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  2. United Parcel Service - Wikipedia

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    United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) is an American multinational shipping & receiving and supply chain management company founded in 1907. [1] Originally known as the American Messenger Company specializing in telegraphs, UPS has expanded to become a Fortune 500 company [ 6 ] and one of the world's largest shipping couriers .

  3. United Methodist Church - Wikipedia

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    The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant [1] denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism.

  4. Cornerstone Touting Tax Credit For Help With Major Project

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    The total cost of the project is $40,864, with $36,484 eligible for the NAA tax credit," Redfern said. Here's how it works. Businesses that pledge a donation toward this project can receive a 100 ...

  5. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    This was a southern route on the Underground Railroad into Seminole Indian lands that went from Georgia and the Carolinas into Florida. In Northwest Ohio in the 18th and 19th centuries, three Indigenous/Native American nations, the Shawnee, Ottawa, and Wyandot assisted freedom seekers escape from slavery. The Ottawa people accepted and ...

  6. Michigan - Wikipedia

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    Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the southwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.

  7. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Jamaica. Jamaica (/ dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [9] Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi ...

  8. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Society (ISOC) is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". With offices near Washington, DC, US, and in Geneva, Switzerland, ISOC has a membership base comprising more than 80 organizational ...

  9. Georgia (country) - Wikipedia

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    Georgia was the first non- Baltic republic of the Soviet Union to officially declare independence, [ 94 ] with Romania becoming the first country to recognize Georgia in August 1991. [ 95 ] On 26 May, Gamsakhurdia was elected president in the first presidential election with 86.5% of the vote on a turnout of over 83%.