And in eighteen hundred eleven, John Jacob Astor built a fur trading center at the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River.

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He also built a sports center in Landover,Maryland for this team and the hockey team he owned called the Washington Capitals.

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Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

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The British Hudson's Bay Company also built a trading center on the Columbia and claimed a large area north of it.

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He and a team of researchers there have built a house made out of straw bale and hemp material.

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French troops in Canada built a fort to control passage to the lake as a defense against British troops moving north.

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Public theaters during this time were usually three floor levels high and were built around a stage area where the actors performed.

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If he built a home on the land, and farmed it for five years, it would be his.

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By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the harmonica and had built a radio.

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For a while, they settled in the state of Illinois, in a town they built and called Nauvoo.

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However,the people of the Philippines built a statue to honor him for keeping his promise to return.

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Cesar Chavez had built a nationwide coalition of support among unions, church groups,students, minorities and other Americans.

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The government built a series of bases in the New Mexico territory to protect the settlers and goods moving along the Santa Fe Trail.

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They built a clubhouse on a piece of land that had separated from the main island.

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