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| | DEA Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Drug Descriptions, Drug Trafficking in the United States |
 | | Despite the recent decline in the trafficking of SEA heroin in the United States, Chinese criminal groups remain the most sophisticated heroin trafficking organizations in the world. | | | These criminal groups were enmeshed with North American gangs of Asian descent in transporting SEA heroin to the United States, mainly to the East Coast. | | | The region's numerous and established drug transportation groups, extensive network of commercial flights, abundance of couriers, and historic connections to Europe provide traffickers with the means to route synthetic drugs through South America and the Caribbean to the United States. |
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| | Ambassadors from the United States This is a list of ambassadors from the United States. | | | List Of State Highways In The United States | | | List of cities in the United Arab Emirates This is a list of the principal cities of the United Arab Emirates, in alphab... |
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| | New Jersey Lighthouse Society - Lighthouse Organization and links |
| | The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society was organized in 1994 to aid in the preservation of the lighthouses in the area and work with the National Park Service and other agencies and non-profit groups to achieve the safe-keeping of the buildings, artifacts and records of the old United States Lighthouse Establishment, a.k.a. | | | United States Lighthouse Society (USLHS) - A non-profit Historical & Educational Organization- USLHS, 244 Kearny Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108. | | | The purpose of the lease is to allow for the restoration and preservation of the lighthouse., create and educational and interpretive museum of our regions maritime heritage and eventually to make the light accessible for tours to the general public. |
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| | United States History, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide |
| | American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. | | | The Women and Social Movements website is a project of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton, intended to introduce students to a rich collection of primary documents related to women and social movements in the United States between 1775 and 1940. | | | A website by the Rochester Regional Library Council which chronicles the rise of the Women's Suffrage movement in western New York, beginning in 1848. |
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| | The United States has large deposits of coal, iron ore, natural gas, and petroleum, which are vital to the country's industrial strength. | | | The United States is second, after Saudi Arabia, in the production of petroleum. | | | Also, large numbers of immigrants--many of whom had been farmers in their homelands--found jobs in cities and settled there when they reached the United States. |
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http://www.gauravhira.freehomepage.com/united_states_of_america.htm
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| | United States of America - Wikitravel |
| | This crisis exacerbated the disaffection among the working classes in the United States and around the world and led to a rise in socialist thinking that was to have a large effect on the rest of the century. | | | The founding of British colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts in the early 17th century marks the beginning of what we now know as the United States of America. | | | The continental United States (the 48 states other than Alaska and Hawaii) is bound by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west, with much of the country's population living on these two coasts. |
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http://wikitravel.org/en/United_States_of_America
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| | You'll be sure to return to 50 states of the United States with its capital city data and information links. | | | The State Flags Game and the State Capitals Game are places where your students can sharpen their knowledge of the states. | | | State of New York offers many government links including an audio file of the Governor's State of the State Address. |
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http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ccenter/states/websites.shtml
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| | United States Arkansas Encyclopedia Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas |
| | The head of the executive branch is the President of the United States. | | | Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States. | | | The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence. |
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| | Images of early maps on the web: 8. United States |
| | United States - Maryland ('Kent County and Queen Anne's County from Lake, Griffing and Stevenson's 1877 Atlas: Maps of Delmarva and the Eastern Shore' (28 high res. | | | United States - North Carolina (links evidently leading to 31 soil maps (of different 20th century dates) of the counties and general maps, in zoomable, high res. | | | images of the 30 plans, covering forts in the northeastern US and Canada - Massachusetts Historical Society) {May, 2002} |
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http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ccenter/states/activk-3.shtml
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| | Inscription of Sites on the World Heritage List by Year |
| | Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos | | | Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands | | | Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne |
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| | GGR 346 United States Geography Dr GGR 346 United States Geography | | | This course provides students with a deeper understanding of the regional, cultural, physical, economic, and historic geographic diversity and complexity of the past and present United States landscape. | | | In addition to the diversity within the United States, past and present issues from outside this country are also included providing past and current contexts. |
