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# United States territorial acquisitions

United States territorial acquisitions are the lands coming under the control of the United States, beginning with American independence.

## Quotes

* Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territory—its great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippi—as well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.
** John C. Calhoun, secretary of state, letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States (September 3, 1844), concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries. Congressional Globe (December 2, 1845), vol. 15, Appendix, p. 26. When the dispute was settled in 1846, the United States was given all the land south of the forty-ninth parallel except Vancouver Island. The area included the modern states of Oregon, Idaho, and Washington as well as parts of Montana and Wyoming.
* What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?
** Attributed to Daniel Webster, supposedly from a speech in the Senate. Benjamin Perley Poore, Perley's Reminiscences (1886), vol. 1, chapter 15, p. 213–14. The same quotation, with slight word variation, appears in Edmund J. Carpenter, The American Advance, p. 216 (1903), with the additional sentence, "Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it is now". It is reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) that these remarks have never been verified in the speeches or writings of Webster, and are probably spurious. T. C. Elliott, The Outlook (August 15, 1908), p. 869, said, "It is safe to say he never uttered it".
# Korean Air Flight 801

Korean Air Flight 801 (KE801, KAL801) was a scheduled international passenger flight operated by Korean Air. The flight crashed on August 6, 1997, on approach to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, in the United States territory of Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people aboard. The aircraft crashed on Nimitz Hill in Asan-Maina, Guam, while on approach to the airport. The National Transportation Safety Board cites poor communication between the flight crew as probable cause for the air crash, along with the captain's poor decision-making on the non-precision approach.

## Quotes

* Burned and scratched, some of the more fortunate survivors told of being hurled from the plane still attached to their seats, and of turning back in their escape from the burning jet to pull fellow passengers to safety.
** "Survivors tell of fiery last moments of Flight 801" in Associated Press (7 August 1997)
* After the accident, Korean Air announced that it planned to spend more than $100 million over the next two years on safety initiatives, including changes in pilot training and maintenance operations.
** "Flight 801 crashed 20 years ago today" in The Guam Daily Post (6 August 2017)
* The wait for remains has been excruciating for the families of the victims, most of them South Korean. A scuffle broke out Thursday at a hotel used as a center for the families when mourners hungry for information saw a Korean Air representative hold a news conference for reporters instead of briefing the families.
** "Grim Work at Guam Crash Site" in The Washington Post (17 August 1997)
* Witnesses said the plane plowed through the jungle trailing smoke and flames, before it came to rest. The first rescuers had to make a maddeningly slow journey to the wreckage, trudging in with flashlights after hacking their way through razor-sharp grass that came up to their shoulders. They were followed by a bulldozer that slowly leveled a path over the rocky ground, the witnesses said.
** "South Korean Plane Crashes On Guam With 254 on Board" in The New York Times (6 August 1997)
* Transcripts of cockpit voice recordings recovered from the wreckage show confusion in the cockpit, with crew members questioning one another repeatedly about the state of the instrument landing system and failing to follow procedures that would have kept them all aware of how close they were getting to the ground.
** "Korean Air Admits Crew Made Mistakes in Guam Crash" in Los Angeles Times (26 March 1998)
* The cause of the crash was attributed to failure to adequately brief and execute a non-precision approach, and the Federal Aviation Administration's intentional inhibition of the minimum safe altitude warning system at Guam, the report showed.
** "20 years later: remembering Korean Air Flight 801" in USA Today (5 August 2017)
# Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Sylvia Mary Burwell (née Mathews; born June 23, 1965) is an American government and non-profit executive who has been the 15th president of American University since June 1, 2017. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president. Burwell earlier served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Burwell on April 11, 2014. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2014, by a vote of 78–17. She served as Secretary until the end of the Obama administration. Previously, she was the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014.

