Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

* The first week of August is " Indian Week " for the Penobscot Tribe in Old Town, Maine.

New England is a Northeastern region of the United States, including the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

Although it has only 6. 14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

* Emerging Filmmakers: The KahBang Film Festival, part of the KahBang Music-Art-Film Festival in Bangor, Maine, is one of the newest film festivals in the United States to discover and showcase the work from Emerging Filmmakers throughout the world.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Another version, which Bogart's long-time friend, author Nathaniel Benchley, claims is the truth, is that Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

Juliana Hatfield ( born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States ), is an American guitarist / singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls.

Frankenheimer is quoted in Champlin's biography as saying that his alcohol problem caused him to do work that was below his own standards on Prophecy ( 1979 ), an ecological monster movie about a mutant grizzly bear terrorizing a forest in Maine.

Located in Kennebunkport, Maine, the compound is where Bush family gatherings have been held for nearly 100 years.

Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the capital of the Sarthe department and the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans.

Vermont is the biggest US producer, with over during the 2011 season, followed by New York with and Maine with.

Mosques first appeared in the United States in the early 20th century, the likely first being one in Maine built by Albanian immigrants in 1915. as more immigrants continue to arrive in the country, especially from South Asia, the number of American mosques is increasing faster than ever before.

Maine (; ) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast.

Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost portion of New England.

For thousands of years, indigenous peoples were the only inhabitants of the territory that is now Maine.

Maine is the 39th most extensive and the 41st most populous of the 50 United States.

Maine is both the northernmost state in New England and the largest, accounting for nearly half the region's entire land area.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived.

Northern Maine produces potato crops, second only to Idaho in the United States.

The only other capable hospital in the world equipped for such critical specialized neuro-intensive care like the one needed in Prof. Papert's case, was the American Hospital in Paris, but Boston was chosen due to the proximity to his home in Maine.

; Province of Maine: Settled in 1622 ( An earlier attempt to settle the Popham Colony in Sagadahoc, Maine ( near present day Phippsburg and Popham Beach State Park ) in 1607 was abandoned after only one year ).

** An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history.

The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

At the same time, continuing in this quarter also the work of his father ( who in 1025 took prisoner Herbert Wakedog and only set him free on condition of his doing him homage ), Geoffrey succeeded in reducing the countship of Maine to complete dependence on himself.

This provision of McCain-Feingold, sponsored by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe and Vermont Independent James Jeffords, as introduced applied only to for-profit corporations, but was extended to incorporate non-profit issue organizations, such as the Environmental Defense Fund or the National Rifle Association, as part of the " Wellstone Amendment ," sponsored by Senator Paul Wellstone.

In the United States, there was one remaining active Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, which as of January 2011 has only five members: Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr ( and two other brothers ).

Gwynne's performance as Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary was based on author Stephen King himself, who is also quite tall — only an inch shorter than the actor — and uses a similarly thick Maine dialect.

The Maine Coon is the only cat breed listed in the database.

Polycystic kidney disease ( PKD ) is a slowly progressive disease that is possible among Maine Coons and was thought to plague only the Persian and Persian-related breeds.

The offer was rejected, but further negotiations assured the lapse to the crown of the duchy of Anjou, and the annexation of Provence was only postponed until the death of the Count of Le Maine.

In 2004 it was one of only two counties in Maine to vote for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat John Kerry.

In 2004, the county was one of only two in Maine to vote for Bush over John Kerry.

In 2008, Piscataquis was the only county in New England to vote for John McCain, by a margin of 355 votes or 3. 8 % over Barack Obama, with Obama winning Maine by a 17. 3 % margin over McCain.

Hancock County is home to Acadia National Park ( the only national park in Maine or the New England region ) and Cadillac Mountain ( the highest point in Maine's coastal region ).

The fort was built to accommodate 600 men, but in 1863 there were only 180 Union forces present, mostly from the Twenty-eighth Maine.

Saints ' Peter and Paul Basilica, one of only a few basilicas in New England, and the only in Maine, located on Ash Street