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  2. United States - Wikipedia

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    Internet TLD. .us [16] The United States of America ( USA or U.S.A. ), commonly known as the United States ( US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district ( Washington, D.C. ), and 326 Indian reservations.

  3. United States of Venezuela - Wikipedia

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    The United States of Venezuela ( Spanish: Estados Unidos de Venezuela) was the official name of Venezuela, adopted in its 1864 constitution under the Juan Crisóstomo Falcón government. This remained the official name until 1953, when the constitution of that year renamed it the Republic of Venezuela. In 1999 under newly elected president Hugo ...

  4. Americas - Wikipedia

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    019 – Americas 001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [5] [6] [7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the ...

  5. Aristóteles Sandoval - Wikipedia

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    Spouse. Lorena Arriaga. Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz (22 January 1974 – 18 December 2020) was a Mexican politician belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Jalisco from 2013 to 2018. On 18 December 2020 he was assassinated in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.

  6. History of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many saw transformations in the 16th century away from more densely populated lifestyles and towards reorganized polities elsewhere.

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    The Inaccessible Island rail ( Laterallus rogersi) is a bird found only on Inaccessible Island in the South Atlantic Tristan archipelago. This rail, the smallest extant flightless bird, was described by physician Percy Lowe in 1923. The adult has brown plumage, a black bill, black feet, and red eyes. It occupies most habitats on the island ...

  8. Flag of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The national flag of the United States (Spanish: Bandera Nacional de Estados Unidos), often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where ...

  9. Bekker numbering - Wikipedia

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    Bekker numbering or Bekker pagination is the standard form of citation to the works of Aristotle. It is based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle (1831–1837) and takes its name from the editor of that edition, the classical philologist August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871 ...