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  2. Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly called Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. [13] The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with Maryland to its north and east. Washington, D.C., was named for George Washington, a Founding Father ...

  3. Web Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    Web Mercator, Google Web Mercator, Spherical Mercator, WGS 84 Web Mercator [1] or WGS 84/Pseudo-Mercator is a variant of the Mercator map projection and is the de facto standard for Web mapping applications. It rose to prominence when Google Maps adopted it in 2005. [2] It is used by virtually all major online map providers, including Google ...

  4. W. E. B. Du Bois - Wikipedia

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    W. E. B. Du Bois Portrait by James E. Purdy, 1907 Born William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-02-23) February 23, 1868 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. Died August 27, 1963 (1963-08-27) (aged 95) Accra, Ghana Citizenship United States Ghana (from 1961) Education Fisk University (BA) Harvard University (AB, PhD) Friedrich Wilhelm University Known for The Souls of Black Folk (1903) Black ...

  5. Wa State - Wikipedia

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    Driving side. right. Calling code. +86 (0)879 (north) +66 (0)53 (south) Wa State [n 1] is an autonomous self-governing polity in Myanmar (Burma). It is de facto independent from the rest of the country and has its own political system, administrative divisions and army.

  6. Instagram - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Instagram [a] is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers.

  7. Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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    Washington, officially the State of Washington, [3] is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is often referred to as Washington state or Washington State [a] to distinguish it from the national capital, [4] both named for George Washington (the first U.S. president ). Washington borders the Pacific Ocean to the west ...

  8. Wa Wa Nee - Wikipedia

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    Career. Singer/songwriter Paul Gray and guitarist Steve Williams formed the band in 1982. They were joined by Geoff Lundren (bass), Elizabeth Lord (keyboards, backing vocals) and Chris Sweeney (drums) and signed with CBS Records in 1985. Mark Gray, Paul's brother, [1] and Phil Witchett joined the group soon after and their debut single ...

  9. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...