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Specialty Definition: 13 colonies

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The 13 colonies refers to the thirteen British colonies in North America, separately chartered and governed, that signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and formally broke with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United States.

The Thirteen Colonies

• New England:
  • New Hampshire
  • Massachusetts
  • Rhode Island
  • Connecticut
• The Middle Colonies:
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • Delaware
• The Southern Colonies:
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia

Other British Colonies in North America in 1776

• Nova Scotia
• Newfoundland
• Quebec (first held by British 1763)
• East Florida (first held by British in 1762)
• West Florida (first held by British in 1762)

Information on British Colonies

• British colonization of the Americas
• Colonial America

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America

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America is the name of the continents North America, Central America and South America combined (or if one includes Central America in North America one should say: North and South America). See: The Americas.

See naming of America for information about how the continents were named.

Other meanings of America:

• An abbreviation of United States of America, and in American, sometimes used in the meaning relating to the United States of America.
• America, Brazil
• America, Netherlands - a town in the municipality of Horst aan de Maas
• America (band), the rock and roll band
• America (album), the above band's debut album (self-titled)
• America (novel), a novel by Franz Kafka

Editor's note: For the country the terms "United States of America", "USA", or "US" are preferred instead of America, to avoid confusion.

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America (band)

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America was a light rock band, most popular in the early 1970s and now best known for their #1 hit "A Horse With No Name".

Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley, all singers and guitarists, met in high school and formed a folk rock group called Daze. After the name change to "America", the group received a contract with Warner Brothers Records. "A Horse With No Name" was the band's debut single, and it peaked at #3 in the United Kingdom, and the album, America reached #14. After heading to the United States, "A Horse With No Name" hit #1 there, and the album did so soon after. "Ventura Highway", the first single off their next album, Homecoming (1972), also became a huge hit. America won Best New Artist at the 1972 Grammy Awards. Homecoming became a huge hit in the US, and slightly less so in the UK. Hat Trick, the group's third album, was a relative failure, but the band's fourth album, Holiday (with new producer George Martin) became a hit. The next album, Hearts (1975) featured the band's second #1 single in the US, "Sister Golden Hair". ''Hideaway'\' (1976) showed the beginning of America's final decline. Dan Peek left the group, and the duo produced a few more albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s to little fanfare.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "America (band)."

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America (novel)

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America (German: Amerika) was a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1927, which describes the adventures of a sixteen-year-old European emigrant called Karl Grossman in the United States, as a punishment for being seduced by a maid, to meet his uncle who receives him at his home and initiates him in business management.

Fired by his uncle and without any money in a strange world, he finds a job as an elevator operator working at the huge Hotel Occidental.

The novel presents the drama of a European who found himself to be just a worthless part of the machine-like American corporation system, debunking the whole American success myth.

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Naming of America

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The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the german cartograph Martin Waldseemüller. An accompanying book Cosmographiae Introductio explains that the name was derived from the forename of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, via the Latinisation Americus Vespucius and taking the feminine form America. Amerigo is a form of the German name Haimirich, meaning 'ruler of the Home', from 'haim' (home) and 'rich' (powerful).

A few alternative theories have been proposed, but none of them have any widespread acceptance.

One alternative is that America is derived from Richard Amerike, a merchant from Bristol, England who is believed to have financed John Cabot's voyage of discovery to Newfoundland in 1497. Waldseemüller's maps appear to incorporate information from the early British journeys to North America. The theory holds that a variant of Amerike's name appeared on an early British map (of which no copies survive) and this was the true inspiration for Waldseemüller. Authors who have written about this theory include Ian Wilson, Peter Macdonald and Rodney Broome.

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North America

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simple:North America

North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere of Earth, located to the east of the Pacific Ocean, the west of the Atlantic Ocean, the south of the Arctic Ocean, and the north of South America. It is the north part of The Americas.

