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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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Edward Mitchell Bannister (November 2, 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon school. Born in Canada, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Bannister's style and predominantly pastoral subject matter reflected his admiration for the French artist Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school. A lifelong sailor, he also looked to the Rhode Island seaside for inspiration. Bannister continually experimented, and his artwork displays his Idealist philosophy and his control of color and atmosphere. He began his professional practice as a photographer and portraitist before developing his better-known landscape style. (Full article...)

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Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport (IATA: PVD, ICAO: KPVD, FAA LID: PVD) is a public international airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, 6 miles (5.2 nmi; 9.7 km) south of the state's capital and largest city of Providence. Opened in 1931, the airport was named for former Rhode Island governor and longtime senator Theodore Francis Green. Rebuilt in 1996, the renovated main terminal was named for former Rhode Island governor Bruce Sundlun. It is the first state-owned airport in the United States.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2023–2027 categorized it as a small-hub primary commercial service facility. (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 three decades after chasing away surveyors for a previous railroad with guns, residents of Wickford, Rhode Island, built their own railroad?
... 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?

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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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The Ocean Drive Historic District covers Ocean Drive along the southern shore of Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1976 and consists of houses on large lots that overlook the beaches and ocean.

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Image 1Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 2In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 3Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 4The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 5Rocky shoreline in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 6The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 7Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 81884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 9Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 10The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 11The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 12Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 13The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 14Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 15Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 161884 Baseball Champion Providence Grays (from Rhode Island)
Image 17Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 18University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 19Many Rhode Islanders visit Washington County for its beaches (from Rhode Island)
Image 20County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 21The Block Island Wind Farm is the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 22The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 23In 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 24Köppen climate types of Rhode Island, using 1991–2020 climate normals (from Rhode Island)
Image 25Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 26Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 27In 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 28A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 29Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 30The Rhode Island State House in Providence boasts the world's fourth largest self-supported marble dome. (from Rhode Island)
Image 31The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 32In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 33The East Bay Bike Path in Riverside
Image 34Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 35In 1680, Newport was the third largest Anglo-American city. It remained a prosperous population center until the 1770s. (from Rhode Island)
Image 36Trustom Pond, a lagoon in South Kingstown (from Rhode Island)
Image 37A southbound Northeast Regional train at Kingston Station (from Rhode Island)
Image 38Rhode Island population density map (from Rhode Island)
Image 39The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 40Providence Revolutionaries burned HMS Gaspee in Warwick in protest of British customs laws. (from Rhode Island)
Image 41A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 42Touro Synagogue in Newport is the oldest existing synagogue building in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 43The Towers are a Narragansett landmark. (from Rhode Island)
Image 44The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 45Ninigret Pond National Wildlife Refuge (from Rhode Island)
Image 46University of Rhode Island's Meade Stadium in Kingston (from Rhode Island)
Image 47Topographic map of Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 48In 1636, Roger Williams and his followers founded the settlement of Providence Plantations. (from Rhode Island)
Image 49Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 50The International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport (from Rhode Island)
Image 51The Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge (foreground) and Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge (background)
Image 52University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 53Interior of The Breakers, a Newport symbol of the Gilded Age (from Rhode Island)
Image 54The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority operates a statewide system of bus transport. (from Rhode Island)
Image 55The Pawtucket Red Sox played at McCoy Stadium (from Rhode Island)
Image 56The United States Naval Academy was moved to Fort Adams in Newport during the Civil War. (from Rhode Island)
Image 57County results of the 2020 Presidential election. Joe Biden (D) won every county. (from Rhode Island)
Image 58Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)
Image 59A nine-pence banknote issued by Rhode Island in 1786 (from Rhode Island)
Image 60University Hall at Brown University is one of the oldest academic buildings in the United States. (from Rhode Island)
Image 61Map of Rhode Island, showing major cities and roads (from Rhode Island)
Image 62Slater Mill in Pawtucket is cited as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
Image 63Ethnic origins in Rhode Island (from Rhode Island)
Image 64Downtown Providence in 2008 (from Rhode Island)

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The Newport Bridge spanning the Narragansett Bay

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