Listen to former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick speaking on human rights and foreign policy

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What do Times Square, red envelopes, and 12 grapes have in common?

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Indigenous Peoples' Day is celebrated on the second Monday of October in the United States.

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Look closely at this eye. Is someone watching?

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Discover the climate, landscape, and waterways of the northeastern United States.

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People come from all over the United States and all over the world to live in the Pacific Region of the U.S.

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Bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) flying, perching, and fishing in the Chilkat River valley of southern Alaska.

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The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay took off from the Mariana Islands on August 6, 1945, bound for Hiroshima, Japan, where, by dropping an atomic bomb, it heralded a new and terrible concept of warfare. From The Second World War: Allied Victory (1963), a documentary by Encyclopædia Britannica Educational Corporation.