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The Delaware Colony, officially known as the three Lower Counties on the Delaware, was a semiautonomous region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania and a de facto British colony in North America. [1] Although not royally sanctioned, Delaware consisted of the three counties on the west bank of the Delaware River Bay.
Dubliner is a sweet, granular cheese made from pasteurised cow's milk [1] aged over a year and manufactured by Carbery, located in County Cork, Ireland. [2] Since 1996, it has been marketed internationally by Ornua (formerly the Irish Dairy Board) under the Kerrygold label. [ 3 ]
Delaware occupies the northeastern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, and some islands and territory within the Delaware River. It is the second-smallest and sixth-least populous state, but also the sixth-most densely populated. Delaware's most populous city is Wilmington, and the state's capital is Dover, the second-most populous city in Delaware.
15 Years On is the eleventh studio album by the Irish folk band The Dubliners.This album was created to celebrate the band's 15th anniversary from the day they started music together.
Delaware is the second smallest state (after Rhode Island). The history of the state's economic and industrial development is closely tied to the impact of the Du Pont family , founder of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , one of the world's largest chemical companies.
New Sweden (Swedish: Nya Sverige) was a colony of the Swedish Empire between 1638 and 1655 along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in what is now Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Jacob Broom built a cotton mill on the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware, in 1795, which burned down in 1797.In 1802, he sold the site, complete with a working dam and mill race, to Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, who paid $6,740 for the 95 acres (380,000 m 2), [5] two years after he and his family left France to escape the French Revolution. [6]
The Transpeninsular Line (at approximately 38°27′ N) is a surveyed line, the eastern half of which forms the north–south border between Delaware and Maryland. The border turns roughly north from the midpoint of the line towards the Twelve-Mile Circle, which forms much of the remainder of the Delaware land border.