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5 days ago · The Episcopal Church ( TEC ), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Statewide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the 2012 United States presidential election, which was won by incumbent President Barack Obama, are as follows. The polls show the status between Republican nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama.
2 days ago · The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States. [1] [2] The House is charged with the passage of federal legislation, known as bills; those that are also passed by the Senate ...
2 days ago · Sikhism in the United States. A gurdwara in Evergreen, San Jose, California. American Sikhs form the country's sixth-largest religious group. [1] While the U.S. Census does not ask about religion, [2] 70,697 Americans (or 0.02% of the total population) declared Sikh as their ethnicity in the 2020 census. [3]
Apr 19, 2024 · With a population of more than 4.9 million, Indian Americans make up approximately 1.35% of the U.S. population and are the largest group of South Asian Americans, the largest Asian-alone group, [10] and the largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. Indian Americans are the highest-earning ethnic group in the United States.
Apr 13, 2024 · April 14 – 16 – A tornado outbreak and severe thunderstorms kill at least 43 people across the Southern United States, with fatalities occurring in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. It is the deadliest U.S. tornado outbreak to occur in three years. [88] April 15 – Rio is released in theaters.
4 days ago · v. t. e. Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [2] [3] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [4] The cause became increasingly promoted by intellectuals of the Progressive Era.
