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• Directory:Maine
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 23rd state in [[Year Admitted:=1820|1820]]. First explored by Europeans in 1602, the r ...ed until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a separate state.
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• New Year's Eve
  ===United States=== ...four decades [[Guy Lombardo]] and his Royal Canadians serenaded the United States from the ballroom of the [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] on [[Park Avenue (Manhat
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | nationality=[[United States|American]] | order=8th [[President of the United States]]
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• Directory:South Carolina
  ...|North Carolina]] and South Carolina in 1729. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (1860), thus precipitating the Civil War. Columbia ...Carolina troops fired on federal Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and the state was the first to secede from the Union.
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...xplored by the Spanish, and the southern section was claimed by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Montgomery is the capital and Bir ...close of the American Revolution, Great Britain ceded (1783) to the United States all lands east of the Mississippi except the Floridas (see West Florida Con
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• Directory:New Mexico
  ...on was governed as a province of Mexico after 1821 and ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. The original territory (establi ..., Vásquez de Coronado and his men explored much of the southwestern United States, ventured deep into the plains of Kansas, descended the walls of the Grand
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...e northeast [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] between [[Directory:Vermont|Vermont]] and [[Directory:Maine|Maine]]. It w ...during the American Revolution and was not settled until Vermont became a state.
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | order=17th [[President of the United States]] ...r 1869; elected Vice President in 1864 on a [[National Union Party (United States)|National Union]] ticket; no party affiliation 1865–1869
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• Directory:James Madison
  | order=4th [[President of the United States]] | religion=[[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]]
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...leader of the progressive conservative wing of the [[History of the United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, a pioneer in ...]], a federal judge, [[Governor-General of the Philippines]], and [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] before being nominated for President in
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• Directory:Barack Obama
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• Directory:John Adams
  | order=2nd [[President of the United States]] | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  | order=11th [[President of the United States]] | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
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• Directory:Xcel Energy Inc.
  ...e company was formed in 2000 upon the merger of Minneapolis-based Northern States Power Company (NSP) with Denver-based New Century Energies. ...Byllesby and Insull also organized two utility holding companies: Northern States Power Company of Delaware in 1909 and Standard Gas and Electric in 1910.
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• Evil
  ...means which are daily employed against the same '' '''evil''' '' under the State governments. ...''' '' infinitely less likely to attend us in a united than in a disunited state; nay, it may be safely asserted that it is an '''evil''' altogether unlikel
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | order=7th [[President of the United States]] | jr/sr3 = United States Senator
  58 KB (8,338 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2009
• Corporation
  ...law in English, defined a corporation as "a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession un ...porations whereas in other jurisdictions such as the United States and the United Kingdom banks are prohibited from owning shares in external corporation.
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• Directory:Burma
  ...tional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivati ...te, Kachin State, Kayah State, Kayin State, Mon State, Rakhine State, Shan State
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• Directory:George Washington
  | order=1st [[President of the United States]] | death_place=[[Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]], [[United States]]
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  | office=President of the United States | office2=President of the United States
  73 KB (10,507 words) - 17:35, 1 April 2008

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