## Quotes

* Together, we became the first university to achieve carbon neutrality; grew our endowment by approximately 60 percent (from just over $600 million in 2017 to approximately $950 million now); launched the Sine Institute for Policy and Politics and the Khan Cyber and Economic Security Institute,"
* The university has a "great team of leaders in place who are partnering with our great faculty, staff, alumni, and students to shepherd us into our next chapter of impact."
* Fighting Ebola as HHS Secretary, flying around the world for the Gates Foundation, or leading this university."
** Sylvia Burwell to step down as American University's president NBC4 Washington (August 8, 2023)
* This hateful act of antisemitism is reprehensible. Jewish students live in both rooms where the doors were vandalized," Burwell wrote. "When we are so deeply focused on our community of care – supporting each and every member of our community who is in pain and feeling scared and vulnerable –it is unacceptable that our Jewish community was targeted and harmed through this act. Hate speech will not be tolerated.”
* I ask that as a community we recognize that our Jewish and Israeli community members and families are frightened. Our Muslim and Palestinian community members and families are frightened,”
* Acts of hate, intimidation, and dehumanization cannot be the way we live together and treat one another. This includes physical threats, as well as online harassment and doxxing. No matter your background, ethnicity, or faith, everyone has a right to feel safe.
** Swastikas, Nazi Slogans Graffitied on Dorm Room Doors at American University The Messanger (21 October 2023)
# Yankee

The term Yankee and its contracted form Yank have several interrelated meanings, all referring to people from the United States. Their various meanings depend on the context, and may refer to New Englanders, the Northeastern United States, the Northern United States, or to people from the US in general.

## Quotes

* Yankee Doodle went to town A-riding on a pony, Stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni.
** "Yankee Doodle", lyrics printed in The Reader's Encyclopedia, vol. 4 (1948), p. 1231
* Yankee, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See Damnyank)
** Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Yankee on Wikipedia
# National Park Service

The National Park Service is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all U.S. national parks, many American national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

## Quotes

* The parks do not belong to one state or to one section.... The Yosemite, the Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon are national properties in which every citizen has a vested interest; they belong as much to the man of Massachusetts, of Michigan, of Florida, as they do to the people of California, of Wyoming, and of Arizona. Who will gainsay that the parks contain the highest potentialities of national pride, national contentment, and national health? A visit inspires love of country; begets contentment; engenders pride of possession; contains the antidote for national restlessness.... He is a better citizen with a keener appreciation of the privilege of living here who has toured the national parks.
** Stephen T. Mather, FAMOUS QUOTES CONCERNING THE NATIONAL PARKS

## External links

* NPS official website
# Mario Zenari

Mario Zenari (born 5 January 1946) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* If the tsunami damaged communications, roads and bridges, the twenty year old conflict has broken human communication digging divides and gulfs between individuals, communities and ethnic groups. This is the greatest tragedy and Christians are called to build bridges of peace and reconciliation to be builders of bridges, or pontifex, following the example of Christ. He is the bridge between heaven and earth, between God and humanity; and with his message of service and love he is also a bridge between people of different origin, culture, language and customs.
** The Apostolic Nuncio: “this is the time to build bridges of peace and reconciliation” (18 January 2008) Fides News Agency
# Katamari Damacy

Katamari Damacy is a video game series. In the original, the King of All Cosmos had the vast majority of the dialogue, but in the sequel, We ♥ Katamari, many fans of the King of All Cosmos get to say additional things.

