America the Beautiful: Quick Facts

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Colorful landscape view of Pikes Peak in the distance, with dramatic red rock formations and trees in Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, under a partly cloudy sky.

Golden wheat field ready for harvest stretches toward a distant tree line under a dramatic sky at sunrise in central Kansas.

“Thine alabaster cities”

John Legend sits at a black Yamaha grand piano singing into a microphone, surrounded by flag bearers and choir members, performing at the Superbowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona.

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