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  United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The United States has a broad range of climates, varying from the tropical rain-forest of Hawaii and the tropical savanna of S Florida (where the Everglades are found) to the subarctic and tundra climates of Alaska.
The United States is also one of the largest producers of cattle, hogs, cow’s milk, butter, cotton, oats, wheat, barley, and sugar; it is the world’s leading exporter of wheat and corn and ranks third in rice exports.
The Congress of the United States, the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
www.bartleby.com /65/us/US.html   (14703 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search View - United States of America
United States of America or United States, popularly referred to as the United States or as America, a federal republic on the continent of North America, consisting of 48 contiguous states and the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii.
According to the 1990 census, the resident population of the United States was 248,709,873.
The United States is experiencing a decline in children as a percentage of the population, and an increase in young adults and the elderly.
uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761573010__1/United_States_of_America.html   (19443 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/President of the United States
The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States.
The United States was the first nation to create the office of President, the head of government in a republic.
The United States presidential line of succession is a detailed list of government officials to serve or act as President upon a vacancy in the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and conviction).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/President_of_the_United_States   (3886 words)

  
 The Constitution of the United States of America
United States, 488 U.S. 361, 390-91 (1989), the Court, approving the placement of the Sentencing Commission in the judicial branch, denied that executive powers were diminished because of the historic judicial responsibility to determine what sentence to impose on a convicted offender.
United States, 488 U.S. Formerly the term of four years during which the President ``shall hold office'' was reckoned from March 4 of the alternate odd years beginning with 1789.
United States, 290 U.S. In the face of the proposition that electors are state officers, the Court has upheld the power of Congress to act to protect the integrity of the process by which they are chosen.\83\ But in Ray v.
www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/art2.html   (10435 words)

  
 fiction - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The term describes imaginative works of narrative prose (such as the novel or the short story), and is distinguished from non-fiction writing (such as history, biography, or works on practical subjects) and from poetry.
Genres such as the historical novel often combine a fictional plot with real events; biography may also be fictionalized through imagined conversations or events.
Before they died the brilliant one was detected in seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the Bureau of Statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of tabulated information relating to the domestic hog.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /fiction   (238 words)

  
 Share and Discover President of the United States Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state and head of government of the United States.
The United States was the first nation to create the office of President as the head of state in a modern republic.
The president must be a natural-born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years old, and have been a resident of the United States for 14 years.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/President_of_the_United_States   (4882 words)

  
 Political Science Sites of Working Papers - Election 2000 Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Asserts that the presidential election of 2000, with its victory of a candidate with fewer popular votes and its decisive intervention of the Supreme Court, is a paradox of democracy.
States that the voters were guided by their personal and partisan viewpoints.
State that presidential elections can be classified as open-seat races, incumbency elections, or succession elections when a designated successor runs.
workingpapers.org /bibliography/twothousbib.htm   (9072 words)

  
 Chronology On The History Of Slavery And Racism: 1790 - 1829
The Capitol of the United States crowns Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and houses the legislative branch of government, comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Most Northern states had set emancipation in motion and in the Chesapeake states of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, the philosophy of the American Revolution - the idea that all men were created equal, with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - also motivated planters to free their slaves.
With regard to the ethnicity of Africans brought to Virginia, the majority of the original Slaves in a Tidewater Virginia plantation (Burwell Plantation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, came from the Niger River Delta in Africa.
innercity.org /holt/chron_1790_1829.html   (17131 words)

  
 Martin Van Buren: Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989
The jealousies which the smaller States might entertain of the power of the rest were allayed by a rule of representation confessedly unequal at the time, and designed forever to remain so.
The success that has thus attended our great experiment is in itself a sufficient cause for gratitude, on account of the happiness it has actually conferred and the example it has unanswerably given.
In justly balancing the powers of the Federal and State authorities difficulties nearly insurmountable arose at the outset and subsequent collisions were deemed inevitable.
www.bartleby.com /124/pres25.html   (2362 words)

  
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Should the war be continued, the United States, regarding its occurrences, will always have it in their power to adopt such measures respecting it as their honor and interest may require.
By that treaty, also, the differences which had arisen under the treaty of Ghent respecting the right claimed by the United States for their citizens to take and cure fish on the coast of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America, with other differences on important interests, were adjusted to the satisfaction of both parties.
The situation of the United States in regard to their resources, the extent of their revenue, and the facility with which it is raised affords a most gratifying spectacle.
www.landmark-project.com /Inaugural_Addresses.html   (13707 words)

  
 Forums and E-Mail Lists for United States (ISIL Freedom Network)
Discuss all aspects of federal, state and local government, their branches (executive, legislative, judicial), military, law-enforcement, decisions, processes and policies.
It is expected that the content will primarily be of interest to committee members, officers, staff, and contractors of the national LP and its state affiliates, but any LP activist, member, or even non-member is welcome to participate as long as comments are constructive and on-topic.
Email list for The Free State Project, a plan by which a critical mass of libertarian voters relocate to an underpopulated state and electorally take control of the state govt.
www.isil.org /network/us/C57   (2568 words)

  
 PAUL LEVINSON, PhD: writer of science fiction and non-fiction
Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column-blog, "The media rose to the occasion, shone their light on the desolation and the needy, and kept it focused there until the cavalry finally began to arrive"...
The CD of this performance, complete with music and sound effects, was enjoyed at science fiction conventions in 2002 and 2003.
Paul Levinson was President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from December 1998 through June 2001.
www.sff.net /people/paullevinson   (7652 words)

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