homestead
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Consider a historic footnote from World War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor in 1941, all the Germans and Japanese in their embassies in Washington were sent under guard to the luxurious Greenbrier and Homestead resorts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
As a high school student in San José, Chavez-Garcia knew none of this history — “we learned more about the Homestead Act in the Midwest,” she joked.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
The uprooting of prairies across the Great Plains and the Dust Bowl could not have occurred without the massive settler movement triggered by the Homestead Act of 1862.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2025
While Homestead will not face the brunt of the storm, he said it was "too risky" to stay, although most of his neighbours "don't want to leave".
From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024
The walk back into the Glade and then to the Homestead seemed endless, a row of Gladers on both sides gawking at them.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
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