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  2. List of industry trade groups in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Marketing Research Association. Million Dollar Round Table. National Association of Real Estate Brokers. National Association of Realtors. Outdoor Advertising Association of America. Produce Marketing Association. Promotion Marketing Association. Public Relations Society of America. United States Chamber of Commerce.

  3. Donner Party - Wikipedia

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    Member of General Stephen W. Kearny's company, June 22, 1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by Samuel Brannan, a journalist and elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with Keseberg. Accounts of the ordeal first reached New York City in July 1847. Reporting on the event across the U.S. was ...

  4. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .

  5. List of cruise lines - Wikipedia

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    List of cruise lines by size. As of 2021, the cruise industry was estimated to be around US$ 23.8 billion with 13.9 million passengers per year. The following is a list of the largest cruise lines with over 1,000 passengers per year and their market share by passengers and revenue as of 2021 according to Cruise Market Watch.

  6. Lewis and Clark Expedition - Wikipedia

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    The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close ...

  7. Mormon pioneers - Wikipedia

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    The adult labor force, however, was quite small as a high percentage of the group, 53.2 percent were under the age of nineteen. Twenty five percent of the total were children under the age of eight. Each year during the Mormon migration, people continued to be organized into "companies", each company bearing the name of its leader.

  8. Air transports of heads of state and government - Wikipedia

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    Air transports for heads of state and government are, in many countries, provided by the air force in specially equipped airliners or business jets. One such aircraft in particular has become part of popular culture: Air Force One, used by the President of the United States and operated by the United States Air Force.

  9. Freedom Riders - Wikipedia

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    Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. [3]