Clarion Hotel La Crosse in Texarkana AR
Reserve: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarion Hotel La Crosse 5100 North Stateline Avenue Texarkana AR 71854 This hotel is in Texarkana and has a free shuttle to the Texarkana Regional Airport. This hotel features an indoor pool and free Wi-Fi and refrigerators in every room. Rooms at the Hotel La Crosse come equipped with a microwave and coffee maker. The rooms have cable TV and free weekday newspapers. The Clarion Hotel La Crosse provides guests with a gym and game room. Guests can dine at Los Agaves Mexican Restaurant, which features Mexican cuisine.The hotel also has a business center. A complimentary hot breakfast including omelets, waffles, eggs, and pancakes is served each morning. Cereal, milk, juice, and coffee are also provided. The La Crosse is within a 15-minute drive of the Texarkana Museum of Regional History and the Perot Theatre. The hotel is within a 5-minute drive of the Links at Texarkana Golf.
Greenville TX Wesley St Driving Tour Small Rural Country Towns Texas USA Jamesss Tdoay
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Greenville is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas. It is the county seat and largest city of Hunt County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557, and in 2016 the estimated population was 27,172.
Greenville was named for Thomas J. Green,[9] a significant contributor to the founding of the Texas Republic.[10]
Geography
Greenville is located in North Texas at 33°7′34″N 96°6′35″W (33.126004, −96.109703),[11] in central Hunt County. Greenville is situated in the heart of the Texas blackland prairies, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas and about 45 miles (72 km) south of the Texas/Oklahoma border, on the eastern edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Greenville has a total area of 33.4 square miles (86.6 km2), of which 32.6 square miles (84.5 km2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 2.46%, are water.[4] The Cowleech Fork of the Sabine River flows through the northeast part of the city.
Climate
Greenville is considered to be a part of the humid subtropical region. Due to its location on the north Texas prairies the climate is typically humid with mild precipitation.
History
City in 1886
Cotton scene, public square, Greenville, Texas (postcard, circa 1908)
Greenville was founded in 1846. The city was named after Thomas J. Green, a significant contributor to the establishment of the Texas Republic. He later became a member of the Congress of the Texas Republic. The city was almost named Pinckneyville in honor of James Pinckney Henderson, the first governor of Texas.[citation needed]
As the Civil War loomed, Greenville was divided over the issue of secession, as were several area towns and counties. Greenville attorney and State Senator Martin D. Hart was a prominent Unionist. He formed a company of men who fought for the Union in Arkansas, even as other Greenville residents fought for the Confederacy. The divided nature of Greenville and Hunt County is noted by a historical marker in The SPOT Park at 2800 Lee Street in downtown Greenville. In the post-Civil War era, Greenville's economy became partly dependent on cotton as the local economy entered a period of transition.[12]
With a population of 12,384 in the 1920 census, the city was the 20th largest in Texas at the time.
In World War II, the Mexican Escuadrón 201 was stationed in Greenville while training at nearby Majors Field.
Greenville was notorious for a large sign, installed on July 7, 1921, over Lee Street, the main street in the downtown district, between the train station and the bus station in the 1920s to 1960s. The sign read: Welcome to Greenville, The Blackest Land, The Whitest People.[13][14] According to history teacher Paul E. Sturdevant of Greenville, the original intent behind the whitest people was to define the citizens of Greenville as friendly, trustworthy and helpful was sincere, and it was meant to include all citizens, regardless of race.[14] In pre-civil rights America, the phrase That's mighty white of you meant that you were honest, not like suspect blacks. The sign thus acquired racial overtones, and the original sign was taken down and placed into storage on April 13, 1965, possibly at the urging of Texas Governor John Connally, who had made a visit to the town weeks before.[14] In 1968, Greenville's Sybil Maddux had the sign reinstalled, with the wording modified to read The Greatest People; the original sign is in the collection of the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum.[14]
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Greenville is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas. It is the county seat and largest city of Hunt County.[8] As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557,[4] and in 2016 the estimated population was 27,172.[5]
Greenville was named for Thomas J. Green,[9] a significant contributor to the founding of the Texas Republic.[10]
Geography
Greenville is located in North Texas at 33°7′34″N 96°6′35″W (33.126004, −96.109703),[11] in central Hunt County. Greenville is situated in the heart of the Texas blackland prairies, 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas and about 45 miles (72 km) south of the Texas/Oklahoma border, on the eastern edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Greenville has a total area of 33.4 square miles (86.6 km2), of which 32.6 square miles (84.5 km2) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 2.46%, are water.[4] The Cowleech Fork of the Sabine River flows through the northeast part of the city.
