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Specialty Definition: Am

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The term am, Am or AM, when used by itself can refer to:

1. English verb: Present tense, first person, singular form of the verb be. I am.
2. am is short for ante meridiem, Latin for "before noon". This is used to define hours of the day: The meeting starts at 9 am. The opposite of am is pm.
3. German preposition: am is a contraction for the preposition and definite article "an dem", and as such occurs in some place names (similar to English upon): Frankfurt am Main.
4. In chemistry, in the periodic table, Am is the chemical symbol for Americium.
5. In electrical engineering, AM is short for amplitude modulation.
   • see also: AM radio
6. In measurement, am is an abbreviation of attometre, or 10^-18 metre. See 1_E-18_m for a list of objects on this scale.
7. Airmail
8. Air Medal
9. anno mundi - Latin for "in the year of the world", discussed in anno Domini.
10. Artium magister - New Latin for master of arts.
11. Armenia
    • ISO country code
    • Internet top-level domain: see .am

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Am."

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AM radio

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AM radio is radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. This was the dominant system of radio in the first two thirds of the 20th century, and remains important today.

AM radio technology is simpler than other types of radio, such as FM radio and DAB. An AM receiver detects the power of the radio wave, and amplifies changes in the power measurement to drive a speaker or earphones. The earliest crystal radio receivers used this principle.

AM radio was used for small scale voice and music broadcasts before World War I. The great increase in the use of AM radio came the following decade. The first commercial radio services began on AM in the 1920s. Radio programming boomed during the "Golden Age of Radio." Dramas, comedy and all other forms of entertainment were produced, as well as broadcasts of news and music.

AM Radio is broadcast in frequency bands ranging from 144 to 30,000 kHz:

• Long wave is 144 - 351 kHz
• Medium wave is 530 - 1,700 kHz
• Short wave is 1,700 - 30,000 kHz, divided into 14/15 "broadcast bands".

(In the US, the allocation of these bands is managed by the FCC.)

Medium wave is by far the most used for commercial radio broadcasting; this is the "AM radio" that most people are familiar with.

For the long and medium wave bands, the wavelength is long enough that the wave diffracts around the curve of the Earth by ground wave propagation, giving AM radio, in particular long wave and medium wave at night, a long range.

Short wave is used by radio services intended to be heard great distances away from the transmitting station; the far range of short wave broadcasts comes at the expence of lower audio fidelity. The mode of propagation for short wave is different, see High frequency.

Frequencies between the broadcast bands are used for other forms of radio communication, such as baby minders, walkie talkies, cordless telephones, radio control, amateur radio etc.

See also: FM radio, History of radio

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "AM radio."

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Amazonas

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Amazonas is the name of four provinces in South America named after the Amazon River:

• Amazonas, Brazil
• Amazonas, Colombia
• Amazonas, Peru
• Amazonas, Venezuela

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amazonas."

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American English

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American English is a form of the English language used in the United States of America. It is the primary language used in the United States. According to the 1990 census, 97 percent of U.S. residents speak English "well" or "very well." Only 0.8 of one percent speak no English at all, as compared with 3.6 percent in 1890.

History

English was inherited from British colonization. The first wave of English-speaking immigrants was settled in North America in the 17th Century:

• Jamestown, Virginia founded in 1607 (the first successful British colony in North America).
• The Plymouth Colony in New England founded in 1620 at Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In this century, there were in North America speakers of Dutch, French, Native American, Spanish and Swedish languages.

In 1763, Britain acquired the French colony of New France and the Spanish colony of Florida.

Phonology

Compared to British English, American English is conservative in its phonology. It is often claimed that certain rural areas in North America speak "Elizabethan English," but in fact the standard American English of the upper Midwest has a sound profile much closer to seventeenth century English than the current speech of England has. The conservatism of American English is largely the result of the fact that it represents a mixture of various dialects from the British Isles. Dialect in North America is most distinctive on the east coast of the continent; this is largely because these areas were in contact with England, and imitated prestige varieties of British English at a time when those varieties were undergoing changes. The country was settled in the interior by people who were no longer closely connected to England and did not travel there often by sea, and as such the inland speech is much more homogeneous than the East Coast speech, and did not participate in changes imitated from England.

Most North American speech is rhotic, as English was everywhere in the seventeenth century. In most varieties of North American English, the sound of the letter "R" is a retroflex semivowel rather than a trill or a tap. This was a sound change that took place in England in the eighteenth century, and in which most current North American varieties did not participate. The loss of syllable-final /r/ in North America is confined mostly to parts of New England, New York, New York, and the southern coast of the United States. In England, lost /r/ was often changed into /ə/ (schwa, SAMPA /@/), giving rise to a new class of falling diphthongs. This does not happen in the non-rhotic varieties of North American speech.

