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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It extends to the Southern Ocean in the south. | [
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"text": " (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.\nAt 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the ... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It is bounded by Asia in the west. | [
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"text": " (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.\nAt 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the ... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It is bounded by Australia in the west. | [
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"text": " (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.\nAt 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the ... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It is bounded by the Americas in the east. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean Its depth is estimated to be around 13,000 feet. | [
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"text": " million square miles (161.76 million square km). It has double the area and more than double the water volume of the Atlantic Oceanthe next largest division of the hydrosphereand its area more than exceeds that of the whole land surface of the globe. The Pacific Ocean stretches from the Bering Strai... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean It covers about 46% of Earth's water surface. | [
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"text": " (jpg, 3.4 MB).\nCovering more than 30 percent of the Earths surface, the Pacific Ocean is the largest water mass on the planet. With a surface area of more than 155 million square kilometers (60 million square miles), this ocean basin is larger than the landmass of all the continents combined. Addit... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean encompasses about one-third of the Earth's surface area. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is a body of water. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Earth's surface area is vast. | [
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"text": " (jpg, 3.4 MB).\nCovering more than 30 percent of the Earths surface, the Pacific Ocean is the largest water mass on the planet. With a surface area of more than 155 million square kilometers (60 million square miles), this ocean basin is larger than the landmass of all the continents combined. Addit... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The ocean has a notable feature. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Mariana Trench is a notable feature of the ocean. | [
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"text": ").What is the salinity of the Pacific Ocean?The highest surface salinities in the Pacific Ocean occur in the southeastern area, where they reach 37 parts per thousand; the lowest salinitiesless than about 32 partsoccur in the extreme northern zone of the Pacific. The salinity in the equatorial belt c... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Mariana Trench is the deepest known point on the planet. | [
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"text": " off Far Eastern Asia, and the Southwest Pacific around Oceania.\nThe Pacific Ocean's mean depth is 4,000 meters (13,000 feet).[3] Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the northwestern Pacific, is the deepest known point in the world, reaching a depth of 10,928 meters (35,853 feet).[4] T... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The ocean is divided. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The ocean is divided into four quadrants. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The four quadrants are Northeast Pacific, Southeast Pacific, Northwest Pacific, and Southwest Pacific. | [
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"text": " (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.\nAt 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), this largest division of the ... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific is divided by the International Date Line. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific is informally divided into the East Pacific and the West Pacific. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific basin is a geographical area. | [
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"text": " mountain systems there lie roughly parallel to the coast, as they do on the eastern Pacific coastlands, the western Pacific is noted for its many marginal seas. From north to south they include the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and t... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific basin is called the "Ring of Fire." | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The "Ring of Fire" is named due to earthquake and volcanic activity. | [
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"text": " is bathed in darkness.Distance Sunlight Travels in the Ocean:Natural resourcesoil and gas fields, polymetallic nodules, sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, fishNatural hazardssurrounded by a zone of violent volcanic and earthquake activity sometimes referred to as the \"Pacific Ring of Fire... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The earthquake and volcanic activity occur around the edges of the Pacific basin. | [
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"text": " lie outside the andesite line.\nWithin the closed loop of the andesite line are most of the deep troughs, submerged volcanic mountains, and oceanic volcanic islands that characterize the Pacific basin. Here basaltic lavas gently flow out of rifts to build huge dome-shaped volcanic mountains whose er... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean Volcanic activity can be explained by plate tectonics. | [
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"text": " lie outside the andesite line.\nWithin the closed loop of the andesite line are most of the deep troughs, submerged volcanic mountains, and oceanic volcanic islands that characterize the Pacific basin. Here basaltic lavas gently flow out of rifts to build huge dome-shaped volcanic mountains whose er... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean Plate tectonics is involved in volcanic activity. | [
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"text": ")points to the general validity of the theory of plate tectonics. All the major physical features in the Pacific are understood to originate in plate tectonics. The western Pacific arcs of volcanic islands and deep trenches are convergent zones where two plates are colliding, one being subducted (for... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific tectonic plate is involved in volcanic activity. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific tectonic plate slides against other plates. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific tectonic plate slides against plates that surround it. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific is shrinking. | [
