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- Florida (24937 bytes)
36: ...owery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is calle...
49: ...licans]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demograph...
66: ... and on the west, at the end of the panhandle, by Alabama. It is near the countries of the [[Caribbean]], ...
76: ...t as large as those in the [[Midwest]] or [[Great Plains]]. [[Hail]] is not an uncommon occurrence in ...
85: ...rt]] with four theme parks and over twenty hotels plus countless water parks, shopping centres and oth... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
36: ...tes in the nation, with an estimated 8,829,383 people in 2004. Georgia is also known as the '''Peach ...
48: ...(explorer)|Hernando de Soto]] in [[1540]], had completely disappeared by [[1560]].
52: ...moted the idea that the area be used to settle people in a [[debtors' prison]]. On [[February 12]], [[...
76: ...is not yet incorporated, although a referendum is planned for the summer of [[2005]]. Georgia does no...
78: ...roceries but never prescriptions. Up to 1% of a SPLOST can go to [[homestead exemption]]s. All taxes... - List of U.S. state mammals (3603 bytes)
8: | [[Alabama]] || [[Racking horse]] || || || - Louisiana (26375 bytes)
53: ...St. Charles, Jefferson, Orleans, St. Bernard, and Plaquemines.
60: ...ce|French]]. Louisiana was named by the French explorer [[Robert Cavelier de La Salle]] in honour of ...
64: Initially [[Mobile, Alabama]] and [[Biloxi, Mississippi]] functioned as the c...
86: ...to note that the "Civilian" tradition is still deeply rooted in all aspects of Louisiana law. Property...
88: ...election|primary]] on Election Day, in which multiple candidates from the same party may be on the bal... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...] explorers mistakenly applied the word to the people and their location.
70: ...tive American tribes which reside in Texas: the [[Alabama-Coushatta]] Tribes of Texas, the [[Kickapoo]] Tra...
94: ...45, Texas became the first and, to date, only [[diplomatic recognition|internationally recognized]] in...
114: ...Alonso Alvarez de Pineda]], a [[Spain|Spanish]] explorer, became probably the first [[Europe]]an to ma...
115: ...te;ñez Cabeza de Vaca]], another Spanish explorer, spent six years visiting Texas for trade. - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...rst recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a [[Nativ...
41: ...)|Creek]] word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend...
46: ... the cultural predecessors of the [[Muscogee]] people who inhabited the [[Tennessee River]] Valley pri...
48: ...west, including all [[Muscogee]] and [[Yuchi]] peoples, including the [[Chickasaw]] and [[Choctaw]]. F...
56: The need to create work for the unemployed during the Depression, the desire for rural e... - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
55: ...nnsylvania. Penn then founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and name...
69: ...dustry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U.S. kerosene for years t...
71: ...; dramatic, sometimes violent confrontations took place between [[organized labor]] and the state's in...
86: ...stricts[http://www.courts.state.pa.us/Index/CommonPleas/Judicialdistricts.asp], each of which has dist...
88: ...strict has at least one, and the Courts of Common Pleas serving the larger Pennsylvania counties have ... - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
4: ... the [[Pitcairn Islands]], (2004 population 47 people), which some claim to be a [[State|country]] ext...
24: *[[Oman]] -- limited to 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male
31: ... Federal State after the [[American Revolution]], placed only one restriction on the general suffrage ...
43: ...h Amendment to the Constitution]] was now an accomplished fact and the Presidential election of Novemb...
45: ...f those laws are still on the statute book: the [[Alabama Constitution]], for instance, still mandates that... - Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - Hoover (912 bytes)
6: ...s Robinson]], [[United States|U.S.]] [[baseball]] player who acquired the [[nickname]] "the human vacu...
9: Places named '''Hoover''':
10: *[[Hoover, Alabama]] - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
1: ... the most famous and important aspects of space exploration was the landing of the first man on the mo...
6: ...ticles of space hardware, including a full-size replica of the [[Apollo 11]] [[Saturn V]] rocket, the ...
13: ...anywhere else, such as to the [[Moon]] or [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. The first successful orbital launch ...
