About the USA.
USA climate.
s and variability over time.This interactive tool provides historical information on precipitation and temperature for selected places, from cities to states to climate regions to the contiguous United States. A menu-driven system provides the history and trend for each place. Annual data can be further broken down by month and by season.USA mountains.
Horsetrough Mountain, with a summit elevation of 4,045 feet (1,233 m), is located in Union and White counties in
northeastern Georgia, USA. It is also within the boundaries of the Chattahoochee National Forest and is part of the Mark Trail Wilderness. The Eastern Continental Divide follows the main ridge line that makes up the mountain, crossing the peak. Water to the south and east of the mountain flows to the Atlantic Ocean, while water to the north and west of the mountain flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Streams from Horsetrough Mountain form some of the headwaters of the Chattahoochee River, and the West Fork Little River. The Appalachian Trail follows the main ridge line of the mountain but does not cross the summit. Horsetrough Falls is located on the southern side of the mountain.
USA rivers.
This is a list of rivers and significant streams in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.All watercourses named «River» (freshwater or tidal) are listed here, as well as other s
treams which are either subject to the New Hampshire Comprehensive Shoreland Protection Act or are more than 10 miles (16 km) long. New Hampshire rivers and streams qualify for state shoreland protection (and are listed here in bold) if they are fourth-order or larger water bodies, based on the Strahler method of stream order classification.
USA seas.
The Baltic Sea (German: Ostsee; Polish: Morze Bałtyckie; Russian: Балтийское море; Danish: Østersøen; Swedish: Östersjön;Lithuanian: Baltijos jūra; Latvian: Baltijas jūra; Estonian: Läänemeri; Finnish: Itämeri) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed byScandinavia, Finland, the Baltic countries, and the North E
uropean Plain. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bay of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga, and the Bay of Gdańsk. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. A mediterranean sea of the Atlantic, with limited water exchange between the two bodies, the Baltic Sea drains through the Danishislands into the Kattegat by way of the straits of Øresund, the Great Belt, and the Little Belt.
USA monuments.
A National Monument is a protected area in the United States that is similar to a National Park except the President of the United States can quickly declare an area of the United States to be a National Monument without approval fromCongress. There are also fewer protections offered to wildlife and to the geographic features in a National Monument compared to the protection (and funding) that a National Park receives.
Another difference between a National Monument and National Park is the amount of diversity in what is being protected; National Monuments aim to preserve at least one unique resource but do not have the amount of diversity of a National Park (which are supposed to protect a host of unique features). However areas within and extending beyond, National Parks, Monuments or even United States National Forests can be part of United States Wilderness areas, which have an even greater degree of protection than a National Park would alone.
The power to grant National Monuments came from Theodore Roosevelt who declared Devils Tower as the very first National Monument. He thought congress was moving too slowly and it would be ruined by the time they got around to making it a National Park.
History
The Antiquities Act of 1906 resulted from concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Native American ruins and artifacts-collectively termed «antiquities «-on federal lands in the West. It authorized permits for legitimate archeological investigations and penalties for persons taking or destroying antiquities without permission. And it authorized p
residents to proclaim «historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest» as national monuments-«the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected.»
So it was originally expected that national monuments would be proclaimed to protect prehistoric cultural features, or antiquities, and that they would be small. Yet the reference in the act to «objects of … scientific interest» enabled President Theodore Roosevelt to make a natural geological feature, Devils Tower, Wyoming, the first national monument three months later. Among the next three monuments he proclaimed in 1906 was Petrified Forest inArizona; another natural feature.
The expectation that national monuments would be small was also soon overcome. In 1908 Roosevelt again used the act to proclaim more than 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon as a national monument-a very big «object of scientific interest.» And in 1918 President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Katmai National Monument in Alaska, comprising more than a million acres. Katmai was later enlarged to nearly 2.8 million acres by subsequent Antiquities Act proclamations and for many years was the largest national park system unit. Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, and Katmai were among the many national monuments later converted to national parks by Congress.
