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Stone plaque marking the site of the first public school in the United States, located in Dedham, Massachusetts William Allen High School, a large state school in Allentown, Pennsylvania Seward School in Seattle. In the United States, the term "state school" is colloquial for state university, a college, and a university in a state university ...
Bath School disaster, a 1927 attack against an elementary school primarily perpetrated with explosives; it is the deadliest school-related massacre in United States history; Gun violence in the United States; List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000) List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
[1] [2] Similarly, the management of the prison system within the Irish Free State passed to the control of the Minister with the dissolution by statutory instrument of the General Prisons Board for Ireland (the G.P.B.) in 1928. [3] The G.P.B. had been an all-Ireland body.
The text of the Constitution of Ireland, as originally enacted in 1937, made reference in its Articles 2 and 3 to two geopolitical entities: a thirty-two county 'national territory' (i.e., the island of Ireland), and a twenty-six county 'state' formerly known as the Irish Free State. The implication behind the title 'president of Ireland' was ...
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
A Department of State (Irish: Roinn Stáit) of Ireland is a department or ministry of the Government of Ireland. The head of such a department is a minister termed a Minister of the Government ; prior to 1977 such ministers were called Ministers of State , a term now used for junior (non-cabinet) ministers . [1]
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
The United States has 50 states and 5 territories that each elect a governor to serve as chief executive of the state or territorial government. [1] The sole federal district , the District of Columbia , elects a mayor to oversee their government in a similar manner.