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1 hour ago · The American flag is officially recognized on June 14th each year. Read about the ways veterans and professors celebrate and observe the holiday amidst its recent controversy in society.
1 day ago · The Episcopal Church ( TEC ), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that ...
1 day ago · As of December 2023, there are 741,930 voters registered as Libertarian in the 29 states that report Libertarian registration statistics and Washington, D.C. The first electoral vote for a woman was that for Tonie Nathan of the party for vice president in the 1972 United States presidential election due to a faithless elector supporter who eschewed his expected votes for President Richard ...
1 day ago · The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [1] [2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate ...
5 hours ago · Mexican Americans (Spanish: mexicano-estadounidenses, mexico-americanos, or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of Mexican heritage. [12] In 2022, Mexican Americans comprised 11.2% of the US population and 58.9% of all Hispanic and Latino Americans. [3] In 2019, 71% of Mexican Americans were born in the United States; [13] they ...
5 hours ago · Hawaii ( / həˈwaɪ.i / ⓘ hə-WY-ee; [9] Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi, həˈwɐjʔi]) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) southwest of the U.S. mainland. It is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics .
5 hours ago · Baltimore has a significant German American population, and was the second-largest port of immigration to the United States behind Ellis Island in New York and New Jersey. Between 1820 and 1989, almost 2 million who were German, Polish , English, Irish, Russian , Lithuanian , French , Ukrainian , Czech , Greek and Italian came to Baltimore, mostly between 1861 and 1930.
