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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Abolitionism

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Alpine folk music (Alpenländische Volksmusik; German's Volksmusik means "people's music" or as a Germanic connotative translation, "folk's music") is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk music in the Alpine regions of Slovenia, Northern Croatia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (Italy).

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808July 31, 1875) was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869.

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Area codes 301, 240, and 227

Area codes 301, 240, and 227 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the western part of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line

The Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line, or Fall Zone, is a escarpment where the Piedmont and Atlantic coastal plain meet in the eastern United States.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States.

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Battle of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the Southern United States, took place during the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek.

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Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War fought between Union and Confederate forces between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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Bethesda, Maryland

Bethesda is an unincorporated, census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Germantown, Maryland and Bethesda, Maryland are census-designated places in Maryland.

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Bisection

In geometry, bisection is the division of something into two equal or congruent parts (having the same shape and size).

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BlackRock Center for the Arts

The BlackRock Center for the Arts, officially the Germantown Cultural Arts Center (d.b.a. BlackRock Center for the Arts), is a cultural, visual and performing arts center in Germantown, Maryland.

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Boyds, Maryland

Boyds is an unincorporated community in rural Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, located approximately north of Washington, D.C. Its ZIP Code is 20841.

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Brunswick Line

The Brunswick Line is a MARC commuter rail line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia, with a branch to Frederick, Maryland.

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Capital Beltway

The Capital Beltway is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in the Washington metropolitan area that surrounds Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and its inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia.

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Census-designated place

A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

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Chris Carter (screenwriter)

Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American television and film producer, director and writer who gained fame in the 1990s as the creator of the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series The X-Files.

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Clarksburg High School

Clarksburg High School is a public high school located at 22500 Wims Road in Clarksburg, Maryland, United States.

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Clarksburg, Maryland

Clarksburg is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in northern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Germantown, Maryland and Clarksburg, Maryland are census-designated places in Maryland.

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Clutch (band)

Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland.

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Columbia, Maryland

Columbia is a census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. Germantown, Maryland and Columbia, Maryland are planned communities in the United States.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Corridor Cities Transitway

The Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT) proposal is for a bus rapid transit line in Maryland that would run from the Shady Grove Metro station in Gaithersburg northwest to Clarksburg.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Craig L. Rice

Craig Lamont Rice (born September 27, 1972) is an American politician and former member of the Montgomery County Council, serving from 2010 to 2022.

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.

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CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation, known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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D.C. sniper attacks

The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February 2002.

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Danny Heater

Danny Heater (born 1942) is an American record holder for the highest single game scoring performance by one player in high school basketball history worldwide.

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Darnestown, Maryland

Darnestown is a United States census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated area in Montgomery County, Maryland. Germantown, Maryland and Darnestown, Maryland are census-designated places in Maryland.

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David Herold

David Edgar Herold (June 16, 1842 – July 7, 1865) was an American pharmacist's assistant and accomplice of John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

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Derwood, Maryland

Derwood is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in east-central Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Germantown, Maryland and Derwood, Maryland are census-designated places in Maryland.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County. Germantown, Maryland and Durham, North Carolina are planned communities in the United States.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Economies of agglomeration

One of the major subfields of urban economics, economies of agglomeration (or agglomeration effects), explains, in broad terms, how urban agglomeration occurs in locations where cost savings can naturally arise.

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Ephraim Francis Baldwin

Ephraim Francis Baldwin (October 4, 1837 – January 20, 1916) was an American architect, best known for his work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and for the Roman Catholic Church.

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Fairchild Aircraft

Fairchild was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company based at various times in Farmingdale, New York; Hagerstown, Maryland; and San Antonio, Texas.

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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Fallout 3

Fallout 3 is a 2008 action role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

The Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) of the United States are a set of publicly announced standards that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed for use in computer situs of non-military United States government agencies and contractors.

