Oregon State, one of the states of the northwest, lies along the Pacific Ocean coast. It is bordered by the state of Washington on the north, Idaho on the east, and Nevada and California on the south. Oregon State ranks 9th in area among the U.S. states with 254,819 sq km (98,386 sq mi), and 29th in population with 2,842,321 …

Texas State, stretching 1,244 km (773 mi) from east to west and 1,289 km (801 mi) from north to south, Texas, the Lone Star State, occupies almost 7.5% of the nation’s total land area–a region as large as all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois combined. With its 16,986,510 inhabitants (1990 resident census), Texas is the third …

Tennessee State, a southeastern state, stretches about 770 km (480 mi) from the Appalachian Mountains in the east to the Mississippi River in the west. It is bounded by Kentucky and Virginia on the north; North Carolina on the east; Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi on the south; and Arkansas and Missouri on the west. Tennessee State was named for the …

South Carolina State, the Palmetto State, was one of the original 13 U.S. states. Located on the Atlantic coast, it is bounded by North Carolina on the north and Georgia on the southwest. One of the smaller states, it ranks 40th in land area of United States. The capital of South Carolina State is COLUMBIA, located in the geographic center …

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of twenty children. Franklin’s father Josiah had ten children by his first marriage and ten by his second. Benjamin was the fifteenth child. He also happened to be the youngest boy. Franklin was only able to attend two years of schooling but continued his own education …

Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. Biography Date of birth: January 15, 1929 Place of birth: Atlanta, Georgia, …

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, the recipient of this year’s Bharat Ratna, acted as a bridge between the extreme and the moderate views in the Congress HOW does one introduce a person like Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya?  Perhaps as India‘s first great multi-lingual journalist and newspaper founder or as someone who strove to establish that education in India needed to be …

The Declaration of American Independence is rich with history and is the founding document of the United States of America. There are many known facts about the Declaration of Independence and there many facts that are not so well known to us. Declaration of American Independence: Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration House

Thomas Jefferson, grew up in Virginia and was raised with the orphaned children of his father’s friend, William Randolph. He was educated from ages 9-14 by a clergyman named William Douglas from whom he learned Greek, Latin, and French. He then attended Reverand James Maury’s School before attending the College of William and Mary. He studied law with George Wythe, …

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. US Presidents Facts Quiz  For Students & Children In contemporary times, the president is looked upon as one of …