Examples of now in the following topics:
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- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada in 1857.
- The Comstock Lode was the first major U.S. discovery of silver ore, located in what is now Virginia City, Nevada, on the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range.
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- In 1966, the National Organization for Women (NOW) was formed by 28 women—among them Betty Friedan—and proceeded to set an agenda for the feminist movement.
- Framed by a statement of purpose written by Friedan, who became its first president, the agenda began by proclaiming NOW’s goal to make possible women’s participation in all aspects of American life and to gain for them all the rights enjoyed by men.
- National Organization for Women (NOW) founder and president Betty Friedan; NOW co-chair and Washington, D.C., lobbyist Barbara Ireton; and feminist attorney Marguerite Rawalt.
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- The majority of population groups at this time were still highly mobile hunter-gatherers, but now individual groups started to focus on resources available to them locally.
- Beginning around 4000 BCE across what is now the southeastern United States, people exploited wetland resources to create large shell middens.
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- The French colonial empire truly began on July 27, 1605, when Port Royal was founded in the colony of Acadia, in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada.
- They now possessed a trading network that stretched across the region, extending from Canada through the Great Lakes and down to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- With the signing of the treaty in 1795, the border between the United States and the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida became what is now the line through the present-day states of Georgia and Florida, respectively, and the territory extended from the northern boundary of the Florida panhandle to the northern boundary of that portion of Louisiana East of the Mississippi.
- These disputes would, in turn, determine which parts of West Florida were now U.S. property versus Spanish territory and would greatly affect the Jeffersonian administration.
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- Although the appearance typically associated now with flappers (straight waists, short hair and a hemline above the knee) did not fully emerge until about 1926, there was an early association in the public mind between unconventional appearance, outrageous behavior, and the word "flapper" .
- Blush came into fashion now that it was no longer a messy application process.
- A tan now suggested a life of leisure, without the onerous need to work.
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- Now at peace and eager to secure control of its hard-won colony, Great Britain found itself obliged to make concessions to its newly conquered subjects.
- Many American Indian peoples—primarily in the Great Lakes region—had a long and close relationship with France, and were dismayed to find that they were now under British sovereignty.
- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Hard Labor, both signed 1768, and the Treaty of Lochaber of 1770, opened much of what is now West Virginia and Kentucky to British settlement.
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- Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts.
- Simultaneously, however, Virginia was declared a "crown colony", meaning that charter was transferred from the Virginia Company to the Crown of England, making Jamestown a colony now run by the English monarchy.
- With English demand for tobacco rising, Virginia had now found a way to support itself economically.
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- In 1966, Friedan joined other women and men to found the National Organization for Women (NOW).
- Amongst the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full Affirmative Action rights to women, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act (1972 and 1974, respectively), Title X (1970, health and family planning), the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, the legalization of no-fault divorce (although not allowed in all states until 2010), a 1975 law requiring the U.S.
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- The first intercollegiate football game between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) took place on November 6, 1869, at College Field, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on what is now the site of Rutgers' College Avenue Gymnasium.