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  • National Historic Landmark (category Landmarks in the United States) (section Current National Historic Landmarks)
    Most, but not all, are in the United States. There are NHLs in all 50 states and the national capital of Washington, D.C. Three states (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
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  • National Register of Historic Places (category National Historic Landmarks of the United States)
    historic sites in the National Park System. Approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based
    50 KB (5,139 words) - 00:01, 22 February 2025
  • Washington, D.C. (category 1790 establishments in the United States) (section Landmarks)
    troops in the Canadas, the British set fire to government buildings in the city, gutting the United States Capitol, the Treasury Building, and the White
    277 KB (24,200 words) - 01:03, 22 February 2025
  • Civil Rights Act of 1968 (category Anti-discrimination law in the United States) (section U.S. states)
    was passed by the 90th United States Congress and signed by the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968. The Civil Rights
    83 KB (9,845 words) - 08:28, 4 February 2025
  • Patriot Act (category Emergency laws in the United States)
    expired. The Patriot Act was enacted in direct response to the September 11 attacks on the United States, and the 2001 anthrax attacks, with the stated goal
    158 KB (19,293 words) - 23:12, 14 March 2025
  • The Pentagon (category Military headquarters in the United States)
    Template:Pp-move-indef The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River
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  • White House (redirect from The White House) (category Buildings and structures in the United States destroyed by arson) (section The White House since the Kennedy restoration)
    to refer to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The residence was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban in the Neoclassical
    103 KB (10,415 words) - 18:29, 3 February 2025
  • Watervliet Arsenal (category Installations of the United States Army in New York (state))
    Albany, the headquarters of a United States Marine Corps recruiting station, is located on the Arsenal. In February 2009, the headquarters of the United States
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  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (category Nuclear weapons infrastructure of the United States) (section The Manhattan Project)
    coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project, the Allied project to develop the first nuclear weapons. In September 1942, the difficulties
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  • New York (state) (category States of the East Coast of the United States) (section National parks, monuments, and historic landmarks)
    is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New England, Canada, and the Great Lakes
    216 KB (21,582 words) - 00:08, 22 February 2025
  • Smithsonian Institution (category Independent agencies of the United States government) (section Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution)
    the Smithsonian opened the National Museum of the American Indian in a new building near the United States Capitol. Twelve years later almost to the day
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  • Social Security Administration (category Social security in the United States)
    SSA operates the largest government program in the United States. In fiscal year (FY) 2022, the agency expects to pay out $1.2 trillion in Social Security
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  • Maryland (category States of the East Coast of the United States)
    one of the most multicultural states in the country; it is one of the six states where non-Whites compose a majority of the population, with the fifth-highest
    216 KB (18,708 words) - 00:02, 22 February 2025
  • National Wildlife Refuge (category Nature reserves in the United States)
    protected area The National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) is a system of protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife
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  • United States Naval Academy (category Military academies of the United States) (section The Flagg Academy: Spanish–American War to WWI)
    for service in the officer corps of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It is part of the Naval University System. The 338-acre (137 ha)
    144 KB (15,844 words) - 00:20, 8 February 2025
  • Nevada Test Site (category Continuity of government in the United States) (section Landmarks and geography)
    that time, making the site one of the most contaminated locations in the United States. In the most seriously affected zones, the concentration of radioactivity
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  • Historic Preservation Fund (category Historic preservation organizations in the United States) (section Other past and present programs funded by the HPF)
    Places, and the designation of National Historic Landmarks. The act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to carry out these programs; the National Park
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  • Military Academy (redirect from United States Military Academy) (category Military academies of the United States) (section Life in the corps)
    Stored: Military Academy The United States Military Academy (USMA, West Point, or Army) is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It
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  • Rhode Island (category States of the East Coast of the United States) (section Growth in the modern era: 1929–present)
    Islanders, as well as the proliferation of slavery in the colonies and in the post-colonial United States. Advocates for retaining the name argued that plantation
    178 KB (15,849 words) - 17:19, 3 February 2025
  • American Samoa (category Insular areas of the United States) (section World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic)
    half of the century were settled by the 1899 Tripartite Convention in which Germany and the United States partitioned the Samoan Islands into two: the eastern
    178 KB (17,422 words) - 12:27, 31 January 2025
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