Climate
Greenville is considered to be a part of the humid subtropical region. Due to its location on the north Texas prairies the climate is typically humid with mild precipitation.
History
City in 1886
Cotton scene, public square, Greenville, Texas (postcard, circa 1908)
Greenville was founded in 1846. The city was named after Thomas J. Green, a significant contributor to the establishment of the Texas Republic. He later became a member of the Congress of the Texas Republic. The city was almost named Pinckneyville in honor of James Pinckney Henderson, the first governor of Texas.[citation needed]
As the Civil War loomed, Greenville was divided over the issue of secession, as were several area towns and counties. Greenville attorney and State Senator Martin D. Hart was a prominent Unionist. He formed a company of men who fought for the Union in Arkansas, even as other Greenville residents fought for the Confederacy. The divided nature of Greenville and Hunt County is noted by a historical marker in The SPOT Park at 2800 Lee Street in downtown Greenville. In the post-Civil War era, Greenville's economy became partly dependent on cotton as the local economy entered a period of transition.[12]
With a population of 12,384 in the 1920 census, the city was the 20th largest in Texas at the time.
In World War II, the Mexican Escuadrón 201 was stationed in Greenville while training at nearby Majors Field.
Greenville was notorious for a large sign, installed on July 7, 1921, over Lee Street, the main street in the downtown district, between the train station and the bus station in the 1920s to 1960s. The sign read: Welcome to Greenville, The Blackest Land, The Whitest People.[13][14] According to history teacher Paul E. Sturdevant of Greenville, the original intent behind the whitest people was to define the citizens of Greenville as friendly, trustworthy and helpful was sincere, and it was meant to include all citizens, regardless of race.[14] In pre-civil rights America, the phrase That's mighty white of you meant that you were honest, not like suspect blacks. The sign thus acquired racial overtones, and the original sign was taken down and placed into storage on April 13, 1965, possibly at the urging of Texas Governor John Connally, who had made a visit to the town weeks before.[14] In 1968, Greenville's Sybil Maddux had the sign reinstalled, with the wording modified to read The Greatest People; the original sign is in the collection of the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum.[14]
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The History of Audie Murphy - a Short Story
Friend me on Facebook! Today is the anniversary of the birth of Audie Murphy, the war hero/actor who's real life accomplishments make Rambo look like a sissy. Some of the jokes were taken from an article by Marc Russel which I shouldn't have done (I was writing in a haste, and the error of that didn't occur to me).
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Audie Murphy was born in Kingston, Hunt County, TX. He grew up on a farm near Greenville, TX, and dropped out of school in the 5th grade to help support his family by plowing and picking cotton.
Audie had always dreamed of joining the military, and after the attack on Pearl Harbor he tried to enlist, but was rejected as he was underage.
In June of 1942 after his 17th birthday his sister adjusted his birth date so that he seemed to be 18, giving him the legal ability to enlist. He was turned down again and probably laughed at by the Marines and the U.S. Army paratroopers because of his short 5.5 inch height and for being a meager 110 lbs, both of which were under the minimum weight and height requirements for the military.
He was eventually accepted and sent to basic training where he passed out during a drill. His company commander attempted to have him transferred to a cook and baker's school, but Murphy insisted on becoming a combat soldier. He accepted in, and after rigorous training was shipped to Casablanca, Morocco, and then Sicily. While in Italy he was promoted to corporal for his shooting skills and contracted malaria which he had for most of the war.
Audie was then sent to Southern France, and on August 15th, 1944 he encountered a German machine gun crew that pretended that they were surrendering, but then shot Audie's best friend. Audie completely hulked out, killed everyone in the gun nest, and then used their weapons to kill every German soldier in a 100-yard radius, including two more machine gun nests and a bunch of snipers. Audie was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross (which is second only to the Medal of Honor), and made a platoon commander while presumably everyone else gave an apology for calling him shorty.
On January 26, 1945 he was given the job to defend a critical region in France called the Colmar Pocket, but all he had were 19 guys and a few M-10 tank destroyers.
