69th Baseball All-Star Game By John Gettings This Tuesday night the stars of Major League Baseball will gather in Denver's Coors Field for the sport's traditional match-up of the American…
Senate Years of Service: 1857-1862; 1875-1875Party: Democrat; DemocratJOHNSON, Andrew, (father-in-law of David Trotter Patterson), a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee and a Vice…
Virginia State Facts
Entered Union: June 25, 1788 (10th State)
Present constitution adopted: 1970
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State abbreviation/Postal code: Va. / VA
Nicknames: The Old Dominion; Mother of…
U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Sierra Leone Relations PEOPLE The indigenous population is…
(Encyclopedia) public land, in U.S. history, land owned by the federal government but not reserved for any special purpose, e.g., for a park or a military reservation. Public land is also called land…
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De Gaulle was reelected to a second…
(Encyclopedia) Magruder, John BankheadMagruder, John Bankheadməgr&oomacr;ˈdər [key], 1810–71, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Winchester, Va. His reckless daring in the Mexican…
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(Encyclopedia) Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849–1916, American poet, b. Greenfield, Ind., known as the Hoosier poet. He was at various times a traveling actor, a sign painter, and a newspaperman. Under…
