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Named for Columbia, the national personification of the United States, which is itself named for Christopher Columbus. Guam: 1898 [115] [note 2] (December 10) Chamorro: Guåhan 'What we have', from Guåhån in Chamorro language. [116] The name "Guam" was first used in the Treaty of Paris (1898). [115] Northern Mariana Islands: 1667 [117] [note ...
The word stevedore (/ ˈ s t iː v ɪ ˌ d ɔːr /) originated in Portugal or Spain, and entered the English language through its use by sailors. [3] It started as a phonetic spelling of estivador or estibador (), meaning a man who loads ships and stows cargo, which was the original meaning of stevedore (though there is a secondary meaning of "a man who stuffs" in Spanish); compare Latin ...
Arguably, the modern rodeo competitor is much closer to being an actual cowboy, as many were actually raised on ranches and around livestock, and the rest have needed to learn livestock-handling skills on the job. In the United States, the Canadian West and Australia, guest ranches offer people the opportunity to ride horses and get a taste of ...
The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
Daniel Boone Escorting the American Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap by George Caleb Bingham (1851–52). American pioneers, also known as American settlers, were European American, [1] Asian American, [2] and African American [3] settlers who migrated westward from the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States of America to settle and develop areas of the nation within the continent of ...
A 1943 photograph of a charwoman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Charwoman, chargirl, charlady and char are occupational terms referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually lives as part of the household within the structure of domestic service.
Proslavery advocates, particularly in the Southern United States, condemned coolie labour but used it to argue against the abolition of American slavery, claiming the latter was more "humane" than the former. [28] [29] In practice, however, as many opponents of the system argued, abuse and violence in the coolie trade was rampant.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Arizona (disambiguation). State in the United States Arizona State Flag Seal Nicknames: The Grand Canyon State; The Copper State; The Valentine State Motto: Ditat Deus ('God enriches') Anthem: "The Arizona March Song ...