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This is a list of individuals serving in the United States House of Representatives (as of September 23, 2024, the 118th Congress). [1] The membership of the House comprises 435 seats for representatives from the 50 states, apportioned by population, as well as six seats for non-voting delegates from U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. [1] Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose electors to the Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.Founded in 1880 by Robert Maclay Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California, [11] [12] with an enrollment of more than 49,000 students.
Located in Monrovia, the university opened in 1862. Today it has six colleges, including a medical school and the nation's only law school, Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law. [193] In 2009, Tubman University in Harper, Maryland County was established as the second public university in Liberia. [194]
The following is a list of schools and their respective off-campus branches: The TS Golden Bear is the training ship of CSU Maritime Academy, based at Vallejo in the Bay Area. CSU San Bernardino's Palm Desert campus in the Coachella Valley. Sacramento State Aquatic Center at Lake Natoma, in Gold River. California State University, Bakersfield
The word Brazil probably comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. [33] In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ('ember') and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). [34]
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.