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• Directory:Justin McLachlan
  '''Justin McLaughlin''', also bylined as '''Justin McLachlan''', is a West Virginia [[Investigative journalism|investigative journalist]]. Justin grew up in [[ McLaughlin earned a 1st place columnist award from the [[West Virginia Press Association]] and his series on the failed sewer system also won a pu
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• Directory:Iowa
  ...te settlers came from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, and Virginia. ...1855, through several changes until the legalization of selling it with a county permit in 1963. Districts were changed to give equal representation in the
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• Directory:Long Neck, Delaware
  ...000|2000 census]]. Long Neck is the only census-designated place in Sussex County. It is part of the [[Directory:Seaford, Delaware|Seaford]] [[Seaford microp ...karawaok River (later named "Nanticoke" River), in the western part of the county. Heading up this European expedition was none other than Captain [[John Sm
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...at led to the surrender of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Richmond is the capital and Virginia Beach the largest city. Population: [[Population:=7,560,000]]. [[Image:Virginia.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Virginia]]
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• Directory:John Tyler
  | birth_place=[[Charles City County, Virginia]] | death_place=[[Richmond, Virginia]]
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...ntucky region and founded Boonesboro. Title to this land was challenged by Virginia, whose legislature voided (1778) the Transylvania Company's claims, althoug ...the Native Americans. The growing population of Kentuckians, feeling that Virginia had failed to give them adequate protection, worked for statehood in a seri
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• Directory:North Carolina
  ...nist's arrival: two "friendly" Indians were baptized and a child was born. Virginia Dare, as the baby was named, became the first child born to English-speakin ...in North Carolina were immigrants from the tidewater area of southeastern Virginia. These first of these "overflow" settlers moved into the Albemarle area of
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• Directory:Delaware
  ...664. It was part of William Penn's [[Directory:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] grant from 1682 until 1776. Dover is the capital and Wilmington the largest city. ...amed one of the capes Cape La Warre after the governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Baron De la Warr.
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• Directory:Montana
  ...kfeet, Cheyenne, and Crow tribes lived on the plains. The mountains in the west were the home of the Bannack, Flathead, Kalispell, Kootenai, and Shoshone t ...strikes were discovered. Some of these include Bannock, Diamond City, and Virginia City.
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...riods hunting in this area) came over the mountains from the Carolinas and Virginia, prevailed over the Cherokee, and made ineffectual the French claims to the ...h Carolina organized those settlements into Washington co.; Jonesboro, the county seat and oldest town in Tennessee, was founded two years later.
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  |name=Ulysses S. Grant |nickname="Unconditional Surrender" Grant
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• Directory:Illinois
  ...nists captured Fort Kaskaskia. The Illinois country became a possession of Virginia until 1787 when it joined the Northwest Territory under the government of t ...the early 19th century. Hundreds of settlers began moving to Illinois from Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland. Indians, angry with the settlers for taking their
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• Directory:Texas
  | TZ2Where = tip of West Texas ...section in 1541. De Soto died before reaching Texas, but his men continued west, crossing the Red River in 1542. The first Spanish settlement was made (168
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...[[History of slavery in the United States|slavery]] in the [[American West|West]]. Pierce's credibility was further damaged when several of his diplomats i ...[United States Whig Party]] candidate, [[General]] [[Winfield Scott]] of [[Virginia]], under whom Pierce served during the Mexican-American War, and his runnin
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...ublican Party]], and was surrogate of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed. In 1812, he became a member of ...tion (political meeting)|constitutional convention]], where he opposed the grant of universal suffrage and tried to keep property requirements.
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  | birth_place =[[Hardin County, Kentucky]] ...r effort, especially the selection of top generals, including [[Ulysses S. Grant]]. Historians have concluded that he handled the factions of the Republican
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...y moved to [[Caledonia, Ohio]] in neighboring [[Marion County, Ohio|Marion County]], when Harding's father acquired ''The Argus'', a local weekly newspaper t ...de the ''[[Marion Daily Star]]'' one of the most popular newspapers in the county, the battle took a toll on his health. In 1889, when Harding was 24, he suf
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  | birth_place=[[West Branch, Iowa]] ...r was born in [[West Branch, Iowa]]. He was the first President to be born west of the [[Mississippi River]]. His father, Jesse, was a [[blacksmith]] and
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...Representatives]]—FDR, Jr. served three terms representing the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and James served six terms representing the 26th distric ...[[Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] in [[Dutchess County, New York|Dutchess County]], which had not elected a Democrat since 1884. He entered the Roosevelt na
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• Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks
  * Kevin M. Cosgrove, 46, West Islip, N.Y. * Virginia Fox, 58
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