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Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd-/ ^ⓘ, pronounced "road") 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 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". On November 3, 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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Susanna Paine, also known as Susannah and Susan (June 9, 1792 – November 10, 1862), was an American portrait artist in New England in the 19th century. She published poetry, a Christmas hymn, a novel, and an autobiography entitled Roses and Thorns, or Recollections of an Artist.

As a young girl, she was an excellent student, but needed to quit school at the age of 11 to care for her ill grandmother. At 15, she taught school and a year later joined an academy in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned her way through school by making and selling needlework. She graduated with highest honors and established a school that she operated for years. Paine gave the profits to her family, and she helped support them throughout most of her life. (Full article...)

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Rhode Island Comic Con (RICC) is a three-day comic convention held during November at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Amica Mutual Pavilion, and Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island. The convention was Rhode Island's first Comic Con. Organizers also run Terror Con, a horror convention at the same location, and starting in 2023, the Rhode Island Anime Con was held at the same location as well. (Full article...)

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... 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?
... 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"?

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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The 50 State Quarters program (Pub. L. 105–124 (text) (PDF), 111 Stat. 2534, enacted December 1, 1997) is the release of a series of commemorative coins by the United States Mint. Between 1999 and 2008, it featured each of the 50 individual U.S. states on unique designs for the reverse of the quarter.

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Image 1The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 2Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 3In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 4County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 5Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 6The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 7Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 81884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 9Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 10Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 11University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 12Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 131884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 14Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 15Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 16In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 17The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 18Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 19A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 20Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 21Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 22Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 23University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 24The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 25A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 26County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 27In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 28In 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 29The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 30Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 31A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 32Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 33Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 34The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 35Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 36University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 37Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 38Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 39Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 40Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 41The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 42Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 43In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 44The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 45The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 46A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 47The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 48The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 49University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 50Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 51The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 52Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 53Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 54Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 55The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 56The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 57Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 58The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 59The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 60Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 61Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 62In 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 63The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 64The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)

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A baseball game at McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket, May 7, 2002.

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