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The Trail of Tears, “the Trail Where They Cried” - nu na hi du na tlo hi lu i - in Cherokee language, refers to Cherokee Removal, to their forced relocation in 1838, but the Cherokees were not the only Native Americans forced to emigrate as a result of the Indian Removal efforts of the United States.

About 4000 Cherokee died as a result of the removal and that route, the route they traversed and the journey itself from Georgia to Oklahoma, became known as “The Trail of Tears“.

The symbol of the pain and suffering of the “Trail Where They Cried” is the Cherokee Rose, now the official flower of the state of Georgia too; the legend says the mothers of the Cherokee grieved so much that the chiefs prayed for a sign to lift the mother’s spirits and give them strength to care for their children.. and from that day forward, a beautiful new flower - a rose - grew wherever a mother’s tear fell to the ground..

A rose white for the mother’s tears with a gold center for the gold taken from the Cherokee lands and with seven leaves on each stem for the seven Cherokee clans that made the journey then..

To this day, the Cherokee rose prospers along the route of the “Trail of Tears“…

USA, the third largest country by land area and by population, is bordered by Canada on the north and Mexico on the south. It is also the world’s oldest surviving federation.

Did you know that the five largest airlines in the world by passengers carried are all american? (American Airlines is number one) And that of the world’s 30 busiest passenger airports, 16 are in the United States?

In 2000, the United States spewed one-fifth of the globe’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) — nearly 7 billion tons.

The following map shows how the regions of the United States compare to the world’s other top CO₂ emitters, with China’s output roughly equal to that of India, Russia, Canada and South Korea combined.

Figures represent millions of tons of CO₂.

During the Great Depression, the United States put men to work improving and extending the nation’s roads and highways; hovewer these roads built in the 1930’s were for 1950’s faster cars, a bit inadequate so the roads were again widened and divided using as an example, the Germany’s Autobahns.

Today, modern interstate highways are wonderful ways to get somewhere fast as it’s not just the destination that is important, so is the journey; large parts of the US highway system can still take you someplace without all the small towns and tourist traps in-between.

Las Vegas Strip is 6.4 km section of Las Vegas Boulevard, south of the Las Vegas city limits. 18 of the 25 largest hotels in the world are located on The Strip, for example.

In addition to these large hotels and casinos The Strip is home to a few smaller casinos and motels and other attractions.

New Hampshire, “The Granite State” with the state motto “Live Free or Die.”, was the first state to have its own state constitution and is the only state with neither a general sales tax nor a personal income tax.

New Hampshire is bounded by Quebec (Canada), Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, having the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. state!

Manhattan “island of many hills” (Manhattan Island, Roosevelt Island, Randalls Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, Marble Hill and Belmont Island), an island borough of New York City, New York, is the most densely populated and also the second wealthiest county in the United States. See below a map of Manhattan circa 1850:

Manhattan is the economic engine of New York City, more than half of Manhattan residents over age 25 have a bachelor’s degree, the fifth highest of all counties in the country.

The following map is a subway system map for Manhattan, the largest subway system in the world by track mileage and the largest by number of stations:

Germany is home to the third-highest number of international migrants, having also the largest population among the EU countries with over 82 million inhabitants.

Germany has a number of larger cities, the most populous being Berlin - its capital, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt and Stuttgart.

Hamburg-Harbour is the second largest port city in Europe (after Rotterdam) and ninth largest in the world. Hamburg is also the most populous city in the European Union which is not a national capital, Hamburg metropolitan area is home to 4.5 million people.

We have here a map of the United States showing Union states and territories in one color and Confederate states in another color.

The 13 Colonies, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, rebelled against british rule in 1775 and declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776.

They became the first 13 states. Virginia was the first colony in the New World.

The compromise of 1850 also admitted California as a free state and separately organized the territories of Utah and New Mexico without restrictions on slavery.

The U.S. is really divided into eight different Americas when it comes to life expectancy, researchers report. The study redraws the U.S. map based on regional and racial life expectancy.

Life expectancy also varies from state to state, and even among counties.

This is a comparison between US states and countries with similar economies. For example, Russia’s economy is about the size of New Jersey.

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Britain Road Map:

The country is surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean, the Irish Sea and the North Sea, and the English Channel, very close to mainland Europe being separated from France by only 18 miles over the English Channel. The biggest cities are London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow and Bristol.

Map showing the main UK rivers:

The United States consumes about 19 million barrels of oil a day (but has less than 2 percent of the world’s remaining oil) mostly to power its 200 million automobiles.

Saudi Arabia produces over 4 gigabarrels (600 million tons) of oil per year (17 tons per second), claiming a quarter of the world’s proven oil reserves.

Alberta contains nearly all of Canada’s oil sands and about 75% of its conventional oil reserves, Canada being placed second only to Saudi Arabia.

Hovewer, Canada is the United States’ largest supplier, not Saudi Arabia; over 99% of canadian oil exports are sent to the United States.

Odyssey, one of the two great epics of Greek history: the Iliad - the tale of Achilles and the Trojan War and the Odyssey - about the travels of Odysseus - the story of the return of Odysseus to his home in Ithaca, from the siege of Troy. It is also the story of the vengeance he took on the suitors of his wife Penelope.

The word odyssey has come to refer to an epic voyage, in english language.

The Rocky Mountains, great chain of rugged mountain, ranges in western North America extending from New Mexico to northeastern British Columbia in Canada (they divide British Columbia and Alberta).

Other states in the Rocky Mountains region are Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, western Montana and northeastern Washington.

Public education in many communities in the United States has been made the function of a school district (serving one or more towns), a form of special purpose district which serves to operate the local public primary and secondary schools.