Other British English changes which most North American dialects do not participate include:

• /æ/ (/{/) -> /a/ before /f, s, T, D, z, v/ alone or preceded by /n/: bath -> bawth &c. (only in parts of New England) This is the British broad A.

• intervocalic /t/ -> glottal stop; /bo`@l/ for bottle (does not appear in North America)

• loss of /o:/, replaced by /@u/; cf. southern English v. North American pronunciation of boat.

North American English, while more phonologically conservative, has undergone some sound changes. These include:

• levelling of distinction between /A/ and /O/; father and bother rhyme; the so-called cot-caught merger (almost everywhere except Northeast)

• intervocalic /t/ -> /d/; ladder and latter sound very similar or identical, distinguished perhaps by degree of aspiration of consonant and/or by length of preceding vowel.

Differences in British English and American English

American English has both spelling and grammatical differences from British English, some of which were made as part of an attempt to rationalize the English spelling used by British English at the time. Unlike many 20th century language reforms (e.g., Turkey's alphabet shift, Norway's spelling reform) the American spelling changes were not driven by government, but by textbook writers and dictionary makers.

The first American dictionary was written by Noah Webster in 1828. At the time America was a relatively new country and Webster's particular contribution was to show that the region spoke a different dialect from Britain, and so he wrote a dictionary with many spellings differing from the standard. Many of these changes were initiated unilaterally by Webster.

Webster also argued for many "simplifications" to the idiomatic spelling of the period. Somewhat ironically, many, although not all, of his simplifications fell into common usage alongside the original versions, resulting in a situation even more confused than before.

Many words are shortened and differ from other versions of English. Spellings such as center are used instead of centre in other versions of English. And there are many other variations. Conversely, American English can sometimes favor more wordy or elongated versions of British English, as in transportation for transport.

A key area where American English has grown (on both sides of the Atlantic), is in the world of Business and Commerce, where use of the rhetorical euphemism is common. One example would be the phrase "are you comfortable with that". This phrase will typically be used by a business manager introducing a change which may, or may not, be welcome. A negative answer is neither expected nor, indeed invited. However, the question is, at least on the face of it, conciliatory.

American English has further changed due to the influx of non-English speakers whose words sometimes enter American vernacular. Many words have entered American English from Spanish, etc.

Examples of common American English loanwords, not common in British English (many, however, would be recognised due to Hollywood movies):

From African languages

gumbo

okra, or a stew thickened with okra

From Dutch

cookie	baked sweet, never called a biscuit, digestive; sometimes called shortbread
kill	creek

From English

attic	a loft; the topmost story of a house
back and forth	as in backwards and forwards
bug	any kind of insect
bushel	a common unit of measurement
cabin	a humble dwelling
closet	a cupboard
deck	a pack of cards
fall	the season also known as autumn
hog	a pig
jack	a knave within a deck of cards
junk	as in rubbish
rear	as in raising an animal or child
mad	as in the sense of being angry
noon	midday (originally nones, the ninth hour of daylight, or 3pm
plumb	as being complete
rooster	a male fowl
stocks	as in stocks and bonds; shares
zero	as in nought

From French

banquette	a raised sidewalk
beignet	a square, holeless doughnut
boudin	a spicy link sausage
café au lait	a mixture of half milk and half coffee
chowder	a thick seafood stew
étouffée	a spicy stew of vegetables and seafood
jambalaya	rice cooked with herbs, spices, and ham, chicken, or seafood
lagniappe	an extra or unexpected gift
pain perdu	New Orleans-style French toast
pirogue	a canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk
praline	a candy made of nuts suspended in a boiled sugar syrup
toboggan	a sled
zydeco	a native Louisiana style of music

From Native American languages

bayou	a swampy, slow-moving stream or outlet
cape (kepan)	a headland
chinook	a strong wind blowing down off the mountains
hickory (pawcohiccora)	a North American deciduous tree of the genus Carya
high muckamuck	an important person
mugwump	a political independent
that neck of the woods (naiack)	an expression; from whence a person hails
powwow	a gathering or meeting, esp. of Native Americans
raccoon	the raccoon, a small mammal
skunk (seganku)	the skunk, a badgerlike, foul-smelling mammal
squash (askutasquash)	a vegetable, similar to English marrow
succotash	mixture of corn and other vegetables like peas, beans
tipi	a kind of tent
woodchuck (wuchak)	a marmot-like mammal

