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Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on the north side of Hillsboro Inlet, midway between Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton, in Hillsboro Beach, Florida.The light marks the northern limit of the Florida Reef, an underwater coral formation on the lower east coast of the state.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born in 1730 in Magdeburg, Prussia, which is in modern-day Germany.He was educated by Jesuits, but was a critic of Roman Catholicism.He would later convert to the Reformed German Church.
The Missouri State Militia was a federally funded state militia organization of Missouri conceived in 1861 and beginning service in 1862 during the American Civil War.It was a full-time force whose primary purpose was to conduct offensive operations against Confederate guerrillas and recruiters as well as oppose raids by regular Confederate forces.
Voting took place in Costa Rica for the Central American nation's President and for the 57 seats of the Asamblea Legislativa.After receiving 43,4% of the vote, the threshold for avoiding a runoff election between the top two finishers, Daniel Oduber Quirós was elected to a four-year term to start on May 8, and his National Liberation Party won 27 seats in the Asamblea.