On the main continent itself can be found three large and relatively populous countries:

• Canada
  • Some other large islands off the shore of North America and belonging to Canada include Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands on the west, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island on the east, and Ellesmere Island, Baffin Island, and Victoria Island in the north.
• Mexico

• United States
  • includes the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

At the extreme southern end of the continent, in a relatively small area (smaller than an average Canadian province) called Central America are:

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama

At the extreme southeastern end of the continent, lies a chain of islands territories called the Antilles, the Caribbean or the West Indies. They include:

• Anguilla (British dependency)
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• British Virgin Islands (British dependency)
• Cayman Islands (British dependency)
• Cuba
• Dominica (Commonwealth of)
• Dominican Republic
• Grenada
• Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
• Haiti
• Jamaica
• Martinique (overseas department of France)
• Montserrat (British dependency)
• Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
• Puerto Rico (U.S. commonwealth)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency)
• U.S. Virgin Islands (territory of the USA)

In the Atlantic Ocean:

• Bermuda (British dependency)

• Greenland, the largest island in the world, is considered to be in North America and is located in the far north, to the east of Canada's Nunavut Territory. It is a self-governing dependency of Denmark.

• Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Found off the coast of Canada it is the last of France's once vast North American possessions.

country	pop. dens.	area	population
	(/km²)	(km²)	(2002-07-01 est.)
Bermuda (UK)	1,200	53	63,960
Barbados	642	431	276,607
Puerto Rico (US)	435	9,104	3,957,988
Martinique (Fr.)	384	1,100	422,277
Aruba (Neth.)	365	193	70,441
U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	351	352	123,498
El Salvador	302	21,040	6,353,681
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	299	389	116,394
Saint Lucia	260	616	160,145
Grenada	259	344	89,211
Haiti	255	27,750	7,063,722
Guadeloupe (Fr.)	245	1,780	435,739
Jamaica	244	10,991	2,680,029
Trinidad and Tobago	227	5,128	1,163,724
Netherlands Antilles (Neth.)	223	960	214,258
Dominican Republic	179	48,730	8,721,594
Antigua and Barbuda	152	443	67,448
Saint Kitts and Nevis	148	261	38,736
British Virgin Islands (UK)	139	153	21,272
Cayman Islands (UK)	138	262	36,273
Guatemala	122	108,890	13,314,079
Anguilla (UK)	122	102	12,446
Cuba	101	110,860	11,224,321
Dominica	93	754	70,158
Montserrat (UK)	83	102	8,437
Costa Rica	75	51,100	3,834,934
Honduras	59	112,090	6,560,608
Mexico	52	1,972,550	103,400,165
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	44	430	18,738
Nicaragua	39	129,494	5,023,818
Panama	37	78,200	2,882,329
United States	29	9,629,091	280,562,489
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (Fr.)	29	242	6,954
Bahamas	22	13,940	300,529
Belize	11	22,966	262,999
Canada	3.2	9,976,140	31,902,268
Greenland (Denm.)	0.03	2,166,086	56,376

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See also: History of North America

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The Americas

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The Americas (sometimes referred to as America) is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, namely North America and South America. The term also usually includes the Caribbean, the islands in and around the Caribbean Sea, and Greenland, though not Iceland, for cultural and historical reasons. The isthmus of Central America is usually considered geographically part of North America. The Americas are often also described collectively as the Western Hemisphere or the New World.

Most references consider there to be two continents, North America and South America. However, most Spanish language references consider the two to be a single continent, "America". Even so, many Spanish speakers consider América del norte and América del sur to be separate continents. The use of America to refer to the New World as a whole is also sometimes used in English, such as in the common phrase "Christopher Columbus discovered America".

People who live in the Americas are sometimes referred to as being American, although the word "American" is more commonly used to refer only to a citizen of the United States of America. (See also Alternate words for American)

See naming of America for a discussion of how the Americas were named.

See also Latin America.

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United States

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The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S.), America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. Founded along the Atlantic coast, it spread westward to the Pacific Ocean. It shares land borders with Canada in the north and Mexico in the south, shares a marine border with Russia in the west, and has a collection of districts, territories, and possessions around the globe. The country has 50 states, which have a level of local autonomy.

