29 July 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Brown University is a
private Ivy League research university in
Providence, Rhode Island . Founded in 1764 as the
College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , Brown is the
seventh-oldest institution of
higher education in the United States and one of the nine
colonial colleges chartered before the
American Revolution . Admission is among the most selective in the United States; in 2021, the university reported an acceptance rate of 5.4%.
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23 February 2017 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Rhode Island, officially the
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , is a state in the
New England region of the
northeastern United States . Rhode Island is the
smallest in area , the
eighth least populous , and the
second most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, following
New Jersey . Its official name is also the longest of any state in the Union. Rhode Island is bordered by
Connecticut to the west,
Massachusetts to the north and east, and the
Atlantic Ocean to the south via
Rhode Island Sound and
Block Island Sound . The state also shares a short maritime border with
New York . On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first of the
Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and was the fourth among the newly sovereign states to ratify the
Articles of Confederation on February 9, 1778. It boycotted the
1787 convention that drew up the
United States Constitution and initially refused to ratify it. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th and last state to ratify the Constitution.
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6 October 2015 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Providence is the capital and most populous city in
Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in
Providence County , it is the third largest city in the
New England region . The city proper population of 180,000 anchors the 37th
largest metropolitan population in the country, with an estimated MSA population of 1,600,000, exceeding that of Rhode Island by about 60% because of its reaching into southern
Massachusetts . This MSA in turn is part of the larger
Greater Boston commuting area, which contains 7.6 million people.
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