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Estados Unidos

Os Estados Unidos da América , ou simplesmente Estados Unidos , são uma república constitucional federal composta por 50 estados e um distrito federal. A maior parte do país situa-se na região central da América do Norte, formada por 48 estados e Washington, D.C., o distrito federal da capital. Banhado pelos oceanos Pacífico e Atlântico, faz fronteira com o Canadá ao norte e com o México ao sul. O estado do Alasca está no noroeste do continente, fazendo fronteira com o Canadá no leste e com a Rússia a oeste, através do estreito de Bering. O estado do Havaí é um arquipélago no Pacífico Central. O país também possui vários outros territórios no Caribe e no Oceano Pacífico. Com 9,37 milhões de km² de área e uma população de mais de 300 milhões de habitantes, o país é o quarto maior em área total, o quinto maior em área contígua e o terceiro em população. Os Estados Unidos são uma das nações mais multiculturais e etnicamente diversas do mundo, produto da forte imigração vinda de muitos países. Sua geografia e sistemas climáticos também são extremamente diversificados, com desertos, planícies, florestas e montanhas que abrigam uma grande variedade de espécies. Os paleoindígenas, que migraram da Ásia há quinze mil anos, habitam o que é hoje o território dos Estados Unidos até os dias atuais. Esta população nativa foi muito reduzida após o contato com os europeus devido a doenças e guerras. Os Estados Unidos foram fundados pelas treze colônias do Império Britânico localizadas ao longo da sua costa atlântica. Em 4 de julho de 1776, foi emitida a Declaração de Independência, que proclamou o seu direito à autodeterminação e a criação de uma união cooperativa. Os estados rebeldes derrotaram a Grã-Bretanha na Guerra Revolucionária Americana, a primeira guerra colonial bem sucedida da Idade Contemporânea. A Convenção de Filadélfia aprovou a atual Constituição dos Estados Unidos em 17 de setembro de 1787; sua ratificação no ano seguinte tornou os estados parte de uma única república com um forte governo central. A Carta dos Direitos, composta por dez emendas constitucionais que garantem vários direitos civis e liberdades fundamentais, foi ratificada em 1791. Guiados pela doutrina do destino manifesto, os Estados Unidos embarcaram em uma vigorosa expansão territorial pela América do Norte durante o século XIX que resultou no deslocamento de tribos indígenas, aquisição de territórios e na anexação de novos Estados. Os conflitos entre o sul agrário e o norte industrializado do país sobre os direitos dos estados e a expansão da instituição da escravatura provocaram a Guerra de Secessão, que decorreu entre 1861 e 1865. A vitória do Norte impediu a separação do país e levou ao fim da escravatura nos Estados Unidos. No final do século XIX, sua economia tornou-se a maior do mundo e o país expandiu-se para o Pacífico. A Guerra Hispano-Americana e a Primeira Guerra Mundial confirmaram o estatuto do país como uma potência militar. A nação emergiu da Segunda Guerra Mundial como o primeiro país com armas nucleares e como membro permanente do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas. O fim da Guerra Fria e a dissolução da União Soviética deixaram-no como a única superpotência restante. Os Estados Unidos são um país desenvolvido e formam a maior economia nacional do mundo, com um produto interno bruto que em 2012 foi de 15,6 trilhões * de dólares, equivalente a 19% do PIB mundial por paridade do poder de compra de 2011. Sua renda per capita era a sexta maior do mundo em 2010, no entanto o país é o mais desigual dos membros da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Econômico , conforme calculado pelo Banco Mundial. Sua economia é alimentada pela abundância de recursos naturais, por uma infraestrutura bem desenvolvida e pela alta produtividade e, apesar de ser considerado uma economia pós-industrial, o país continua a ser um dos maiores fabricantes do mundo. Os Estados Unidos respondem por 39% dos gastos militares do planeta e são um forte líder econômico, político e cultural.

Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Glendale (Califórnia)

O Forest Lawn Memorial Park é um cemitério privado localizando em Glendale, Los Angeles, nos Estados Unidos, fundado em 1906. É conhecido por ser o local onde repousam os restos mortais de diversas personalidades famosas, como Walt Disney, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Elizabeth Taylor, James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Aimee McPherson, Nat King Cole, Michael Jackson, Ronnie James Dio, Wladziu Liberace, Paul Walker e Naya Rivera. Mais de 250.000 pessoas estão enterradas no cemitério.

Forsyth Wickes

Boston

Forsyth Wickes was an art collector and philanthropist.

Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Fort Wayne

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is an American art museum located in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, Allen County, United States. The Fort Wayne Museum of Art contains permanent collections and national traveling exhibitions and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. FWMoA annually receives about 100,000 visitors.

Gardena High School

Gardena (Califórnia)

Garden High School is a private, English-medium, co-educational school in Kasba, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 2000 by the Satikanta Guha Foundation.

