national cemeteries in Arizona (the other is Prescott National Cemetery). A state law passed in 1976, by then-Governor Raul Hector Castro, authorized the establishment
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its name from the various Native American communities that populated the region. Starting in the 1930s, it became a training area for the United States
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properties in an MPS is accomplished in the same manner as other nominations. The name of the "thematic group" denotes the historical theme of the properties
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Army (redirect from U.S. Army) (category Military units and formations established in 1775) (section 1960–1970) designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence
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standards, the Tennessee Valley was in dire economic straits in 1933. Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria. The average income in the rural
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revelations in the 1970s of his chronic health ailments and extramarital affairs. Kennedy is the most recent U.S. president to have died in office. File:John
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R. Goldsborough in 1847, the "red right return" system of markings has been in use in the United States ever since. In the early 1840s, the Survey began
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County. The disaster resulted in 6 deaths and was the costliest tornado in the United States in 2022, with $220 million in damages. In May 2022, the Iowa
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transferred 82 of the United States Army’s national cemeteries to the Veteran's Administration (VA). The following year, the VA’s National Cemetery System adopted
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topics in the final two years at the academy. In 1878, the academy was awarded a gold medal for academics at the Universal Exposition in Paris. In the late
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Virginia (category States and territories established in 1788) competitive in Virginia since the repeal of Jim Crow laws in the 1970s. Virginia's state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established in
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superfund site in 1989. Most of the fort's land was sold off in 1996, but the cantonment area of the post was retained by the Army as the Devens Reserve
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engineering the bulk of the nation's initial railway lines, bridges, harbors and roads. The academy was the only engineering school in the country until the founding
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Early in the 1880s, leasehold land on the slopes of the Punchbowl opened for settlement and in the 1930s, the crater was used as a rifle range for the Hawaii
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were made on the grounds. The grid survives to this day and was extended as the cemetery expanded. Starting in the late 1840s, the cemetery was influenced
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Hawaii (category States and territories established in 1959) most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the largest protected area in the U.S. and the fourth-largest in the world. Of the 50 U.S. states
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November 1854, the 26th person to be buried in the cemetery. The first permanent memorial erected in the Nonconformist section of the cemetery was that of
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statehood took effect in 1959. Starting in the 1890s and stretching in some places to the early 1910s, gold rushes in Alaska and the nearby Yukon Territory
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Hungary, following the country's revolution. On 14 July 1960, the UN established the United Nations Operation in the Congo (or UNOC), the largest military
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command over the U.S. Armed Forces is established in Article II in the Constitution whereby the president is named as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and
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