## Characters

* "B-U-T, first things first, does the Prince like vibration? Meaning the moving and the shaking".
* "Here we are. Earth. Full of things as usual".
* "Woo, tangent".
* "Maybe we'll invent a Cosmic Esperanto".
* "So, we were thinking about working out".
* "No... It was indeed not a dream. We really did it. The King of All Cosmos has really done it. A sky full of stars... We broke it. Yes, We were naughty. Completely naughty. So, so very sorry. But just between you and Us, It felt quite good. ♥ Not that We can remember very clearly, but We were in all Nature's embrace. We felt the beauty of all things, and felt love for all. That's how it was. Did you see? We smiled a genuine smile. Did you see? The stars splintering in perfect beauty. So many there used to be, almost a nuisance. Now there's nothing but darkness. Hee... 'Tis but a dream... Hee... But a beautiful one".
* "It is not your fault. It is our fault for believing in you".
* "Sending Things to Earth - trees... elephants... hopes... dreams..."
* (referring to the constellation Virgo) "What is it...? It's lacking a certain something... Oh, yes! We get it! Prettiness! This sky is not pretty at all. It's rough and masculine. Possibly sweaty. What We really want is pure, girlish prettiness. There should be loads of maidens like those on Earth".

## Quotes about Katamari Damacy

* [A man is driving in a car, and the radio turns on]
    Man: [singing along] Naaaa na na nana na na Katamari Damacy.
    [later]
    Woman: And that's when you veered into the mailbox?
    Man: It looked smaller than me. It was just instinct.
   * Randall Munroe in xkcd 161
# Galilee

Galilee (Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל, hagGālīl; Latin: Galilaea; Arabic: الجليل, al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee (הגליל העליון, ha-galil ha-elyon; الجليل الأعلى, al-jalīl al-aʾlā) and Lower Galilee (גליל תחתון, galil tahton; الجليل الأسفل, al-jalīl al-asfal).

## Quotes

* And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
** Matthew IV, 23 (KJV)
* In the days of Caesar Augustus There went forth this decree: Si quid rectus et justus Liveth in Galilee, Let him go up to Jerusalem And pay his scot to me.There are passed one after the other Christmases fifty-three, Since I sat here with my mother And heard the great decree: How they went up to Jerusalem Out of Galilee.
** J. Meade Falkner, "Christmas Day (The Family Sitting)"
* But now in beauty and in light we see The hills and vales of far-famed Galilee. Though man may walk no more, as in old time, With step of freedom, and with brow sublime; Though on the Jew the Moslem pours disdain, And thinks him less than reptile of the plain; Though Rapine, mocking law, may prowl the land, And Murder daily rear her blood-stained hand,— Still Nature smiles, and Galilee appears Fair as a bride, although a bride in tears. In Jezreel’s vale the corn is waving deep, Fir, larch, and myrtle grace high Tabor’s steep; In warm Sepphoris’ beds the tulip’s streak Rivals red Morn when soft her blushes break; Ten thousand pansies breathe their odorous breath, And orchards bloom round holy Nazareth; While birds with song, as cooler eve comes on, Fill the green groves of bowery Zebulon.
** Nicholas Michell, from Ruins of Many Lands (1849)
* Fierce was the wild billow; dark was the night; Oars labour’d heavily; foam glimmer’d white; Trembled the mariners; peril was nigh; Then said the God of God, “Peace! it is I!”Ridge of the mountain-wave, lower thy crest! Wail of Euroclydon, be thou at rest! Peril can none be,—sorrow must fly,— Where saith the Light of Light, “Peace! it is I!”Jesus, deliverer! come thou to me! Soothe Thou my voyaging over Life’s sea! Thou, when the storm of Death roars, sweeping by, Whisper, O Truth of Truth! “Peace! it is I!”
** Falsely ascribed to Anatolius, Patriarch of Constantinople. Translated by J. M. Neale
** Charles Kemble, ed. The Book of Sacred Song (1864), pp. 277–278
* We arrived at the scene very quickly and joined a 51-year-old woman who was in the parking lot while she was fully conscious and suffering from a shrapnel injury in her lower body. We gave her initial medical treatment in the field and then evacuated her in an MDA ambulance to the hospital as she was in a minor condition
** MDA emergency medic, Eran Binyamini according to Six wounded after Hezbollah rocket causes fire in Petah Tikva, direct hit on building in Haifa (By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Danielle Greyman-Kennard Jerusalem Post November 24, 2024)
# Americanah

Americanah (2013) is a novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze.
# Ben Koller

Ben Koller (born July 29, 1980) is an American drummer who has played with Converge, Mutoid Man, Killer Be Killed and All Pigs Must Die. He started playing a full drum kit at age 14.