15: ...d on [[May 17]], [[2004]] when [[Civilian Space eXploration Team]] launched the [[GoFast Rocket]] on a...
19: ...er 23]], [[2004]] with a VSV-30, or [[Brazilian Exploration Vehicle]], launched on a [[sub-orbital]] m... - Cave (10592 bytes)
37: ...earby Carlsbad Caverns are now believed to be examples of another type of solutional cave. They were f...
42: ...than 1,000,000 km<sup>2</sup> - has hardly been explored underground.
45: ...ich utilize caves, but must leave the caves to complete their life cycle) and accidentals. Some autho...
47: ...lobites (or stygobites), such as the endangered [[Alabama cave shrimp]], live in bodies of water found in t...
51: ...umber of [[endangered species]], such as, for example the [[Tooth cave spider]] and the [[Gray bat]]. - American Civil War (47733 bytes)
12: |Place||Principally in the southern United States; al...
53: ...h]] States, where slavery and [[Plantation|cotton plantation]] agriculture were most dominant, formed ...
55: ...state]]s" did not secede, and one seceding state split; these five are known as the [[Border States (C...
58: ...ssion from Virginia and entered the Union (with a plan for gradual emancipation) in [[1863]] as [[West...
62: ...tate]] and a part of the Union. Lincoln had won a plurality there, but there was a number of Southern ... - Timeline of United States history (1790-1819) (6951 bytes)
82: ...ege v. Woodward]]'' 17 US 518 1819 protects principle of honoring contracts and charters
83: *[[1819]] - [[Alabama]] becomes a state
108: ...ry/United_States/People Pictures of Historical People]
110: ==Lesson Plans, Resources and Activites==
111: ...al_Studies/US_History/index.htm US History Lesson Plans] - Timeline of United States history (1860-1899) (10289 bytes)
56: *[[1869]] - [[Golden spike]] nailed in, completing the [[First Transcontinental Railroad (North...
70: *[[1872]] - [[Alabama Claims]]
105: *[[1885]] - [[Washington monument]] completed
139: *[[1896]] - ''[[Plessy v. Ferguson]]'' 163 US 537 1896 legalizes seg...
145: *[[1897]] - [[Boston subway]] completed - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
13: ... force to push the other out. This tacit accord applied to Asia as well, as evinced by U.S. occupation...
15: ...icting models of autarky versus exports, of state planning against free enterprise, were to vie for th...
17: ...he excitement with which he had greeted the principles of Wilsonian idealism during [[World War I]], a...
24: ... soon became doctrine, following the advice of people like State Department officer [[George F. Kennan...
26: ... humiliate the Soviets internationally: flying supplies in over the blockade during [[1948]]-[[1949]].... - April (9790 bytes)
178: *National Give-A-Sample Week
230: *Confederate Memorial Day (Alabama, Mississippi)
247: During planting season (@ Apr/May) - Barbecue (24807 bytes)
8: ...od that has been grilled. For this reason many people consider any outdoor cooking, including grilling...
10: ... meat should be turned several times to ensure complete cooking.
19: *the role that smoke plays in preparation
26: ...t barbecuing (often called grilling), the food is placed directly above the flame or other source of h...
31: ...or sugary sauces of an American barbecue. Instead plain or marinaded meat is grilled over the open fir... - American Black Bear (15019 bytes)
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12: {{Taxobox_section_binomial_simple | color = pink | binomial_name = Ursus americanu...
14: ...'' ('''''Ursus americanus'''''), also known as simply the '''black bear''' or '''cinnamon bear''', is ...
30: ...ion as well as produce cubs, the embryos do not implant (develop). - Blizzard (4179 bytes)
7: ... involving classification of winter storms are complex, there are many different definitions of blizza...
15: ...sible to distinguish the ground from the air. People caught in a whiteout can quickly become disorien...
25: ...ren trapped in [[schoolhouse]]s and killed 235 people.
27: ...e while trapped in their cars. Altogether, 154 people died in the Armistice Day Blizzard.
29: ...cted at least half the of U.S. population; 270 people died and 48 were reported missing at sea.
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