Samuel Osgood, a friend and associate of George Washington, founded its predecessor, the City Bank of New York, in 1812. ... In 1864, it was granted a national charter and its name was changed to The National City Bank of New York. In 1955, when the First National Bank of the City of New York was merged into the National City Bank of New York, the name became The First National City Bank of New York. ... In the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, Citigroup offers a confidential service to provide practical solutions, information, referrals and resources on topics ranging from parenting, childcare, a...

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Introduction In forming a government for the people, by the people, and of the people, our Founding Fathers developed the idea a bi-cameral legislature. This Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and Senate, thus became known as the people's branch of government. American children are ...

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The Aztecs According to their first records, the Aztecs, or Mexica, originally lived to the north of the Valley of Mexico, partially under the control of the Toltec empire.[1] Driven to leave by the pressure of their Toltec oppressors, who demanded huge tributes from the farming Aztecs, the Aztecs fled from their home city of Aztlan. ... On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. As the city grew, a splinter group broke off and settled on a neighboring island, founding the city o...

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Introduction Company overview Starbucks, the coffee making and serving company took its unique name from a character of the novel "Moby Dick- and has its roots in Seattle, Washington. Here you can still find the very first coffee shop at the pike place market, which has been opened since 1971. In 1987, Starbucks was bought by Howard Schultz and ever since has been exploring all over the United States. Today Starbucks is the most known chain of coffeehouses around the world (Lambert, Emily "The buck stops here-, Forbes 2003 Volume 171, p.52). There are over 6500 coffee stores all over No...

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milkshake machine salesman, heard of the brothers' generation of around $350,000 in annual revenues, and instantly became convinced that its concept could work in other cities. ... In 1967, its first restaurants outside of the United States were opened in Canada and Puerto Rico. 1968 saw the introduction of the company's flagship product, the Big Mac. ...

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The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson, purchased Alaska from Russia. His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ...

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Drugs have become a very serious problem in the United States. They have become a component of one's every day lives. This Nation's reliance on drugs for pleasure, depression, and medical relief dominates the political and economic scene. Much debate over the drug issue occurs daily. Pleasure is one of the main reasons for drug use in America. ...

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