From Spanish

adobe	a mud-based construction material
arroyo	gulch, often dry except when it has rained recently
barrio	shantytown or historically poverty-afflicted area of a city
burro	donkey
barbecue	a grill
desperado	criminal
fiesta	party
frijoles	beans
gringo	a disparaging term for a foreigner, esp. English or American
hacienda	particular style of house
hammock	a bed
hombre	man
maize	a kind of grain
mesa	flat topped mountain
pronto	immediately

From Yiddish

klutz	a clumsy person
kvetch	complain
lox	cured salmon
schlep	to carry or to travel
schmuck	a fool, or the penis
schmutz	dirt
shlemiel	a fool

From Japanese

tycoon	successful business leader
honcho	leader, ie: "The Head Honcho"

For detailed differences in British English and American English see American and British English differences.

English words that arose in the US

A number of words that have arisen in the United States have become common, to varying degrees, in English as it is spoken internationally. Perhaps the most famous is OK, which is sometimes used in other languages as well. Other American introductions include "blizzard" and "teenager", and there are of course many more.

Regional differences

Written American English is fairly standardized across the country. However, there is some variation in the spoken language. There are several recognizable regional variations (such as that spoken in New York and New Jersey), particularly in pronunciation, but also in slang vocabulary.

Most traditional sources cite Standard Midwestern American English as the unofficial standard accent and dialect of American English. However, many linguists claim California English has become the de facto standard since the 1960s or 1970s due to its central role in the American entertainment industry; others argue that the entertainment industry, despite being in California, uses Midwestern.

African-American colloquial English (sometimes called Ebonics) contains many distinctive forms.

Regional dialects in North America are most strongly differentiated along the eastern seaboard. The distictive speech of important cultural centeres like Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Charleston, South Carolina, and New Orleans, Louisiana imposed their marks on the surrounding areas. The Potomac River generally divides a group of Northern coastal dialects from the beginning of Southern coastal dialects. A distinctive speech pattern was also generated by the separation of Canada from the United States, centered on the Great Lakes region.

In the interior, the situation is very different. West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the large river of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two general subdivisions, the north Midlands that begins north of the Ohio River valley area; and the south Midlands speech. The North Midlands speech continues to expand westward until it becomes the closely related speech of California. This is the "standard Midwestern" speech that is generally considered free from regional marking in the United States of America.

The southern Midlands dialect follows the Ohio River in a generally southwesterly direction, moves across Arkansas and Oklahoma west of the Mississippi, and peters out in western Texas. This is the dialect associated with truck drivers on the CB radio and country music. It is a version of the Midlands speech that has assimilated some coastal Southern forms, most noticeably the loss of the diphthong /aj/, which becomes /a:/, and the second person plural pronoun "you-all" or "y'all". Unlike coastal Southern, however, southern Midlands is a rhotic dialect, pronouncing /r/ wherever it has historically occurred.

The sounds of American speech can be identified with a number of public figures. President John F. Kennedy spoke the Northeastern coastal dialect associated with Boston, while President Jimmy Carter spoke with a Southern coastal dialect. The North Midlands speech is familiar to those who have heard Neil Armstrong and John Glenn, while the South Midlands speech was the speech of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.

External links and references

• The American Language 4th Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, H. L. Menchen, Random House, 1948, hardcover, ISBN 0394400755
• How We Talk: American Regional English Today, Allan Metcalf, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000, softcover, ISBN 0618043624
• 1st and 2nd supplements of above.
• Dialect Survey of the United States, by Bert Vaux et al., Harvard University. The answers to various questions about pronunciation, word use etc. can be seen in relationship to the regions where they are predominant.
• Phonological Atlas of North America at the University of Pennsylvania

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "American English."

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Americium

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Americium is a chemical element in the periodic table with the symbol Am and atomic number 95. All isotopes of this man-made element are radioactive. It belongs to the group of the actinides. It was named for the Americass, by analogy with Europium.

Americium was the fourth transuranic element to be discovered; the isotope 241Am was identified by Glenn T. Seaborg, James, Morgan, and Albert Ghiorso late in 1944 at the wartime Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago as the result of successive neutron capture reactions by plutonium isotopes in a nuclear reactor. The luster of freshly prepared americium metal is white and more silvery than plutonium or neptunium prepared in the same manner. It appears to be more malleable than uranium or neptunium and tarnishes slowly in dry air at room temperature. Americium must be handled with great care to avoid personal contamination. The alpha activity from 241Am is about three times that of radium. When gram quantities of 241Am are handled, the intense gamma activity makes exposure a serious problem. 241Am has been used as a portable source for gamma radiography. Small amounts of Americium-241 has also been used as a radioactive glass thickness gauge for the flat glass industry and as a source of ionization for smoke detectors.

