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The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.The university system includes six campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, a medical school in Worcester and a law school in Dartmouth), a satellite campus in Springfield [5] [6] and also 25 campuses throughout California and Washington with the University of Massachusetts Global.
Massachusetts is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Municipalities in the state are classified as either towns or cities, distinguished by their form of government under state law. Towns have an open town meeting or representative town meeting form of government; cities, on the other hand, use a mayor-council or council-manager ...
In May 1967, Rockefeller signed a bill that allowed the MCTA to oversee the mass transit policies of New York City-area transit systems. The unification agreement took place the following March, with the MCTA taking over the operations of the LIRR, NYCTA, TBTA, New Haven commuter services, New York Central commuter services, and the Staten ...
Massachusetts State Militia Aviation Camp [100] Naval Airfields. No Man's Land Navy Airfield [101] Naval Ammunition Depots. Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot (Hingham Naval Ammunition Depot Annex) [102] Areas. Gull Island Bomb Area [103] Tisbury Great Pond Target Area [104] Weepecket Island Bomb Area [105] Naval Auxiliary Air Facilities
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Nathaniel Jennison was a court case in Massachusetts in 1783 that effectively abolished slavery in that state. [1] [2] It was the third in a series of cases which became known as the Quock Walker cases .
The legislative assembly for the ACT is the only parliament with responsibility for both state/territory and local government functions. [2] The head of government of each state is called the "premier", appointed by the state's governor. [57]
[8] [a] Barack Obama carried the state with 61.8% of the vote in 2008 [9] and 60.7% in 2012. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won the state with 61.0% of the vote, with Massachusetts trending to the left, opposite the nation. In 2020, Massachusetts was the second-most Democratic state, following Vermont.
Palestine, [i] officially the State of Palestine, [ii] [e] is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 145 out of 193 UN member states.It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, collectively known as the Occupied Palestinian territories, within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region.