey meat. Turducken is a dish that you will need a deboned chicken in the middle, and a deboned duck in the second layer, and that outer layer you will need a deboned turkey, it's also known as there bird roast. But the traditional name is actually Gooducken, but they are just replacing turkey for goose, because it taste better.

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It's traditionally a breakfast meat. It is usually made by porks, parts such as the heart, liver, skin, and tongue with salt and spiced combined with cornmeal and buckwheat flour. It will usually have an egg on top, or with ketchup, jelly , apple sauces and other relishes.