The Germans showed up with a bunch of men and a dozen tanks. Reinforcements weren't coming for a while, so Murphy and his men hid in a trench and sent their M10s to go attack. The tanks were badly damaged and instead of giving up, the malaria-stricken Murphy ran up to a crippled M-10, hopped behind the .50 caliber machine gun and started shooting at everything in sight.
By the way, I forgot to mention that the tank he was on was on fire and had a full tank of gas.
Audie kept it for about an hour until he ran out of bullets. He then got off the tank and walked back to his men as the M-10 exploded behind him, probably while in slow motion, a la epic action movie.
Murphy was given every single medal out there, and then when they ran out of medals to give him they gave doubles of ones he already had, which racked his medal count to 33.
After seeing Audie's photo on the cover of LIFE magazine, he was brought to Hollywood to be an actor. Over the next few years he didn't see much work and became very disillusioned, but in 1949 he got his big break in the movie Bad Boy. He went on to write his autobiography, To Hell and Back which was then made into a movie which he starred in as himself. He had parts of the film omitted so that the audience didn't think that he was exaggerating the events that happened or that he was making stuff up. For 20 years it was the highest grossing film that Universal Studios made It took a movie about a giant man-eating shark to top Audie Murphy's awesomeness. In his short career he acted in over 44 films, and in addition to his movie career he also became a country music song writer.
On May 28, 1971, during Memorial Day weekend, Audie Murphy was killed at age 46 when his private plane crashed into a mountain near Virginia.
Although there is a tragic ending to this story, the legacy of Audie Murphy live on. That's the history of Audie Murphy.
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Molossia.
While many of you may not have heard of it, Molossia is actually a claimed country. It is in fact a micro nation within the United States and is supposed to be the world’s smallest sovereign republic. And its population?
Vanuatu.
So posting letters used to be a good deal of fun. But someone thought of a way to make sending a postcard even more fun!
Everest Base Camp.
We have all heard of mount Everest being the tallest mountain in the world. But did you know that it also housed the highest post office in the world?
Susami Post Box.
So obviously, if there is a post office that is highest in the world, there has to be something which will be the lowest in the world right?
Pirate Post Office.
So in the olden times when airplanes were not really that common, or invented yet, people still had to stay in touch even though they were on different continents.
Ochopee Post Office.
Ok, so some things become famous because of their size. And while it is usually a better idea to be as big as possible, in some cases being the smallest also helps.
Monumental Post Office.
There are post offices and then there are pieces of history and architectural marvel. And if you have nothing to post, and still end up in the latter, it will definitely be worth your time.
World War II Post Office.
During the 20th century, the postal service was one of the most crucial set ups any country had.
Old Post Office.
Whenever you are in Washington, do make some time for a visit to the old post office building because it is a grand old structure steeped in history.
Texarkana.
One of the most interesting post offices in the world is the Texarkana post office. What makes it so interesting is that it is located bang on the borders of Texas and Arkansas.
Kiev Post Office.
If you ever had dreams of post offices being grand and really impressive, perhaps you should take a trip to Kiev, Ukraine.
Grand Post Office.
Ok, so don’t get confused. That is not the actual name for this post office, nor would anyone know it by that name, but it just kind of fit!
Artistic Post Office.
If you ever have the good fortune to be in Sicily, you might just happen to pass one of the most interesting post offices in the world without even giving it a second look.
Springdale, Arkansas
Springdale is the fourth-largest city in Arkansas, and is located in both Washington and Benton counties in Northwest Arkansas. Located on the Springfield Plateau deep in the Ozark Mountains, Springdale has long been an important industrial city for the region. In addition to several trucking companies, the city is home to the world headquarters of Tyson Foods, the world's largest meat producing company. Originally named Shiloh, the city changed its name to Springdale when applying for a post office in 1872. The four-county Northwest Arkansas Metropolitan Statistical Area is ranked 109th in terms of population in the United States with 463,204 in 2010 according to the United States Census Bureau. The city had a population of 69,797 at the 2010 Census.
