Best U.S. States for Raising Family Mapped
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Best States for Raising a Family: A Comprehensive Analysis

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Mapped: What does it take to join the top 1% of income earners in the United States?
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Breaking Into the Top 1%: How Income Thresholds Vary Across the USA

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Only 54 Countries Now Have More Household Wealth Than Elon Musk’s $458 Billion (World Map)
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Elon Musk’s Wealth: A Fortune Bigger Than Nations

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How Much More Do Women Need to Save to Retire Comfortably in Every U.S. State Mapped
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How Much Extra Must Women Save for a Secure Retirement?

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United States congressional districts redrawn by a computer to eliminate gerrymandering

The term gerrymander was used for the initial time in the Boston Gazette. The word was invented to redraw Massachusetts state senate election districts under Governor Elbridge Gerry. In 1812, Elbridge Gerry signed a law that redistricted Massachusetts to help his Democratic-Republican Party. When mapped, one of the twisted communities in the Boston area resembled the form of a mythological salamander.

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Irish speakers in Ireland

Irish is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family. The Irish language is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population’s 1st language until the 19th century, when English slowly became prevalent, especially in the last decades of the century.

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Gulag Archipelago
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The Gulag Archipelago (The Soviet forced labor camp system)

The Gulag camp system united 53 camp administrations with thousands of camp departments, 425 сorrective labor colonies, and more than 2,000 special commandants’ offices. In total, the Gulag included over 30,000 places of detention. On January 1, 1939, almost 1.99 million prisoners were held in the camps, colonies, and prisons of the Gulag, and by 1950 the number of prisoners had increased to 2.5 million people.

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