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"text": " Earth is filled with mysteries, but also subject to great pressures like climate change, plastic pollution, and overfishing.BySarah GibbensMarch 04, 20198 min readThe Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on Earth. It spans 60 million square miles from California to China, and in certain re... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific is shrinking by around 2.5cm per year. | [
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"text": "; -158.75.[48] The lowest known point on Earth the Mariana Trench lies 10,911m (35,797ft; 5,966 fathoms) below sea level. Its average depth is 4,280m (14,040ft; 2,340 fathoms), putting the total water volume at roughly 710,000,000km3 (170,000,000cumi).[1]\nDue to the effects of plate tectonics, the P... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The Pacific is shrinking on three sides. | [
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Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The ocean contains salt water. | [
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"text": " many contain active volcanoes. Among these are Bougainville, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands.[65]\nThe coral reefs of the South Pacific are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows under the ocean's surface. One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Au... |
Pacific Ocean#Pacific Ocean The salt water in the ocean is susceptible to climate change. | [
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"text": " Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean; dotted with low coral islands and rugged volcanic islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean; much of the Pacific Ocean's rim lies along the Ring of Fire, a belt of active volcanoes and earthquake epicenters that accounts for up ... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is a province. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is located in the upper Yangtze River valley. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is located in southwestern China. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The province has an area of over 480,000 square kilometers. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province It is one of China's largest provinces. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is a region. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan's terrain slopes from west to east. | [
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"text": " the basin is the Chengdu Plain, the largest plain in southwestern China.\nLong Lake\nThe west, otherwise known as Chuanxi Plateau is an elevated area composed of valleys, snow-capped mountain ranges, glaciers, marshes, tablelands and grasslands that form the far eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau. ... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan's landforms include plains, hills, mountains, and plateaus. | [
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"text": " This basin was a gulf of the China Sea in the later Paleozoic Era (which ended about 250 million years ago); most of it is underlain by soft sandstones and shales that range in colour from red to purple.\nBritannica Quiz\nAll About Asia\nWithin the basin the surface is extremely uneven and gives a g... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The province has a warm climate. | [
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"text": " northeast.\nThe Yangtze River and its tributaries flow through the mountains of western Sichuan and the Sichuan Basin; thus, the province is upstream of the great cities that stand along the Yangtze River further to the east, such as Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai. One of the major tributar... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The province has a wet climate. | [
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"text": " northeast.\nThe Yangtze River and its tributaries flow through the mountains of western Sichuan and the Sichuan Basin; thus, the province is upstream of the great cities that stand along the Yangtze River further to the east, such as Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai. One of the major tributar... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The province's climate is ideal for agriculture. | [
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"text": " billion, the 6thlargest in the country. Its per capita GDP was approximately$7,201. Overall, its GDP accounts for 4.5% of Chinas total which was generated by 6.0% of Chinas population. Its GDP per capita is ranked 21stout of Chinas 33 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions. Sichuans prima... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is home to several ethnic groups. | [
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"text": " 13% of its population in the resulting famine.\nPeople\nRedstone at Minya Konka also known as Mount Gongga\nSichuan is one of Chinas most densely populated provinces. In 2018, it had a population of over 83.2 million, approximately 34 million more people than Spain, living in roughly the same squar... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Han Chinese form the majority in Sichuan. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The province's capital is Chengdu. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Chengdu is a cultural hub. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Chengdu is an industrial hub. | [
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"text": ". Sichuan also had the largest output of pork among all the provinces and the second largest output of silkworm cocoons in 1999. Sichuan is rich in mineral resources. It has more than 132 kinds of proven underground mineral resources including vanadium, titanium, and lithium is the largest in China. ... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Chengdu is located in the agricultural Chengdu Plain. | [
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"text": " Jiang) valley in the southwestern part of the country. Sichuan is the second largest of the Chinese provinces. It is bordered by the provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi to the north, the territory of Chongqing municipality to the east, the provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan to the south, the Tibet Autonomou... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Chengdu is a city. | [
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"text": "[a] is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south. Sichuan's capital city is Chengdu; its population stands at 83 million. Sichuan neighbors Qinghai to the n... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Chengdu is one of the centres of the Chinese tech industry. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Many IT companies have established research and development centres in Chengdu. | [
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"text": " foreign trade import and export volume, ranking first in the national comprehensive insurance zone import and export volume for three consecutive years.\nChengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone[edit]\nChengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone (Chinese: ; pinyin: Chngd jngj jsh ... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The name Sichuan means 'Four Rivers' or 'Four Circuits'. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The name Sichuan refers to the province's major rivers. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province The major rivers in Sichuan are the Jialing, Jinsha (or Wu), Min, and Tuo. | [
