After World War I, the British Empire, or Commonwealth, covered over 14 million square miles and dominated 450 million people.
It encompassed a quarter of the world’s population and land surface.
Among the countries under its dominion were: Antigua, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Iraq, Ireland, and Pakistan.
The total American death count in World War I was 116,516, including 53,402 deaths in battle and 63,114 from other causes, mostly disease. An additional 204,002 soldiers received nonlethal wounds.
The symbol © a circled U on kosher food represents the approval of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
The first theatrical performance in America north of Mexico took place in 1598 in a Spanish settlement near present-day El Paso, Texas. The play was a comedy about a military expedition.
There is no difference between Hoover Dam and Boulder Dam. Both are names for the same dam, erected in 1931-36 on the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. The dam is over 700 feet high and 1,200 feet long.
In the mid-1970s, the leading career choice for Harvard M.B.A. graduates was manufacturing. Ten years later, it was investment banking.
The first three American states admitted to the union after the original 13 were: Vermont-1791, created from parts of New York and New Hampshire Kentucky-1792, created from Virginia Tennessee-1796, created from North Carolina