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Alabama

Alabama State Facts Organized as territory: March 3, 1817Entered Union: Dec. 14, 1819 (22nd State)Present constitution adopted: 1901 Fun Facts State abbreviation/Postal code: Ala./ALNickname:…

Montana

  Montana State Information Capital: Helena Official Name: Montana Entered Union (rank): November 8th, 1889 (41st state) Present constitution adopted: 1972 State abbreviation/Postal code: Mon/…

Year in Review, 2000: Top Sports Personalities

Golf star Tiger Woods, Olympic star Cathy Freeman, and ten other personalities who changed sports by Gerry Brown, John Gettings, & Mike Morrison Tiger Woods At the age of 25, Woods…

Malaysia Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Malaysia Index: People Government Political Conditions Foreign Relations PEOPLEThe early Buddhist Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, based at what is now…

U.S. State Population by Rank (Update for 2023!)

Top of Page Source: Getty ImagesThe U.S. population is enormous  —  339,123,510 people as of 2023  —  and growing. But there’s more to the numbers than “largest and smallest”. Some American…

Latvia Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Latvia Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Latvian Relations PEOPLEThe behavior of most…

How Many Continents Are There?

Source: iStock Like a large jigsaw puzzle, the surface of the Earth is divided up into interlocking pieces that form the world we know today. And when it comes to the number of continents, it hasn’t…

The Charges Against Columbus

A controversy of historic proportion The Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn (1847)Within the last half century, many historians have come to criticize Columbus's legacy and question whether he…

Canada Map: Regions, Geography, Facts & Figures

Canada, the second largest country in the world, is located in North America and shares borders with the contiguous U.S. states to the south and Alaska to the northwest. It is a vast nation with…