• The United States has very few laws governing given names. This freedom has given rise to a wide variety of names and naming trends. Naming traditions...
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    The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...
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    Several names of the United States of America are in common use. Alternatives to the full name include "the United States", the initialisms "the U.S." and...
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  • United States ship naming conventions for the U.S. Navy were established by congressional action at least as early as 1862. Title 13, section 1531, of...
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    The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America...
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    storm naming in the United States has been used sporadically since the mid-1700s in various ways to describe historical winter storms. These names have...
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  • The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 148. Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United...
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    The following sortable table comprises the 477 mountain peaks of the United States with at least 3,000 m (9,843 ft) of topographic elevation and at least...
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  • ship-naming conventions Lasco, Dominique. "Navy Christens Guided-Missile Destroyer Michael Murphy". Retrieved 11 June 2011. "Ship Naming in the United States...
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    The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral...
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  • These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1960s. Males David Michael John James Robert Mark William Richard Thomas...
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  • coordinates) This is a list of the most populous incorporated places of the United States. As defined by the United States Census Bureau, an incorporated...
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  • of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from New York. The list of names should...
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    In the United States, time is divided into nine standard time zones covering the states, territories and other US possessions, with most of the country...
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  • primarily for one hit song in the United States, who are regarded as one-hit wonders by at least two sources in media even though the artist may have had multiple...
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  • These are the most popular given names in the United States for each respective year in the 1970s. Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1970s from the Social Security...
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    with the Confederate States of America, more commonly referred to as the Naming Commission, was a United States government commission created by the United...
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    Islam is the third largest religion in the United States (1%), behind Christianity (63%) and Judaism (2%), and equaling the shares of Buddhism and Hinduism...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most...
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  • The WWE United States Championship is a men's professional wrestling championship promoted by the American promotion WWE, defended on the SmackDown brand...
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  • These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1930s. Males Robert James John William Richard Charles Donald George Joseph...
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  • Crime has been recorded in the United States since its founding and has fluctuated significantly over time, with a sharp rise after 1900 and reaching a...
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  • These are the most popular given names in the United States for all years of the 1950s. Males John James Robert William Michael David Richard Thomas Charles...
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    passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...
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    county equivalents of the United States. The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties. Two...
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    This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...
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  • Healthcare in the United States is largely provided by private sector healthcare facilities, and paid for by a combination of public programs, private...
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    The term "United States," when used in the geographical sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including...
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    Sports in the United States are an important part of the nation's culture. Historically, the national sport has been baseball. However, in more recent...
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