Knowledge of Pakistan and India History and Culture

  USA Etymology and History Use of the term "United States of America" in writing can be traced back to January 2, 1776. That is when Stephen Moylan, an aide in the Continental Army to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, aide-de-camp to Washington, asking to travel "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" in order to request aid in the Revolutionary War cause. The earliest known public use is an anonymous essay that was printed in the Williamsburg newspaper The Virginia Gazette on 6 April 1776. At some point on or after 11 June 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote "United States of America" in a preliminary draft of the Declaration of Independence, which was approved by the Second Continental Congress on 4 July 1776. The name "United States" and its abbreviation "U.S.", used as nouns or as adjectives in English, are standard short forms of the country. The abbreviation "USA", used as a n...

 T he United States (U.S.) or America The United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic consisting mainly of North America. It is a federal republic with 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 continuous states border Mexico to the south and Canada to the north, with the semi-exclave Alaska in the northwest and the Hawaiian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also claims sovereignty over five large island coThe United States of America (USA)untries and many unoccupied islands in Oceania and the Caribbean.[j] It is a megadiverse nation, with the third-largest land area in the world[c] and the third-largest population, at over 340 million. Paleo-Indians came to North America from North Asia more than 12,000 years ago and established different civilizations. Spanish colonization founded Spanish Florida in 1513, the initial European colony in the current continental United States. British colonization then resulted from the 1607 estab...

  Passengers shocked as pilot evades midair crash with B-52 bomber A pilot is being praised for his agility and resourcefulness after a dramatic near-miss in the air. The Minneapolis-St. Paul to Minot International Airport Embraer E175 plane was headed when it suddenly came face-to-face with a B-52 Stratofortress from Minot Air Force Base. The SkyWest Airlines pilot executed a forceful sequence of theatrical midair turns to prevent crashing into the military plane, which flew so closely that it could be easily viewed from the right side of the aircraft. An eyewitness report "All of the sudden we just jerk violently to the right — we just kept making more and more turns, and he gets on the announcement and says, 'I'm sorry everyone, I'll tell you everything once we've landed safely.' The pilot speaks The pilot apologized to the passengers later and said: "Since his speed. I have no idea how fast they were moving, but they moved much faster than ...

 AI-driven answers with AI Mode in Google Search; AI Mode is the strongest AI search experience in Google. Ask anything and receive an AI-driven answer, with the potential to delve further with follow-up questions and insightful links to the web. AI Mode extends what AI Overviews are capable of with more sophisticated reasoning and modes of interaction. It breaks down your question into subtopics and searches all of them at once. This way, AI Mode can search the web to get even more appropriate content that aligns with your query. AI Mode draws on Google Search's profound knowledge of web content, so answers are backed up by high quality web pages for the sake of increased factuality. AI Mode in certain situations will present a list of web links if there isn't high enough confidence in the helpfulness or quality of an AI answer. Like any early-stage AI product, AI Mode isn't perfect. When it isn't, we'd like you to provide feedback in the form of thumbs up / th...

  A Victory for Children's Mental Health in New York, Sagamore Children's Psychiatric Center is operated by the Office of Mental Health, which is one of the state agencies being sued in regards to access to mental health care services for children on Medicaid. From a New York State Office of Mental Health video. New York is now required to ensure Medicaid-eligible kids the access to timely, intensive mental health treatment in their own communities and homes, as part of a class-action settlement reached Monday. The settlement, which was filed in U.S. District Court with New York's Department of Health and Office of Mental Health, is a significant advance in helping to fill gaps in care for some of the state's most vulnerable citizens. Almost half of the kids in New York state — over 2.5 million — are covered by Medicaid. But the unavailability of affordable mental health services has led some parents to have to turn to hospitals and residential programs for their ...

  Dog Jumps into Action to Rescue Children in Pool—But There's a Catch. Disregarding signs and risking her own safety, a dog jumped into action to save children she believed were under threat, immediately garnering admiration from the internet. Owner Amanda Morgan said in an email to Newsweek that her dog, Tinker, is as sweet as can be, with a particularly "soft heart" when it comes to children. She first encountered the dog's protective nature while taking her nephews and Tinker to the lake and swimming. "She attempts to pull them out of the water, so I really had to stop taking her to the lake with them because she freaks out when they are in the water," Morgan said. One day, Morgan walked her dog around the neighborhood, but Tinker grew truly anxious when she heard her favorite children—whom she sees regularly for pets—jumping and screaming. Morgan realized they were "just being kids" and having a summer day splashing in the pool, but Tink...