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</noinclude> Portal:United States/Did you know/1 Mount Vernon

  • ...that
    Oklahoma Constitution
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</noinclude> Portal:United States/Did you know/4 Indiana Historical Society

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</noinclude> Portal:United States/Did you know/5 Vermont coppers

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</noinclude> Portal:United States/Did you know/6 Pewee Valley Confederate Cemetery

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A brown bird with speckled eyes sits on the grass.

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Route of the first round-the-world nonstop flight by a jet airplane

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Interior of the domed atrium at West Baden Springs Hotel

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Flames running up slope during B&B Complex Fires on 21 August 2003

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A whitish shell carved into the shape of a face, with an extremely protuberant triangular nose

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Mountains and dark blue lake

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A pair of Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars

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A photograph of a maize weevil

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Water goes over a rocky waterfall, past mossy rocks into a swirling pool.

  • ... that Elakala Falls (pictured) may derive its name from the legend of Elakala, the story of a Native American princess who threw herself over the edge of the first waterfall when her lover scorned her?
  • ... that
    minor league basketball
    in the United States for only US$19,000?
  • ... that "
    Billboard Hot Latin Tracks chart
    in the United States?

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A stamp, printed in red ink, depicting the blast-off of a V-2 type rocket vessel, with titling "Fort Bliss Centennial - El Paso Texas"

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Ysleta Mission

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Oregon high desert countryside

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Command Sergeant Major Michele S. Jones

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Esopus Creek seen from a bridge on NY 28 near the hamlet of Shandaken, NY, US


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Marine baseball team in Managua, Nicaragua, 1915

  • ...that members of the
    baseball to Nicaragua
    , and popularizing it in the area?
  • ...that the interchange between Interstate 476 and U.S. Route 30 in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania contains a large crushed-stone image of a griffin to commemorate Radnor's history as part of the Welsh Tract?
  • ...that
    East-West League
    in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?

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Woodsy Owl

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Howard A. Hanson Dam

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</noinclude> Portal:United States/Did you know/26 Abraham Lincoln

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