American Independence Museum

Episode 15 American Independence Museum

In this episode of Next Stop Exeter, we take viewers on a tour of Exeter's American Independence Museum and talk with Julie Williams, the Museum's Director. If you've never been to the Museum, here's your chance to get a personal tour and hear from the Director about all that is going on there. If you have visited the Museum, this episode will add to your knowledge of the Museum and its history. This episode also takes in the sights and sounds of the 25th Anniversary of the American Independence Museum's Festival. The episode concludes with Exeter's version of a Fourth of July fireworks display over the Squamscott River.

Singapore 4th of July Celebration - Fireworks

American Association of Singapore's fireworks display

THE ANASAZI NATIVE AMERICANS - Discovery History Life (documentary)

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NEH ODH Lightning Rounds 2016

NEH Office of Digital Humanities 2016 Project Directors Meeting, September 16, 2016. Lightning round presentations by project directors of National Endowment for the Humanities grant-supported digital humanities projects.

Official Tell the World Feature Film

Tell the World shares the compelling story of a small group of farmers from the northeast region of the United States who would go on to set the foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Since the 19th century, the Church has been at the forefront of matters relating to health, education, communication and Biblical interpretation.

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Women's suffrage | Wikipedia audio article

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Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage, or women's right to vote) is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist. Limited voting rights were gained by women in Finland, Iceland, Sweden and some Australian colonies and western U.S. states in the late 19th century. National and international organizations formed to coordinate efforts to gain voting rights, especially the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (founded in 1904, Berlin, Germany), and also worked for equal civil rights for women.In 1881, the Isle of Man gave women who owned property the right to vote. In 1893, the British colony of New Zealand granted women the right to vote. The colony of South Australia did the same in 1894 and all women were able to vote in the next election, which was held in 1896. South Australia also permitted women of any race to stand for election alongside men, and was the first in the world to allow women to stand for election. In 1899 Western Australia enacted full women's suffrage, enabling women to vote in the constitutional referendum of 31 July 1900 and the 1901 state and federal elections. In 1902 women in the remaining four colonies also acquired the right to vote and stand in federal elections after the six Australian colonies federated to become the Commonwealth of Australia. Discriminatory restrictions against Aboriginal people, including women, voting in national elections, were not completely removed until 1962.The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire, which elected the world's first women Members of Parliament in the 1907 parliamentary elections. Norway followed, granting full women's suffrage in 1913. Denmark followed in 1915, and Russian Provisional Government in 1917.Most independent countries enacted women's suffrage in the interwar era, including Canada in 1917, Britain (over 30 in 1918, over 21 in 1928), Germany, Poland in 1918, Austria and the Netherlands in 1919, and the United States in 1920 (Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured voting rights for racial minorities).
Leslie Hume argues that the First World War changed the popular mood:

The women's contribution to the war effort challenged the notion of women's physical and mental inferiority and made it more difficult to maintain that women were, both by constitution and temperament, unfit to vote. If women could work in munitions factories, it seemed both ungrateful and illogical to deny them a place in the polling booth. But the vote was much more than simply a reward for war work; the point was that women's participation in the war helped to dispel the fears that surrounded women's entry into the public arena.Late adopters in Europe were Spain in 1933, France in 1944, Italy in 1946, Greece in 1952, San Marino in 1959, Monaco in 1962, Andorra in 1970, Switzerland in 1971 at federal level, and at local canton level between 1959 in the cantons of Vaud and Neuchâtel and 1991 in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden, and Liechtenstein in 1984. In addition, although women in Portugal obtained suffrage in 1931, this was with stronger restrictions than those of men; full gender equality in voting was only granted in 1976.The United States gave women equal voting rights in all states with the Nineteenth Amendment ratified in 1920. Brazil implemented full voting rights for women in 1932. Canada and some Latin American nations passed women's suffrage before World War II while the vast majority of Latin American nations established women's suffrage in the 1940s, with the exception of Uruguay in 1917 (see table in Summary below). The last Latin American country to give women the right to vote was Paraguay in 1961. In December 2015, women were first allowed to vote in Saudi Arabia (municipal elections).Extended political campai ...

