ENG - The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and ...
The temperature was about 70 on Nov. 19, the sky was "totally blue," and the laughter from a martini bar drifted into the St. Petersburg, Fla., park where Marshall, 39, sat contemplating his first day of homelessness."I was thinking, 'That was me at one point,'" he says of the revelers. "Now I'm thinking, 'Where am I going to sleep tonight? Where do I eat? Where do I shower?'"The unemployed Detroit autoworker moved to Florida last year, hoping he'd have better luck finding a job.He didn't, and he spent three months sleeping on sidewalks before landing in a tent city in Pinellas County, north ...
RobinT - in poll Popularity US Actor Chuck Norris has his eyes on the presidency, but not the White House. Norris wrote that he would be interested in becoming the president of Texas, if the state were ever to secede from the Union.“I may run for president of Texas,” Norris wrote Monday in a column posted at WorldNetDaily. “That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.”The actor claimed “thousands of cell groups will be united around ...
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Bush presenting not the good American!
