Xalapa-Enríquez, commonly Xalapa or Jalapa is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality. In the year 2005 census the city reported a population of 387,879 and the municipality of which it serves as municipal seat reported a population of 413,136. The municipality has an area of 118.45 km². Xalapa lies near the geographic center of the state and is the second-largest city in the state after the city of Veracruz.
Universidad Veracruzana (Spanish for University of Veracruz) a public autonomous university located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Established in 1944, the university is one of the most important in the south-east region of México and has a good projection in all México. Its academic organization is a structure based on academic areas, schools, education programs and research institutes.
The Universidad de Xalapa is a university in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. The institution was founded in 1992 by Carlos Garcia Hernandez as a response to the demand from youngsters with not much career options in the area. It is considered as the pioneer of the private universities in the city which now includes more than a dozen schools.
Grodzisk Wielkopolski County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Grodzisk Wielkopolski, which lies 42 kilometres (26 mi) south-west of the regional capital Poznań.
The Plain Folk of the Old South refers to the middling class of white farmers in the American South before the Civil War. At the time they were often called "yeomen". They owned land and had no slaves or only a few. Many of them were Scotch-Irish American. Historians have devoted extensive research to their study, but they tend to be neglected in the popular literature, which focuses more on the rich plantation owners and the slaves.
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