The Grant from the outside

The Big Apple!

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April 26th 2006
I'm writing this a few days late as I never accessed my travelblog while we were actually IN New York. It would have been a good test I suppose, but I used internet terminals at the hotels and I couldn't upload pictures anyways. We stayed in Manhattan from April 11-19th 2006. What an experience! I loved the big city, we used this trip as a warm up of sorts to our big Asia trip coming up. We pr ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more