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"text": " northeast.\nThe Yangtze River and its tributaries flow through the mountains of western Sichuan and the Sichuan Basin; thus, the province is upstream of the great cities that stand along the Yangtze River further to the east, such as Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai. One of the major tributar... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan has a long history. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan has a significant history. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province Sichuan is part of the Chinese nation. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province It was settled. | [
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"text": "es- the provinces full name. Sichuans capital city is Chengdu.\nSichuan was incorporated into imperial China during the third century BCE after smaller kingdoms were finally conquered. Sichuan was the first southern area of China to be settled by the Han, which comprise about 92% of Chinas population... |
Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province It was settled by the Han. | [
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Sichuan Province#Sichuan Province It was settled by the Han during the third century BCE. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Franz Boas was a German-American. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Franz Boas was an anthropologist. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Franz Boas was the founder of the relativistic, culture-centered school of American anthropology. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas The relativistic, culture-centered school of American anthropology dominated the 20th century. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas was born on July 9, 1858. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas was born in Minden, Germany. | [
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"text": "]\nFranz Boas was born on July 9, 1858,[29] in Minden, Westphalia, the son of Sophie Meyer and Feibes Uri Boas. Although his grandparents were observant Jews, his parents embraced Enlightenment values, including their assimilation into modern German society. Boas's parents were educated, well-to-do, ... |
Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas moved to the United States. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas moved to the United States in 1888. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas His work focused on cultural relativism. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas His theories focused on cultural relativism. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas His work and theories debunked the popular belief that Western civilization was superior. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas His work and theories debunked the popular belief that Western civilization was superior to other societies. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas His work and theories debunked the popular belief that Western civilization was superior to so-called 'primitive' societies. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas He criticised the idea. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas The idea was that there were inherent intellectual differences between human races. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas The idea was that there were inherent physical differences between human races. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas had an impact on the field of anthropology. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas founded the discipline of anthropology in the United States. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas became the first professor of anthropology at Columbia University in 1899. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas Boas became the department head of anthropology at Columbia University in 1902. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas He produced publications. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas He produced 'The Mind of Primitive Man' in 1911. | [
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Franz Boas#Franz Boas He produced 'Race. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Samuel Hitt Elbert was born in 1833. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Samuel Hitt Elbert was an attorney. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Samuel Hitt Elbert was an attorney in the Nebraska Territory. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Samuel Hitt Elbert became Governor of the Colorado Territory in 1873. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Samuel Hitt Elbert died in 1899. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He served as the second Secretary of the Territory of Colorado. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He served from 1862 to 1866. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He was preceded by Edward M. McCook. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Elbert was born in Logan County, Ohio. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert Elbert moved to the Iowa Territory in 1840. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He attended public school. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He studied agriculture. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He studied law. | [
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Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert His studies led him to becoming an attorney. | [
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"text": " he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. He graduated in 1854 and continued to study law at a leading law firm in Dayton, Ohio for two years. He was then admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1856. He moved to Plattsmouth in the Nebraska Territory in the spring of 1857 to practice law.\nCareer\nIn Nebraska, Elber... |
Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert In 1876, he became a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. | [
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"text": " without explanation after less than a year.\nChief Justice\nAfter this political defeat Elbert went to Europe for a period of two years. He was welcomed back with a nomination to the Supreme Court bench in Colorado, an office he held for more than a decade. Judge Elbert was promoted to Chief Justice... |
Samuel Hitt Elbert#Samuel Hitt Elbert He became a justice in 1876. | [
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"text": " without explanation after less than a year.\nChief Justice\nAfter this political defeat Elbert went to Europe for a period of two years. He was welcomed back with a nomination to the Supreme Court bench in Colorado, an office he held for more than a decade. Judge Elbert was promoted to Chief Justice... |
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