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American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus Sutter, John Augustus, 1803–80, American pioneer, b. Kandern, Baden, of Swiss parents. His original name was Johann August Suter. He emigrated to the United States in 1834, went to St. Louis, then to Santa Fe.
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) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of 1849. The American is a magnet for rafters. The proposed Auburn Dam, where construction was stopped after a 1975 earthquake, is highly controversial.
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elm traditional symbol of American patriotism. [Tree Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 182]

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Clinton praised Einstein as an extraordinary college of medicine that embodies the American dream of tolerance and provides a better world for our children.
In particular, I am interested in exploring the class assumptions of the American Dream and the conflation of the American Dream with American evangelicalism as it impacts the ethic of evangelicalism.
Your cover story suggesting Americans learn from Europe to create new American Dream underscores a fundamental problem in American society.
 
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