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94 relations: American English, Apollo 10, Arkansas, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Black Sunday (storm), Bristow, Oklahoma, Buck Owens, California Department of Transportation, Central Valley (California), Charles J. Shindo, Cities in Flight, Democratic Party (United States), Dewey F. Bartlett, Dust Bowl, Environmental disaster, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Florida cracker, Foreclosure, Frank Bergon, Gerald Haslam, Governor of Oklahoma, Great Depression in the United States, Great Plains, History of California, History of Oklahoma, Hitchhiking, Hoosier, Hunter S. Thompson, Indiana, Interstate 5, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, J. J. Cale, Jack Kerouac, James Blish, Janet Fitch, John Steinbeck, John Tyler Hammons, Las Vegas, Left-wing politics, Merl Lindsay, Merle Haggard, Midland American English, Migrant worker, Muskogee, Oklahoma, National Park Service, Native Americans in the United States, New York City, Ninety-Nines, Northeastern United States, ..., Oakie Boogie, Ohio, Okie (album), Okie from Muskogee, Okie from Muskogee (song), Oklahoma, Oklahoma Swing, On the Road, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Paint It Black (novel), Patrick Sky, Pearl Harbor, Pejorative, Pentecostalism, Poet laureate, Polish Americans, Prejudice, Primary sector of the economy, Pulitzer Prize, Raoul Duke, Reappropriation, Redneck, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Republican Party (United States), Rose of Sharon, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Science fiction, Songs That Made America Famous, Southern American English, Southern Baptist Convention, Texas, The Grapes of Wrath, The Oklahoman, Thomas P. Stafford, U.S. Route 66, United States Army Air Forces, University of Idaho Press, USS Oklahoma (BB-37), White Southerners, Will Rogers, Will Rogers phenomenon, Woody Guthrie, World War II, Yankee. Expand index (44 more) »
American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Apollo 10
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a state in the southeastern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2017.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Black Sunday (storm)
Black Sunday refers to a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl.
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Bristow, Oklahoma
Bristow is a city in Creek County, Oklahoma, United States.
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Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) professionally known as Buck Owens.
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California Department of Transportation
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is an executive department of the US state of California.
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Central Valley (California)
The Central Valley is a flat valley that dominates the geographical center of the U.S. state of California.
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Charles J. Shindo
Charles Jogi Shindo is a Professor of United States history at Louisiana State University.
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Cities in Flight
Cities in Flight is a four-volume series of science fiction stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Dewey F. Bartlett
Dewey Follett Bartlett Sr. (March 28, 1919 – March 1, 1979) was an American politician who served as the 19th Governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971, following his same-party Republican predecessor, Henry Bellmon.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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Environmental disaster
An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is a catastrophic event regarding the environment due to human activity.Jared M. Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, 2005 This distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster. It is also distinct from intentional acts of war such as nuclear bombings. In this case, the impact of humans' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and/or long-lasting consequences. It can include the deaths of animals (including humans) and plants, or severe disruption of human life, possibly requiring migration.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a novel by Hunter S. Thompson, illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
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Florida cracker
Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers and their descendants in what is now the U.S. state of Florida.
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Foreclosure
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan.
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Frank Bergon
Frank Bergon (born 1943) is an American writer whose novels, essays, anthologies, and literary criticism focus primarily on the American West.
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Gerald Haslam
Gerald William Haslam (born March 18, 1937) is an author who has focused on rural and small towns in California's Great Central Valley including its poor and working class people of all colors.
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Governor of Oklahoma
The governor of the State of Oklahoma is the head of state for the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
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Great Depression in the United States
The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession.
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Great Plains
The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.
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History of California
The history of California can be divided into: the Native American period; European exploration period from 1542 to 1769; the Spanish colonial period, 1769 to 1821; the Mexican period, 1821 to 1848; and United States statehood, from September 9, 1850 (in Compromise of 1850) which continues to this present day.
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History of Oklahoma
The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies.
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Hitchhiking
Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, hitching, or autostop) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking people, usually strangers, for a ride in their automobile or other vehicle.
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Hoosier
Hoosier is the official demonym for a resident of the U.S. state of Indiana.
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Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, and the founder of the gonzo journalism movement.
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Indiana
Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.
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Interstate 5
Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, running largely parallel to the Pacific coast of the continental U.S. from Mexico to Canada.
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Irish Americans
Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.
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Italian Americans
Italian Americans (italoamericani or italo-americani) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy.
