It included the present-day cities of Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA ... There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the United States. The Dutch and ...

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Of the 13 colonies, nine voted in favor of the Declaration, two -- Pennsylvania and South Carolina -- voted No, Delaware was undecided and New York abstained. John Hancock, President of the ...

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“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

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The colonies' first potato crop was harvested in 1722 and the first ... in a burrito, with red salsa chile de arbol and white rice, fried, and in a pot pie. Homemade with mom's recipe and smothered in ...

That summer at Grandview, thousands of beachgoers flipflopped down the zigzag stairs to the sand; they may or may not have ...

Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20 million were found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of a ...

The Fort Gower Resolves, signed by soldiers in November 250 years ago, was one of the first documents to express support for American independence.