People & Places
NATIONAL PARKS
LAWS IN US HISTORY
NAMES OF MYTH
African Countries
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Thought to descend from people of Southeast Asia, the Chamorro make up this U.S. territory's largest ethnic group

Guam

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It's named for a river indigenous people called Mi tse a-da-zi, translated by French-speaking trappers as "Pierre Jaune"

Yellowstone

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A Radical Republican championed this 1875 act but the Supreme Court struck it down in 1883; a new version was passed 81 years later

the Civil Rights Act

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Her brothers, Castor & Pollux, saved her after Theseus stole her away as a kid; a larger force would seek her later in life

Helen of Troy

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Once Africa's largest country in area, it dropped to third in 2011 when a portion of it declared independence

Sudan