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Definition: United States of America or United States from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

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country N. America bordering on Atlantic, Pacific, & Arctic oceans; a federal republic ✽ Washington area 3,619,969 sq mi (9,375,720 sq km), pop 308,745,538

United States of America

From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Federal republic, North America; Lower 48 bounded on N by Canada, on E by the Atlantic Ocean, on S by Mexico and Gulf of Mexico, and on W by the Pacific Ocean; 3,620,067 sq. mi. or 9,375,974 sq. km. (excluding Great Lakes); pop. (2000c) 281,421,906; ✽ Washington, D.C. Easternmost point (excluding Alaska) West Quoddy Head, Maine, 66°57′W; westernmost point (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) Cape Alava, Washington, 124°44′W; northernmost point (excluding Alaska) Northwest Angle, Minnesota, ab. 49°23′N; southernmost mainland point (excluding Hawaii) East Cape, Florida, 25°07′N. Mississippi system (incl. Missouri, Ohio, Platte, Red, Arkansas), Colorado, Columbia, Rio Grande. Great Lakes in N (U.S.-Canada boundary runs through Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Superior; Michigan is wholly within boundary); Great Salt in Utah and Okeechobee in Florida. Appalachian system (incl. White Mts. and Green Mts. in New England, Adirondacks and Catskills in New York, Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mts. in SE), Ozark…
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The United States of America is the world's fourth largest country in area and the third largest in population. It contains 50 states, 48 of which lie between Canada and Mexico. The other two are Alaska, in NW North America, and Hawaii, a group of volcanic islands in the N Pacific Ocean. Densely…
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From Financial Times World Desk Reference
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Introduction Official name: United States of America Capital: Washington D.C. Population: 315 million Currency: US dollar Official language: English Date of independence, or formation date: 1776 Date when current borders were established: 1959 National day: July 4 Vehicle country identifying code: …
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From Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence
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The craft of intelligence and counterintelligence is not new to the United States, as some would suppose, but goes all the way back to the American Revolution. Indeed, the military battles of the Revolution were the end-product of earlier intelligence wars. The origins of U.S. intelligence services…
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From International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family
The first family system in America was that of the native peoples. This was actually a kinship system rather than a family system, for despite the wide variety of marital, sexual, and genealogical customs found in several hundred different cultures, most early Native-American groups subsumed the…
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From The Harvard Dictionary of Music
America's musical life has been shaped by an interaction of peoples from three continents: North America, Europe, and Africa. When Europeans began colonizing America in the 1500s, they encountered settlements of Amerindians with their own musical practices. Foreign and strange to Western ears, this…
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From The New Penguin Dictionary of Music
Founded largely by religious refugees, the country resounded to their psalms before there was much other music from new arrivals. The Bay Psalm Book (1640) was the first volume printed in the British colonies; its ninth edition (1698) included the first printed music. Even a century later the first…
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In less than 400 years, the United States of America (USA) has grown from wild countryside inhabited by native peoples to the world’s most powerful industrial nation. The country is made up of 50 states, including Alaska in the far north and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. There are two major mountain…
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History Although the Lumière brothers in France were first to provide moving pictures for a paying audience, the patented inventions of Thomas Alva Edison - particularly his ‘Kinetoscope’ - played a major role in the early days of cinema. By 1908, however, film-producing companies were looking to…
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From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Freud’s psychoanalysis has influenced the popular and professional culture of the United States, a nation Freud came to denigrate, more profoundly than that of any other country. There were unique reasons for Freud’s early favourable reception. Americans faced concurrent crises in psychiatry and in…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
officially United States of America, republic (2015 est. pop. 319,929,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district. The conterminous (excluding Alaska and…
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