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Christopher had a total of 3 voyages, and in the first voyage he "Discovered" America.
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On this date John Cabot Sailed across the Atlantic And came upon the mainland of North America.
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This voyage was Jacques Cartier's second voyage, he was with 110 men on the ship.
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This colony is called the "Lost Colony" because the fate of many colonists were there, and nobody knows what happened to them.
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In the present time, Jamestown is home to two heritage tourism sites.
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In 1619, the first documented Africans were brought to Jamestown, though the modern conception of slavery in the future United States did not begin in Virginia until 1660.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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The Boston Latin School is a public exam school founded on April 23, 1635, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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First university in the United States is a status asserted by more than one U.S. university.
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The origins of slavery in the colonial United States are complex and there are several theories that have been proposed to explain the trade.
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It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right.
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Thomas-François Dalibard of France conducted Franklin's experiment using a 40-foot (12 m)-tall iron rod instead of a kite, and he extracted electrical sparks from a cloud.
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The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763. In 1756.
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The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native North Americans.
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Originally, Santa Claus is portrayed as a kindly, round-bellied, merry, bespectacled white man in a red coat trimmed with white fur, with a long white beard, but there are many different ways he is described as.
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After finalizing the text on July 4, Congress issued the Declaration of Independence in several forms.
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Vermont is the first colony to free their slaves besides any of the other colonies.
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The American Revolutionary War, Or simply the Revolutionary War, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.
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The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union,
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.
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Delaware was the first state to ratify the federal Constitution.
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Pennsylvania is the first state of the fifty United States to list their web site URL on a license plate,
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New Jersey has the highest population density in the U.S. An average 1,030 people per sq. mi., which is 13 times the national average.
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Historic Saint Marys Georgia is the second oldest city in the nation.
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Although over 30 communities in the colonies eventually renamed themselves to honor Benjamin Franklin. The Massachusetts Town of Franklin was the first and changed its name in 1778.
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The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.
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In 1830 the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore.
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Campbell's Covered Bridge built in 1909, is the only remaining covered bridge in South Carolina. Off Hwy 14 near Gowensville
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New Hampshire is the only state that ever played host at the formal conclusion of a foreign war. In 1905, Portsmouth was the scene of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
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The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
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The first American chess tournament was held in New York in 1843.
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George washington was our first president, he is known for having wooden or fake teeth.
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Pepsi Cola was invented in North Carolina 100 years ago in 1898.
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1790 - 4 million
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Rhode Island is the smallest state in size in the United States. It covers an area of 1,214 square miles. Its distances North to South are 48 miles and East to West 37 miles.
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Vermont was the first state admitted to the Union after the ratification of the Constitution.
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Originally, the Bill of Rights included legal protection for land-owning white men only, excluding African Americans and women.
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The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
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The cotton gin is a mechanical device which removes the seeds from cotton, a process which previously had been extremely labor intensive. The word 'gin' is short for engine.
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This amendment was adopted in order to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
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Tennessee won its nickname as The Volunteer State during the War of 1812 when volunteer soldiers from Tennessee displayed marked valor in the Battle of New Orleans.
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John Adams was our second president, it is said that he held the first fireworks display at the White House.
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1800 - 5.3 million
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Thomas Jefferson was our third president, one of his quotes was "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
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Ohio is the leading producer of greenhouse and nursery plants.
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The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
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James Madison was our fourth president, when he was on his deathbed, his last words were "I always talk better lying down."
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1810 - 7.2 million
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The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire.
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Louisiana was named in honor of King Louis XIV.
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Santa Claus, Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time.
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James Monroe was our fifth president, he was in the party of democratic-rebulicans.
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Mississippi was the first state in the nation to have a planned system of junior colleges.
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The world's first Skyscraper was built in Chicago, 1885.
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The world's first Electric Trolley System was introduced in Montgomery in 1886.
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1820 - 9.6 million
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Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
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The first successful parachute jump to be made from a moving airplane was made by Captain Berry at St. Louis, in 1912.
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John Quincy Adams was our sixth president, he grafuated at Harvard University.
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The Graham cracker was originally marketed as "Dr. Graham's Honey Biskets" and was conceived of as a health food as part of the Graham Diet, a regimen to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham.
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Andrew Jackson was our seventh president, At the age of 13, he joined the Army to fight in the Revolutionary War.
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1830 - 12.8 million
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The Trail of Tears is a name given to the relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students.
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Although this college regularly accepts blacks and females, they were the first college to do so.
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The Texas Revolution or Texas War of Independence was an armed conflict between Mexico and settlers in the Texas portion of the Mexican state Coahuila y Tejas.
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Arkansas contains over 600,000 acres of lakes and 9,700 miles of streams and rivers.
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The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States
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Martin Van Buren was our eighth president, he was described as a "little squirt" because he was 5 feet 6 inches.