The United States traces its national origin to the declaration by 13 British colonies in 1776 that they were free and independent states. Since the mid-20th century it has eclipsed every other nation in terms of economic, political, military, and cultural influence.

United States of America (In Detail) Great Seal National mottos (1776 - ): E Pluribus Unum (Latin: "Out of many, one") (1956 - ): In God We Trust Official language None at federal level, some states specify English de facto Capital Washington, DC Largest City New York City President George W. Bush Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 9,372,610 km² 2.198% Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 3rd 281,421,906 31/km² Independence  - Declared  - Recognized Revolutionary War July 4, 1776 September 3, 1783 GDP (base PPP)  - Total (2002)  - GDP/head Ranked 1st 10,40 trillions $ 37,600 $ Currency US dollar ($) Time zone UTC -5 to UTC -10 National anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Internet TLD .US .EDU .GOV .MIL Calling Code 1

History

Main article: History of the United States

Following the European colonization of the Americas, the United States became the world's first modern democracy after its break with Great Britain, with a Declaration of Independence in 1776. The original political structure was a confederation in 1777, ratified in 1781 as the Articles of Confederation. After long debate, this was supplanted by the Constitution of a more centralized federal government in 1789. During the 19th century, many new states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. Two of the major traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the American Civil War (1861-65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Buoyed by victories in World War I and World War II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the U.S. remains the world's most powerful nation-state.

See also: Military History of the United States, Timeline of United States history

Politics

Main article: Politics of the United States

The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over state law. In general, matters that lie entirely within state borders are the exclusive concern of state governments. These include internal communications; regulations relating to property, industry, business, and public utilities; the state criminal code; and working conditions within the state. Many state laws are quite similar from state to state. Finally, there are many areas of overlap between state and federal jurisdictions.

In recent years, the federal government has assumed broader responsibility in such matters as health, education, welfare, transportation, and housing and urban development. The constitutions of the various states differ in some details but generally follow a pattern similar to that of the federal Constitution, including a statement of the rights of the people and a plan for organizing the government. On such matters as the operation of businesses, banks, public utilities, and charitable institutions, state constitutions are often more detailed and explicit than the federal constitution.

The federal government itself consists of three branches: the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch. The head of the executive branch is the President of the United States. The legislative branch consists of the United States Congress, while the Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch. The President is elected to a four year term by the U.S. Electoral College. The various electors are in turn chosen primarily by the popular votes in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Members of Congress are elected at varying dates, as are state Governors and state legislatures.

The federal and state government is dominated by two political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats. The dominant political culture in the United States is, as a whole, somewhat to the right of the dominant political culture in European democracies. Given their complex support bases it is difficult to specifically categorise the two major parties' appeal. Within the US political culture, the Republican Party is described as center-right and the Democratic Party is described as center-left. Minor party and independent candidates are very occasionally elected, usually to local or state office, but the United States political system has historically supported catch all parties rather than coalition governments. The ideology and policies of the sitting President of the United States commonly play a large role in determining the direction of his political party, as well as the platform of the opposition.

The two parties exist on both the state and federal level, although the parties' organization, platform, and ideologies are not necessarily uniform across all levels of government.

Both major parties draw some support from all the diverse socio-economic classes which compose the mature multi-ethnic capitalist society which makes up the United States. Business interests provide the major funding and support to the Republican Party while labor unions and minority ethnic groups provide major support to the Democrats. Access to funds is vital in the political system due to the financial costs of mounting political campaigns. Thus, through lobbying, corporations, unions, and other organized groups that provide funds and political support to parties and politicians can play a large role in determining the political agendas and government decision-making.

Political divisions

Main article: United States territory

States

Main article: States of the United States

At the Declaration of Independence, the United States consisted of 13 states. In the following years, this number has grown steadily due to expansion to the west, conquest and purchase of lands by the American government, and division of existing states to the current number of 50 :

Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky

Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota

Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

The contiguous part of the US (i.e. without Hawaii and Alaska) is called continental United States.