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Flash rob

A flash rob, also known as a multiple offender crime or flash mob robbery, is an organized form of theft in which a group of participants enter a retail shop or convenience store en masse and steal goods and other items.

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Fort Lesley J. McNair

Fort Lesley J. McNair, also historically known as the Washington Arsenal, is a United States Army post located on the tip of Buzzard Point, the peninsula that lies at the confluence of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. To the peninsula's west is the Washington Channel, while the Anacostia River is on its south side.

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Frederick, Maryland

Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.

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Gaithersburg, Maryland

Gaithersburg is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories; the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau; and Antarctica.

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George Atzerodt

George Andrew Atzerodt (June 12, 1835 – July 7, 1865) was a German American repairman, Confederate sympathizer, and conspirator in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

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Germantown station (MARC)

Germantown is a passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, West Virginia (with a branch to Frederick, Maryland).

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Hanging

Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature.

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Harmony Express Men's Chorus

Harmony Express is a 4-part a cappella chorus for both women and men based in Germantown, Maryland.

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Harvey D. Williams

Harvey Dean Williams Sr. (July 30, 1930 – August 7, 2020) was a United States Army major general.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band formed in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1986.

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Hughes Network Systems

Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a temperate climate type characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters.

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Interstate 270 (Maryland)

Interstate 270 (I-270) is a auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Maryland that travels from I-495 (Capital Beltway) just north of Bethesda in Montgomery County north to I-70 in the city of Frederick in Frederick County.

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Interstate 70 in Maryland

Interstate 70 (I-70) is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Cove Fort, Utah, to Woodlawn just outside of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Isaiah Swann

Isaiah Swann (born February 10, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for Juvecaserta of the Serie A2 Basket.

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Jake Rozhansky

Jake Michael Rozhansky (ג'ייק מייקל רוזנסקי, born 4 July 1996) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for MLS Next Pro club New York City FC II.

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John Surratt

John Harrison Surratt Jr. (April 13, 1844 – April 21, 1916) was an American Confederate spy who was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. President Abraham Lincoln; he was also suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination.

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John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor who assassinated United States President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.

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Jubal Early

Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was an American lawyer, politician and military officer who served in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kickstarter

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity.

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Laytonsville, Maryland

Laytonsville is a town in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Lewis Powell (conspirator)

Lewis Thornton Powell (April 22, 1844 – July 7, 1865) was an American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot.

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Library Systems & Services

Library Systems & Services is a private for-profit company that manages municipal libraries on an outsourced basis.

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List of counties in Maryland

There are 23 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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MARC Train

MARC (Maryland Area Rail Commuter) is a commuter rail system in the Washington–Baltimore area.

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Mary Surratt

Mary Elizabeth Surratt (1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Maryland General Assembly

The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland that convenes within the State House in Annapolis.

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Maryland Route 118

Maryland Route 118 (MD 118) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Maryland Route 355

Maryland Route 355 (MD 355) is a north–south road in western central Maryland in the United States.

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Maryland SoccerPlex

The Maryland SoccerPlex is a sports complex in Germantown, Maryland, although its mailing address is directed to Boyds, Maryland. The facility, completed in 2000 and operated by the Maryland Soccer Foundation (MSF), has 21 natural grass fields, 3 artificial turf fields, and 8 indoor convertible basketball/volleyball courts.

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Maryland's 6th congressional district

Maryland's 6th congressional district elects a representative to the United States House of Representatives from the northwest part of the state.

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Metropolitan Subdivision

The Metropolitan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in Washington, D.C. and Maryland.The 53-mile line runs from Washington, D.C., northwest to Weverton, Maryland, along the former Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

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Mia Khalifa

Mia Khalifa (ميا خليفة; born 1993) is a Lebanese-American media personality and former pornographic film actress and webcam model.

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Middle school

A middle school, also known as intermediate school, junior high school, junior secondary school, or lower secondary school, is an educational stage between primary school and secondary school.

