Florida Seceded from the Union in 1861 and was re-admitted in 1868 Geography: 65,755 square miles, ranked 22nd in size. ... His siblings are Philip Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek; William Graham, chairman of The Graham Companies, Miami Lakes, Florida; and Mary Crow. ... As an active member of the Blue dogs, a coalition of conservative Democrats working to reform Washington politics, Boyd was instrumental in the successful efforts by Congress to reach the historical 1997 balanced budget agreement. ...

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This is the finding of the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based environmental research organization. ... Last week's attack happened at a central square facing President Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters and the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen. ...

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According to reports, none of the injured in the first Battle of Bull Run traveled by ambulance to Washington, but some had walked some twenty-seven miles for treatment. ... Fearful that the ambulances, with their supplies, would be captured, King ordered the carriages to return to Washington.1 Those first assigned to remove the wounded were regimental musicians or soldiers who were not good fighters. ... In the Battle of Fair Oaks, it was estimated that more than ten thousand men were lying dead or wounded upon a battlefield scarcely one square mile. ...

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In 1803, Jefferson bought Louisiana from France for $15 million dollars and doubled the size of America by 828,000 square miles. ... In 1836, Texas declared that they were an independent republic, and the politicians in Washington feared that Britain was teaming up with the Mexican government to block the United States from annexing Texas. ... Once again, these fears caused many in the south to push politicians in Washington to annex Texas.9 Now Mexico gained their independence in 1821 from Spain, but they were now dealing with boundary disputes with the United States. ...

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It was a negotiation for land between the United States and France in 1803, in which the U.S. gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land to the west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. ... The Continental Congress, composed of the elected representatives from the thirteen colonies; George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph, gave Thomas Jefferson the illustrious task of drafting the Declaration of Independence. ...

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Governor Cass persuaded some administration officials in Washington to use their power granted under the 1822 Indian affairs act to allow Astor's traders to barter small quantities of whiskey among some northern Chippewa's. ... The remainder of his worth was linked most notably to real-estate, most of which now known as Times Square in New York City. ...

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Moreover, the US had used fear along with intimidation which Dean Rusk, head of the State Department's UN desk in Washington had clearly indicated President Truman intended to support the partition, the way he used pressure applied by American and Jewish representatives in all nations around the world to get the affirmative vote in a manipulative manner." ... In the partition agreement made by UNSCOP, the Jewish state containing 538 000 Jews and 397 000 Arabs, covered 15 000 square kilometres of Palestine, however the Arab state that holds 800,000 Arabs and 10,000 Jews had measured 10,00...

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(Figure 10) Behind the salon was an ornate two-story octagonal drawing room with two large, square bedrooms in each of the east and west wings, extending from the central portion of the house. ... When Barbour was governor in Richmond and serving in the Senate in Washington, he came home to Barboursville to rest, read books, take care of his farm and his family and to ride his horses. ...

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Affirmative action is the nation's most ruthless attempt to redress its long history of racial and sexual discrimination. However, nowadays it incites rather than ease the nations inner-governmental tension. An increasing aggressive oppositional movement argues that the battle to guarantee equal rights for all citizens has been fought and won- and seeking constant forgiveness for a certain group is just against the grain. The battle against affirmative action has gone so far as to halting affirmative action in places such as Missouri, and even drastically ending affirmative action in...

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