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on this page: headlines, events, recommended listening related: americas, local responsible travel, usa links, wild usa flickr collection: [|usa] flickrgroup: [|North American Ecotourism] slideshare: [|Go Wild: Engaging Conservation Champions in the USA], [|Responsible Local Travel in the USA], [|USA on the Web] editing: [|USA]

The **United States of America** is located in North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The USA is bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid Pacific.

Events

 * February 2018 ** Responsible Travel Week 2017 [|#rtweek17]

Headlines
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-how-mcdonalds-first-got-its-start-180960931/ https://narations.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/25/rebooting-the-social-media-strategy-for-the-national-archives - https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/772075530791313408 [|The Movement to Define Native American Cuisine] [|http://freeassembly.net/news/usa-statement] [] [|I used to lead tours at a plantation. You won’t believe the questions I got about slavery] - @AfAmHistFail [|The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2015] [|@SmithsonianMag] [|The 20 Best Small Towns to Visit in 2014] [|@SmithsonianMag] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/our-demand-is-simple-stop-killing-us.html http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/how-to-really-drive-across-the-us-hitting-all-major-landmarks-150309.htm [|Indian Country Gearing Up for 2014 White House Tribal Nations Conference] - This event will be livestreamed at www.doi.gov/live. [|Who Influences Whom? Reflections on U.S. Government Outreach to Think Tanks] [|Top 20 countries fueling U.S. tourism: Asia and Latin America on the rise, Europe in decline] [|Conference focuses on attracting international tourists to U.S.]

Current time

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Wiki
American Environmental Leaders USA Tour usa slang

Quotes The West at large is hope's native home, the youngest and freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with the chance to become something unprecedented and unmatched in the world - Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs

Facebook
National Park Service First Friday Las Vegas The Lost City Museum Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Flickr
[|Library of Congress] [|Gone to look for America - Pat Swigart]

Flickr Groups
[|All gone to look for America]

Tourism Portals
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Tourism Industry
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/07/brand-usa-campaign-unveiled

Recommended Listening
[|Le Show] - [|@theharryshearer] - https://www.facebook.com/theharryshearer Live 10am Sunday (PST) http://www.kcsn.org

[|The Origin of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution] - The Bill of Rights Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution. How did they come into being?

Recommended Viewing
https://weather.com/tv/shows/23pt5 https://weather.com/tv/the-weather-channel-live/video/watch-the-weather-channel-live?pl=pl-live-tv-now https://twitter.com/23pt5

http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/about/untold-stories - Five documentary websites explore efforts to bring underserved populations into the parks today.

Calendar
The first full week in May is recognized as National Travel and Tourism Week, a tradition first celebrated in 1984, established by a Congressional joint resolution passed in 1983.

Wiki Essays
United States' Wildlife, Biodiversity, Parks and Protected Areas usa slang


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Twitter
https://twitter.com/ronmader/lists/usa

[|@NatParksBlog] [|@natlparkservice] [|@USNatArchives] [|@RealAmericaChat] https://twitter.com/potus https://twitter.com/librarycongress https://twitter.com/23pt5

Tourism Portals
[|USA]

Buzzword Bingo
[|Cumberland_Plateau] - Little 500 - Memorial Day - [|Ozarks] - route66

rss
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Editing
[|USA] [|USA News] [|USA Notebook]

America
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Public Holidays
[|Public_holidays_in_the_United_States] [|Independence Day] [|Memorial Day] [|Labor Day]

Parks
The [|National Park Service] (NPS) was created on August 25, 1916.

Government
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Politics
http://www.capitolwords.org http://www.whitehouse.gov http://rootstrikers.org

Cities
Austin, Texas Boston Chicago, Illinois Las Vegas, Nevada Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada Portland, Oregon [|Washington, DC]

Indigenous Peoples
November is Native American Heritage Month: http://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov [|Indian Reservations in the Continental United States] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_the_United_States http://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html [|Thoughtful Travel - Indian Country Today] http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/tag/travel-2 https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/04/08/prepared-remarks-first-lady-michelle-obama-white-house-convening-creatin

USA / Tribal Gaming
[|The Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming]focuses on research, policy studies, and education related to the area of tribal gaming management. The Institute, centered in the largest tribal gaming community in the world, is geared to studying tribal gaming within the broader industry of hospitality and tourism management.

Civil Rights
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights

Essays
http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/letters-at-3am

History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence

States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois || Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri || Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon || Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming ||
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Videos
[|America the Beautiful] [|Inauguration and Peace Ball]

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Help US, Please
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Artwork / Cue Yourself
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Parks from Southwest USA
[|Grand Canyon National Park]





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