There was no significant congressional opposition to this expansive use of the Antiquities Act in Arizona and Alaska-perhaps in part because Arizona and Alaska were then only territories without representation in the United States Congress. Substantial opposition did not materialize until 1943, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Jackson Hole National Monument in Wyoming. He did this to accept a donation of lands acquired by John D. Rockefeller, Jr, for addition to Grand Teton National Park after Congress had declined to authorize this park expansion. Roosevelt’s proclamation unleashed a storm of criticism about use of the Antiquities Act to circumvent Congress. A bill abolishing Jackson Hole National Monument passed Congress but was vetoed by Roosevelt, and congressional and court challenges to the proclamation authority were mounted. In 1950 Congress finally incorporated most of the monument into Grand Teton National Park, but the act doing so barred further use of the proclamation authority in Wyoming.
Since 1943 the proclamation authority has been used very sparingly, and seldom without advance congressional con
sultation and support. In 1949, for example, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed Effigy Mounds National Monument to accept a donation of the land from the state of Iowa, at the request of Iowa’s delegation. On those rare occasions when the proclamation authority was used in seeming defiance of local and congressional sentiment, Congress again retaliated. Just before he left office in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower procl
aimed the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument after Congress had declined to act on related national historical park legislation. The chairman of the House Interior Committee, Wayne Aspinall of Colorado, responded by blocking action on subsequent C & 0 Canal Park bills to the end of that decade.
The most substantial use of the proclamation authority came in 1978, when President Jimmy Carter proclaimed 15 new national monuments in Alaska after Congress had adjourned without passing a major Alaska lands bill strongly opposed in that state. Congress passed a revised version of the bill in 1980 incorporating most of these national monuments into national parks and preserves, but the act also curtailed further use of the proclamation authority in Alaska.
The proclamation authority was not used again anywhere until 1996, when President Bill Clinton proclaimed theGrand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. This action was widely unpopular in Utah, and bills were introduced to further restrict the president’s authority. To date none of them have been enacted.
Presidents have used the Antiquities Act’s proclamation authority not just to create new national monuments but to enlarge existing ones. A few examples: Franklin D. Roosevelt significantly enlarged Dinosaur National Monument in1938, Lyndon B. Johnson added Ellis Island to Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and Jimmy Carter made major additions to Glacier Bay and Katmai national monuments in 1978.
USA falg.
The flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed starss arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars represent the50 states and the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies.
It is commonly called the «Stars and Stripes» and less commonly «Old Glory.» Because the name «Old Glory» technically refers to the 48-star version used from 1912 to 1959, this usage connotes the history of the flag. The flag has gone through many changes since 13 of the English colonies in North America first adopted it.
History
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: «Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.» Describing the new flag, the Congress wrote, «White signifies Purity and Innocence; Red, Hardiness and Valor; Blue signifies Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice.» Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year.
As further states entered the union, extra stars have appeared, but the number of stripes has remained at the original thirteen. The exception was the 15-star flag, which al
so had 15 stripes. It was the 15-star flag which inspired Francis Scott Key to write «The Star-Spangled Banner,» now the national anthem.
When the flag design changes, the change always takes place on July 4 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a consequence of the Flag Act of April 4, 1818. July 4, the United States Independence Day, commemorates the founding of the nation. The most recent change, from forty-nine stars to fifty, occurred in 1960, after Hawaii gained statehood. Before that, the admission of Alaska the year before prompted the debut of a short-lived 49-star flag.
The flag flew in battle for the first time, at Cooch’s Bridge in Maryland on September 3, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War.
The British historian Sir Charles Fawcett has suggested that the design of the flag may have been derived from the flagand jack of the British East India Company.
USA emblem.
USA state symbols represent a set of symbols pertaining to each and every state of USA.
The country of United States of America uses various symbols to represent various aspects of its states like state bird, state flower, states fruit etc.
USA state symbols are the official symbols for each and every state of US representing the natural treasures and the cultural heritage of every individual state. endangers species like Mayflower, Louisiana Black Bear, Florida Panther, Texas Horned Lizard etc have also been used in the USA state symbols to make people realize their importance and to highlight the fact that they have not become endangered and hence should be saved.
USA state symbol section is ideal for educational purposes for both students and teachers. Comprehensive information can be taken from this section to prepare term papers and presentations. This section is also of interest to people who want to know more about the states of United Sates of America.
USA anthem.
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty holt in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a countrv should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever when free-men shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation;
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: In God is our trust!
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!