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- Mississippi (15114 bytes)
40: ... western boundary. The name itself probably comes from [[Native American]] words with various spelling...
46: ...d territory|organized]] on [[April 7]], [[1798]], from territory ceded by [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georg...
48: ...10]], [[1817]]. It was the second state to secede from the Union as one of the [[Confederate States of...
56: ... record of single-party dominance. For 116 years, from 1876 to 1992 Mississippians only elected [[Unit...
67: ...he ten Judges of the Court of Appeals are elected from five districts (two Judges per district) for ei... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
68: ...appointed by the U.S. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. The Coun...
71: *[[1837]] Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was a... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
60: ...ing from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution... - Boston, Massachusetts (36071 bytes)
25: ...icknames include "Beantown", "The Hub" (shortened from [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Hol...
27: ...cy]] as well as many suburban communities further from the city, has a population of approximately 5.8...
34: ...r [[Boston, England]], a town in [[Lincolnshire]] from which several prominent colonists originated. E...
61: ..., Massachusetts|Dedham]], [[Canton, Massachusetts|Canton]], and [[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]].
63: The [[Charles River]] separates Boston from [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], and [[C... - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
33: ...pi River]], and did not develop like those cities from river commerce. Instead, railroads would later ...
37: ...s to flee northward towards [[Canton, Mississippi|Canton]]. Subsequently, on [[May 15|15 May]] 1863 Union ...
39: ...erman to meet the Confederate forces heading west from Jackson. Upon learning that Vicksburg had alre...
41: ...or less than $8,000. It is said that Sherman, a [[Freemasontry|Mason]], spared it because it housed a ...
45: ...es the harsh and largely terror-filled life most African-Americans experienced in the South (and, it s... - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
3: [[Image:Voltaire.jpg|frame|Voltaire]]
4: ...y the [[pen name]] '''Voltaire''', was a [[France|French]] [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] ...
8: ...his life, Voltaire sometimes implied that he came from a [[noble]] background.
10: ...nism|Jansenist]] and had a poor relationship with François.
12: ...Abbé de [[Châteauneuf]], a friend of François' mother, instructed him in ''les bel...
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