## Quotes about Ben Koller

* Ben Koller is an absolute unit. Remember the first time you heard “Dark Horse”? The “holy shit” moment still resonates on every subsequent listen, as the quickfire drumming kicks off perhaps the strongest A-side of Converge’s career thus far.
** Graham Hartmann of Revolver (September 4, 2023)
# Paolo Rudelli

Paolo Rudelli (born 16 July 1970) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* We firmly believe that the contribution of the social doctrine of the Church and of the Pope's Magisterium can offer support even in a pluralistic society such as that of today.
** Council of Europe: 70 years of democracy and rights. Msgr. Rudelli: “Linking up the East and the West” (6 September 2019) SIR Agency
* Society is evolving rapidly and so are the conditions in which people live their faith. I am sure that the Church in Zimbabwe will be able to profit from its rich history and the faith, commitment, professionalism, and zeal of so many Priests, religious and lay people in order to face creativity in the new times that are ahead of us.
** Nuncio Urges Zimbabwean Church to Tap from Rich History, Faith in Farewell Message (4 August 2023) ACIA Africa
# Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh

Joseph Nguyễn Chí Linh (born 22 November 1949) is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Huế.

## Quotes

* Easter divides the history of salvation into two parts. The part we are in is the part with the radiant future, in a new life given by the risen Christ, which helps us to walk serenely in our faith and to go firmly and courageously to preach the Easter Gospel. Easter is not an event for us to celebrate as a memory, but a life-changing moment of grace that lifts us out of the sorrows and vices of the past and into a new life.
** Faith and charity of Vietnamese Catholics at Easter time (13 April 2023) Fides News Agency
# Doug Martsch

Doug Martsch (born September 16, 1969) is an American singer and musician. He is best known for his distinctive vocals and guitar playing style in the band Built to Spill.

## Quotes about Doug Martsch

* Lyrically, Doug Martsch let his Charlie Brown pessimism run rampant, yet he offsets his downbeat quips with genuinely comforting reassurances that we all feel overwhelmed and off-balance sometimes, finding solace in shared misery.
** Evan Rytlewski of Pitchfork (September 6, 2016)
# Autopsy (band)

Autopsy is an American death metal band formed in Contra Costa County, California, in 1987 by Chris Reifert and Eric Cutler. The group disbanded in 1995 and reunited in 2009.

## Song lyrics

Burning from the inside out Bloody foam spews from your mouth Smell the putrid stench of flesh As it burns you to your death [...] The rancid smell of burning hair Screaming in excruciating pain Blood boils over, warping veins Burnt skull collapses onto melting brains Spontaneous death, up in flames Twisting and writhing as life burns away Until nothing is left but charred remains
* "Charred Remains," Severed Survival (1988) as quoted by Metal Injection
Soon you'll have a corrosive liquid racing through your bowels Melting your insides, down the funnel and through the hose Into your bowels the acid goes, bloody foam dribbles out of you Muffled screams, you die in excruciating pain
* "Battery Acid Enema," Acts of the Unspeakable as quoted by Loudwire

## Quotes about Autopsy

* Death metal songs about death are more or less mandatory, but Autopsy attacked the topic with real piss and vinegar. Severed Survival introduced the world to a band that took gore seriously.
** Metal Injection (June 9, 2016)
* The band’s constant swing between noisy traditional racket and dissonant doom moved away from metal's beats-per-minute arms race and reveled in the bodily weirdness that was at the heart of the genre's growth throughout the ’90s.
** Chris Krovatin of Kerrang! (July 20, 2019)
# Minutemen (band)

Minutemen were an American punk rock band formed in San Pedro, California, in 1980. Composed of guitarist/vocalist D. Boon, bassist/vocalist Mike Watt, and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in 1985; the band broke up shortly thereafter. They were noted in the California punk community for a philosophy of "jamming econo"—a sense of thriftiness reflected in their touring and short, tight songs, and for their eclectic style, drawing on hardcore punk, funk, jazz, and other sources.

