Embalming was important to the ancient Egyptians because it was the way they preserved the bodies of the dead by mummifying them.
The southern economy remained largely agricultural mainly due to agriculture's importance to the colonies as a trade export (especially cotton, tobacco, and other cash crops).
Minnesota provided a large number of units in the American Civil War proportionate to its small population of approximately 170,000 in 1861-1865, with some 26,717 state volunteers being recorded, although a number of those are individuals who reenlisted in other units.
Governed constitutionally as one single entity, with one constitutionally created legislature.
They spent the winter of 1777-78 in Valley Forge
