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unusual facts about continental United States



American Prairie Foundation

The foundation's objective is to build one of the largest wildlife reserves in the continental United States through a combination of new land acquisition and public land integration into the project, to be named the American Prairie Reserve.

August 2007 lunar eclipse

The Pacific regions of Canada and the continental United States (including all of Alaska) witnessed the whole event, along with most of eastern Australia, New Zealand and all the Pacific Island regions (except New Guinea), and the tip of the Chukchi Peninsula that includes the town of Uelen, Russia.

History of Pensacola, Florida

One of the first European settlements in what is now the continental United States was established at the modern site of Pensacola by conquistador Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559.

Winston P. Wilson

In 1944 he became commander of the 16th Photographic Squadron, responsible for photographic mapping and charting missions in South America, Alaska and the continental United States.


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Air Combat Command

Upon activation, ACC assumed control of all fighter resources based in the continental United States, all bombers, reconnaissance platforms, battle management resources, and Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).

Air Force Satellite Control Network

Satellite Operations Centers (SOCs) are located at Schriever Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado, and various other locations throughout the continental United States.

Dennis E. Nolan

From 1927 to 1931, Nolan was commander of Fifth Corps Area, headquartered at Fort Hayes at Columbus, Ohio, one of and geographically the largest of nine corps areas established in the continental United States for the administration of the regular army and reserves by the National Defense Act of 1920.

Fort Greely

Fort Greely is currently one of the two U.S. sites housing anti-ballistic missile interceptor missiles, and it is located near the Great circle line from North Korea to the continental United States.

Gino Geraci

He has conducted leadership conferences, Bible Conferences, and emergency service support conferences with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritans’ Purse, Gospel for Asia in India, and Sri Lanka, the Bible League in Africa; Food For The Poor in Jamaica; Mike McIntosh Crusades in Mexico; Somebody Loves You Bible Conferences with Raul Ries in Chile, Columbia, Peru and Pastor’s conferences in much of the continental United States.

Guillaume Delisle

The map is centered on the interior of what would later become the continental United States and the Mississippi, and it spans the area from the bottom of Lake Superior in the north to the point at which the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico in the south; the map also extends eastward from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast.

History of slavery in Alaska

Whereas the continental United States mostly saw enslavement of Africans brought across the Atlantic Ocean, in Alaska indigenous people, and some whites, enslaved indigenous people from other tribes.

National Register of Big Trees

To be eligible, a species must be recognized as native or naturalized in the continental United States, including Alaska but not Hawaii, as documented in Elbert L. Little Jr.'s Checklist of United States Trees (Native and Naturalized), published in 1979 as Agricultural Handbook 541 by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Pedro Menendez High School

It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth-century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States, on August 28, 1565.

Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

In 1948, the Michigan congregation began its first missionary work outside the continental United States when the Sisters opened a mission in Cayey, Puerto Rico.

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

For the second season, the top prize consisted of two cars, ten pairs of round-trip Delta Air Lines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, an outdoor spa, a new kitchen, living room, and dining room, and over $900,000 paid in annual installments of $36,000 for 25 years.

USA for Africa

USA for Africa also held a benefit event, Hands Across America, in which approximately seven million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States.