Springdale has been experiencing a population boom in recent years, as indicated by a 133% growth in population between the 1990 and 2010 censuses. During this period of rapid growth, the city has seen a new Shiloh Museum of Ozark History, the establishment of a Springdale campus of Northwest Arkansas Community College and the Northwest Arkansas Naturals minor league baseball team move into Arvest Ballpark. Tyson remains the city's top employer, and is visible throughout the city. Many public features bear the Tyson name, including the Randal Tyson Recreational Complex, Don Tyson Parkway, Helen Tyson Middle School and Don Tyson Elementary. Governor Mike Beebe signed an act into law recognizing Springdale as the The Poultry Capital Of The World in 2013.
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Greenville, Texas | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:31 1 Geography
00:01:41 1.1 Climate
00:02:01 2 History
00:05:32 3 Demographics
00:08:08 4 Media
00:08:45 5 Education
00:09:13 6 Government
00:09:22 6.1 Local government
00:10:13 6.2 State government
00:10:40 6.3 Federal government
00:11:09 7 Economy
00:14:09 8 Transportation
00:14:18 8.1 Roads
00:14:27 8.1.1 Interstate 30
00:15:03 8.1.2 U.S. highways
00:16:30 8.1.3 State highways
00:17:29 8.1.4 Farm-to-Market roads
00:18:19 8.2 Airports
00:18:43 8.3 Public transportation
00:19:29 9 Notable people
00:22:31 10 See also
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Greenville is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Dallas. It is the county seat and largest city of Hunt County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 25,557, and in 2017 the estimated population was 27,443.Greenville was named for Thomas J. Green, a significant contributor to the founding of the Texas Republic.
Arkansas | Wikipedia audio article
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Arkansas
00:02:33 1 Etymology and pronunciation
00:03:35 2 Geography
00:03:44 2.1 Boundaries
00:04:27 2.2 Terrain
00:06:32 2.3 Hydrology
00:08:20 2.4 Flora and fauna
00:10:13 2.5 Climate
00:12:32 3 History
00:12:40 3.1 Early Arkansas
00:17:38 3.2 Purchase by the United States
00:19:27 3.3 Statehood
00:20:06 3.4 Civil War and Reconstruction
00:22:52 3.5 End of the Reconstruction
00:24:58 3.6 Rise of the Jim Crow Laws
00:27:28 3.7 Fall of Segregation
00:28:43 3.8 Prominent American Figures from Arkansas
00:29:06 4 Cities and towns
00:30:40 5 Demographics
00:30:49 5.1 Population
00:32:35 5.2 Ancestry
00:35:32 5.3 Religion
00:36:26 6 Economy
00:38:16 6.1 Industry and commerce
00:40:02 7 Media
00:40:28 8 Culture
00:42:56 8.1 Sports and recreation
00:46:52 9 Health
00:48:33 10 Education
00:49:55 10.1 Educational attainment
00:52:15 10.2 Funding
00:53:50 10.3 Timeline
00:55:39 11 Transportation
00:57:39 12 Law and government
00:58:07 12.1 Executive
00:58:55 12.2 Legislative
01:00:40 12.3 Judicial
01:02:20 12.4 Federal
01:02:48 12.5 Politics
01:06:00 13 Attractions
01:06:46 14 See also
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- Socrates
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Arkansas ( AR-kən-saw) is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.
Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, such as the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Area and Fort Smith metropolitan area, is a population, education, and economic center. The largest city in the state's eastern part is Jonesboro. The largest city in the state's southeastern part is Pine Bluff.
The Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836. In 1861, Arkansas withdrew from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. On returning to the Union in 1868, the state continued to suffer due to its earlier reliance on slavery and the plantation economy, causing the state to fall behind economically and socially. White rural interests continued to dominate the state's politics until the civil rights movement. Arkansas began to diversify its economy following World War II and relies on its service industry, aircraft, poultry, steel, tourism, cotton, and rice.
The culture of Arkansas is observable in museums, theaters, novels, television shows, restaurants, and athletic venues across the state. Arkansas's enduring image has earned the state a special place in the American consciousness. People such as politician and educational advocate William Fulbright; former President Bill Clinton who served as the 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas; his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, Walmart magnate Sam Walton; singer-songwriters Johnny Cash, Charlie Rich, and Glen Campbell; the poet C. D. Wright; and physicist William L. McMillan, who was a pioneer in superconductor research; have all lived in Arkansas.
Bill Clinton | Wikipedia audio article
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William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist Third Way political philosophy.
Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He met Hillary Rodham at Yale and married her in 1975. After graduating, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as the Attorney General of Arkansas, serving from 1977 to 1979. As Governor of Arkansas, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent Republican opponent George H. W. Bush. At age 46, he became the third-youngest president and the first from the Baby Boomer generation.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform. In the 1994 elections, the Republican Party won unified control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term. He passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as financial deregulation measures, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice following allegations that he committed perjury and obstructed justice to conceal an affair he had with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year old White House intern. Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in 1999 and completed his term in office. He is only the second U.S. president to ever be impeached, the first being Andrew Johnson. During the last three years of Clinton's presidency, the Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus, the first such surplus since 1969. In foreign policy, Clinton ordered U.S. military intervention in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, signed the Iraq Liberation Act in opposition to Saddam Hussein, participated in the 2000 Camp David Summit to advance the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, and assisted the Northern Ireland peace process.
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II, and has continually scored high in the historical rankings of U.S. presidents, consistently placing in the top third. Since leaving office, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming. He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, including the presidential campaigns of his wife and Barack Obama. In 2004, Clinton published his autobiography, My Life. In 2009, he was named the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. In addition, he secured the release of two American journalists imprisoned by North Korea, visiting the capital Pyongyang and negotiating their release with Kim Jong-il.
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William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist Third Way political philosophy.
Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School. He met Hillary Rodham at Yale and married her in 1975. After graduating, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as the Attorney General of Arkansas, serving from 1977 to 1979. As Governor of Arkansas, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association. Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent Republican opponent George H. W. Bush. At age 46, he became the third-youngest president and the first from the Baby Boomer generation.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform. In the 1994 elections, the Republican Party won unified control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term. He passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as financial deregulation measures, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice following allegations that he committed perjury and obstructed justice to conceal an affair he had with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year old White House intern. Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in 1999 and completed his term in office. He is only the second U.S. president to ever be impeached, the first being Andrew Johnson. During the last three years of Clinton's presidency, the Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus, the first such surplus since 1969. In foreign policy, Clinton ordered U.S. military intervention in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, signed the Iraq Liberation Act in opposition to Saddam Hussein, participated in the 2000 Camp David Summit to advance the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, and assisted the Northern Ireland peace process.
Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II, and has continually scored high in the historical rankings of U.S. presidents, consistently placing in the top third. Since leaving office, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming. He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, including the presidential campaigns of his wife and Barack Obama. In 2004, Clinton published his autobiography, My Life. In 2009, he was named the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. In addition, he secured the release of two American journalists imprisoned by North Korea, visiting the capital Pyongyang and negotiating their release with Kim Jong-il.
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Arkansas ( AR-kən-saw) is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.
Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, such as the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Area and Fort Smith metropolitan area, is a population, education, and economic center. The largest city in the state's eastern part is Jonesboro. The largest city in the state's southeastern part is Pine Bluff.
The Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836. In 1861, Arkansas withdrew from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. On returning to the Union in 1868, the state continued to suffer due to its earlier reliance on slavery and the plantation economy, causing the state to fall behind economically and socially. White rural interests continued to dominate the state's politics until the civil rights movement. Arkansas began to diversify its economy following World War II and relies on its service industry, aircraft, poultry, steel, tourism, cotton, and rice.
The culture of Arkansas is observable in museums, theaters, novels, television shows, restaurants, and athletic venues across the state. Arkansas's enduring image has earned the state a special place in the American consciousness. People such as politician and educational advocate William Fulbright; former President Bill Clinton who served as the 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas; his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, Walmart magnate Sam Walton; singer-songwriters Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell; the poet C. D. Wright; and physicist William L. McMillan, who was a pioneer in superconductor research; have all lived in Arkansas.
The Rise of Populism in the U.S. and Europe
Panelists including Salena Zito and Brad Todd, authors of The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Shaping Contemporary Domestic Politics, and John Judis, author of The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics, examine the rise of populism in the US and Europe, with Heather Cox Richardson, Boston College professor of history.
Arkansas State University
Arkansas State University is a public university and is the flagship campus of the Arkansas State University System, the state's second largest college system and second largest university by enrollment. It is located atop 1,376 acres on Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States. The university marked its centennial year in 2009.
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Fort Smith, Arkansas
Fort Smith is the second-largest city in Arkansas and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 86,209. With an estimated population of 87,443 in 2012, it is the principal city of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 298,592 residents that encompasses the Arkansas counties of Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian and the Oklahoma counties Le Flore and Sequoyah.