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Michigan is first in the United States production of peat and magnesium compounds and second in gypsum and iron ore.
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Goodyear discovered the vulcanization process accidentally after five years of searching for a more stable rubber.
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1840 - 17 million
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John Tyler was our tenth president, he had the total of fifteen childen.
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William Henry Harrison was our ninth president, he suffered from the following illnesses : ulcer, stress and pneumonia, and he died of pneumonia.
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James Know Polk was our eleventh president, he died at only the age of 53 years old.
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Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field.
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Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States.
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Texas is the only state to have the flags of 6 different nations fly over it. They are: Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States, and the United States.
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The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention.
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Iowa's longest and highest bridge crosses Lake Red Rock.
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The two most common types are the toroidal ring doughnut and the filled doughnut, a flattened sphere injected with jam (or jelly), cream, custard, or other sweet fillings.
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Wisconsin's Door County has five state parks and 250 miles of shoreline along Lake Michigan. These figures represent more than any other county in the country.
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Zachary Taylor was our twelvth president, he was the second cousin of James Madison.
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1850 - 23 million
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Millard Fillmore was our thirteenth president, he was born in a log cabin.
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More turkeys are raised in California than in any other state in the United States.
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Franklin Pierce was our fourteenth president, he suffered many tragedies in his life, like losing his three children to early deaths during childhood.
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Michigan State University (MSU) is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.
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James Buchman was our fifteenth president, his nickname was "Old Buck" because he was stron and tall.
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In 1862 Lipman sold his patent to Joseph Reckendorfer for $100,000 who went to sue the pencil manufacturer Faber for infringement.
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Minnesotan baseball commentator Halsey Hal was the first to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast.
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Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state.
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1860 - 31.4 million
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Henry was hired by Oliver Winchester at the New Haven Arms Company in the late 1850s to improve the design of the Volcanic repeating rifle.
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The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war fought in the United States of America.
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Abraham Lincoln was our sixteenth president, his home state is Illinois.
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Jelly beans first surfaced in1861 when Boston confectioner William Schrafft Urged people to send his Jelly beans to soldiers during the American Civil War.
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The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun.
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Kansas won the award for most beautiful license plate for the wheat plate design issued in 1981.
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Breakfast cereals, packaged, became considerably more convenient, and, combined with clever marketing, they caught on.
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West Virginia is considered the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state.
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The Imperial Palace on the Las Vegas strip is the nation's first off-airport airline baggage check-in service.
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The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864.
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Andrew Johnson was our seventeenth president, he was an alcoholic.
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Nebraska was once called "The Great American Desert".
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Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling by the Supreme Court (1857) that held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States.
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Ulysses Simpson Grant was our eighteenth president, he was a quiet and soft-spoken man.
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American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the "Father of American Football".
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Soccer was first known as soccer in Great Britain, but before Great Britain, Ireland, Greece, Rome and England had games much like soccer.
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1870 - 38.6 million
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
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Denver, lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger. The trademark for the name Cheeseburger was awarded in 1935 to Louis Ballast.
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By 1874 he had is own business the Rolled Wrapping Paper Company, but the company couldn't turn a profit.
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Rutherford B. Harves was our nineteenth president, his hobbies were croquet, driving, shooting.
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Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
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1880 - 50.1 million
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James A. Garfield was our twentieth president, he was the first left-handed man to become a president.
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Chester A. Arthur was out 22nd president, he was never elected to be the president but succeeded to office after the assassination of James Garfield.
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Grover Cleveland was our twenty-third president, he weighed250 punds and had the nickname "Uncle Jumbo."
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John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.
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George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played indoors, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago.
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Benjamin Harrison was our twenty-fourth president, he was the grandson of the nation's ninth President, William Henry Harrison.
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North Dakota passed a bill in 1987 making English the official state language.
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South Dakota is the home of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribes, which make up the Sioux Nation.
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Montana has the largest migratory elk herd in the nation.
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The state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.
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1890 - 62.9 million
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William Phelps Eno was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
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In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50 pounds.
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Wyoming's license plates feature a man on a bucking bronco.
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Central Michigan University (also known as CMU) is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Nikola Teslawas a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer.
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Grover Cleveland was our twenty-fifth president, he died at age seventy-one.
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The accidental legacy of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th century, when a team of Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to the vegetarian diet.
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Voleyball is a co-ed sport and it is played in the Olypmics. It is mostly played by girls instead of boys. Volleyball is an indoor court sport or an outdoor sport which you would play on the beach.
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Utah has 11,000 miles of fishing streams and 147,000 acres of lakes and reservoirs.
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William McKinley was our twenty-sixth president, he was assassinated by Leon F. Czolgosz.
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1900 - 76.2 million
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Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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Theodore Roosevelt was our twenty-seventh president, the teddy bear was named after him.
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Morris Michtom was an Russian Jewish immigrant, who with his wife Rose invented the Teddy Bear.
