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  2. Chow-chow (food) - Wikipedia

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    Chow-chow. Chow-chow (also spelled chowchow or chow chow) is a pickled dish popular in North America whose origins are unclear. Some suggest an origin from the American South, [1] other sources suggest it originated in Canada and was brought south by the Acadians who migrated to the American South after being expelled from from the Maritimes in the mid 1700s, [2] another theory is that it ...

  3. Chow Chow - Wikipedia

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    The Chow Chow is a spitz-type of dog breed originally from Northern China. [2] The Chow Chow is a sturdily built dog, square in profile, with a broad skull and small, triangular, erect ears with rounded tips. The breed is known for a very dense double coat that is either smooth or rough.

  4. Tongva - Wikipedia

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    According to the soldier who recorded her words, she stated simply that she ‘‘was angry with the Padres and the others of the Mission, because they had come to live and establish themselves in her land.’’ [53] In June 1788, nearly three years later, their sentences arrived from Mexico City: Nicolás José was banned from San Gabriel and ...

  5. 3 questions for Mr. Chow, who taught America how to love ...

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    The famed restauranteur tells his life story in the new HBO documentary, "AKA Mr. Chow." ... At that time in New York, Studio 54 had come in with a big bang in the '70s, but Mr Chow opened at the ...

  6. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish explorers claimed land for the crown in the modern-day states of Alabama, Arizona, the Carolinas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas, and California. [43] Puerto Rico was also colonized by the Spanish during this era, occasioning the earliest contact between Africans and what would become the United States (via ...

  7. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    From Geppun, Marco Polo's Italian rendition of the islands' Shanghainese name 日本 (Mandarin pinyin: rìběn, Shanghainese pronunciation: Nyih4 Pen2, at the time approximately jitpun), or "sun-origin", i.e. "Land of the Rising Sun", indicating Japan as lying to the east of China (where the sun rises). Also formerly known as the "Empire of the ...

  8. Ranch - Wikipedia

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    In Spain it retained its military origin, being defined as: the group of people, typically soldiers, who eat together in a circle; a mess hall. “Rancho” in Spain is also the: “food prepared for several people who eat in a circle and from the same pot.” [17] It was also defined as a family reunion to talk any particular business.

  9. Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    One Choctaw origin story relates how in pre-historic times the Choctaw people lived in areas near or around what is now known as the Yucatan Peninsula. This story explains that when the ancient South American homeland of the Choctaw people became overcrowded many of them sailed across the sea to the land of present-day Alabama and Mississippi ...