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January 19th 2016
Geo: 38.8921, -77.0241 Today was a bitterly cold day. Over breakfast in the hotel restaurant, everyone was warning about the upcoming storm, which was later named Storm Jonas. Luckily it seemed that the storm was due on Friday, the day that we were due to fly to Las Vegas. I had been annoyed that our flight had been changed from a mid-morning one to an 8:00am fl ... 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