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Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd-/ ^ⓘ, pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though nearly all its land area is on the mainland. Providence is its capital and most populous city.

Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century. Rhode Island was unique among the Thirteen British Colonies in having been founded by a refugee, Roger Williams, who fled religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a haven for religious liberty. He founded Providence in 1636 on land purchased from local tribes, creating the first settlement in North America with an explicitly secular government. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations subsequently became a destination for religious and political dissenters and social outcasts, earning it the moniker "Rogue's Island".

Rhode Island was the first colony to call for a Continental Congress, in 1774, and the first to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, on May 4, 1776. After the American Revolution, during which it was heavily occupied and contested, Rhode Island became the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, on February 9, 1778. Because its citizens favored a weaker central government, it boycotted the 1787 convention that had drafted the United States Constitution, which it initially refused to ratify; it finally ratified it on May 29, 1790, the last of the original 13 states to do so.

The state was officially named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations since the colonial era but came to be commonly known as "Rhode Island". On November 3, 2020, the state's voters approved an amendment to the state constitution formally dropping "and Providence Plantations" from its full name. Its official nickname, found on its welcome sign, is the "Ocean State", a reference to its 400 mi (640 km) of coastline and the large bays and inlets that make up about 14% of its area. (Full article...)

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Providence College is a private Catholic university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1917 by the Dominican Order and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, it offers 47 undergraduate majors and 17 graduate programs.

The college requires all of its undergraduate students to complete 16 credits in the Development of Western Civilization, a major part of the college's core curriculum. In the spring of 2021, it enrolled 4,128 undergraduate students and 688 graduate students for a total enrollment of 4,816 students. (Full article...)

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Pawtucket (/pəˈtʌkɪt/ ^ⓘ puh-TUK-it) is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island. The population was 75,604 at the 2020 census, making the city the fourth-largest in the state. Pawtucket borders Providence and East Providence to the south, Central Falls and Lincoln to the north, and North Providence to the west. The city also borders the Massachusetts municipalities of Seekonk and Attleboro.

Pawtucket was an early and important center of textile manufacturing. It is home to Slater Mill, a historic textile mill recognized for helping to found the Industrial Revolution in the United States. (Full article...)

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... that three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
... that a Rhode Island TV station broadcast for 14 months and then was off the air for 26 years before returning?
... that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island, was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
... that James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when the city went into bankruptcy?

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One hundred years after the declaration that all men are created equal, there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others.

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Brown University is a private university and member of the Ivy League located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1764, prior to American independence from the British Empire and early in the reign of King George III (1760–1820). Brown is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

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Image 1University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 2The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 3The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 4The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 5The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 6Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 71884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 8Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 9Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 10A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 11Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 12Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 13Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 14Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 15Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 16Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 17The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 18County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 19University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 20The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 21Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 22The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 23The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 24Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 25The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 26Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 27Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 28The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 29The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 30In 1936, on the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Rhode Island in 1636, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp, depicting Roger Williams (from Rhode Island)
Image 31Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 32In 1936, on the 300th anniversary of the settlement of Rhode Island in 1636, the U.S. Post Office issued a commemorative stamp, depicting Roger Williams (from Rhode Island)
Image 33Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 34The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 35A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 36Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 37County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 38The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 39In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 40Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 41The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 42In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 43Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 44Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 45Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 46Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 47The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 48The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 49In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 50A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 51The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 52Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 53Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 54University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 55Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 56A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 57Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 58Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 59University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 60In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 61The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 62Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 63Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 641884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)

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