This year's was the 145th Illinois State Fair, now held on the 366-acre fairground in the state capital of Springfield.
The 108-acre city-state has its own judicial system, distinct from the Italian judicial system.
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The biggest so far is Hildebrando Pascoal, a deputy for the Amazonian state of Acre.
He also ordered the transfer of a retired police colonel, allegedly a professional assassin, to a prison in the Amazon state of Acre.
If the clock is to be turned back to 1833, southern Argentina should be an independent country under indigenous leadership and the Brazilian state of Acre should revert to Bolivia.
This system has been operating since before the signing of the commitments with public organizations, in October 2009 and it ensures that all cattle purchases in the state of Acre were made in compliance with those commitments.
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In light of such precedents, the 108-acre sovereign territory of Vatican City State, mapped out on a page of the 1929 Lateran Pacts with Italy, seems a modest guarantee of the Holy See's independence (though the signature of Benito Mussolini on the page's lower right-hand corner does lend a sinister touch).
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The 1, 000-acre plot of land was acquired in 2006 by the state's former communist government and leased to the company for 99 years.
California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.
Even better, Lineham Creek is technically onshore located in the marshy coastal wetlands of the Rockefeller Preserve, a 76, 000-acre wildlife refuge that the Rockefeller Family gave to the state of Louisiana.
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According to Agence France Presse, LVMH has joined forces with state-owned company Ningxia Nongken to plant a 163-acre vineyard in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwestern China.
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The poster landscape for the salvage logging debate can be found in the mountains of Oregon, mountains blackened in 2002 by the 500, 000-acre Biscuit fire, which was the biggest in the history of the state.
Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.
Legal precedent for this was set in 1977, when the Mescalero Apache Tribe of New Mexico, seeking to replace dwindling timber harvesting revenues from their 460, 000-acre reservation, began selling hunting licenses with terms more liberal than the state's.
Until the mid-1980s, when the oil bust hit and jobs began drying up, Premont was a thriving oil and ranching town with state-of-the-art schools, including a 30-acre agricultural farm and a roping arena.
Owned by the Gulf state's former prime minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, the 580-acre estate is home to about 60 champion horses -- either in training for their next million-dollar competition or being used to breed a new generation of winners.
In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3, 700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas.
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