one-eyed goblin, a Japanese monster

a red wolf

a whooping crane

United States of America (a country in North America)

American continent / the Americas

American Samoa (an overseas territory of the United States in Oceania)

an African American

United States Virgin Islands (an archipelago and dependent territory of the United States, part of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea)

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

“a hundred days of sermonizing, one fart” → a metaphor for how something that one has put great effort into can come to nothing after even a slight mistake, much as a hundred days of serious spiritual study can be lost to the winds