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The sundae originally cost 10 cents when it was first invented, (twice the price of other sundaes) and caught on with students of nearby Saint Vincent College.
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An Oklahoman, Sylvan Goldman, invented the first shopping cart.
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William Howard Taft was our twenty-eighth president, he was over 300 pounds and had the nickname "Big Bill."
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1910 - 92.2 million
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The Rio Grande is New Mexico's longest river and runs the entire length of New Mexico.
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Arizona's most abundant mineral is copper.
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Woodrow Wilson was our twenty-ninth president, he was the only president with a PhD and he won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1920.
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The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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World War I (WWI), which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter.
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Prohibition in the United States (sometimes referred to as the Noble Experiment) was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol,
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1920 - 106 million
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The 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle.
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Warren Gamaliel Harding was our thirtieth president, he was known as a weak and dishonest man.
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Calvin Coolidge was our thirty-first president, His wife, Grace Coolidge, was a close friend of Helen Keller, who was both deaf and blind.
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All of Edwin Perkins experiments took place in his mother's kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.
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Mickey typically appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete among others.
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In an interview a few years before his death, he said, "It was an accident". In 1937, the gum went on the market nationally.
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Herbert C. Hoover was our thirty-second president, he was raised in a Quaker family.
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1930 - 123 million
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Rickenbacker International Corporation is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer. In 1932, the company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and continues to produce a range of electric and bass guitars to this day.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our thirty-third president, He was the only person who was elected President to four terms: 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944.
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The inauguration of the President of the United States occurs upon the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States.
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The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition.
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Soft serve is generally lower in milk-fat (3% to 6%) than ice cream (10% to 18%) and is produced at a temperature of about −4 °C compared to ice cream, which is stored at −15 °C.
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World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.
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1940 - 132 million
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Harry S. Truman was our thirty-fourth president, he was known for being honest and efficient.
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The Mexican–American War, also known as the First American Intervention,
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The earliest known interactive electronic game was by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann on a cathode ray tube.
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Cable television, formerly known as Community Antenna Television or CATV, was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in 1948.
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1950 - 151 million
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The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China, with military material aid from the Soviet Union.
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The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States.
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The first patent for a bar code type product was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952.
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Dwight David Eisenhower was our thirty-fifth president, he died at the age of 78 years old.
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The first practical professional broadcast quality videotape machines capable of replacing kinescopes were the two-inch quadruplex videotape machines.
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Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States.
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Hawaii is the only state that grows coffee.
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1960 - 179.3 million
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The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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John F. Kennedy was our thirty-sixth president, he was the first catholic president.
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The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.
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The first known publication of the term "mouse" as a pointing device is in Bill English's 1965 publication "Computer-Aided Display Control".
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Lyndon B. Johnson was our thirty-seventh president, he was known for being raw and boisterous.
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Buffalo wings are used in competitive eating events, such as Philadelphia's Wing Bowl and at the National Buffalo Wing Festival.
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s.
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The Compact Disc is a spin-off of Laserdisc technology. Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976.
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities.
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Richard M. Nixon was our thirty-seventh president, On November 17, 1973 Richard Nixon declared his innocence saying "I am not a crook."
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1970 - 203 million
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Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks.
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The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18.
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The history of mobile phones records the development of interconnection between the public switched telephone systems to radio transceivers.
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Gerald R. Ford was our thirty-eighth president, he was an avid sports fan and enjoyed tennis, fishing, golf, swimming and skiing.
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James Earl Carter (A.K.A. Jimmy Carter) was our thirty-ninth president, he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
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1980 - 226.5 million
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Portable computers, originally monochrome CRT-based and developed into the modern laptops, and were originally considered to be a small niche market, mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, accountants and sales representatives.
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Ronald W. Reagan was our fortieth president, His first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River, near Dixon where he saved the lives of 77 people.
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Nintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry, and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion.
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George H. Walker Bush was our forty-first president, he became the youngest pilot in the U.S.
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1990 - 248.7 million
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The Persian Gulf War commonly referred to as simply the Gulf War, was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait.
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The Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.
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William J. Clinton was our forty-second president, his nickname as a child growing up in Arkansas was "Bubba."
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2000 - 281.4 million
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George W. Bush was our forty-third president, He received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University.
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know one will ever forget the tragic day of september 11 2001, a sad day for everyone in the u.s.
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The iPod line came from Apple's "digital hub" category, When the company began creating software for the growing market of personal digital devices.
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The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War or Operation Iraqi Freedom in which a combined force of troops from the United States,
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Barack Husseion Obama is our forty-fourth president, when he was little he was sometimes teased in school for having the initials B.O.
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2010 - 308.7 million
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e founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan. The company was bought by a copper and lumber magnate named Samuel L. Smith in 1899 and renamed Olds Motor Works.
