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	Pacific Railway Acts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pacific Railway Acts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Pacific Railway Acts were passed by the (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776) United States (The legislature of the United States government) Congress in 1862 and 1864.
		The act granted 10 square miles (26 km²) of public land on each side of the (A bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll) tracks for every mile laid.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pacific_railway_acts.htm (129 words)

	American_West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While the Pacific states are the most volcanically active areas, extinct volcanoes and lava flows are found over most of the western half of the West.
		The temperatures of the western states range from the bitter cold of the Dakotas, to the blistering heat of Sonoran Desert, to the temperate Southern California coast.
		Pacific Northwest, West Coast of the United States, Southwest United States, Intermountain states, Plains States.
	copernicus.subdomain.de /American_West (1432 words)

	1862 - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		July 1 - Marriage of Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.
		July 1 - United States president Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Pacific Railway Acts authorizing construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
		December 31 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union (thus dividing Virginia in two).
	open-encyclopedia.com /1862 (1326 words)

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