Fort Smith has a sister city relationship with Cisterna, Italy, site of the World War II Battle of Cisterna, fought by United States Army Rangers commanded by Fort Smith native William O. Darby.
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Arkansas ( AR-kən-saw) is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.
Arkansas is the 29th largest by area and the 33rd most populous of the 50 United States. The capital and most populous city is Little Rock, located in the central portion of the state, a hub for transportation, business, culture, and government. The northwestern corner of the state, such as the Fayetteville–Springdale–Rogers Metropolitan Area and Fort Smith metropolitan area, is a population, education, and economic center. The largest city in the state's eastern part is Jonesboro. The largest city in the state's southeastern part is Pine Bluff.
The Territory of Arkansas was admitted to the Union as the 25th state on June 15, 1836. In 1861, Arkansas withdrew from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. On returning to the Union in 1868, the state continued to suffer due to its earlier reliance on slavery and the plantation economy, causing the state to fall behind economically and socially. White rural interests continued to dominate the state's politics until the civil rights movement. Arkansas began to diversify its economy following World War II and relies on its service industry, aircraft, poultry, steel, tourism, cotton, and rice.
The culture of Arkansas is observable in museums, theaters, novels, television shows, restaurants, and athletic venues across the state. Arkansas's enduring image has earned the state a special place in the American consciousness. People such as politician and educational advocate William Fulbright; former President Bill Clinton who served as the 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas; his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark, Walmart magnate Sam Walton; singer-songwriters Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell; the poet C. D. Wright; and physicist William L. McMillan, who was a pioneer in superconductor research; have all lived in Arkansas.
Italian Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Italian Americans
00:02:45 1 History
00:02:54 1.1 Early period (1492–1775)
00:07:08 1.2 War of Independence to Civil War (1775–1861)
00:11:39 1.3 Civil War and after (1861–90)
00:14:44 1.4 The period of mass immigration (1890–1920)
00:27:26 1.5 1917-1941
00:35:04 1.6 World War II
00:39:05 1.7 Wartime violation of Italian-American civil liberties
00:42:20 1.8 Post-World War II period
00:48:37 1.9 Close of the twentieth century
00:51:49 2 Politics
00:55:57 3 Business and economy
00:56:58 3.1 Workers
00:58:50 3.2 Women
01:04:17 4 Culture
01:07:10 4.1 Literature
01:13:06 4.2 Religion
01:16:56 4.2.1 Italian Jews
01:20:04 4.3 Education
01:21:23 4.4 Language
01:27:55 4.5 Newspapers
01:32:17 4.6 Folklore
01:34:15 5 Discrimination and stereotyping
01:40:52 6 Communities
01:43:01 6.1 New York City
01:46:25 6.2 Philadelphia
01:49:15 6.3 Boston
01:50:19 6.4 Newark
01:52:12 6.5 Saint Louis
01:52:21 6.6 Syracuse
01:53:42 6.7 Providence
01:54:34 6.8 Chicago
01:56:57 6.9 Cleveland
01:58:41 6.10 Milwaukee
01:59:39 6.11 Ybor City
02:00:57 6.12 Birmingham
02:01:39 6.13 San Francisco
02:02:10 6.14 Los Angeles
02:03:29 6.15 San Diego
02:04:43 7 Demographics
02:10:14 7.1 U.S. States with over 10% people of Italian ancestry
02:10:48 7.2 U.S. Communities with the most residents of Italian ancestry
02:13:05 8 Notable people
02:13:14 9 See also
02:13:55 10 References and notes
02:14:05 11 Bibliography
02:14:14 12 External links
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy. Italian Americans are the seventh largest Census-reported ethnic group in the United States (which includes American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German American, African American, Irish American, Mexican American, English American, and American).About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. By 1870, there were less than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the great majority being from Southern Italy and Sicily, with most having agrarian backgrounds. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed.
Further immigration was greatly limited by several laws Congress passed in the 1920s.Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This was the poorest and least developed part of Italy, still largely rural and agricultural, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and an oppressive taxation system imposed after Italian unification in 1861. After unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a half million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy and elsewhere to fill the labor shortage caused by the war. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.
The descendants of the Italian immigrants gradually rose from a lower economic class in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. The Italian community has often been characterized by strong ties to family, the Roma ...