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  • California and central Southern Oregon. They are currently divided ... American education and recommended use of Indian reservations to protect ...
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  • Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States ... The valley of the Willamette River in western Oregon is the most densely ...
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  • November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early nineteenth century ... His famous home of Sunnyside just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in ...
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  • October 3, 1838) was a leader and warrior of the Sauk Native American tribe ... During the War of 1812 he fought on the side of the British. Later ...
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  • off Canada's Pacific coast and is part of the Canadian province of British ... it is the largest island on the western side of the Americas and is Canada ...
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  • California, United States, in the vicinity of Mount Shasta, specifically ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...
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  • and Mexico from 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of ... with popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately ...
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  • 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder ... The discovery of gold on January 24, 1848, by Sutter's carpenter ...
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  • is widely regarded as the premier chemist of the twentieth century. He pioneered ... advocate for greatly increased consumption of vitamin C and other nutrients ...
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  • The Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi, and Ahjumawi) were one of several ... trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their traditional ...
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  • Northwest region (Columbia River Plateau) of the United States. They speak ... ancestral homeland in Wallowa Valley in Oregon, promised to them at an earlier ...
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  • Alden Partridge originated this novel system of education which combined civilian ... In the United States, ROTC produces officers in all branches of the ...
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  • best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... collected in 1923 under the title Mirrors of Moscow. Later that year she ...
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  • The State of Idaho is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the ... and Clark Expedition in 1805. It was part of the disputed Oregon Country ...
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  • Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United ... Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory ...
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  • June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...
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  • Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle Sound) is a subgenre ... Grunge became commercially successful in the first half of the 1990s ...
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  • stretch along the northern Pacific coast of California south of the Oregon ... The park system preserves nearly 45 percent of all Coastal Redwood ...
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  • ) was established immediately following the abdication of Nicholas ... For most of the life of the Provisional Government, the status of ...
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  • Nevada is a state located in the western region of the United States ... largest state. Slightly more than 86 percent of its land is owned by the United ...
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  • rights activist who served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After ... including issues surrounding command of the military. However, Poland ...
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  • California is a state on the West Coast of the United States, along ... changed California, sparking a large influx of people and a sustained economic ...
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  • The State of Wyoming is a state in the western region of the United ... Wyoming has the distinction of being a state that provided several ...
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  • called the Panamint. The Idaho groups of Western Shoshone were called ... Possibly the most famous member of the Shoshone tribe was Sacagawea ...
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  • Cholera is transmitted and spread to humans through consumption of ... cholerae most often occurs due to a lack of proper sanitation (clean water ...
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  • Nebraska is a state located on the Great Plains of the United States ... Originally home to the Plains Indians, the area was part of Louisiana ...
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  • Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending ... the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America ...
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  • he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ... However, it did lead to the rest of the world gaining much from ...
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  • English name for the former Federal Republic of Germany, from its founding ... With an area of 95,976 square miles (248,577 square kilometers), or ...
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  • ]]/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest and Great Plains regions ... also important to the economy, with millions of visitors a year to Glacier ...
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  • and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...
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  • States was enthusiastically in support of the capture, but many American ... After several weeks of tension, during which the United States and ...
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  • Colorado is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United ... Colorado is one of only four states in the United States to share ...
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  • the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized ... became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought ...
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  • to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...
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  • ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... which followed, aristocrats constructed many of the famous private gardens ...
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  • Guinea, officially Republic of Guinea, is a nation in West Africa ... The name Guinea is used for the region of most of Africa's west ...
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  • Kansas is a Midwestern state located in the geographic center of the ... Originally, home to large numbers of nomadic Native Americans that ...
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  • politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was ... scholar, and while working in the Department of Labor under President Lyndon ...
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  • – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933 ... successful engineer, and a dynamic Secretary of Commerce. He was highly regarded ...
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  • | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...
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  • The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...
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  • or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun), officially Navy of the Greater Japanese ... During World War I, a force of Japanese destroyers supported the Allies ...
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  • military conflict between the United States of America and the nascent First ... ISBN 9718958002). This date marked the end of the war as far as the United ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...
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  • The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...
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