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The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the U.S. of A, the States, and America, is a country in North America. A federal republic, the United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is Washington, D.C.

The present-day continental United States has been inhabited for at least 15,000 years by Native Americans. After 16th-century European exploration and settlement, the English established new colonies, and gained control of others, in the eastern portion of the continent in the 17th and early 18th centuries. On 4 July 1776, at war with Britain over fair governance, thirteen of these colonies declared their independence; in 1783, the war ended in British acceptance of the new nation. Since then, the country has more than quadrupled in size: it now consists of 50 states, one federal district, and a number of overseas territories.

At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.1 million km²), the U.S. is the third largest country by area. It is also the world's third most populous nation, with nearly 300 million people.

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Origins International Game Expo and Fair - Strategic war simulations, board games, card games, and miniatures. Held in Columbus, Ohio.
Meta Description: [ 2008 Origins Game Fair ]

AnonyCon - Gaming convention in Stamford, CT that features roleplaying games and a variety of other gaming.

Archon - St. Louis Science Fiction hosts the Archon Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention, held annually in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Large gaming section.

ARCHON - Science fiction and fantasy theme. Includes miniatures, modeling, video games, an art show, and masquerade. Located in Illinois, United States.
Meta Description: [ Official home page of St. Louis Science Fiction, Ltd., doing business as the Archon Science Fiction/Fantasy Convention, held annually in the St. Louis, Missouri area. ]

404 Barracks Battles - One-day miniatures game convention organized by Big Muddy HGA in St. Louis, MO during March.

BASHCon - Hosted by UT-BASH (The University of Toledo Benevolent Adventurers' Strategic Headquarters). Typically held in late February or early March, it is a three-day event filling much of UT's Student Union with: dealers from all over the Toledo area and beyond; an auction; and, of course, gaming of all sorts.

500 Bay Area Games Day - A full day of convention-style open gaming at a very low cost. All sorts of strategy games: abstract boardgames, German games, wargames, and collectible and non-collectible cardgames.

BPA World Boardgaming Championships - The World Boardgaming Championships, held annually in Hunt Valley, MD and sponsored by the Boardgame Players Association. The convention runs 100 boardgame tournaments.

Carnage on the Mountain - An annual gaming convention the first weekend in November at the Ascutney Mountain Resort in Brownsville, Vt. Features RPGs, Historical and Fantasy Miniatures, CCGs, Board Gaming, LARPs, and Networked Computer Gaming.
Meta Description: [ A Northern New England Multi-Genre Gaming Convention, held in Early November ]

Castle LARP - Annual World of Darkness LARP event held in Oregon, Illinois.
Meta Description: [ 48 hour World of Darkness based Live Action Roleplaying event which takes place in a Castle in Oregon, Illinois. ]

CastleCon - This convention includes gaming, as well as a LARP.
Meta Description: [ FanTek: a DC area fan club. We're into science fiction, science fact, fantasy, conventions, art, dragons, castles, music, LARP, costumes, and more! ]

Chicagoland Gamer's CONclave - A three-day celebration of the gaming hobby held yearly on Thanksgiving weekend at the Indian Lakes Resort in Bloomingdale, IL.

Cod Con - Held in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in April. Events include Magic:TG, ADD, L5R, Live Action Vampire, and Battletech.

CodCon - Held in the spring at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn,Illinois. Features RPGs and CCGs (including tournament events), anime, guest speakers, and game demos.

Cogcon - Each September, in Rolla, Missouri. Roleplaying, CCGs, wargames, computer games.

404 Command Con - Three-day miniatures convention run by Big Muddy HGA in St. Louis in November.

Con of the North - Non-profit, all volunteer games convention held annually in St. Paul, Minnesota. Roleplaying, war, board, miniatures, collectable card, and computer games.

Con*Stellation - An annual science fiction convention held in Huntsville, AL which is sponsored by the North Alabama Science Fiction Association. It features a full line of events from gaming to panel discussions.

ConGames - Offers roleplaying games, collectible card games, miniatures games, board games, dealers room free to the public, charity raffle benefiting wildlife rescue, and a guest of honor. July. Tampa Bay, FL.

ConnCon - Events held in Connecticut throughout the year. Includes may systems of roleplaying and wargames. Features a number of ongoing campaigns.

DarkCon - RPGA gaming, LARP, miniatures.

Die Con - Game convention located in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Its purpose is to promote adventure gaming in the Midwest. Features RPGA, RPG, miniature, board and collectable card games.

Dragon*Con - The world's largest fantasy/SF convention, held annually in Atlanta, GA, on Labor Day weekend.

