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Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [ 2 ] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.
Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [ 20 ] It was founded on March 9, 2000, under the ownership of Bomis, a web portal company.
The name "United States Minor Outlying Islands" started to be used in 1986. [124] Previously, some of the islands were included in a group called "United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands". Baker Island was named for Michael Baker in 1832. [125] Howland Island was named after a whaling vessel in 1842. [126]
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is the oldest and largest of nine National Wildlife Refuges in the state [80] and was founded in 1901, encompassing 59,020 acres (238.8 km 2). [81] Of Oklahoma's federally protected parks or recreational sites, the Chickasaw National Recreation Area is the largest, with 9,898.63 acres (40.0583 km 2). [82]
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania (/ ˌpɛnsɪlˈveɪniə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. 'Penn's forest country'), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania[b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsylvanie), [7] is a US state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Massachusetts is the sixth-smallest state by land area. With over seven million residents as of 2020, [ note 1 ] it is the most populous state in New England, the 16th-most-populous in the country, and the third-most densely populated, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early English colonization.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...