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• March 1
  ...news.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama-signs-order-begin-sequester-cuts-president-congress/story?id=18628023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.goo ...icare. The <strong>Sequester</strong>, a fiscal death-pact entered into by Congress and the President, will hit healthcare professionals right in the pocketboo
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• Directory:Wyoming
  ...part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. John Colter, a fur-trapper, is the first white man known to have entered present Wyoming. In 1807 he explored the Ye ...n to obtain the right to vote. In 1925 Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected first woman governor in the United States
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• Directory:Vietnam/Vietnam Geography
  economic zone (EEZ) of 200 nautical miles, the approximate beginning of the continental shelf. Library Of Congress December 2005<br>
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• Directory:James Monroe
  ...]]. After graduating from William and Mary in 1776, Monroe fought in the [[Continental Army]], serving with distinction at the [[Battle of Trenton]], where he was ...he [[Virginia House of Delegates]] in 1782 and served in the [[Continental Congress]] from 1783 to 1786. As a youthful politician, he joined the [[anti-Federal
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• United States dollar
  Adopted by the [[Congress of the Confederation]]<!-- The United States Congress did not exist yet. See talk: "Adopted..." --> of the United States on [[Jul ===Continental currency===
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• Directory:Quasi Brands/Algae fuel
  | url= http://gas2.org/2008/03/29/first-algae-biodiesel-plant-goes-online-april-1-2008/ | title= First Algae Biodiesel Plant Goes Online: April 1, 2008
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• Slogan
  *'''Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine. Continental Liar from the state of Maine''' 1884 U.S. presidential campaign slogan used ...e out-of-power Republican Party; noting that they had been out of power in Congress since 1930, this slogan asked voters if they had "had enough" of the Democr
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...resentative]] and [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Ohio]]. Harrison first gained national fame for leading U.S forces against [[Native Americans in t ...office|briefest presidency]] in the history of the office. He was also the first U.S. President to die while in office. His death threw the country into a [
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• Directory:China
  ...one:'' 200 nm <br />''continental shelf:'' 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin | bgcolor="#ffffff" | based on civil law system; derived from Soviet and continental civil code legal principles; legislature retains power to interpret statute
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• Directory:James Madison
  '''James Madison, Jr.'''<ref>http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000043 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ ...e first Congresses, he drafted many basic laws and was responsible for the first ten amendments to the Constitution (said to be based on the [[Virginia Decl
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...ed, but in 1607 colonists dispatched by the London Company established the first permanent settlement at Jamestown (May 13). Virginia was a prime force in t ...., 1607. On a peninsula in the James River they founded (May 13, 1607) the first permanent English settlement in America, which they called Jamestown. It so
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• Directory:George Washington
  | order2=[[Continental Army|Commander-in-Chief <br /> of the Continental Army]] ...[[President of the Continental Congress|President of the United States, in Congress Assembled]]</small> <br />
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...banished (1635) from the Massachusetts Bay colony, established in 1636 the first settlement in the area at Providence on land purchased from Native American ...nd reaffirmed by the royal charter of 1663. Jews settled in Newport in the first year of Williams' presidency (1654), and Quakers followed in large numbers.
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...on, 1800|Revolution of 1800]]" by [[Thomas Jefferson]]. Adams was also the first President to reside in the newly-built [[White House]] in [[Washington, D.C ...alled him the "Colossus of Independence". He represented the [[Continental Congress]] in Europe. He was a major negotiator of the eventual [[Treaty of Paris (1
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• Directory:Maryland
  ...o, too, and set up a fur trading post on Kent Island in 1631. This was the first English settlement in the upper Chesapeake. ...ent his younger brother, Leonard, to accompany the colonists and to be the first governor.
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...Admitted:=1791]]. Explored by Samuel de Champlain in 1609, the region was first permanently settled by the British in 1724. Claims to the area were relinqu The first European known to have entered the area that is now Vermont was Samuel de C
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• Directory:Alaska
  ...s led to the chartering of the Russian American Company in 1799. Under its first manager, Alexander Baranov, which was a period of about 20 years, there was ...cents an acre, the purchase was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.” The first official census (1880) reported a total of 33,426 Alaskans, all but 430 bei
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...as one of the original Thirteen Colonies in [[Year Admitted:=1789|1789]]. First settled in 1653, it was part of the province of Carolina until 1691 and bec At the time of the first European contact, North Carolina was inhabited by a number of native tribes
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• Directory:Nebraska
  ...a. The Spanish explorer Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and his men were the first Europeans to visit the region. They probably passed through Nebraska in 154 ...braska area in 1813. Bellevue, the first permanent settlement in Nebraska, first developed as a trading post.
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• Directory:Scoop Jackson
  ...and took his seat in the House of Representatives with the Seventy-Seventh Congress on January 3, 1941. From that date forward, Jackson did not lose a congress ...wer for not spending enough on national defense, and called for more inter-continental ballistic missles in the national arsenal. Jackson's support for nuclear we
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