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Mad Man From Azkaban
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Re: 4th Of July - How much do you know?
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Originally Posted by joerockhead
#1 - 1.2 Million
#2 - 300 Million
#3 - USS Constitution - Remember the Pics I posted from Back In February? And it carries Active Duty US Navy Sailors. Very cool.
#4 - Unknown - Everyone thinks it is Red=Valor, White=Purity, Blue=Virtue, but that is not true.
#5 - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, England
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Your answer for #1 appears to be incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Population Institute
It is estimated by Joseph Chamie, Research Director of Center for Migration Studies) that 54% of “Americans ever lived” are living today:
• In 1776 the population of the US was 2,527,450
• The total number of births since 1776 is 483,465,018
• The total number if immigrants since 1776 is 72,105,369
• The total number of Americans who ever lived is 558,097,837
• The number of Americans living in 2006 is 300,000,000 (54% of 558,097,837)
• Total number of Americans deceased since 1776 is 258,097,000
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http://www.populationinstitute.org/...ion-news/?id=42
Per the US Census Bureau the population in 1776 was about 2.5 million
and the population for 2008 was 304 million.
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Originally Posted by U.S. POPClock Projection
According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 07/05/08 at 08:22 GMT (EST+5) is
304,518,307
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Maybe the 1.2 million figure for 1776 was only counting white folk. |