Pacific RaiLRoad ComplEtiOn: 2.859,66 km

An UnbEaten Olympic Florence Griffith-Joyner (12/21/1959–09/21/1998)

Florence Delorez Griffith-Joyner and USA President Ronald Reagan. She still holds the World Record for both the 100 and 200 metres, both set in 1988 Seoul Olympics. 

USA WalT WhiTMan: Father of FrEE VerSe (05/31/1819 – 03/26/1892)

AmEriCa

by Walt Whitman


Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, 
All, all alike endear'd, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, 
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair'd in the adamant of Time.



American Indians´ Wars

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On June 25, 1876 General George Armstrong Custer and his entire force were defeated and killed by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull, at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. 

Sioux inlayed war club : Contrary to popular myth, most Native American fighting in a battle was done with war clubs and not with bow and arrows.(Photo Credit: Brooklyn Museum/Corbis)