In Focus:

Great Outdoors Month

June 2009

June is Great Outdoors Month. It is an especially active time for recreation in America, with millions of people commencing summertime activities and hundreds of annual events and meetings. [More]

U.S. Profile
The 50 States:

Fifty (50) states and the District of Columbia make up the United States. The so-called lower 48 states (all but Alaska and Hawaii) sprawl across 4,500 kilometers and four time zones. A car trip from coast to coast typically takes a minimum of five days - and that's with almost no stops to look around. It is not unusual for the gap between the warmest and coldest high temperatures on a given day in the United States to reach 70 degrees Fahrenheit (about 40 degrees Celsius).
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