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• Boston
  '''Boston''' is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a state in the northeastern United States. It is one of the oldest and mos ...ugh historic sites that tell the story of the American Revolution, the USS Constitution Museum, and Fenway Park, the home stadium of the Boston Red Sox baseball te
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• Directory:Vermont
  ...in 1724. Claims to the area were relinquished by [[Directory:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] in 1781, [[Directory:New Hampshire|New Hampshire]] in 1782, and [[Directo Wentworth, assuming that New York's modified boundary with Connecticut and Massachusetts (20 mi/32 km E of the Hudson River) would be extended even farther north, m
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• Directory:Connecticut
  ...began to settle in the Connecticut River valley. The Fundamental Orders, a constitution based on the consent of the governed, was adopted by the colony in 1639. Ha ...rtford, but soon lost control to English Puritans migrating south from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...hode Island was settled by religious exiles from [[Directory:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], including Roger Williams, who founded Providence in 1636. It was granted ...ed by the Dutchman Adriaen Block. Roger Williams, banished (1635) from the Massachusetts Bay colony, established in 1636 the first settlement in the area at Provide
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...l district|8th]], [[Massachusetts's 11th congressional district|11th]] & [[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th]] | birth_place =[[Braintree, Massachusetts]]
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• Directory:New Hampshire
  ...ted:=1788|1788]]. First explored in 1603, it was settled by colonists from Massachusetts during the 1620s and 1630s and became a separate colony in 1741. New Hampsh ...chusetts, New Hampshire was made a separate royal colony in 1679. However, Massachusetts continued to press land claims until the two colonies finally agreed on the
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• June 1
  *[[1660]] - [[Mary Dyer]] is hanged in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered to *[[1815]] - [[Napoleon]] swears fidelity to the Constitution of France.
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• Directory:John Adams
  | birth_place=[[Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]], [[British America]] | death_place=[[Quincy, Massachusetts|Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]], [[USA]]
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...tive spokesmen, Virginia was never as politically discontent or radical as Massachusetts. In 1773 the burgesses at Williamsburg (the capital since 1699), led by Ric ...en by Thomas Jefferson), and adopted a declaration of rights and the first constitution of a free American state, both drawn up by George Mason. Patrick Henry was
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• Directory:Maine
  ...by Europeans in 1602, the region was annexed by [[Directory:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]] in 1652. Maine's northern boundary with New Brunswick was settled by a tr ...erritory, an arrangement which lasted until 1820 when Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a separate state.
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• Directory:John McCain
  ...hristian nation the absense of any support for religion in the body of the constitution has been interpreted. John mccain - campaign 2008 - us news and world repor ...ness or personal use - free trial with no credit card required. Welcome to massachusetts for mccain " higher taxes are the last thing we need the economy isn't hurt
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...entered a [[law school]] in [[Northampton, Massachusetts|Northampton]], [[Massachusetts]], studying under Governor [[Levi Woodbury]], and later Judges [[Samuel How ...[[1853]]) died at the age of 11 in a tragic railway accident in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] which his parents witnessed, 1 month before the inauguration of his fathe
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• Directory:South Korea
  | <div align="right">Constitution:</div> ...="#ffffff" | 17 July 1948; note - amended or rewritten nine times; current constitution approved on 29 October 1987
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...Oliver Cromwell's England in the mid-1600s. The other U.S. commonwealths, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, were originally British colonies. Kentucky, onc ...cky refused to ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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• Corporation
  ...ities pursuant to relevant powers in the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]]. For example, Congress has constitutional power to regulate banking, so ...tts itself was a corporate colony at that time – owned and operated by the Massachusetts Bay Company (until it lost its charter in 1684) - so Harvard College is a c
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...lity be removed, or a President shall be elected.' In another section, the Constitution referred to the vice president 'when he shall exercise the Office of Presid ...Lawson White]] ran in the Southern states, and [[Daniel Webster]] ran in [[Massachusetts]].}}
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• Tau Beta Pi
  ...sidered, such deadline being higher than that required as a minimum by the Constitution. * [[Robert S. Langer]], David. H. Koch Institute Professor at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
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• Directory:Ohio
  ..., Treaty of). Conflicting claims to land in that area made by Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia were settled by relinquishment of almost all of the claims (s ...erward distrustful of all government. In 1802 a state convention drafted a constitution, and in 1803 Ohio entered the Union, with Chillicothe as its capital. Colum
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• Directory:George Washington
  ...ided over the [[Philadelphia Convention]] that drafted the [[United States Constitution]] in 1787. Washington became President of the United States in 1789 and est ...my]] on [[1775-06-14]]; the next day, on the nomination of John Adams of [[Massachusetts]], Washington was appointed [[Major General]] and elected by Congress to be
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• Directory:Finland
  | <div align="right">Constitution:</div> ...| ''chief of mission:'' Ambassador Pekka LINTU <br />''chancery:'' 3301 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 <br />''telephone:'' [1] (202) 298-5800
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