FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
The United States of America has not had an ambassador to the United Kingdom since the resignation of William Farish on July 10, 2004. The Chargé d'Affaires ad interim is David T. Johnson. [1] (http://www.usembassy.org.uk/ukamb/farishbio.html). Rumours in late January 2005 identified Mercer Reynolds as a likely appointee.
The United States of America has not had an ambassador to the Holy See (the Vatican) since R. James Nicholson was appointed U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs on January 26, 2005. The Chargé d'Affaires ad interim is Brent Hardt. [2] (http://vatican.usembassy.it/embassy/dcm.asp)
Due to security concerns the United States Embassy to Tajikistan operates from Almaty, Kazakhstan
The United States of America does not currently have nor do they maintain diplomatic relations with the Republic of Cuba. U.S. Interests in the Republic of Cuba are handled by the U.S. Interests section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana.
The UnitedStates may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the UnitedStates of America.
The UnitedStates does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto official language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the UnitedStates: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
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