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MSN Encarta - Search View - Virginia (state) (13492 words) |
 | In 1619 the first Africans were landed in Virginia to be indentured servants, but their status soon deteriorated into slavery, and the fl population began to grow rapidly late in the century, when the large-scale slave trade began. |
| The leading college and university libraries in the state are the University of Virginia Library and the libraries of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the College of William and Mary. |
| Virginia was the tenth state to ratify the Constitution and therefore, the tenth to enter the federal Union. |
| 1618 - encyclopedia article about 1618. (1611 words) |
| The margraves of Brandenburg Brandenburg is one of Germany's sixteen Bundesländer (federal states). |
| Lying in the east of the country, in its current form it is one of the new states created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. |
| A Polish state existed 1,000 years ago, and in the 16th century under the Jagiellonian dynasty Poland was one of the richest and most powerful countries in Europe. |
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