Dragonflight - August event at Seattle University, Washington, featuring board games, miniatures, roleplaying, CCGs and computer games.
Meta Description: [ Dragonflight is a non-profit gaming club based in Seattle, Washington. The types of games we play are roleplaying, miniatures, board games, and computer games. Dragonflight's two main activities are a gaming convention held every August and a gaming club called Metro Seattle Gamers. ]

500 Dreikonigsnacht (Twelfth Night) - A Role Playing experience, sanctioned by the Camarilla. Held in St Louis early in January at the Henry VIII Conference Center and Hotel.
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DunDraCon - A February convention in San Ramon, California. Featuring board games, miniatures, card games, LARP, roleplaying, and SCA.

EconoCon - Plymouth, NH. Sponsored by the PSC Gaming Club, this convention is geared toward being affordable.

404 Egyptian Campaign - A three-day annual convention held in March at Southern Illinois University. Features games, auction, contests, dealers.

EveCon - Held in Reston, Virginia. Board games, strategic miniature games, card, war, and video games, and a live-action roleplaying game (LARP).
Meta Description: [ the official site for EveCon, a Washington DC area fan convention every winter ]

FlatCon - A gaming convention located in Bloomington, Illinois. A variety of roleplaying, miniature, board, and card games and tournaments are represented. Vendor range from Anime, gaming, fantasy gifts, and comics.

Foundation Gaming Convention - Convention held in Lansing, Michigan. Board games, card games, miniature games, roleplaying, dealers room, and 24-hour gaming.
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FreeCon 2001 - Three-day roleplaying convention in the Lansing, Michigan area.
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Game Days 2004 - Held April 22-25, 2004 at the Days Hotel in Timonium, Maryland. Offers information, events, and history.

Game Storm - Held in Portland, Oregon, in March, and featuring board games, role playing games, collectible card games, and miniatures.
Meta Description: [ Game Storm 8 Game Convention, March 24-26 2006, Portland, Oregon. Board Games, RPGs, LARPs, RPGA, CCGs and more. ]

Games University - Focuses on demonstration games for roleplaying, card games, board games and miniatures. Held in Southern California.

Games University - Focuses on demonstration games for roleplaying, card games, board games and miniatures. Held in Fullerton, Southern California.

Gamicon - Annual game fair held in Iowa City, Iowa. Offers roleplaying, CCGs, board and strategy games, miniatures events, and live-action roleplaying games (LARPs), as well as special guests, an auction, and free pop all weekend (That's soda, for those not from the mid-west).

Global Gaming Expo - A trade show hosted by the gaming industry, for the gaming industry.
Meta Description: [ Global Gaming Expo (G2E) is the world's largest and premier gaming tradeshow and conference where gaming professionals meet each year in Las Vegas. It's the most in-depth source of new products, ideas and information for the global gaming industry. ]

HexaCon - July, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Includes roleplaying, board gaming, miniatures, live-action roleplaying, dealers room, miniatures painting contest, used-game auction, sanctioned Magic collector card game tournaments. Past special events have included 'Bot Bash, where the participants pit their robotic creations against each other.

HMGS South Information - Historical miniature gaming society with links to the RECON and HURRICON conventions. Also contains agallery of previous conventions.

I-Con - Annual host of a variety of sponsored tournaments, demos and open games of all varieties. Offers news, events, downloads, and schedules.

InConJunction - Science fiction/fantasy convention with a strong gaming track. Includes events such as roleplaying, miniatures, and collectible card gaming, tournaments with prizes, RPGA events. Indianapolis, IN. July.
Meta Description: [ InConJunction Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention held every July in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. ]

404 Intercon - Produced by independent local groups working in close cooperation with LARPA. Includes information about upcoming events.

JohnCon - All-gaming convention run for 48 straight hours on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. RPGs, board games, CCGs, and more mundane games.
Meta Description: [ A gaming / anime con held at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD every spring. ]

500 Keeper of Ancient GenCon Lore - Information about Gencon.

KublaCon - Held in Burlingame, CA, May 28-31, 2004. Offers information, events, and news.

404 KublaCon - Annual science fiction convention, located in Beloit, WI. Events include roleplaying games, live action-roleplaying, network computer gaming, as well as wargaming and CCG tournaments.

500 MACE - Held in North Carolina. Featuring LARPs, roleplay, board, card and miniature games. Events by Hollow Hills, Game Society, and RPGA.

Marmalade Dog - Held each year by the Western Michigan Gamers Guild (WMGG) on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Features role-playing games, collectible card games, board games, special events and guests.
Meta Description: [ Marmalade Dog is a gaming convention held each year by the Western Michigan Gamers Guild (WMGG) on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Marmalade Dog features role-playing games, collectible card games, miniature war games, board games, special events and guests. ]

Midsouthcon - Science fiction, fantasy, science, horror, and gaming convention held in Memphis, TN, in late March.

Millennium - Held every November in Austin, Texas. Offers miniatures, role playing, board games, and card playing events. Special guests and tournaments are also featured.

