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The United States of America is a sovereign state stretching across North America between Canada and Mexico, Alaska in the continent's northwest, the mid-Pacific archipelago of Hawaii and several territories in the Pacific & Caribbean. Founded by European émigrés rebelling from British control in the 1700s, the US spread across the continent by conquest and land-purchase to become the most powerful country on the planet after the Cold War in the 1900s.
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When did the term "mirror" begin to be used in place of "looking glass?"
As recently as 150 years ago (I'm thinking of Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking Glass"), the term looking glass was used to denote what we today call a mirror.
I'm wondering, however, when the tra …
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What was the Bone Bill in Washington State?
Yes, this bill sure did have something to do with power production.
Homer T. Bone, once a Socialist, a Republican, and a member of several minor parties, was a Tacoma lawyer and a longtime advocate o …
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Why did the United States issue the Monroe Doctrine when it did?
By 1824, Spain had lost all of its mainland colonies in America. When the powers of Europe proposed to use the recently created Congress System to help Spain regain control of her lost American coloni …
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Why was the year 1816 so incredibly cold?
The answer to this is more geological than historical or meteorological; the reason for 1816's incredible cold was a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia.
As long before as 1783, Ben Franklin had s …
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Why was Pearl Harbor selected as the base Japan attacked in December 1941? [closed]
Why did Japan select Pearl Harbor, and not some other U.S. military base, as the site to surprise attack in 1941? Why didn't Japan attack, for example, the Philippines, or the Panama Canal, or Wake Is …
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Why was Seattle chosen for the site of Expo 62?
Settle's greatest landmark, the Space Needle, was built specifically for the "Century 21 Exposition", also known as Expo 62. Nearly 10 million people attended the fair, boosting the region's economy. …
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Why was the year 1816 so incredibly cold? [closed]
In 1816, temperatures dipped so low that in North America snow fell in the middle of August and in Europe waterways remained frozen until midsummer. What was the reason for this incredible dip in temp …
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Why did the United States issue the Monroe Doctrine when it did?
The Monroe Doctrine – probably the most long-lasting declaration in American diplomatic history – was issued in 1824, when the U.S. were still not a very strong nation.
Why did President Monroe issue …
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Why did an American-Filipino war follow the Spanish-American War?
During the Spanish-American War, the United States had told the Filipinos it was fighting to free them from Spain. But after the Spanish surrender, American newspapers and politicians began a campaign …
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Why did an American-Filipino war follow the Spanish-American War?
Immediately after the end of the Spanish-American War in 1899, a three-year guerrilla war between the United States and its new territory of the Philippines began. What caused this war? The United Sta …
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What advantages did Catholic missionaries to the Indians have over Protestant missionaries i...
Catholic missionaries possessed a number of distinct advantages over the Protestants. First, they were well-trained, ordained priests, not merely well-meaning laymen, as many Protestants were. Unlike …
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Why did Abraham Lincoln decline the governorship of Oregon Territory in 1849?
In 1849, when Abe Lincoln was still a young lawyer, according to my book on Washington State history, he was offered the governorship of Oregon Territory—which, it would seem, was a lucrative position …
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Why was the last battle of the War of 1812 fought fully half a year after the official end o...
As part of my research to answer this question, I came across a mention of the June 30, 1815 battle between the USS Peacock and the East India cruiser Nautilus (in the Indian Ocean) as being official …
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Why was Hiroshima selected to be the city in Japan on which the first atom bomb was dropped? [closed]
What were the reasons that the U.S. government selected Hiroshima to be the city in Japan on which the first atomic bomb was dropped, other than the obvious reason that Hiroshima was a large, importan …
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What advantages did Catholic missionaries to the Indians have over Protestant missionaries i...
I remember reading that Catholic missionaries in old Oregon Country made more converts per capita than Protestant missionaries, besides being in general better-received by the Native Americans.
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