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The term "51st state" in American political discourse refers to the idea of adding a new state to the Union, either by granting statehood to one of the U.S. territories, splitting an existing state, admitting another country, or granting statehood to the Washington D.C. This would increase the number of states in the United States from 50 to 51.
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [a] – December 14, 1799) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797.Appointed commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War.
On 8 January 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) issued an advisory opinion that states party to the American Convention on Human Rights should grant same-sex couples accession to all existing domestic legal systems of family registration, including marriage, along with all rights that derive from marriage. The Court ...
In 1966, Massachusetts became the first state to directly elect an African American to the U.S. senate with Edward Brooke. [145] George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989–1993) was born in Milton in 1924. [146]
Despite ranking as the third-least educated state as of 2023, preceded by Mississippi and West Virginia, [19] Louisiana is home to over 40 public and private colleges and universities including: Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge; Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette; and Tulane ...
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
Cherokee is one of the few, or perhaps the only, Native American language with an increasing population of speakers, [119] and along with Navajo it is the only indigenous American language with more than 50,000 speakers, [120] a figure most likely achieved through the tribe's 10-year long language preservation plan involving growing new ...