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  2. Plymouth, Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    68424. Area code. 402. FIPS code. 31-39590 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2398990 [2] Plymouth is a village in Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 363 at the 2020 census.

  3. Koch, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Koch, Inc. Koch, Inc. (/ koʊk / KOHK) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas, and is the second-largest privately held company in the United States, after Cargill. [6] Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and ...

  4. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of valuable resources for extraction. [1] The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Other ...

  5. History of coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of coal mining in the United States starts with the first commercial use in 1701, within the Manakin-Sabot area of Richmond, Virginia. [1] Coal was the dominant power source in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and although in rapid decline it remains a significant source of energy in 2024.

  6. Billionaire Bill Koch Builds His Own Wild West Town on His ...

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    The Wild West isn't gone -- in fact, it's re-emerging in Colorado. Billionaire Bill Koch is building an entire Wild West town (pictured above) on his 6,400-acre Bear Ranch in Gunnison County, Colo ...

  7. Popham Colony - Wikipedia

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    The Popham Colony —also known as the Sagadahoc Colony —was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North America. It was established in 1607 by the proprietary Plymouth Company and was located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine, near the mouth of the Kennebec River. It was founded a few months after its more successful rival ...

  8. History of Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.

  9. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    The town was named that way by the governor of the Mexican Texas Luciano García. San Simeon, California, a town and census-designated place on the Pacific coast of San Luis Obispo County, California ("Saint Simeon") Santa Anna, Texas, a town in Coleman County, Texas; Santa Clara, New York, a town in Franklin County, New York