The states are divided into smaller administrative regions, called counties in most states--exceptions being Alaska (boroughs) and Louisiana (parishes). Counties can include a number of cities and towns, or sometimes just a part of a city. See County (United States).

Federal district

The District of Columbia is a separate federal district not part of any state and is under the direct authority of Congress. It is there that the nation's capital city—the seat of the federal government—resides.

Dependent areas

Several islands in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea are dependent territories of the United States:

American Samoa Baker Island (uninhabited) Guam Howland Island (uninhabited) Jarvis Island (uninhabited)

Johnston Atoll (uninhabited) Kingman Reef (uninhabited) Midway Islands Navassa Island (uninhabited) Northern Mariana Islands

Palmyra Atoll (uninhabited) Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands Wake Island (uninhabited)

Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States.

US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease.

The US has made no territorial claim in Antarctica but has reserved the right to do so.

From July 18, 1947 until October 1, 1994, the US administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, but recently entered into a new political relationship with all four political units.

Occupying Power

The United States is currently an occupying power of the following countries:

• Iraq, this power is shared with the United Kingdom.

Geography

Main article: Geography of the United States

As the world's third largest nation (land area), the United States landscape varies greatly: temperate forestland on the East coast, mangrove forests in Florida, the Great Plains in the centre of the country, the Mississippi-Missouri river system, the Rocky Mountains west of the plains, deserts and temperate coastal zones west of the Rocky Mountains and temperate rainforests in the Pacific Northwest. The arctic regions of Alaska and the volcanic islands of Hawaii only increase the geographic and climactic diversity.

The climate varies along with the landscape, from sub-tropic in Florida to tundra in Alaska. Large parts of the country have a continental climate, with warm summers and cold winters. Some parts of the United States, particularly parts of California, have a Mediterranean climate.

Economy

Main article: Economy of the United States

The economy of the United States is organized on the capitalist model and is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, a large trade deficit, and rapid advances in technology. The American economy can be regarded as the most important in the world. Several countries have coupled their currency with the dollar, or even use it as a currency, and the American stock markets are globally seen as an indicator of world economy.

The country has rich mineral resources, with extensive gold, oil, coal and uranium deposits. Agriculture brings the country among the top producers of, among others, maize, wheat, sugar and tobacco. American industry produces cars, airplanes and electronics. The biggest sector is however service industries; about three-quarters of Americans are employed in that sector.

The largest trading partner of the USA is its northern neighbor, Canada. Other major partners are Mexico, the European Union and the industrialized nations in the Far East, such as Japan and South Korea. Trade with China is also significant.

See also: List of American companies

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of the United States

Most of the 280 million people currently living in the United States descend from European immigrants that have arrived since the establishment of the first colonies. Major components of the European segment of the United States population are descended from immigrants from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy with many immigrants also from Scandinavian countries and the Slavic and other populations of eastern and southern Europe and French Canada; few immigrants came directly from France. Likewise, while there were few immigrants directly from Spain, Hispanics from Mexico and South and Central America are considered the largest minority group in the country, comprising 13.4% of the population (38.6 million people) in 2002. This has brought increasing use of the Spanish language in the United States (see Languages in the United States). About 12% (2000 census) of the people are African Americans who largely descend from the African slaves that were brought to America. A third significant minority is the Asian American population (3.6%), who are most concentrated on the West Coast. The native population of Native Americans, such as American Indians and Inuit make up less than 1% of the population.

The level of Christian religious devotion in the US is showing a gradual decline, from 86.2% calling themselves Christian in 1990 to 76.5% doing so in 2001 (ARIS 2001). The religious affiliations in 2001 were Protestant 52%, Catholic 24.5%, none 13.2%, Jewish 1.3% and 0.5-0.3% for Muslim, Buddhist, Agnostic, Atheist, Hindu and Unitarian Universalist. There is a significant difference between those who declare themselves to be of a religion and those who are members of a church of that religion. Census Bureau figures (PDF file) show that church membership in 2001 was 53% Christian, 2.3% Jewish and 0.1% Muslim, others lower.

