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- ... that 35.6 percent of counties in the United States are classified as maternity care deserts?
- ... that a filing for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of Get Up and Dance in the United States by the publisher of the Just Dance series was denied?
- ... that Evelyn Pruitt was the highest-ranking woman scientist in the United States Navy when she retired in 1973?
- ... that during his mayoralty, Fiorello La Guardia appointed the first black woman judge in the United States?
- ... that in the United States, Black people are twice as likely as the general population to identify as vegan?
- ... that David Wheeler was running for re-election to the Alabama House of Representatives unopposed in the Republican primary when he died in 2022?
- ... that the United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland in 1944 because of a personal letter sent to Hitler?
- ... that Juan Juárez may have been the first bishop-elect within the territory of the United States?
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In a career spanning over two decades, Carey has sold more than 200 million albums, singles and videos worldwide, according to Island Def Jam, which makes her one of the world's best-selling music artists. Carey was cited as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the 1998 World Music Awards and was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium by the same award-giving body in 2000. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the third-best-selling female artist, with shipments of 63 million albums. In 2008, Carey earned her eighteenth number one single on the Hot 100, the most by any solo artist. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, she has earned five Grammy Awards and is known for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and use of the whistle register.
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The southernmost section of the road was known as the White Plains Post Road in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a major highway connecting New York City to White Plains, the Westchester county seat. Route 22 in its modern form was established in 1930 as one of the principal routes from New York City to Canada.
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Anniversaries for May 14
- 1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
- 1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
- 1913 – New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
- 1961 – The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
- 1973 – Skylab (pictured), the United States' first space station, is launched. Its launch marked the last time a Saturn V rocket was used in spaceflight.
- 1998 – The finale of the long running sit-com Seinfeld airs on NBC, with 76 million viewers tuning in.
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- ...that Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon (pictured)?
- ...that Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma, and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution?
- ...that the 1040-foot-long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway?
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