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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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Liberty Arming the Patriot, sometimes called Freedom Arming the Patriot, is a bronze sculpture at Park Place in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, commemorating the participation of the city's citizens in the American Civil War. It was designed by William Granville Hastings and cast by the Gorham Manufacturing Company in 1897. Unlike many Civil War memorials, Liberty Arming the Patriot is a dynamic composition, depicting a young farmer setting his plow aside, and reaching to take a sword from a classical female figure clad in breastplate and wielding a pike. The statue is 11 feet (3.4 m) in height, and is mounted on a granite base 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 22 feet (6.7 m) wide. The sculpture was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. (Full article...)

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CVS Health Corporation is an American healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company is the world's second largest healthcare company, behind UnitedHealth Group. In 2023, the company was ranked 64th in the Forbes Global 2000.

CVS started in Lowell, Massachusetts by brothers Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and their partner Ralph Hoagland. The name stood for Consumer Value Stores. (Full article...)

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... 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 James Diossa rescued the only public library and post office in Central Falls, Rhode Island, when the city went into bankruptcy?
... 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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To me Newport could never be a place charming by reason of its own charm. That it is a very pleasant place when it is full of people, and the people are in spirits and happy, I do not doubt. But then the visitors would bring, as far as I am concerned, the pleasantness with them.

— Anthony Trollope

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The Newport Casino is located at 186-202 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on February 27, 1987.

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Image 1Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 2The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 3The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 4Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 5A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 6Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 7Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 8The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 9Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 10In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 11In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 12The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 13Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 14A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 15Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 16Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 17The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 18Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 19Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 20Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 21The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 22University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 23Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 24The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 25In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 26The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 27University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 28County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 29Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 30Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 31The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 32A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 33In 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 341884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 35Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 36University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 37Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 38In 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 39Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 40The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 41Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 42Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 43Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 44Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 45Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 46County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 47University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 48The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 49Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 50The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 51The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 52In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 53The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 54Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 55Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 56Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 57Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 58The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 59The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 60The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 61A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 621884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 63The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 64Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)

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