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Americana
Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the history, geography, folklore and cultural heritage of the United States.
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You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country—the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove—one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like
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― Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
― Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.
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― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
― Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