Development-Induced Displacement

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Bharat Patankar is a leading activist of the left wing Shramik Mukti Dal and of the peasant movement in Maharashtra province, India. He is an activist intellectual who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural labourers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women’s liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements. He is one of the architects of equitable water distribution movement in Maharashtra province. His numerous books and articles include 20 English articles and books, including “Characteristics of Contemporary Caste System and its Annihilation,” in Two Essays on Caste, (University of Mumbai).

Michael Levien is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at John Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests fall in the fields of development sociology, political sociology, agrarian political economy, and social theory. He has had a long-standing intellectual and political engagement with the phenomenon of rural land dispossession for “development projects” such as dams and now Special Economic Zones (SEZs). His work can be found in The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession and Capitalist Transition (Oxford University Press) and Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (Wiley-Blackwell).

Sarah Besky, discussant, is an assistant professor of anthropology and international and public affairs at Brown University. She is a cultural anthropologist with research interests in the environment, capitalism, and labor. Her book, The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India (University of California Press) explores how legacies of colonialism intersect with contemporary market reforms to reconfigure notions of value—of labor, of place, and of tea itself.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Contemporary South Asia, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and Middle East Studies. This series is funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Architecture of the United States | Wikipedia audio article

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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.
Architecture in the United States is as diverse as its multicultural society and has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions. As a whole it represents a rich eclectic and innovative tradition.

High School Quiz Show - Quarterfinal #3: Natick vs. Phillips (911)

The Natick High School Redhawks take on the Big Blue of Phillips Academy Andover! This is both teams’ first time competing in the quarterfinal round of the bracket. Who will punch their trivia ticket to the Season 9 semifinals?

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3. Dutch and British Exceptionalism

European Civilization, 1648-1945 (HIST 202)

Several reasons can be found to explain why Great Britain and the Netherlands did not follow the other major European powers of the seventeenth century in adopting absolutist rule. Chief among these were the presence of a relatively large middle class, with a vested interest in preserving independence from centralized authority, and national traditions of resistance dating from the English Civil War and the Dutch war for independence from Spain, respectively. In both countries anti-absolutism formed part of a sense of national identity, and was linked to popular anti-Catholicism. The officially Protestant Dutch, in particular, had a culture of decentralized mercantile activity far removed from the militarism and excess associated with the courts of Louis XIV and Frederick the Great.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Shared Character of the English and Dutch States: The Large Urban Middle Class
10:38 - Chapter 2. Anti-Absolutism in the Collective Consciousness: National Identity and Political Origins
18:50 - Chapter 3. Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Absolutism
26:33 - Chapter 4. The Canals of the Dutch Republic: A State Built around Sea Trade
40:43 - Chapter 5. Representations of Dutch Life in Painting: Emphasis on the Everyday

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The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over four centuries of independence and former Spanish and British rule.
Architecture in the United States is as diverse as its multicultural society and has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions. As a whole it represents a rich eclectic and innovative tradition.

In Conversation: John Adams and Peter Salovey

In Conversation: Composer John Adams, Yale University President Peter Salovey, and School of Music Dean Robert Blocker.

October 16, 2014, Morse Recital Hall

Meejin Yoon

J. Meejin Yoon
Associate Professor of Architecture

J. Meejin Yoon earned a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University. After graduating from Harvard University with a Master’s degree, also in architecture, she accepted a Fulbright scholarship in Korea. Professor Yoon later started her own practice doing installation work in public space; her work includes the project White Noise/White Light for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. In 2001, she came to MIT as a junior faculty member in architecture. In addition to being an architect, designer, and artist, Professor Yoon has built an impressive resume over the past 10 years, becoming an associate professor, founder of MY Studio, cofounder of Howeler and Yoon Architecture, and director of the MIT Undergraduate Program in Architecture.

