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The Compact of 1802, formally Articles of Agreement and Cession, was a compact between the United States and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24, 1802. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its central and western lands (the Yazoo lands, now Alabama and Mississippi, respectively), and promised that the U.S. government would extinguish American Indian ...
Water Island, by purchase from the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company based in Denmark (which at the time was under German occupation) 1944: 0.8: 2.0: $10,000 Mariana Islands, United Nations Trust Territory; self-governing as Northern Mariana Islands: 1947: 179: 467-----
During the same period, in what was called the Pine Barrens speculation, the governors and legislature of Georgia made overlapping land grants in the eastern part of the state, effectively granting three times more land than existed in the state. Although land grants were supposed to be limited to 1,000 acres (4 km 2) per individual, the state ...
They brought together 19 African-American families who raised the money to purchase the land. [2] The settlement is located about 130 miles (210 kilometres) south of Atlanta . [ 5 ] As of July 2023, the settlement consists of a dilapidated campground , and its founders are working on establishing roads and utility services before beginning ...
Amitabh Bachchan [a] (né Srivastava; [1] 11 October 1942 [7]) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema. He is often considered one of the greatest, most accomplished and commercially successful actors in the history of Indian cinema . [ 8 ]
The winner of a massive $328.5 million Powerball drawing has been identified as a 79-year-old Oregon man who says he plans to use the money for travel and to help others.. Beaverton resident Abbas ...
The rapper opened up about returning to his 235-acre farm in Georgia to recharge. Rick Ross is in his farm boy era. What started with a cow, followed by the purchase of a bull named Thor last year ...
The House of Abhinandan Lodha (HOABL) is an Indian land development company headquartered in Mumbai. [1] It has been founded by Abhinandan Lodha and is a subsidiary of Lodha Ventures. The company focuses on residential plotted land developments and has projects in Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh. [1]