USA

Team Info

• Description:

  team U.S.A. for Citizens, Friends and Patriots of the United States of America Our flag: Stars and Strips or "Old Glory" - U.S.A. founded July 4th 1776 One of the long-standing traditions of distributed computing projects is the formation of teams. Not just a tradition, a little healthy competition encourages active participation, to the general gain of the project. Team USA was created to show we have American pride and that good ol' American know-how is still a reality. If you're a patriotic American, this is the team to join. Embrace our motto of "United we stand". If you're not an American at all, you're still welcome. This has always been a country with open arms. ---------------------------------------- October 2008 Observances 12th - Columbus celebrations commemorate the Genoese explorer's first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Columbus, on commission by the Spanish monarchy, was hoping to find a new naval route to India and the other nations of the East, but instead found the American continent which was virtually unknown to Europeans at the time. Columbus's sailor Rodrigo de Triana was the first on the voyage to spot land in the New World; he found the island the natives called Guanahani at approximately 2:00 AM on October 12, 1492. The exact location of this island is unknown, though it was somewhere in the Bahamas. Columbus's expedition launched the first large-scale European colonization of the Americas. 13th - Navy Day, In the 1970s, the "birthday" of the Continental Navy was found to be October 13, 1775, and so CNO Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt worked with the Navy League to define that as the new date of Navy Day. 19th - Yorktown Day is a holiday celebrated in Yorktown, Virginia, United States annually on October 19. The holiday celebrates the surrender of the British forces on that date in 1781, ending the Battle of Yorktown and bringing about the end of the American Revolutionary War. 31st - Halloween or Hallowe'en is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses", carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. ---------------------------------------- Edit Test: Monday 7:37am, removed previous "Saturday 10-18-2008 8:04am. K-K was here" note and added current time.

• Website: usa.duane-n-lisa.net/phpBB2/
• Members:
• Total credit: 36097399
• Recent average credit: 75588
• Recent average time: Tue Nov 18 11:28:04 CST 2008
• Founder: Krunchin-Keith [USA]
• Country: United States
• Type: 9