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		<description><![CDATA[On 4th July 1776 America declares itself as an independent country The U.S President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 According to a theory California State was nbamed by its Spanish settlers after a utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called Serged de Esplandian. The State Georgia named after King George II of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On 4th July 1776 America declares itself as an independent country</p>
<p>The U.S President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865</p>
<p>According to a theory California State was nbamed by its Spanish settlers after a utopian society described in a popular 16th-century novel called Serged de Esplandian.</p>
<p>The State Georgia named after King George II of England, who charted the colony in 1732.</p>
<p>Louisiana state named after French King Louis XIV.</p>
<p>Washington Named after George Washington.</p>
<p>Wyoming derived from the Algonquin word for &#8220;large prairie place&#8221;</p>
<p>Rhode Island named by &#8220;Roode Eylandt&#8221; (Red Island) because of its red clay.</p>
<p>Teaxas word Derived from the Caddo Indian word for &#8220;friend,&#8221; or &#8220;ally.&#8221;</p>
<p>North and south Dakota taken from the Sioux word for &#8220;friend,&#8221; or &#8220;ally&#8221;.</p>
<p>Virginia and west virginia was Named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, the &#8220;virgin&#8221; queen, by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584.</p>
<p>Newyork was named after the Duke of York and Albany.</p>
<p>Minnesota was derived from the Sioux word for &#8220;sky tinted&#8221; or &#8220;muddy water&#8221;.</p>
<p>New Mexico is the Spanish name for the territory north of the Rio Grande.</p>
<p>Kansas word was taken from the Sioux word for &#8220;south wind people,&#8221; their name for anyone who lived south of Sioux territory.</p>
<p>Hawaii is an English adaptation of the native word Owyhee, which means &#8220;homeland&#8221;.</p>
<p>Indiana state was named by English-speaking settlers because the territory was full of Indians.</p>
<p>Kentucky was possibly derived from the Indian word kan-tuk-kee, meaning &#8220;dark and bloody ground.&#8221; Or kan-tuc-kec, &#8220;land of green reeds&#8221;, or ken-take, meaning &#8220;meadowland&#8221;.</p>
<p>Shakespeare invented the word &#8216; assassination&#8217; and &#8216;bump&#8217;</p>
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