Reference

• Los Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division: Periodic Table - Americium

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Americium."

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Amplitude modulation

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Amplitude modulation (AM for short) is a method used to modulate a signal, typically using radio. In the case of an analog signal to be sent, the amplitude of the radio wave is modulated to be directly proportional to the value of the analog signal at the time. This should be compared to frequency modulation (FM), which modulates the frequency rather than the amplitude.

Amplitude modulation typically produces a modulated output signal that has twice the bandwidth of the modulating signal, with a significant power component at the original carrier frequency. Single sideband modulation is a technique that improves this, at the cost of extra complexity.

Network schematic of an AM receiver.

The working principles of AM radio is as follows: a carrier wave introduces an alternating positive and negative electrical voltage in the receiving antenna. Modulating the wave causes the amplitude of these electrical voltages to be greater or smaller but in equal and opposite amounts. The receiver uses a diode to remove either the positive or negative part of the electrical signal, leaving a signal which when filtered and amplified produces an audible sound. Because the carrier frequency is significantly greater than the modulating frequency it is possible to use a capacitor to smooth or filter the waveform to remove the carrier.

One of the attractions of amplitude modulation is that decoding the signal at the receiver is very simple. This was significant for the early days of commercial radio when electronic components were still quite expensive. It was one of the most popular methods for sending voice and music over radio during the 20th century.

See also: modulation for a list of other modulation techniques

Example

Suppose we wish to modulate a simple sine wave on a carrier wave. The equation for the carrier wave of frequency Ω is

c(t) = C sin(Ωt)

The equation for the simple sine wave of frequency ω (the signal we wish to broadcast) is

m(t) = M sin(ωt + P)

Amplitude modulation is simply adding m(t) to C, the amplitude modulated signal is then

y(t) = (C + M sin(ωt + P)) sin(Ωt)

The formula for y(t) above may be written

y(t) = C sin(Ωt) + M cos(P - (ω-Ω)t)/2 - M cos(P + (ω+Ω)t)/2

So the broadcast signal consists of the carrier wave plus two sinusoidal waves each with a frequency slightly different from Ω. These are known as sidebands. In general a signal of frequency ω broadcast with a carrier wave frequency Ω will produce waves of frequency Ω +/- ω and, as long as the broadcast (i.e. the carrier wave) frequencies are sufficiently spaced out so that these side bands do not overlap stations will not interfere with one another.

SSB, VSB and reduced-carrier signals

In practice one of the sidebands is superfluous and is often wholly or partially filtered out before broadcast in order to reduce congestion of the airwaves (see single sideband modulation for a detailed treatment).

An alternative technique used for signal power reduction is to remove the remaining carrier signal from the AM signal; the signal produced is a double-sideband suppressed carrier (DSSC) signal. If the carrier signal is not completely removed, the signal is called a double-sideband reduced carrier (DSRC) signal. DSSC and DSRC signals need the carrier to be regenerated before they can be demodulated like ordinary AM signals, or they may be treated like SSB/VSB signals.

See also

AM radio, Medium Wave

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Amplitude modulation."

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Automated Mathematician

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The Automated Mathematician is one of the earliest successful discovery systems developed. It was created by Doug Lenat in Lisp, and in 1977 led to Lenat being awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.

The system managed to rediscover both Goldbach's conjecture and the Unique Prime Factorization Theorem.

The AM was succeeded by Eurisko.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Automated Mathematician."

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List of people by name: Am

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Aa - Ab - Ac - Ad - Ae - Af - Ag - Ah - Ai - Aj - Ak - Al - Am - An - Ao - Ap - Aq - Ar - As - At - Au - Av - Aw - Ax - Ay - Az

• Amabile, George, (born 1936), Canadian writer
• Amadeo of Aosta, Duke and Commander of Italian armies in Eritrea and Ethiopia
• Amalaric, (died 531), king of the Visigoths
• Amalasuntha, (died 535), queen of the Ostrogoths
• Amalric of Bena, (died ca. 1207), scholastic philosopher
• Amara Sinha, (4th century), Sanskrit grammarian and poet
• Amasis I, Pharaoh, founder of the XVIIIth dynasty
• Amasis II, (570 BC-526 BC), Pharaoh
• Amaya, Carmen, (1913-1963), flamenco dancer
• Ambler, Eric, US author
• Ambros, Wolfgang, songwriter
• Ambros, August Wilhelm, (1773-1850), Austrian composer
• Ambrose, (born circa 340 – died 397), catholic saint
• Ambrose, Stephen, (1936-2002), US historian
• Ambrosio, Vittorio, Italian general
• Ambrosius, (1768-1771), Metropolitan of Moscow
• Amburn, Ellis, United States
• Amersek, Vili, football player
• Amichai, Yehuda, poet
• Amiet, Cuno, (1868-1961)
• Amigoni, Jacopo, (1685-1752), painter
• Amin, Hafizullah, (1929-1979), president of Afghanistan
• Amin Dada, Idi, (1925-2003) Ugandan dictator
• Amis, Kingsley, (1922-1995), British author
• Amir, Yigal, assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin
• Amis, Martin, (born 1949), writer, son of Kingsley
• Amman, Jacob (born ca. 1644) religious leader
• Ammanati, Bartolomeo, (1511-1592), architect, sculptor
• Ammann, Othmar, (1879-1965), Swiss civil engineer
• Ammann, Simon, (born 1981), gold medallist in Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Ammianus Marcellinus, (d. 391), roman historian
• Ammons, A. R, poet
• Ammons, Albert, father of bebop tenorman
• Gene Ammons
• Amort, Eusebius, (1692-1775), catholic theologician
• Amos, Daniel, musician
• Amos, Tori, (born 1963), Canadian singer
• Ampelius, Lucius, Roman historian
• Ampere, Andre Marie, (1775-1836), physicist
• Amsberg, Claus von, (1926-2002), prince consort of the Netherlands
• Amsicora
• Amsler, Jacob, (1823-1912), mathematician and inventor of measuring instruments
• Amundsen, Roald, (1872-1928), explorer, first to South Pole
• Amyntas I, (born circa 540 - 498 BC), king of Macedonia

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of people by name: Am."

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Mediumwave

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Mediumwave radio broadcasts are those between the frequencies of 500 kHz and 2000 kHz. In most of the world, mediumwave serves as the most common band for broadcasting. The standard AM broadcast band is 535 kHz to 1705 kHz.

Mediumwave signals have the properties of following the curvature of the earth (the groundwave) and reflecting or refracting off the ionosphere at night (skywave). This makes this frequency ideal for both local and continent-wide service, depending on the time of day. For example, during the day a radio receiver in the state of Maryland is able to receive reliable but weak signals from high-power stations WFAN, 660 kHz, and WOR, 710 kHz, 400 km in New York City, due to groundwave propagation. At night, the same receiver picks up signals as far away as Mexico City and Chicago reliably.

In the Americas, mediumwave stations are separated by 10 kHz and have two sidebands of +/- 5 kHz. In the rest of the world, the separation is 9 kHz, with sidebands of +/- 4.5 kHz. This provides adequate audio quality for voice, but is insufficient for high-fidelity broadcasting, which is reserved for the VHF FM bands.

In the United States, in September 2002, the Federal Communications Commission approved the iBiquity in-band on-channel (IBOC) system of digital broadcasting, which is meant to improve the audio quality of signals. The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) IBOC system has been approved by the ITU for use outside the Americas.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mediumwave."

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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Epidemic curve for 54 symptomatic cases of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis in members of a wagon train. Bar graph. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC.		Symptoms of acute pulmonary histoplasmosis. Table. Am J Med 71:759. Credit: CDC.
	Pharmacia / Caspar am Ortz Inuent Wolfgang Kilian sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Cheirurgia / Caspar am Ortz Inuen. Wolff. Kilian sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Am I not a man and a brother?. Credit: Library of Congress.		I am glad, I am out of the scrape!. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Old Bachelor: How glad I am that I don't have to cart round endless bundles for greedy brats during the holidays. Credit: Library of Congress.		Well, who am I, then? haven't I got some right to know who my mother and father were?. Credit: Library of Congress.
	"Greetings! I am the new comrade". Credit: Library of Congress.		Is he talking in his sleep, or am I dreaming?. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Seven am" by Ann Daramola Commentary: "Sunrise in Gardena, California."	"Who am I" by Piers Warmers Commentary: "A little friend, contemplating the meaning of life. Taken @ Myall lakes, NSW, Australia. Let me know if you want a bigger copy."
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	Man speaking, "I am going to have to shoot you".
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