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J. J. Cale
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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac (born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.
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James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (–) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer.
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Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) is most famously known as the author of the Oprah's Book Club novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.
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John Tyler Hammons
John Tyler Hammons (born September 4, 1988) is an American politician who served as the 47th Mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma from 2008 to 2012.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.
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Merl Lindsay
Merle Lindsay Salathiel (1916 – October 12, 1965), better known as Merl Lindsay, was one of the premier American Western swing musicians from the 1930s to the mid-1960s and founder of Merl Lindsay and His Oklahoma Night Riders.
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Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.
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Midland American English
Midland American English is a regional dialect or super-dialect of American English, geographically lying between the traditionally-defined Northern and Southern United States.
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Migrant worker
A "migrant worker" is a person who either migrates within their home country or outside it to pursue work such as seasonal work.
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Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee is a town in and the county seat of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ninety-Nines
The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots, also known as The 99s, is an international organization that provides networking, mentoring, and flight scholarship opportunities to recreational and professional female pilots.
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the American Northeast or simply the Northeast, is a geographical region of the United States bordered to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Southern United States, and to the west by the Midwestern United States.
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Oakie Boogie
"Oakie Boogie" (sometimes "Okie Boogie") is a Western swing dance song written by Johnny Tyler in 1947.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Okie (album)
Okie is the third studio album by J. J. Cale, released in 1974.
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Okie from Muskogee
Okie from Muskogee is the first live album by Merle Haggard and the Strangers released in October 1969 on Capitol Records.
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Okie from Muskogee (song)
"Okie from Muskogee" is a song recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers, which Haggard co-wrote with drummer Roy Edward Burris.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Oklahoma Swing
"Oklahoma Swing" is a song recorded by American country music artists Vince Gill and Reba McEntire.
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On the Road
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.
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Oscar Zeta Acosta
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was an American attorney, politician, novelist and activist in the Chicano Movement.
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Paint It Black (novel)
Paint It Black is the third novel by American author Janet Fitch.
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Patrick Sky
Patrick Sky (born Patrick Lynch: October 2, 1943 in Liveoak Gardens, Georgia) is a musician, folk singer, and songwriter of Irish and Native American ancestry (Creek Indian).
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu.
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Pejorative
A pejorative (also called a derogatory term, a slur, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative connotation or a low opinion of someone or something, showing a lack of respect for someone or something.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or Classical Pentecostalism is a renewal movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals",.
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Poet laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions.
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Polish Americans
Polish Americans are Americans who have total or partial Polish ancestry.
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Prejudice
Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person or group member based solely on that person's group membership.
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Primary sector of the economy
An industry involved in the extraction and collection of natural resources, such as copper and timber, as well as by activities such as farming and fishing.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
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Raoul Duke
Raoul Duke is the fictional character and antihero based on Hunter S. Thompson in his autobiographical novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Reappropriation
In sociology and cultural studies, reappropriation or reclamation is the cultural process by which a group reclaims terms or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
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Redneck
Redneck is a derogatory term chiefly but not exclusively applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.
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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Rose of Sharon
Rose of Sharon is a common name that has been applied to several different species of flowering plants that are valued in different parts of the world.
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (born) is an American historian, writer and feminist.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Songs That Made America Famous
Songs That Made America Famous is the fifth album by Patrick Sky, released on Adelphi Records in 1973.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a large collection of related American English dialects spoken throughout the Southern United States, though increasingly in more rural areas and primarily by white Americans.
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Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.
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The Oklahoman
The Oklahoman is the largest daily newspaper in Oklahoma and is the only regional daily that covers the Greater Oklahoma City area.
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Thomas P. Stafford
Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930; Lt Gen, USAF, Ret.) is an American former Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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U.S. Route 66
U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.
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University of Idaho Press
The University of Idaho Press is a university press that is part of the University of Idaho; their books are distributed by Caxton Press.
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USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy in 1910, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts.
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White Southerners
White Southerners, or simply Southerners, and historically Southrons from the Southern United States, are considered an ethnic group by some historians, sociologists and journalists, although this categorization has proven controversial and other academics have argued that Southern identity does not meet the criteria for definition as an ethnicity.
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Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, American cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma.
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Will Rogers phenomenon
The Will Rogers phenomenon is obtained when moving an element from one set to another set raises the average values of both sets.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yankee
The term "Yankee" and its contracted form "Yank" have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States; its various senses depend on the context.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie
