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  2. History of Maryland - Wikipedia

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    Maryland then finally agreed to join the new American confederation by being one of the last of the former colonies ratifying the long proposed Articles in 1781, when they took effect. Later that same decade, Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the stronger government structure proposed in the new U.S. Constitution in 1788.

  3. Chris Kluwe - Wikipedia

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    The book is a collection of essays on various topics and the book title comes from the public consumption version of Kluwe's Deadspin letter to Maryland General Assembly Del. Emmett Burns. [53] Kluwe also cowrote a book with Andrew Reiner, entitled "Prime: A Genesis Series Event (Volume 1)". The book is the first in a planned science-fiction ...

  4. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    The name was borrowed into Spanish as texa, plural texas, and was used to refer to the Nabedache people (and later to the Caddo Nation in general). When the Spanish decided to convert the Nabedache to Catholicism, they constructed La Misión de San Francisco de los Texas, which later came to be used in naming the Viceroyalty of New Spain’s ...

  5. State cessions - Wikipedia

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    State Notes Delaware: No land claim farther west. Its western border forms part of the Mason–Dixon line. Maryland: No land claim farther west, but ceded land to the federal government that became part of the District of Columbia (and is now the entirety of it). Maryland's northern border forms part of the Mason–Dixon line. New Hampshire

  6. Alphabet agencies - Wikipedia

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    The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933.

  7. Maryland, Whose Maryland? The quest for a new state song ...

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    In the United States, all but Maryland and New Jersey have a state song. A Maryland state delegate, a Republican, is looking to change that.

  8. Why Texas Democrats see this local race as key to turning ...

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    While Texas cities were solidly Republican by the 1990s — and while it was a solidly Republican state presidentially after 1980 and in terms of the statewide executive after 1994 — the state ...

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    The book was promoted with an included pencil, and "This odd-looking book with a pencil attached to it" [42] was an instant hit, leading crossword puzzles to become a craze of 1924. To help promote its books, Simon & Schuster also founded the Amateur Cross Word Puzzle League of America, which began the process of developing standards for puzzle ...