University Challenge S48E06 Strathclyde vs Durham

This week's match is between Strathclyde University and Durham University. Original air date 27.08.2018

Evan Davis Discusses the House Committee on the Judiciary Impeachent Inquiry, Part 1

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Evan Davis recorded interview by Timothy Naftali, September 29, 2011, the Richard Nixon Oral History Project of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

About the Richard Nixon Oral History Project
The Richard Nixon Oral History Project was created in November 2006 at the initiative of Timothy Naftali, weeks after he had begun his tenure as director of what was then the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration. (The Nixon Presidential Materials Staff became the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum on July 11, 2007, with the incorporation of certain facilities in Yorba Linda, California, that formerly had been operated by the private Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace.) The project was intended to preserve the memories and reflections of former Nixon officials and others who had been prominent in the Nixon era by conducting videotaped interviews. Starting in February 2007, Paul Musgrave, Special Assistant to the Director, coordinated the project, which was housed in the Office of the Director.
Naftali insisted from the project's inception that it be a serious, impartial and nonpartisan source of information about President Nixon, his administration, and his times. A second goal of the project was to provide public domain video that would be available as free historical content for museums and for posting on the Internet. Donors to the project neither requested nor received a veto over interview questions or interviewee selection. (Funding for interviews, materials, and support staff came in part from the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation, which ceased to support the project in 2007; in part from donations from Nixon administration alumni; and in part from the appropriated and self-generated funds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library itself.) Accordingly, the project includes interviews with former staff members of the Nixon administration as well as journalists, politicians, and activists who may have been opposed to the Nixon administration and its policies. Taken as a whole, the collection contributes to a broader and more vivid portrait of President Nixon, the Nixon administration, and American society during the Nixon era.
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History of education in the United States | Wikipedia audio article

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History of education in the United States


00:00:17 1 Colonial era
00:00:26 1.1 New England
00:03:29 1.2 The South
00:06:43 1.3 Women and girls
00:09:43 1.4 Non-English schools
00:11:25 1.5 Textbooks
00:14:32 1.6 Colonial colleges
00:19:22 2 Federal era
00:20:16 2.1 Republican motherhood
00:22:23 2.2 Attendance
00:23:42 2.2.1 Teachers, early 1800s
00:24:26 2.2.2 One-room schoolhouses
00:25:18 2.2.3 Mann reforms
00:28:10 2.2.4 Compulsory laws
00:28:44 2.2.5 Religion and schools
00:30:39 2.2.6 Schools for Black students
00:34:29 2.2.7 Influence of colleges in 19th century
00:35:21 3 20th century
00:35:30 3.1 Progressive Era
00:38:21 3.1.1 Dewey and progressive education
00:40:46 3.1.2 Black education
00:42:42 3.1.3 Atlanta
00:43:53 3.1.4 Gary plan
00:45:10 3.2 Great Depression and New Deal: 1929-39
00:49:14 3.3 Secondary schools
00:50:38 3.3.1 College preparation
00:52:23 3.3.2 The growth of human capital
00:54:42 3.3.3 Teachers and administrators
00:56:14 3.4 Higher education
00:56:59 3.4.1 Land Grant universities
00:59:46 3.4.2 GI Bill
01:01:23 3.4.3 Great Society
01:02:18 3.5 Segregation and integration
01:07:32 3.6 Education after 1945
01:08:46 3.6.1 Inequality
01:10:59 3.6.2 Special education
01:11:52 3.7 Reform efforts in the 1980s
01:13:17 4 21st century
01:13:27 4.1 Policy since 2000
01:15:42 5 Historiography
01:18:40 6 See also



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The history of education in the United States, or Foundations of Education covers the trends in educational philosophy, policy, institutions, as well as formal and informal learning in America from the 17th century to the early 21st century.

