Rhode Island
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After he was banished from Massachusetts for speaking out in favor of religious toleration, Roger Williams established the first settlement in the area at Providence in the early seventeenth century.
One of the thirteen colonies.
Rhode Island is the smallest state of the United States.
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Mull, who died in 2024, received his master of fine arts degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
“This is an issue that arouses real passion,” said Rep. Seth Magaziner, a half-Jewish Rhode Island congressman navigating the same post-Oct. 7th currents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
A taste of New England in West Hollywood, it quickly became known for fried clams and chowders harkening to Cimarusti’s Rhode Island childhood and plump lobster rolls filled with never-frozen lobster.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
"You're the president's consigliere," the Democrat from Rhode Island said.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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