As in Maryland, a District court has approved an official plan of school desegregation in Delaware.

The Book of Common Prayer has also been translated into these North American indigenous languages: Cowitchan, Cree, Haida, Ntlakyapamuk, Slavey, Eskimo-Aleut, Dakota, Delaware, Mohawk, Ojibwe.

Because of the extensive experience of the Delaware courts, Delaware has a more well-developed body of case law than other states, which serves to give corporations and their counsel greater guidance on matters of corporate governance and transaction liability issues.

Delaware has also attracted some major credit card banks because of its relaxed rules regarding interest.

Delaware ( amongst others ) has relatively relaxed interest laws, so several national banks have decided to locate their principal office in Delaware.

That said, Delaware has a particularly aggressive tax on banks that locate in the state.

In addition, Delaware has used its position as the state of incorporation to generate revenue from its abandoned and unclaimed property laws.

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, operated by Delaware North since 1995, has a variety of exhibits, artifacts, displays and attractions on the history and future of human and robotic spaceflight.

The popularity of this Italian-American cuisine has grown from its origins in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts to most parts of the United States, Canada, and with the advent of chain restaurants, is now available in many parts of the world.

The TARDIS has the ability to turn invisible, allowing it to avoid the detection by President Nixon, Canton Everett Delaware III and Area 51 operatives (" The Impossible Astronaut ", " Day of the Moon " ( 2011 )).

The University of Delaware Fightin ' Blue Hen Marching Band has several traditions involving sousaphone players.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

Consequently, Wilmington, in the northern part of the state and its largest city, has many state offices and employees one would normally expect to find in the state capital, including the headquarters of the Office of the Attorney General, especially as many large American corporations maintain nominal offices in that city to register their Delaware corporation.

Dover also has satellite locations of the University of Delaware and Wilmington University.

* Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, " the Nation's Summer Capital ", has a sixteenfold increase in population from winter to summer.

It has more land area than Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, or Vermont.

Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct is still standing, possibly the oldest suspension bridge in America ; it has been named a National Historic Landmark.

Its name comes from the Delaware Indian language and has been translated as " union of waters " or " black bear crossing ".

A moderate county in New Jersey politics, Burlington County in recent years has become an important area for the Republican Party, especially in more affluent communities that have developed new residential areas, such as Medford, Mount Laurel, Moorestown, and Evesham ( as opposed to areas along the Delaware River occupied by minority and working class households ).

The bridge has a speed limit and is maintained by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.

On two occasions, U. S. Route 40 has been relocated off portions of Route 48: once following a realignment to a ferry between New Castle, Delaware and Pennsville and again after the Delaware Memorial Bridge and New Jersey Turnpike opened in 1951.

The Delaware Art Museum has the most significant collection of Pre-Raphaelite art outside the United Kingdom.

Following the American Revolution, statesmen from Delaware were among the leading proponents of a strong central United States with equal representation for each state.

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

They are famous for their selfless work, living as slaves among the slaves and together with the native Americans, the Delaware ( i. e. Lenni Lenape ) and Cherokee Indian tribes.

It is a demarcation line among four U. S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia ( then, part of Virginia ).

The state with the fewest counties is Delaware ( 3 ), though it is unique among the United States in that each Delaware county is divided into units called " hundreds ".

The median household income and per capita income were the second highest among Ohio counties after Delaware, and 74th and 79th in the country, respectively.

New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Haddon Heights as the 98th best place to live in New Jersey in its 2008 rankings of the " Best Places To Live " in New Jersey, and the borough has also been listed among its " Classic Towns of Greater Philadelphia " by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.

* 1781-In the midst of the American Revolutionary War, the British so feared Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his influence among the Lenape ( also called Delaware ) and other Native Americans that they arrested him and his assistant, John Heckewelder, charging them with treason,

After the conquest of the colony by the Dutch in 1658, Stille was one of the four commissaries or magistrates appointed to administer justice among the inhabitants, and thus became a judge of the first court on the banks of the Delaware.

History painting was a less popular genre in American art during the 19th century, although Washington Crossing the Delaware, painted by the German-born Emanuel Leutze, is among the best-known American paintings.

These include Culver's Gap in New Jersey ; the Delaware Water Gap ( where the Delaware River passes into the Great Valley along the border between New Jersey and Pennsylvania ); and many gaps in Pennsylvania, including the Pennsylvania Wind Gap ; the Lehigh River Gap north of Allentown ; the Schuylkill River Gap ; the Swatara Gap ; and the Susquehanna River Gap, among others.

David Brainerd ( April 20, 1718 – October 9, 1747 ) was an American missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey.

Subsequently, he was reassigned to work among the Delaware Indians along the Delaware River northeast of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he remained for another year, during which he was ordained by the Newark Presbytery.

Reverend Freeborn Garrettson, who had freed his own slaves in 1775, began to preach in Delaware ; he was among many Methodist and Baptist ministers after the American Revolutionary War who encouraged slaveholders to emancipate their people.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

The school has renowned engineering, science, business, hospitality management, education, urban affairs and public policy, public administration, agriculture, history, chemical engineering, chemistry and biochemistry programs, among others, drawing from the historically strong presence of the nation's chemical and pharmaceutical industries in the state of Delaware.

In approximately 800 A. D. a gradual movement of Native Americans advanced from the Delaware area into lower New York, ultimately settling as part of the Canarsie tribe among 13 tribes of the Algonquin Nation.

Moravians were devoted to missionary work, especially among African slaves and Native Americans ; in 1763, they published a collection of hymns in the Delaware language.

The company ranks among the largest insurance, risk management and employee benefits brokerage and consulting firms in the country, with offices located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Many rowing teams and clubs in Wilmington practice along the Christina River, among them the Wilmington Rowing Center, Wilmington Youth Rowing Association, Newport Rowing Club, and University of Delaware.

The Delaware squadron also comprised some 20 gunboats, sloops and galleys and was one among several fleets assigned to patrol the chief ports along the upper Atlantic coastline.