The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence. However, in terms of relative wealth, most Americans enjoy a standard of personal economic wealth that is far greater than that known in the majority of the world. For example, 51% of all households have access to a computer and 41% had access to the Internet in 2000. Furthermore, 67.9% of US households owned their dwellings in 2002.

Culture

Main article: Culture of the United States

American culture has a large influence on the rest of the world, especially the Western world. American music is heard all over the world, and American movies and television shows can be seen almost anywhere. This is in stark contrast to the early days of the American republic, when the country was generally seen as an agricultural backwater with little to offer the culturally advanced world centers of Asia and Europe. Nearing the end of its third century, nearly every major American city offers classical and popular music; historical, scientific and art research centers and museums; dance performances, musicals and plays; outdoor art projects and internationally significant architecture. This development is a result of both contributions by private philanthropists and government funding.

The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which include schools considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world. Among these are the eight Ivy League Universities, elite private universities, numerous private colleges, which provide primarily undergraduate education, and an extensive system of public universities and colleges.

Holidays

Date	Name	Remarks
January 1	New Year's Day	celebrates beginning of year, marks traditional end of "holiday season"
January, third Monday	Martin Luther King, Jr Day	honors King, Civil Rights leader
February, third Monday	Presidents' Day	honors former American Presidents, especially Washington and Lincoln
May, last Monday	Memorial Day	honors service men and women who died in service, marks traditional beginning of summer
July 4	Independence Day	celebrates Declaration of Independence, usually called "The Fourth of July"
September, first Monday	Labor Day	celebrate achievements of workers, marks traditional end of summer
October, second Monday	Columbus Day	honors Christopher Columbus, traditional discover of the Americas
November 11	Veteran's Day	traditional observation of a moment of silence at 11 AM remembering those who fought for peace
November, fourth Thursday	Thanksgiving	give thanks for autumn harvest, marks traditional beginning of "holiday season"
December 25	Christmas	celebrates the nativity of Jesus Christ, also celebrated as secular winter holiday

Related Topics

Main article: List of United States of America-related topics

External links

United States government

• Official website of the United States government - Gateway to governmental sites
• The White House - Official site of the Presidential residence
• Senate.gov - Official site of the United States Senate
• House.gov - Official site of the United States House of Representatives
• SCOTUS - Official site of the Supreme Court of the United States
• Portrait of the USA - Published by the United States Information Agency, September 1997.
• US Census Housing and Economic Statistics Updated regularly by US Bureau of the Census.

Other

• National Motto: History and Constitutionality
• Historical Documents
• Worldwide Press Freedom Index - Rank 17 out of 139 countries

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Photo Album: America

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	First recognized in the 1930s, Venezuelan Encephalitis has been responsible for numerous outbreaks of febrile illnesses and encephalitis involving thousands of humans and hundreds of thousands of equines, primarily in tropical America. Credit: CDC.		Sign: America Responds to AIDS. Credit: CDC.
	Central America from Space. Credit: NASA.		View of North America from Apollo 16. Credit: NASA.
	View of South America from Galileo. Credit: NASA.		Spanning the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Credit: NASA.
	North America. Credit: NASA.		Bob Pryce operating theodolite at Geographical Center of North America. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Lieutenant Cindy McFee visits with penguins at Little America Lt. McFee was on the way to South Pole Station She was the third woman to winter over. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		A derelict ferry at the Turning Basin site adjacent to Kenco Marine and a Coastal America site. The ferry has since been removed as part of the restoration project. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.
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Digital Photo Gallery: America
 

"America open for business 4" by Vincent Seychal Commentary: "This is a road trip from San Francisco to Albuquerque via NYC between 2001 and 2002."	"Bridge to America" by Adam Brown Commentary: "This is the bridge to America, taken from Ontario, Canada."
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Sounds Captioned with "America".

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	Drum styles from West Africa with synthesized flute melody typical of South America.		World music style with influences from South America, Jamaica, and Hawaii.
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