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Delaware is a state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the United States of America. Delaware is named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr. Population estimates by the Census Bureau for 2005 place the population of Delaware at 843,524, moving from the 45th most populous state at the 2000 Census to the 46th most populous. Despite this, it is the 7th most densely populated state with a population density of 320 more people per square mile than the national average, ranking ahead of states such as Florida, California, and Texas. Delaware was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and is known as the “First State”, officially referring to the fact that it was the first to ratify the United States Constitution. Even though the states were already known as such prior to the Constitution, the motto itself is still historically accurate, as Delaware was indeed the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, the first legal document establishing the new American political entities as “states” (although the Declaration of Independence refers to them as “States”). Commemorating Delaware’s ratification, Constitution Park (one block from where Dover’s Golden Fleece Tavern once stood) features a four-foot cube upon which is inscribed the entire document as it has evolved.

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The virtues of angel food

Aug 19, 2008 9:34 pm

There seems to be little fence sitting when it comes to angel food cake.

Jiffy mixes innovation with expansion

Aug 19, 2008 9:31 pm

When Howdy Holmes arrived in 1987 at Chelsea Milling Co. in Chelsea, Mich., the maker of Jiffy mixes, the market was moving rapidly. The family business was not.

What I ate on my summer vacation

Aug 19, 2008 9:26 pm

If you went away for summer vacation, hopefully, you brought back more than just a lousy T-shirt. What about food memories and experiences?

Diner's digest: Utage closing; first Japanese sushi restaurant in Del.

Aug 19, 2008 9:24 pm

The first Delaware Japanese restaurant with a sushi bar is closing at the end of month.

The Red Menace

Aug 19, 2008 9:24 pm

Get 'em while the getting is good. Vine-ripened tomatoes, now at their peak, are the sweet jewels of summer.

Rainn rules as 'Rocker,' a drummer with a dream

Aug 19, 2008 9:20 pm

Despite its title, "The Rocker" isn't about music.

Ouch! Delay of 'Potter' No. 6 makes magazine cover a collectible goof

Aug 19, 2008 9:19 pm

LOS ANGELES -- Maybe Harry Potter should have brought a note from his parents saying he'd be missing school.

Savor tasty heirloom tomatoes during talks, cook-off

Aug 19, 2008 9:16 pm

Trendy, tasty tomatoes star thi Saturday at terrain at Styer's "Heirloom Tomato Happening."

Denzel, Wesley down some drinks in Dewey

Aug 19, 2008 7:49 am

So what do you do when you are convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in prison?

Romance with the past

Aug 18, 2008 6:48 pm

In every piece of mid-19th-century literature she would read, it seemed, Marcy Dinius noticed mentions of the daguerreotype, the earliest viable ancestor of the photograph.

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