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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...775. By the Treaty of Paris (1783) the territory became part of the United States. Frankfort is the capital and Lexington the largest city. Population: [[Pop ...in 1767; he returned in 1769 and spent two years in the area. A surveying party under James Harrod established the first permanent settlement at Harrodsbur
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• Directory:Maine
  ...e northeast [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 23rd state in [[Year Admitted:=1820|1820]]. First ...s agents in the province became common. A year after the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773, Maine staged its own version of that incident when a group of men
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• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...sing to the party or parties involved) involving [[President of the United States|U.S. Presidents]]. Some were by Presidents themselves while others were mad ...rt to boost his ratings, during the [[Democratic National Convention]] the party released dozens of doves into the convention hall. The action backfired spe
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• Directory:Burma
  ...U KYI, who remains under house arrest and virtually incommunicado with her party and supporters. | bgcolor="#ffffff" | ''party to:'' Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertif
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  | order = 15th [[President of the United States]] | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...e northeast [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Co ...he Continental Congress of a major source of revenue and became one of the states responsible for the failure of the Articles of Confederation. Rhode Island
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...ast-central [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in [[Year Admit In 1788, the United States Constitution was signed. Maryland became the 7th state to join the new coun
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• Directory:South Korea
  ...to defend South Korea from DPRK attacks supported by China and the Soviet Union. An armistice was signed in 1953, splitting the peninsula along a demilitar | bgcolor="#ffffff" | ''party to:'' Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources,
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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:Netherlands
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | The Dutch United Provinces declared their independence from Spain in 1579; during the 17th c | bgcolor="#ffffff" | ''party to:'' Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persisten
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...ive wing of the [[History of the United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, a pioneer in [[international arbitration]] and ...ary of War]] before being nominated for President in the [[1908 Republican National Convention]] with the backing of his predecessor and close friend [[Theodor
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] on Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as one of the o ...Republican party's struggle against the Federalists and became a hotbed of states' rights sentiment (see Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions).
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• Directory:James Madison
  | order=4th [[President of the United States]] | religion=[[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]]
  47 KB (6,849 words) - 21:00, 5 March 2009
• Directory:William McKinley
  | order=25th [[President of the United States]] | party=[[History of United States Republican Party|Republican]]
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...the eastern [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirt ...n 1787 became the first state to ratify the new Constitution of the United States. The state constitution of 1776 was superseded by a new constitution in 179
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...rth-central [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America|United States]] bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 39th state in [[Year Admitted ...se of 1803 the northwestern half of North Dakota became part of the United States. The southeastern half was acquired from Great Britain in 1818 when the int
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• Directory:Israel
  ²Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950. The United States, like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. </font ...Jewish law. Since 1989, nearly a million immigrants from the former Soviet Union have arrived in Israel, making this the largest wave of immigration since i
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  | order = 29th [[President of the United States]] | jr/sr2=United States Senator
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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 ...s annexed S New Hampshire between 1641 and 1643. After a 38-year period of union with Massachusetts, New Hampshire was made a separate royal colony in 1679.
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• Directory:South Africa
  ...Johannesburg alone can choose from among some 40 radio services, from the national broadcasts of the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
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