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  Encyclopedia: New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
New Hampshire was home to the famous geological formation called the Old Man of the Mountain, a face-like profile in Franconia Notch, until May 2 to May 3, 2003, when the symbol of New Hampshire collapsed.
As of 2004, the population of New Hampshire was estimated to be 1,299,500.
New Hampshire is the only state that does not mandate public kindergarten, partly out of frugality and lack of funding, and partly out of belief in local control, a philosophy under which towns and cities, not the state, make as many decisions as possible.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Hampshire   (10062 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
The news of the surrender of Louisburg, which had been chiefly won and defended at the expense of New England, caused the greatest dissatisfaction throughout the colonies, and strained somewhat the relations with the mother country.
The severity of the new regulations, by which property amounting to 3000 was soon swept into prize courts, coupled with the declared intention of raising by imperial authority a revenue for the defence of the colonies, created a constitutional question of the gravest character.
In the colonies this aroused a bitter spirit; the stamp distributors were induced to abandon their offices by persuasion or intimidation, and delegates from nine colonies met in New York to express disapproval.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15156a.htm   (21027 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Province of New Hampshire Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1629 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Bos...
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1629 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston.
The disputed New Hampshire Grants territory (New Hampshire claimed it, a judge awarded it to New York) later became the state of Vermont.
www.ipedia.com /province_of_new_hampshire.html   (272 words)

  
 Articles - Province of New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1623 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston.
The crown set New Hampshire apart in 1679 (as part of King Charles II's power grab), reunited it with Massachusetts again in 1688, and separated it out one last time in 1691, at which point it became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
Although New Hampshire did not get its own colonial governor until 1741, in 1631 Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the province of the Upper Plantation, comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham which ultimately became the royal Province of New Hampshire.
www.bowling-balls.net /articles/Province_of_New_Hampshire   (304 words)

  
 CDROMs on New York History the TOC of Documentary History of NY
Governor Dongan's report on the state of the Province, 1687.
It is a GREAT resource for anyone interested in the printed history of New York State from the author of "Bibliography of New York State Communities", now in its third edition.
Gravestone inscriptions from cemeteries in Erie County, New York, 1930, Barber, Gertrude A. 62 pgs.
www.hopefarm.com /leedisk2.htm   (2370 words)

  
 Local New Hampshire History and Genealogy
Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr.
History of the Town of Hampton, New Hampshire, From it's Settlement in 1638, to the Autumn of 1892, by Joseph Dow, Salem, Mass.
State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and the Vietnam Conflict, By Theodore J. Hull, (Prologue, Spring 2000).
home.att.net /~Local_History/NH_History.htm   (3612 words)

  
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Full-text of the military report on Abu Ghraib prison; from NPR.
Cooperating Libraries of Greater Springfield (CLGS) Union List of Serials
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