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The San Pablo Bastion (completed by 1683) of the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, Florida. Giovanni da Verrazzano landed in North Carolina in 1524, and was the first European to sail into New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. In the 1540s, French Huguenots settled at Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.
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.
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US economic output hit its highest level in nearly three years to close out 2024, according to the latest data from S&P Global. S&P Global's flash US composite PMI, which captures activity in both ...
Last year, more than 115 million Americans were projected to drive 50+ miles during the holiday season. Unfortunately, according to the National Safety Council, both Christmas and New Year's Eve ...
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands.
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]
What he has to offer: Three years ago, Scherzer’s three-year, $130 million deal with the Mets, which featured a then-record $43.33M AAV, represented the first eye-popping expenditure for new ...