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Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd-/ ^ⓘ ROHD) 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 for thousands of years 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". In November 2020, the state's voters approved an amendment to the state constitution formally dropping "and Providence Plantations" from its full name. Its official nickname 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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The Bicknell–Armington Lightning Splitter House is a historic house at 3591 Pawtucket Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island. The house is of a distinctive type, a "Lightning Splitter", of which only a few instances exist in the Providence area. It is a wood-frame structure with a steep two-story gable roof. Records suggest that the house was constructed about 1827, but architectural evidence suggests it was extensively altered in the 1850s. The main entrance and the interior has a simplified Greek Revival styling. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1980. (Full article...)

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Boggs at her home in Detroit in 2012

Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015) was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American, Black Power, and Civil Rights movements. (Full article...)

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

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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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Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge is a suspension bridge operated by the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority that spans the East Passage of the Narragansett Bay, connecting the City of Newport on Aquidneck Island and the Town of Jamestown on Conanicut Island. The bridge is four lanes (two in each direction) and is part of RI 138.

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Image 1In 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 2Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 3Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 4Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 5University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 6The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 7Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 8Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 9The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 10Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 11The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 12The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 13University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 14Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 15The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 16In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 17Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 18Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 19A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 20Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 21The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 22Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 23The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 24Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 25Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 26Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 27The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 28Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 29The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 30The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 31Rhode Island population density map (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 33In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 34In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 351884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 36Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 37A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 38In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 39The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 40Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 41The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 42Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 43A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 44The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 45The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 46Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 47Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 48Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 49The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 50Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 51University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 52A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 53The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 54The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 55Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 56Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 57Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 58University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 59Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 60County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 61Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 62County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 63The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 641884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)

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