Maritime history of the United Kingdom | Wikipedia audio article

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Maritime history of the United Kingdom


00:00:47 1 Chronology
00:00:56 1.1 Eighteenth century
00:01:51 1.2 Nineteenth century
00:03:26 1.3 Twentieth century
00:05:24 1.4 Twenty-first century
00:05:44 2 Royal Navy
00:05:53 2.1 Eighteenth-century navy
00:06:46 2.2 Nineteenth-century navy
00:07:57 2.3 Twentieth-century navy
00:12:01 2.4 The Navy Board
00:12:26 2.5 Ministry of Defence
00:12:44 2.6 Notable wars
00:12:53 2.6.1 American Wars
00:13:28 2.6.2 French Revolutionary/Napoleonic Wars
00:14:06 2.6.3 Maritime events of World War I
00:17:27 2.6.4 Maritime events of World War II
00:22:39 2.6.5 Post War Operations
00:24:30 3 Notable individuals
00:24:39 3.1 Charles Hardy
00:25:11 3.2 Augustus Keppel
00:26:35 3.3 Edward Hawke
00:26:59 3.4 Richard Howe
00:27:37 3.5 Horatio Nelson
00:29:30 3.6 Hyde Parker
00:30:23 3.7 Edward Pellew
00:30:55 3.8 James Saumarez
00:31:41 3.9 William Dampier
00:32:18 3.10 James Cook
00:33:49 3.11 George Vancouver
00:34:23 3.12 Admiral Anson
00:34:49 3.13 Sir John Franklin
00:35:51 3.14 James Clarke Ross
00:36:12 3.15 Robert Scott
00:36:32 3.16 Ernest Shackleton
00:37:10 4 Shipbuilding
00:38:36 5 Famous ships
00:38:45 5.1 iCutty Sark/i
00:39:40 5.2 iEndeavour/i
00:40:45 5.3 iGreat Britain/i
00:41:20 5.4 iGreat Eastern/i
00:42:33 5.5 iTitanic/i
00:43:52 5.6 iQueen Mary/i
00:44:29 5.7 iBritannia/i
00:45:11 5.8 iVictory/i
00:46:07 5.9 iWarrior/i
00:46:50 5.10 iBelfast/i
00:47:43 6 Navigation
00:47:52 6.1 Instruments and guides
00:48:45 6.2 Lighthouses
00:49:27 6.3 Navigation marks
00:50:02 7 Safety and rescue
00:50:12 7.1 Plimsoll line
00:50:49 7.2 Lifeboats
00:51:51 7.3 Maritime and Coastguard Agency
00:52:20 8 Ports and harbours
00:54:26 9 Trade
00:54:34 9.1 Goods
00:57:44 9.2 Passenger liners
00:58:27 9.3 Emigration/deportation
00:59:03 10 Ferries and cruise boats
01:00:07 11 Customs men and smugglers
01:01:22 12 Fishing
01:03:55 13 Energy
01:04:03 13.1 Gas and oil
01:04:59 13.2 Oil spills
01:06:21 13.3 Offshore wind farms
01:06:56 14 Coast
01:08:11 15 Leisure activities
01:08:20 15.1 Resorts
01:09:00 15.2 Rowing, yachting and power boats
01:11:35 15.3 Marinas
01:11:57 16 Marine science
01:12:07 16.1 Hydrographics
01:12:54 16.2 Oceanography
01:14:17 17 Maritime studies
01:14:26 17.1 Colleges
01:15:01 17.2 Admiralty law
01:15:45 18 Law of the sea
01:16:11 18.1 Ship design
01:16:51 19 Maritime museums
01:17:23 19.1 Maritime archaeology
01:18:02 20 Maritime subjects in the Arts
01:18:12 20.1 Art
01:18:44 20.2 Literature
01:20:01 20.3 Music
01:20:16 21 See also



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The Maritime history of the United Kingdom involves events including shipping, ports, navigation, and seamen, as well as marine sciences, exploration, trade, and maritime themes in the arts from the creation of the kingdom of Great Britain as a united, sovereign state, on 1 May 1707 in accordance with the Treaty of Union, signed on 22 July 1706. Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the British Isles. For this reason, maritime trade and naval power have always had great importance.
Prior to the Acts of Union, 1707, the maritime history of the British Isles was largely dominated by that of England. (See Maritime history of England for more details.)

