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independence district
Posted June 21, 2006 at 03:32 PM by
Philadelphia's Independence District is full of all the famous national monuments and sites you learned about in high school history and many more. The most impressive of them is, of course, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, but there are many other sites worth visiting. The tours are well planned and entertaining, often given by [...]
federal lands in the us
Posted June 03, 2006 at 10:39 PM by brankin
This map shows visually the changes in federal land policy in the US:The north-south line separating the west from the east shows a change in policy as western expansion progressed: a newly assertive federal government, the beginnings of the US conservation movement, and an admission that areas like the Great Basin could not be developed [...]
