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May 3, 2024 · This iconic polyptych was painted in the 1430s to exactly match the dimensions of a chapel in St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent. Today, it can be admired in a new museum section of the Cathedral that opened its doors, together with a new visitor center, in spring 2021. A somewhat lesser-known gem in the Ghent crown is the Book Tower.
Apr 23, 2024 · Four Corners is the only place in the United States where the borders of four states (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah) meet. The location is marked by a monument with the seals of the four states, the flags of the states and the tribal nations of the area, and an inscription which reads, ‘Four states here meet in freedom under God.’.
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1 day ago · Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island are in the Pacific Ocean while Navassa Island is in the Caribbean Sea. The additional claimed territories of Bajo Nuevo Bank and Serranilla Bank are also located in the Caribbean Sea.
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May 5, 2024 · 36. Map. Towering more than 400 feet above the Black Hills of South Dakota stands the most famous monuments of the USA: Mount Rushmore. Carved in the mountainside are four of the country’s most prominent presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
3 days ago · Gary Cooper (1901-1961) American 2 time Academy award-winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60. 1962 Frank Jenks, American stage and screen actor (Colonel Flack, Zombies on Broadway), dies of cancer at 59. 1962 Franz Kline, American abstract expressionist painter, dies of heart failure at 51.
3 days ago · Armenian Americans ( Armenian: ամերիկահայեր, romanized : amerikahayer) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or partial Armenian ancestry. They form the second largest community of the Armenian diaspora after Armenians in Russia. [3] The first major wave of Armenian immigration to the United States took place ...
1 day ago · The term "Great Plains" is used in the United States to describe a sub-section of the even more vast Interior Plains physiographic division, which covers much of the interior of North America. It also has currency as a region of human geography, referring to the Plains Indians or the Plains states. [citation needed]