Dartmouth College Aquatic Facilities | Wikipedia audio article

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00:03:12 1 History
00:10:46 2 Academics
00:13:50 2.1 Rankings
00:15:33 2.2 Admissions
00:17:02 2.3 Financial aid
00:17:54 2.4 The Dartmouth Plan
00:19:23 2.5 Board of Trustees
00:20:24 3 Campus
00:21:56 3.1 Academic facilities
00:24:15 3.2 Athletic facilities
00:26:15 3.3 Residential housing and student life facilities
00:27:47 4 Student life
00:28:29 4.1 Student safety
00:29:28 4.2 Student groups
00:31:52 4.3 Athletics
00:33:47 4.4 Native Americans at Dartmouth
00:35:05 4.5 Traditions
00:36:45 5 Insignia and other representations
00:36:56 5.1 Motto and song
00:37:44 5.2 Seal
00:39:49 5.3 Shield
00:41:04 5.4 Nickname, symbol, and mascot
00:42:41 6 Alumni
00:49:22 7 In popular culture



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Dartmouth College ( DART-məth) is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded as a school to educate Native Americans in Christian theology and the English way of life, Dartmouth primarily trained Congregationalist ministers throughout its early history. The university gradually secularized, and by the turn of the 20th century it had risen from relative obscurity into national prominence as one of the top centers of higher education.Following a liberal arts curriculum, the university provides undergraduate instruction in 40 academic departments and interdisciplinary programs including 57 majors in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, and enables students to design specialized concentrations or engage in dual degree programs. Dartmouth comprises five constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering, the Tuck School of Business, and the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. The university also has affiliations with the Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, the Rockefeller Institute for Public Policy, and the Hopkins Center for the Arts. With a student enrollment of about 6,400, Dartmouth is the smallest university in the Ivy League. Undergraduate admissions are highly competitive, with an acceptance rate of 7.9% for the Class of 2023.Situated on a terrace above the Connecticut River, Dartmouth's 269-acre main campus is in the rural Upper Valley region of New England. The university functions on a quarter system, operating year-round on four ten-week academic terms. Dartmouth is known for its undergraduate focus, strong Greek culture, and wide array of enduring campus traditions. Its 34 varsity sports teams compete intercollegiately in the Ivy League conference of the NCAA Division I.
Dartmouth is consistently included among the highest-ranked universities in the United States by several institutional rankings, and has been cited as a leading university for undergraduate teaching and research by U.S. News & World Report. In 2018, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education listed Dartmouth as the only majority-undergraduate, arts-and-sciences focused, doctoral university in the country that has some graduate coexistence and very high research activity. In a New York Times corporate study, Dartmouth graduates ranked 41st in terms of the most sought-after and valued in the world.The university has produced many prominent alumni, including 170 members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, 24 U.S. governors, 10 billionaire alumni, 10 U.S. Cabinet secretaries, 3 Nobel Prize laureates, 2 U.S. Supreme Court justices, and a U.S. vice president. Other notable alumni include 79 Rhodes Scholars ...

