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The proposal was in reaction to laws raising real estate taxes, and shifting state education funding away from rural school districts and into more urban areas. Though organizers arranged for a series of straw polls that demonstrated widespread support for secession in nine counties, [ 43 ] the movement died out by the mid-1990s.
FedEx Corporation, originally Federal Express Corporation, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company focused on transportation, e-commerce and business services based in Memphis, Tennessee. [3][4] The name "FedEx" is a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company's original air division, Federal Express, which was used from ...
The 1801 Organic Act placed the areas under the control of the United States Congress and removed the right of residents to vote in federal elections. The portion west of the Potomac River, ceded by Virginia, included two parts comprising 31 square miles (80 km 2 ; 8,029 ha): the city of Alexandria , at the extreme southern shore, and the rural ...
FedEx has ended its naming rights agreement to the Washington Commanders stadium in Landover, Maryland, a venue that had been known as FedEx Field since 1999. The move confirmed Wednesday comes two years prior to the expiration of the current agreement scheduled for 2026, and as the NFL club under new ownership looks for a site on which to ...
The water flows in from the lower section of the image and passes on both sides of the large island in the center. River bifurcation (from Latin: furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called distributaries) which then continue downstream.
The State of Jefferson is a proposed U.S. state that would span the contiguous, mostly rural area of southern Oregon and Northern California, where several attempts to separate from Oregon and California, respectively, have taken place. The region encompasses most of Northern California 's land but does not include San Francisco or other Bay ...
The Vermont Republic, which included land claimed by New York and New Hampshire and, while unrecognized by the United States, was a de facto independent country, was admitted to the US as the 14th state, Vermont. [10] December 26, 1791. The Province of Quebec was divided into two parts, Lower Canada and Upper Canada.
By the end of the project, 174 parcels had been transferred between Mexico and Texas, each side receiving an equal area of land. [395] [396] too small to map: December 29, 1934 Kingman Reef was placed under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of the Navy. [380] no change to map: November 15, 1935