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Ulli Lommel (21 December 1944 – 2 December 2017) was a German actor and director, noted for his many collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his association with the New German Cinema movement. [2] Lommel spent time at The Factory and was a creative associate of Andy Warhol, with whom he made several films and works of art. He moved ...
Lommel (Dutch pronunciation:) is a municipality and a city in the Belgian province of Limburg. The Kempen city has about 34,000 inhabitants and is part of the electoral district and the judicial district Lommel Neerpelt.
Jul 19, 2024 · The deep, dark sand of Lommel is awaiting them. Lommel promoter Johan Boonen might not be a familiar name with a lot of the current young fans, but the roots of that dark sand circuit in the centre of Belgium is a part of the Boonen family’s history, right back to the 1960’s.
He had arrived in 1888, one of about 4 million Irish who emigrated to the United States in the post-Famine era (1850 to 1929). In 1890 the Irish-born population in America reached its peak at ...
- Manifest Destiny
- Westward Expansion and Slavery
- Westward Expansion and The Mexican War
- Westward Expansion and The Compromise of 1850
- Bleeding Kansas
By 1840, nearly 7 million Americans–40 percent of the nation’s population–lived in the trans-Appalachian West. Following a trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, most of these people had left their homes in the East in search of economic opportunity. Like Thomas Jefferson, many of these pioneers associated westward migration, land ownership and farming w...
Meanwhile, the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new western states shadowed every conversation about the frontier. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had attempted to resolve this question: It had admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, preserving the fragile balance in Congress. More impor...
Despite this sectional conflict, Americans kept on migrating West in the years after the Missouri Compromise was adopted. Thousands of people crossed the Rockies to the Oregon Territory, which belonged to Great Britain, and thousands more moved into the Mexican territories of California, New Mexico and Texas. In 1837, American settlers in Texas joi...
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War and added more than 1 million square miles, an area larger than the Louisiana Purchase, to the United States. The acquisition of this land re-opened the question that the Missouri Compromise had ostensibly settled: What would be the status of slavery in new American territories? After t...
But the larger question remained unanswered. In 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed that two new states, Kansas and Nebraska, be established in the Louisiana Purchase west of Iowaand Missouri. According to the terms of the Missouri Compromise, both new states would prohibit slavery because both were north of the 36º30’ parallel. Howe...
Oct 28, 2022 · U.S. Records of Immigration Across the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1895–1954 (St. Albans Lists) Fall 2000, Vol. 32, No. 3 | Genealogy Notes By Marian L. Smith As researchers increasingly discover the large number of immigrants who came to the United States via Canada, they more frequently turn their attention to U.S. immigration records of arrivals to Canada or from Canada into the United States ...
Apr 3, 2017 · Stanford law expert Mugambi Jouet analyzes what has led to the current political divide in America and what separates the United States from other Western countries in a newly published book.
