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  United States People - MSN Encarta
The population of the United States has grown continuously, from 4 million at the first national census in 1790, to 76 million in 1900, to 282 million in 2000.
Until the late 19th century, immigration to the United States was unrestricted, and immigrants came freely from all parts of the world.
The cultures were as varied as the languages, ranging from agricultural, mound-building cultures in the Southeast and in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys to the cliff dwellers in the Southwest, and from the complex fishing societies in the Northwest to the foragers of the northern Great Lakes (see Mound Builders, Cliff Dweller).
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  United States
Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States.
The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
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 USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
The United States is often under criticism from Western governments and NGOs concerning lengthy detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as some restrictions on freedoms of speech and the press, as being violations of their definition of human rights.
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 United States - Gurupedia
The various state constitutions differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people and a plan for organizing the government.
The dominant political culture in the United States is, as a whole, somewhat to the right of the dominant political culture in European democracies.
The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
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 Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - United States
The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is spoken by the vast majority of the population and serves as the de facto language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
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 United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America.
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto official language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
Spanish follows English as the second-most spoken language in the United States, primarily due to the influence of recent Latin American immigrants and the fact that almost a fifth of its continental territory was originally part of Mexico, and it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
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 sociology - United States
The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America¹, the States, or (archaically) Columbia — is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii).
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is spoken by the vast majority of the population and serves as the de facto language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 4,000 universities, colleges and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
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 Geography of the United States
Forty-nine states in the United States (all except Hawaii) lie on the North American continent; 48 of these (all except Alaska and Hawaii) are contiguous and form the continental United States.
The intermontane valleys, plateaus and basins range from treeless to desert with the very arid region being in the southwest.
Western states - The west is home to the pacific coast of the United States as well as many gorges, plateaus and mountain ranges, the most famous being the Rocky Mountains.
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 United States - Haiti - a Wikia wiki
The government of the United States may be accurately categorized as a republic or as a liberal democracy.
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is spoken by the vast majority of the population and serves as the de facto language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
Spanish follows English as the second-most spoken language in the United States, primarily due to the influence of recent Latin American immigrants, and it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
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 Geography of the United States information - Search.com
The United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and water borders with Russia and the Bahamas.
Forty-eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico; this group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the continental or contiguous United States, and as the Lower 48.
The West Coast of the continental United States and areas of Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands, the Alaskan Peninsula and southern Alaskan coast) make up part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of heavy tectonic and volcanic activity that is the source of 90% of the world's earthquakes.
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 ipedia.com: United States Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S. America¹, or the States, is a federal republic in central North America and the Pacific Ocean (the islands of Hawaii, and the Aleutians).
The United States also holds several other territories, districts and possessions, notably the federal district of the District of Columbia, which is the nation's capital, and several overseas insular areas, the most significant of which are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam and the United States Virgin Islands.
The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence on the rest of the nation.
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 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA
Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean.
The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The United States of America
That river separates the United States from the Republic of Mexico until at the city of El Paso it turns northward; from that point to the Colorado River an arbitrary line marks the boundary of the two republics.
In examining the constitutionality of a state law one is to assume that the state legislature has power to pass all acts whatever, unless they are prohibited by the Constitution of the United States or by the constitution of the state.
It also provides that the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states; for the return of fugitives from justice and for the admission of new states.
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 United States (Geography) - Related Items - MSN Encarta
United States (Geography) - Related Items - MSN Encarta
Great Lakes, largest bodies of freshwater in North America
, third largest of the seven continents, including Canada (the 2nd largest country in area in the world), the United States (3rd...
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 List of United States-related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of extinct animals of the United States
List of state highways in the United States
Taiwanese American - Taxation in the United States - Television in the United States - Tennessee - Texas - Township - Transportation in the United States - Treasurer of the United States - Technological innovations of the United States
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 United Nations Division for Sustainable Development-SIDS-List of SIDS
Their growth and development is often further stymied by high transportation and communication costs, disproportionately expensive public administration and infrastructure due to their small size, and little to no opportunity to create economies of scale.
Currently, fifty-one small island developing States and territories are included in the list used by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in monitoring the sustainable development of SIDS.
These States and territories often work together in the United Nations through the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS).
www.un.org /esa/sustdev/sids/sidslist.htm   (811 words)

  
 World Heritage Sites in the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jefferson envisioned a community of scholars living and studying in an architecturally unified complex of buildings.Criteria: (i) A unique artistic achievement, a masterpiece of the creative genius; and (ii) has exerted great influence, over a span of time and within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture.
This property will be compared to Owenite remains in the United Kingdom and to other communal societies in the U.S. Criteria: (vi) Directly and tangibly associated with events of outstanding universal significance.
The Farallon Islands support the largest seabird rookeries in the contiguous United States, including species such as the ashy storm petrel, western gull, Brandt's cormorant, fl oystercatcher, and Cassin's auklet.
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 Cities and States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
States that turn red are correct, the gray ones are incorrect.
Move each state with your mouse to the spot it should go in on the map.
The sunshine state of California stretches 825 miles from the northwest to the northeast.
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 List of valleys of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of valleys of the United States which includes valleys which lie only partially within the United States:
Great Appalachian Valley (Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama)
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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 Volcanoes of the United States [USGS]
Though few people in the United States may actually experience an erupting volcano, the evidence for earlier volcanism is preserved in many rocks of North America.
The United States ranks third, behind Indonesia and Japan, in the number of historically active volcanoes (that is, those for which we have written accounts of eruptions).
To their amazement, they found a broad valley northwest of Novarupta marked by a flat plain of loose, "sandy" ash material from which thousands of jets of steam were hissing.
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 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
It is the fourth largest state, over 147,000 square miles in area, containing part of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers, Glacier National Park and the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park.
An extremely useful booklet that carries the official state list of birds as well as maps for the occurrence of every species in the state by 1/4-degree blocks of latitude and longitude.
Located on the Flathead Reservation in the Mission Valley of western Montana, the Ninepipes Center is uniquely situated for accessibility to a variety of wildlife and habitats of the northern Rocky Mountain region.
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 World Hiking: Directory: United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Maps, Trip Reports, Theatre, VRML for the highest mountains in the United States and the world.
The East Coast Greenway is a multi-user, firm-surface, inter-urban equivalent to the Appalachian Trail.
Voice of the American people in the fight to safeguard the scenic beauty, wildlife, and historical and cultural treasures of the largest and most diverse park system in the world.
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 Countries
Perched on the southern slopes of the Himalayan Mountains, Nepal is as ethnically diverse as its terrain of fertile plains, broad valleys, and the highest mountain peaks in the world.
Foreign Embassy Personnel in the United States (Diplomatic List)
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 Bhutan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Bhutan politics and officials, Bhutan History. Travel to Bhutan
The entire country is mountainous except for an 8-10 mile (13-16 km) wide strip of subtropical plains in the extreme south which is intersected by valleys known as the Duars.
Climate: varies; tropical in southern plains; cool winters and hot summers in central valleys; severe winters and cool summers in Himalayas
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