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Commonwealth of Virginia
Most of the elements discovered in the first exuberant wave of Enlightenment chemistry bear abbreviations close to their actual names: Ni for nickel, first identified in 1751 (an abbreviation of German Kupfernickel , copper-demon, so called because miners first noticed it as a stubborn adulterant of copper ore), Al for aluminum—spelled alumin i um in the British Commonwealth nations (named in 1825 from Latin alumen , astringent substance), Co for cobalt (isolated in 1735; the name is a variant of German Kobold , a kind of imp).
In 1937 De Valera’s republican constitution took Ireland out of the British Commonwealth, and the new republic elected its first president, Douglas Hyde, in 1938.
In 1951 the island’s voters approved a new constitution (still in effect) forming a commonwealth between the United States and the “free associated state” of Puerto Rico (though even the commencement ceremony was marred by violent demonstrations by radicals).
Congress governed the Caribbean island directly as a territory until 1952, when it expanded Puerto Rican autonomy by making it a "commonwealth," allowing it to adopt a constitution and create a locally elected government with statelike powers.