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wat10000 52 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

Vermont was also an independent country, and for longer than Texas was.

eesmith 52 days ago | [–]

The Hawaiian Kingdom lasted from 1795 to 1893.

dreamcompiler 52 days ago | [–]

Yet another thing they didn't teach us in Texas history class.

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