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Jun 11, 2024 · the West, region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
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Jun 21, 2024 · French and Indian War, American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war (1754–63) fought between France and Great Britain. (The more-complex European phase was the Seven Years’ War [1756–63].) It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
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2 days ago · The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term the West changed. Before around 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier.
2 days ago · An old Tamil poem of the early centuries A.D. contains the legend of a Tamil dynasty of rulers having first brought the sugar cane from heaven to the earth ( Purana nuru 99, I-2; 392, I9-27). 23. Hitti, p. 697. 24. For what follows I draw mainly upon my History of India (Madras, I950), Part II, "Mediaeval India." 25.
1 day ago · This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
1 day ago · Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
2 days ago · Nearly all the Indians in the east were displaced to the west and into special zones in Oklahoma, the Great Plains, and the intermontane basins. Even there, their land and their way of life were not respected, as ranchers, railroaders, and homesteaders opened the West to settlement. Recent News. July 2, 2024, 2:57 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