Glensheen Historic Estate

Duluth (Minnesota)

Glensheen, the Historic Congdon Estate is a 20,000 square foot mansion in Duluth, Minnesota, United States, operated by the University of Minnesota Duluth as a historic house museum. Glensheen sits on 12 acres of waterfront property on Lake Superior, has 39 rooms and is built in the Jacobean architectural tradition, inspired by the Beaux-Arts styles of the era. The mansion was constructed as the family home of Chester Adgate Congdon. The building was designed by Minnesota architect Clarence H. Johnston Sr., with interiors designed by William A. French Co. and the formal terraced garden and English style landscape designed by the Charles Wellford Leavitt firm out of New York. Construction began in 1905 and completed in 1908. The home cost a total of $854,000, equivalent to more than $22 million in 2017. The home is a crowning example of design and craftmanship of the Midwest in the early 20th century.

Grey Art Gallery

Nova Iorque

The Grey Art Gallery is New York University’s fine art museum, located on historic Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich Village. As a university art museum, the Grey Art Gallery functions to collect, preserve, study, document, interpret, and exhibit the evidence of human culture. While these goals are common to all museums, the Grey distinguishes itself by emphasizing art's historical, cultural, and social contexts, with experimentation and interpretation as integral parts of programmatic planning. Thus, in addition to being a place to view the objects of material culture, the Gallery serves as a museum-laboratory in which a broader view of an object's environment enriches our understanding of its contribution to civilization. In 1974, Abby Weed Grey established the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, both as a permanent home for her art collection and to promote international artistic exchange in an academic setting. The museum opened to the public in 1975. The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at NYU comprises some 700 works produced by artists from countries as diverse as Japan, Thailand, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, and Israel. Mrs. Grey's vision was bold and simple: one world through art. Believe that art, as a universal language, could serve as a potent vehicle for knowledge, communication, and understanding, Mrs. Grey formed this unique collection while traveling in Asia and the Middle East in the 1960s and '70s. The Abby Weed Grey Collection constitutes the largest institutional holdings of modern Iranian and Turkish art outside those countries.The Grey Art Gallery also oversees the art collection of New York University. Founded in 1958 with the acquisition of Francis Picabia's Resonateur and Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting , the NYU Art Collection comprises approximately 5,000 works, mainly dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, such as Pablo Picasso's Bust of Sylvette , currently installed at University Village ; Joseph Cornell's Chocolat Menier ; and works by Henri Matisse, Joan Mirò, and Ilya Bolotowsky, as well as Romare Bearden, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Kenneth Noland, Jane Freilicher, Ad Reinhardt, and Alex Katz, among many others.

Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art

Milwaukee

The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, sometimes referred to simply as "the Haggerty", is located at 13th and Clybourn Streets on the campus of Marquette University in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The museum opened in 1984 following a university collaborative effort that was chaired by professor Curtis L. Carter. The construction site was decorated by a mural called Construction Fence by American artist and social activist, Keith Haring. The construction of the museum was made possible by a donation from alumnus and co-founder of Texas Instruments, Inc., Patrick E. Haggerty, and his wife, Beatrice, for whom the museum is named. Haggerty and his wife donated an art collection to the university. Another important benefactor of the museum is David A. Straz, Jr., a Marquette alumnus and philanthropist. The current director of the Haggerty is Susan Longhenry.

The Players (New York City)

Nova Iorque

The Players, or the Players Club, is a private social club founded in New York City by the noted 19th-century Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth. In 1888, Booth purchased an 1847 mansion at 16 Gramercy Park, reserved an upper floor for his residence, and turned the rest into a clubhouse. The building's interior and part of its exterior were designed by architect Stanford White; its entryway gaslights are among the few remaining examples in New York City. It is reportedly the oldest club in its original clubhouse and was named a National Historic Landmark in 1962.The Players serves as a social club but is also a repository of American and British theatre history, memorabilia, and theatrical artifacts. It has been reported to have the largest private collection of stage memorabilia, including costumes and weaponry, and owns portraits of its members, most notably a portrait of actor Joseph Jefferson painted by John Singer Sargent. A portrait of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, hangs in Edwin Booth's suite, along with the letter Edwin wrote to the public apologizing for the actions of his brother.Today, the club still holds "Pipe Nights" honoring theatrical notables, and maintains a kitchen and wine cellar and a billiard table in its usually busy Grill Room. In the Dining Room, filled with portraits of theatre and film notables and rare playbills from the 19th and 20th centuries, a small stage has been built where members and people of the theatre can be honored; staged readings can take place and new works tried out. The Players also gives the prestigious "Edwin Booth Life Achievement Award" to actors who have had a long, important body of theatre and film work. Past recipients include Helen Hayes, José Ferrer, Garson Kanin, Christopher Plummer, Jason Robards, Jack Lemmon, and Marian Seldes. In June 2007, Angela Lansbury was the recipient, and Edward Albee received it on September 30, 2007.

Hampton University Museum

Hampton (Virgínia)

Hampton University is a private historically black university in Hampton, Virginia. It was founded in 1868 by black and white leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. It is home to the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest museum of the African diaspora in the United States, and the oldest museum in the commonwealth of Virginia. In 1878, it established a program for teaching Native Americans that lasted until 1923. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".