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Minnesota Twins

The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.

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Montgomery College

Montgomery College (MC) is a public community college in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) is a public school district that serves Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Montgomery Village, Maryland

Montgomery Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, and a northern suburb of Washington, D.C. It is a large, planned suburban community, developed in the late 1960s and 1970s just outside Gaithersburg's city limits.

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National Women's Soccer League

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system (alongside the USL Super League).

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Northwest High School (Maryland)

Northwest High School (NWHS) is a public high school in Germantown, Maryland.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Pentagram (band)

Pentagram is an American heavy metal band from Alexandria, Virginia, most famous as one of the pioneers of heavy metal, and the sub-genre of doom metal in particular.

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Piedmont (United States)

The Piedmont is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.

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Poolesville, Maryland

Poolesville is a U.S. town in the western portion of Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Pornographic film actor

A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts on video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie.

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Post office box

A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office.

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PostSecret

PostSecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by Frank Warren in 2004, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Qiagen

QIAGEN N.V. is a German-founded multinational provider of sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics, applied testing, academic research, and pharmaceutical research.

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Race (human categorization)

Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Red Line (Washington Metro)

The Red Line is a rapid transit line of the Washington Metro system, consisting of 27 stations in Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Ride On (bus)

Ride On (formerly Ride-On) is the primary public transportation system in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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Seneca Valley High School

Seneca Valley High School (SVHS) is a public high school serving grades 9-12 in Germantown, Maryland, United States.

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Shady Grove station

Shady Grove station is a Washington Metro station in Redland, Maryland, United States.

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Silver Spring, Maryland

Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf. Germantown, Maryland and Silver Spring, Maryland are census-designated places in Maryland.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Space Shuttle

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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The Triangle Tribune

The Triangle Tribune is an American, English language weekly newspaper headquartered in Durham, North Carolina.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Thunderstorm

A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a lightning storm, is a storm characterized by the presence of lightning and its acoustic effect on the Earth's atmosphere, known as thunder.

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Times Internet

Times Internet is an Indian multinational technology company, headquartered in Gurgaon, India which owns, operates and invests in various internet-led products, services and technology.

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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth action-adventure video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels that were endorsed by Tom Clancy.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas, and its associated states.

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Viasat (American company)

Viasat, Inc. is an American communications company based in Carlsbad, California, with additional operations across the United States and worldwide.

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Vice President of the United States

The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Wabtec

Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation, commonly known as Wabtec, is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999.

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WalletHub

WalletHub (formerly CardHub.com) is a personal finance company that launched in August 2013.

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Walter Johnson

Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "the Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager.

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Washington Metro

The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States.

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Washington metropolitan area

The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area centered around Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States.

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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), commonly referred to as Metro, is a tri-jurisdictional public transit agency that operates transit service in the Washington metropolitan area.

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Washington Senators (1901–1960)

The Washington Senators were one of the American League's eight charter franchises.

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Washington Spirit

The Washington Spirit is an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that participates in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. Germantown, Maryland and Washington, D.C. are planned communities in the United States.

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Water tower

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.

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WeatherBug

WeatherBug is a brand based in New York City that provides location-based advertising to businesses.

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Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect.

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White Americans

White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people.

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William B. Gibbs Jr.

William B. Gibbs Jr. (July 26, 1905 – December 27, 1984) was an American educator, civil rights activist, and the plaintiff in Gibbs v. Broome (1936), an influential racial discrimination case argued by future United States Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall on behalf of Gibbs and the NAACP.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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WTOP-FM

WTOP-FM (103.5 FM) – branded "WTOP Radio" and "WTOP News" – is a commercial all-news radio station licensed to serve Washington, D.C. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the station serves the Washington metropolitan area, extending its reach through two repeater stations: WTLP (103.9 FM) in Braddock Heights, Maryland, and WWWT-FM (107.7) in Manassas, Virginia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germantown,_Maryland

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