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  • The Grand Canyon is a very colorful, steep-sided gorge, carved by ... Geologists estimate that formation of the canyon required at least ...
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  • Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and ... Michigan's shores. The great cities of Chicago and Milwaukee were ...
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  • east-central North America, crossing the interior of the continent ... The System traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario ...
    15 KB (2,273 words) - 20:48, 17 April 2023
  • state, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of the city of Seattle. In Pierce ... heavily glaciated peak in the lower 48 states at 35 square miles of snow ...
    24 KB (3,759 words) - 17:43, 10 November 2022
  • east. Wrangle Island has the highest density of polar bear dens as well as ... Humans lived as early as 1700 B.C.E. in the region, at the end of ...
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  • Puerto Rico, officially Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado ... During the period of Spanish colonial rule in the nineteenth century ...
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  • Wisconsin, one of the 50 United States of America, is located near ... Bordered by the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois, ...
    35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
  • Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence ... One of the founders of Rhode Island was Roger Williams. In 1636, Williams ...
    30 KB (4,360 words) - 20:52, 16 April 2023
  • Mississippi is a state located in the Deep South of the United States ... in the nation, based largely on the value of slaves, who were counted as ...
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  • Greenland, (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, meaning "Land of the ... ice sheet, which covers over 80 percent of its land mass. ...
    37 KB (5,399 words) - 17:06, 3 April 2023
  • 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 ...
    35 KB (5,141 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
  • Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...
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  • The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom ... The Caymans are one of the most popular tourist attractions in the ...
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  • Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United ... and the Iroquois Federation. Claimed by France, the territory became ...
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  • Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States ... demographic, economic, and political makeup of the nation, with a mixture ...
    37 KB (5,435 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
  • El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country ... For many decades, coffee was the mainspring of the Salvadoran economy ...
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  • jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... Ginsburg spent much of her legal career as an advocate for gender ...
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  • Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the Caribbean ... country in the Americas (after the United States) to declare its independence ...
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  • Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, ... The long reign of monarchs came to an end in 1974, when a pro-Soviet ...
    47 KB (6,926 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
  • Alaska, a state of the United States of America located in the extreme ... territory in 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959 ...
    74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023

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