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Page 176
... Named by Ponce de Leon on Pascua Florida , feast of flowers , Easter Sunday , 1513 . Georgia - For King George II of England by James E. Oglethorpe , colonial administrator , 1732 . Hawaii - Possibly derived from native word for ...
... Named by Ponce de Leon on Pascua Florida , feast of flowers , Easter Sunday , 1513 . Georgia - For King George II of England by James E. Oglethorpe , colonial administrator , 1732 . Hawaii - Possibly derived from native word for ...
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... named his brother , Prince Phumi- phon Aduldet ( Bhumibol Adulyadej ) ( born 1927 ) . to succeed him . King Phumiphon formally took the throne May 5 , 1950 . Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat overturned the government and suspended the 1952 ...
... named his brother , Prince Phumi- phon Aduldet ( Bhumibol Adulyadej ) ( born 1927 ) . to succeed him . King Phumiphon formally took the throne May 5 , 1950 . Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat overturned the government and suspended the 1952 ...
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... named Venezuela ( Little Venice ) . Vespucci's reports suppressed Ojeda's name and stressed New World . Martin Waldseemüller , German geographer at St. Dié , France , applied the name Terra America in a book and map , 1507 . THE NORSE ...
... named Venezuela ( Little Venice ) . Vespucci's reports suppressed Ojeda's name and stressed New World . Martin Waldseemüller , German geographer at St. Dié , France , applied the name Terra America in a book and map , 1507 . THE NORSE ...
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ADDITIONS AND CHANGES | 119 |
DEATH ROLL 1962 | 127 |
POSTAL INFORMATION | 140 |
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