Minnesota Gamers' Convention - Held the weekend before Thanksgiving in the St. Paul Minnesota area. Miniatures, board games, card games (CCGS) are the focus.
Meta Description: [ The Official Web-Site of the Minnesota Gamers’ Convention ]

MOBICON - Annual fantasy and gaming convention in Mobile, AL. Features roleplaying, board, miniature, computer, and collectible card games, live action roleplaying, and anime rooms.
Meta Description: [ MOBICON is the Mobile, Alabama annual science fiction (sci-fi), fantasy, gaming, comic, anime, and art convention ]

Nuke-Con - Supported by a not-for-profit group that promotes the positive educational, creative, and social benefits of gaming, through the yearly convention and monthly events and located in Omaha, Nebraska.
Meta Description: [ A Gaming Convention in the Midwest. Roleplaying, RPG, CCG, Miniatures, Card & Board Games, Anime Room, Computer Room, Tournaments, LARP, RPGA ]

Octocon - A slower-paced 'relaxacon', held in Cincinnati in October. Run by the Cincinnati Fantasy Group.
Meta Description: [ The Cincinnati Fantasy Group: Conventions: Octocon ]

404 OpCon - A mini-convention hosted by the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Club at Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park, IL (near Chicago), in April. Mainly a gaming convention.
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OshCon - Annual convention for players of table top role-playing games, card games, and miniatures games.
Meta Description: [ Northastern Wisconsin Tabletop Gaming Convention featuring role-playing games, collectible card games, miniatures wargaming, dealer areas and more. ]

500 Overload-A-Con - Miniatures and roleplaying games event located in Austin, Texas.

Paladin Works - Maryland based group who run an annual roleplaying event, Conquest.
Meta Description: [ This page describes the event Conquest. ]

PentaCon - The largest and oldest gaming convention in the state of Indiana. It includes roleplaying games, miniatures games, board games, live action games, and some networked computer games. In addition, there is a large dealers area, special guest personalities, seminars, demonstrations by the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), a charity raffle, a charity Jail-N-Bail, and a flea market.

PolyCon - Held at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, California. Includes history, newsletter, and events.

PortConMaine.Com - An anime/gaming convention for Portland, Maine. A yearly convention that will just get better and better!

Prezcon - Held in February, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Board games, miniatures and CCGs.
Meta Description: [ PrezCon gaming convention in Charlottesville, VA. ]

404 PrinceCon - Over the course of twenty-two years, the PrinceCon system has grown from RPG infancy into rich fantasy world in which scores of players gather every year to pit their imaginations against a few of the most talented GMs around. Princeton, New Jersey.

ProtoCon - Student-run gaming convention at Texas AM University.

SAGA Con - Miniatures gaming in San Antonio, Texas, in May. Also roleplaying, LARP, and card games.

404 ShadowCon 2003 - Held in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Games include RPGA, VLARP, CCG, Warhammer, and Warhammer 40k rogue trader.

ShaunCon - Roleplaying, miniatures, card, and LARP games presented by the Role-Players Guild of Kansas City, Ltd, in November.

The Madison Wordplayers - Meets monthly at Borders Book Shop for word game fun in Madison, Wisconsin.
Meta Description: [ Meets monthly at the Atlanta Bread Company for word game fun in Madison, Wisconsin. ]

Total Confusion Conventions - Three Northeast gaming conventions: Total Confusion (Andover, MA), MassConfusion (Worcester, MA), ConMan (Merrimack, NH). Includes roleplaying games, RPGA events, Vampire, LARPS, miniature, board and card games, painting contest, art shows.
Meta Description: [ The Largest Game Convention Company in the Northeast United States, Total Confusion,will again be held in Mansfield Massachusetts. ]

U•Con Gaming Convention - Held in Ann Arbor, MI, in November. Roleplaying games, CCGs, board games, miniatures, train games, LARP, dealers' room, auction, and specialty gaming tracks.
Meta Description: [ Affordable gaming convention in Ann Arbor, MI featuring a large variety of games, exhibitors hall and auction. Games include Role-playing, RPGA, CCGs, board, miniatures, historicals, card games. ]

404 UB Con - Annual gaming convention around March and April, featuring roleplaying, card games, board games, and miniatures. In Buffalo, NY, USA.

Wild Gazebo Productions - Organizers of two conventions in Edison, New Jersey; Lollagazebo (November) and A Gazebo of Games (April). Offers board games, CCGs, exhibitors, LARPs, RPGs, minis, RPGA, and an assortment of special events.

Winter Fantasy - January, in Fort Wayne, IN. Roleplaying, RGPA Summit (seminars/discussions). Managed by Wizards of the Coast and featuring many of WotC's games.
Meta Description: [ Winter Fantasy 2004 ]

Winter War - The Conflict Simulation Society hosts this three-day event every first full weekend in February, in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Lots of miniatures and wargames, and a good selection of roleplaying too. One of the oldest games conventions in the world, started in 1974.
Meta Description: [ Winter War 33, February 3 - 5, 2006, Champaign, Ilinois. Illinois' Oldest Hobby Gaming Convention -- Celebrating Over Thirty Years of Gaming Excellence! ]

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