It included the present-day cities of Wilmington, DE and Philadelphia, PA ... There would not be an American Revolution that united all of the 13 colonies that became the United States. The Dutch and ...

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“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

The colonies' first potato crop was harvested in 1722 and the first ... in a burrito, with red salsa chile de arbol and white rice, fried, and in a pot pie. Homemade with mom's recipe and smothered in ...

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The Fort Gower Resolves, signed by soldiers in November 250 years ago, was one of the first documents to express support for American independence.