Daniel Boone | Wikipedia audio article

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Daniel Boone


00:02:49 1 Early life
00:06:05 2 Yadkin River Valley, North Carolina
00:07:29 2.1 French and Indian War
00:08:41 2.2 Marriage and family
00:10:17 2.3 Cherokee conflict, temporary move to Virginia
00:11:51 3 Kentucky
00:15:52 4 American Revolution
00:22:45 5 Businessman on the Ohio River
00:26:03 6 Missouri
00:28:54 7 Death
00:31:32 8 Cultural legacy
00:33:23 8.1 Emergence as a legend
00:35:06 8.2 Symbol and stereotype
00:38:13 8.3 In fiction
00:39:55 8.4 Descendants
00:40:24 9 See also



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Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 [O.S. October 22] – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. It was still considered part of Virginia but was on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains from most European-American settlements. As a young adult, Boone supplemented his farm income by hunting and trapping game, and selling their pelts in the fur market. Through this occupational interest, Boone first learned the easy routes to the area. Despite some resistance from American Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, in 1775, Boone blazed his Wilderness Road from North Carolina and Tennessee through Cumberland Gap in the Cumberland Mountains into Kentucky. There, he founded the village of Boonesborough, Kentucky, one of the first American settlements west of the Appalachians. Before the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 Americans migrated to Kentucky/Virginia by following the route marked by Boone.Boone served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–83), which, in Kentucky, was fought primarily between the American settlers and British-allied Indians, who hoped to expel the Americans. Boone was captured by Shawnee warriors in 1778. He escaped and alerted Boonesborough that the Shawnee were planning an attack. Although heavily outnumbered, Americans repelled the Shawnee warriors in the Siege of Boonesborough. Boone was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the Revolutionary War, and he fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782. Blue Licks, a Shawnee victory over the Patriots, was one of the last battles of the Revolutionary War, coming after the main fighting ended in October 1781.Following the war, Boone worked as a surveyor and merchant, but fell deeply into debt through failed Kentucky land speculation. Frustrated with the legal problems resulting from his land claims, in 1799, Boone emigrated to eastern Missouri, where he spent most of the last two decades of his life (1800–20).
Boone remains an iconic figure in American history. He was a legend in his own lifetime, especially after an account of his adventures was published in 1784, framing him as the typical American frontiersman. After his death, he was frequently the subject of heroic tall tales and works of fiction. His adventures—real and legendary—were influential in creating the archetypal frontier hero of American folklore. In American popular culture, he is remembered as one of the foremost early frontiersmen. The epic Daniel Boone mythology often overshadows the historical details of his life.

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The Occupy movement was an international progressive, socio-political movement against social and economic inequality and the lack of real democracy around the world. It aimed primarily to advance social and economic justice and new forms of democracy. The movement had many different scopes; local groups often had different focuses, but among the movement's prime concerns were how large corporations (and the global financial system) control the world in a way that disproportionately benefited a minority, undermined democracy, and was unstable. Occupy formed part of what Manfred Steger called the global justice movement.The first Occupy protest to receive widespread attention, Occupy Wall Street in New York City's Zuccotti Park, began on 17 September 2011. By 9 October, Occupy protests had taken place or were ongoing in over 951 cities across 82 countries, and in over 600 communities in the United States. Although most active in the United States, by October 2012 there had been Occupy protests and occupations in dozens of other countries across every inhabited continent. For the first month, overt police repression remained minimal, but this began to change by 25 October 2011 when police first attempted to forcibly remove Occupy Oakland. By the end of 2011, authorities had cleared most of the major camps, with the last remaining high-profile sites – in Washington, D.C. and in London – evicted by February 2012.The Occupy movement took inspiration in part from the Arab Spring, from the 2009 Iranian Green Movement, and from the Spanish Indignados Movement, as well as from the overall global wave of anti-austerity protests. The movement commonly uses the slogan We are the 99% and the #Occupy hashtag format; it organizes through websites such as Occupy Together. According to The Washington Post, the movement, which Cornel West described as a democratic awakening, is difficult to distill to a few demands. On 12 October 2011, Los Angeles City Council became one of the first governmental bodies in the United States to adopt a resolution stating its informal support of the Occupy movement. In October 2012, the Executive Director of Financial Stability at the Bank of England stated that the protesters were right to criticise and had persuaded bankers and politicians to behave in a more moral way.