Fayette County Public Schools is such a school district based in Lexington (Horse Capital of the World ), Kentucky, which serves all of Fayette County, coextensive with the city of Lexington though.

The motto is: “It’s About Kids“ and the total number of students enrolled: 35,124!!

Berlin, the largest city in Germany, is the capital city too and one of its sixteen states. It is also the second most populous city in the European Union, with a poulation of 3.4 million!

The city was divided in east and west Berlin sourounded by the Berlin Wall, between 1961 and 1989 once with the reunification of Germany when it becomes again the capital city of all Germany. See the map below:

Nepal, a country in Asia bordered by China and India, has eight of the world’s ten highest mountains, including Mount Everest; see the map below with mountain peaks shown:

Also, Nepal’s flag is the only national flag that is not quadrilateral in shape. The official language is Nepali; main religion: Hinduism.

Washington, DC - called the Federal City in the 19th century - was named also after the first president of the United States, George Washington. It was planned and developed in the late of 18th century to serve as the permanent national capital; the federal district was formed to keep it distinct from the states.

The federal district was named District of Columbia because Columbia was a poetic name for the United States, used at that time - close to the 300th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage to the Americas in 1492.

Connecticut, the “Constitution State”, is located in the New England region and it is the 4th most densely populated state with over 3.5 million of residents.

Connecticut is also known as “The Land of Steady Habits” and well-known as the home of Yale University, one of the world’s most renowned universities.

Asia is the world’s largest and most populous continent; from all its countries, Japan has the largest national economy within Asia and the second largest of any single nation in the world, after that of the United States.

Being the largest continent, Asia also contains many of the world’s most natural features including high mountain ranges, vast plateaus, great rivers and lakes such as Lake Baikal; Asia is also bounded by three oceans: the Arctic, the Pacific and the Indian to the south.

Ukraine, country in Eastern Europe, is a unitary state composed of 24 provinces, one autonomous republic - Crimea - and two cities with special status: Kiev, its capital, and Sevastopol.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a 780,000 man military force on its territory, equipped with the third-largest nuclear weapon arsenal in the world and currently, Ukraine’s military is the second largest in Europe, after that of Russia. Also, their famous incident at the Chernobyl fission reactor in 1986, pointed out to the world the danger of the fission power plants, see the map below:

Last year Ukraine won a joint bid with Poland to host the UEFA Euro 2012 football championship (the third-largest sporting event in the world); the first time in ukrainian history that the country got a chance to host such a major international event.

Washington, state named after the first president of the United States, borders Idaho, British Columbia, Oregon and Pacific Ocean which lies to the west.

Washington, land of contrasts, has deep forests which are among the only temperate forests in the United States but the semi-desert east of the Cascade Range has few trees.

Washington has also the fifth-largest Asian population and the first Asian American governer, which is the only Chinese American governor of any state.

Quebec, Canada’s largest province by area, it is also the second most populated province. The capital city is Quebec-City and the largest city is Montreal.

The official language is French, Quebec being the only canadian province whose population are mainly francophone.

The official motto of the province is “Je me souviens” (I remember) which is taken by many to mean “I remember my French history and heritage”.

Europe is the world second smallest continent and has 11% of the world’s total population.

Almost 90% of Europe was once covered by forests, over half of these original forests have dissapeared through centuries of deforestation. From all its countries, Finland is now the most forested country, his landscape is over 70% forest.

Italy, a peninsula, is surrounded by the Ligurian Sea, the Sardinian Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Sicilian and Ionian Sea and Adriatic Sea and borders on France, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia.

Italy has a high population of senior citizens and most of italians are very different from the stereotype of “pulcinella, pizza and mandolino” seen in movies; much more, for many of them this stereotype could be quite offensive.

The most populated and developed portion of Italy is the north with cities like Milan, the fashion capital of the world or Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in Italy (home to Island of Murano).

New England, one of the oldest settled parts of the United States, is a six states region in the northeast corner of ther country: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine.

New England is geographically isolated from the rest of the United States and is relatively a small region, being also the home to two of the ten poorest cities in the United States: Providence, Rhode Island and Hartford, Connecticut.

New York City, “The City That Never Sleeps“, is the most populous city in the United States the largest urban areas in the world, also it is the most densely populated major city in the United States (over 8.2 million residents).

New York City is comprised of 5 boroughs: Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.

New York City is visited each year by almost 40 million foreign and american tourists too, the Statue of Liberty being a major tourist attraction, also one of the most recognizable icons of the United States.

The United States is a diverse place filled with unique cities, beautiful landscapes points of interest.

Discover here the history of your home state or find out interesting facts, such as your state’s bird, motto and nickname.

The Caribbean is a region of the Americas on the Caribbean Plate and consisting of the Caribbean Sea (one of the largest salt water seas), its islands (more than 7,000) and the surrounding coasts.

The Caribbean region supports a large tourist industry, over 12 million people a year visit the area.

India, country in South Asia, is the seventh largest country by geographical area in the world.

India is also the world’s second most populous country and one of seventeen megadiverse countries.

The rainforests of central Africa (Congo Basin), second largest in the world after the Amazon, are home to half of the continent’s animal species as Africa boasts the world’s largest combination of density and range of freedom of wild animal populations and diversity.

There are also arid regions in Africa such as Sahara or the Namib desert. Africa is home not only to a variety of jungle creatures but also to aquatic life, including crocodiles here; the african crocodile is recognisable by its narrow snout and it is found primarily in freshwater rivers that have dense vegetation cover.

Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state and the world’s fourth most populous country having a population of 222 million people. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and home of over 10 million people.

Indonesia has also, the world’s largest Muslim population.