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http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rdh5/syllabus.html
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| | The Hudson River Valley Institute - About the Hudson River Valley Institute |
| | As an arm of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area (HRVNHA), the HRVI is increasing public awareness of America's First River's significant role in the history of New York and the United States. | | | The web site also serves as a portal to other sources of information from libraries to historical societies to historic sites. | | | As noted by New York State officials, key data describing the special resources of the Valley are not readily available to residents, to students, or to visitors in a comprehensive or coordinated way. |
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| | List of current and former capital cities within the United States | | | List of state legislatures of the United States | | | List of state Democratic Parties in the US |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/locality/US/MO/Nevada-Missouri.htm
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| | G2000-Internet Lesson Plan: Regions of the United States |
| | Description: Students working in collaborative groups of 3-4 using technology to study the seven regions of the United States. | | | G2000-Internet Lesson Plan: Regions of the United States | | | Draw maps of regions; design travel posters for regions. |
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http://www.lth3.k12.il.us/teamed2000/LessonPlan/9.html
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| | Antique Maps of Regions of the United States from the 19th Century |
| | A handsome and detailed map of the southern part of the United States, the "Seat of War" issued just after the end of the Civil War as an accompaniment to Horace Greeley's account of the conflict. | | | This wonderful map is as fine a cartographic document of the region as was available at the time. | | | This map is filled with copious information on the state of Pennsylvania in 1883. |
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http://www.philaprintshop.com/19usreg2.html
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| | Geography Of The United States Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Looking For geography of the united states - Find geography of the united states and more at Lycos Search. | | | National Atlas of the United States of America | | | Forty-nine states in the United States (all except Hawaii) lie on the North American continent; 48 of these (all except Alaska) are contiguous and form the continental United States. |
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http://popularityguide.com/encyclopedia/Geography_of_the_United_States
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| | List of regions of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Defunct, extinct or archaic regions are described in historic regions of the United States. | | | This list of regions of the United States includes official (governmental) and non-official areas within the borders of the United States, not including U.S. states, the federal district of Washington, D.C. or standard subentities such as cities or counties. | | | Regions of New York as defined by the New York State Department of Economic Development |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States
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| | History - FirstGov for Kids |
| | - A place where you can find all sorts of information on the history, government, presidents, people, and states of the United States. | | | Search the archive for the day of your choice. | | | - Explore history - ancient, United States, and world - in A- to-Z History. |
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| | Historic regions of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description. | | | Indian Land Cessions in the United States, United States Digital Map Archives | | | LOC: Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894, United States Serial Set, Number 4015 |
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| | Organized territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the current lexicon of the United States political insular areas, a "commonwealth" is considered a special case of an organized territory. | | | In the history of the United States, an organized territory is a territory for which the United States Congress has enacted an Organic Act. | | | The first organized territory in the United States was the Northwest Territory, organized in 1787 by the passage of the Northwest Ordinance, which is the prototype for subsequent organic acts. |
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| | Indiana Territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | See also: Historic regions of the United States | | | Indiana Territory was an organized territory of the United States from 1800 to 1816, created by Act of Congress and signed into law by President John Adams on May 7, 1800, effective on July 4. | | | This latter parcel became part of the state of Ohio when it was admitted to the Union in 1803. |
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| | Introduction-Ecological Subregions of the United States |
| | Figure 2 --Ecological units delineated at the Province level (Ecoregions of the United States, R.G. Bailey, 1994) are the basis for organization of this document. | | | The map "Ecoregions and Subregions of the United States" was compiled by December 1993 and printed in June 1994 (Bailey and others 1994). | | | Bailey's publication (Bailey, 1980), which describes the Domains, Divisions, and Provinces of the United States is being revised (Bailey, In prep.). |
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| | Dakota Territory |
| | Dakota Territory was the name of the northernmost part of the Louisiana Purchase of the United States. | | | It became a historic, organized territory on March 2, 1861, and divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota on November 2, 1889. | | | On a national level, there was pressure from the Republican Party to admit the two states rather than one to add political power in the Senate. |
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