## Quotes about Minutemen

* Double Nickels on the Dime rewrote the rules for what a punk band–or just a band in general–could be, and it still sounds radical today. It’s not hard to hear the album’s influence on anyone from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Guided by Voices to Fugazi, but for the most part, the Minutemen’s vast influence tends to come through on a spiritual and ideological level. No other band sounds like Double Nickels on the Dime, and I don’t know if anyone even could if they tried.
** Andrew Sacher of Brooklyn Vegan
# Death Angel

Death Angel is an American thrash metal band from Daly City, California, initially active from 1982 to 1991 and again since 2001. The band has gone through several line-up changes, leaving guitarist Rob Cavestany as the only constant member; he and vocalist Mark Osegueda (who joined the group in 1984) are the only members who appear on all of their studio albums.

## Quotes

* Bay Area thrashers Death Angel only missed out being counted among the Big Four by a matter of months. [...] Death Angel still shred like it's 1982 and they're playing in a Daly City garage.
** Zahra Huselid of Screen Rant (Jan 13, 2025)
# Descendents

Descendents is an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson as a power-pop/surf punk band. In 1979, they enlisted Stevenson's school friend Milo Aukerman as a singer, and reappeared as a melodic hardcore punk band, becoming a major player in the hardcore scene developing in Los Angeles at the time. Since 1986, the band's lineup has consisted of Aukerman, Stevenson, guitarist Stephen Egerton, and bassist Karl Alvarez.

## Quotes about Descendents

* There’s a good argument to be made that no album had a more profound impact on the development of pop punk than [Milo Goes to College]. It was firmly rooted in the hardcore scene and played with the same rawness, speed, and intensity as early Black Flag, [...] but the Descendents added in bright, catchy melodies through Milo Aukerman’s bratty, snotty delivery, and basically invented pop punk in the process. And it wasn’t just the sound of pop punk that Milo Goes to College paved the way for; it was the lyrical content too. With songs about hating your parents, wanting girls to like you, being a loser, and a hint of social criticism, Milo Goes to College laid out what would be the primary concerns for a large majority of pop punk bands to come. Just about every major pop punk band has sung the Descendents’ praises.
** Andrew Sacher of Brooklyn Vegan (July 29, 2020)
* [Descendents are] the only reason blink-182 existed. It was the first band the three of us all agreed on.
** Tom DeLonge of blink-182, as quoted by Andrew Sacher of Brooklyn Vegan (July 29, 2020)
# Emo pop

Emo pop (alternatively typeset with a hyphen, also known as emo pop-punk and pop-emo) is a fusion genre combining emo with pop-punk, pop music, or both. Emo pop features a musical style with more concise composition and hook-filled choruses. Emo pop has its origins in the 1990s with bands like Jimmy Eat World, the Get Up Kids, Weezer and the Promise Ring. The genre entered the mainstream in the early 2000s with Jimmy Eat World's breakthrough album Bleed American, which included its song "The Middle". Other emo pop bands that achieved mainstream success throughout the decade included Fall Out Boy, the All-American Rejects, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco and Paramore. The popularity of emo pop declined in the 2010s, with some prominent artists in the genre either disbanding or abandoning the emo pop style.

## Quotes about emo pop

* Pop punk got even bigger and more sonically diverse after the pivotal 1999 release of blink-182‘s Enema of the State, and it continued to expand its sound and fanbase as emo took off in the early/mid 2000s and hugely popular bands like Fall Out Boy, Paramore, and My Chemical Romance made the line between pop punk and emo look close to nonexistent.
** Andrew Sacher of Brooklyn Vegan (July 29, 2020)