America
From Wikinfo
The word America has several meanings:
Geographical and political
- The United States of America.
- The Americas: North, Central, and South America.
- America - a small town in the Netherlands.
- America - a small town in Cambridgeshire, England.
- Amerika - a small town in Saxony, Germany
Other
- Amerigo Vespucci an Italian traveler and cartographer.
- America is an alternate title for the patriotic song, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee".
- America the Beautiful - a patriotic song.
- America - a song by the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel.
- America - a rock and roll band; also the title of their debut album.
- America - 1924 film directed by D.W. Griffith.
- America - a racing yacht that won the first ever America's Cup in 1851.
- America - multi-engine airplane used by Richard E. Byrd and his crew on a 1927 transatlantic flight.
- America - passenger liner commanded by George Fried involved in famous sea rescue in 1929.
- America - weekly Catholic magazine
- America (The Book), a book written by the staff of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
- Amerika (Franz Kafka novel)
- America is a song from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein, also performed by the UK rock group The Nice.
- Amerika is the title of an album of the German rock group BAP and the title of a song inside this album.
- USS America - three United States Navy ships have been called USS America.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "America" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
