<span>In Egypt, "the House of Life' was a place that was central to the preservation of culture and ensures ongoing progress of cosmic, political and social life. The closest most likely modern meaning would be library but it doesn't carry the same weight; the Egyptians had both Houses of life and libraries.</span>
The U.S. Confederation Congress decided in 1787 that the Northwest Territory would eventually become "new states in the Union," since this was the first time the Us government had ever designated land for such a purpose.
<em>Minnesota, constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 32nd state of the union on May 11, 1858. A small extension of the northern boundary makes Minnesota the most northerly of the 48 conterminous U.S. states. (This peculiar protrusion is the result of a boundary agreement with Great Britain before the area had been carefully surveyed.) Minnesota is one of the north-central states. It is bounded by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north, by Lake Superior and the state of Wisconsin to the east, and by the states of Iowa to the south and South Dakota and North Dakota to the west.
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I believe it is the Han Dysnasty.