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Navajo National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Navajo National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Argonne National Laboratory

(Encyclopedia)Argonne National Laboratory, research center, based in Argonne, Ill., 27 mi (43 km) SW of downtown Chicago, with other facilities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 50 mi (80 km) W of Idaho...

Arlington National Cemetery

(Encyclopedia)Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables including Presidents Wi...

Petroglyph National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Petroglyph National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Cabrillo National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Cabrillo National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Canadian National Railway

(Encyclopedia)Canadian National Railway, rail system in Canada and the United States, extending from coast to coast in Canada with many branch lines in each province and in the United States. The system began as an...

Buffalo National River

(Encyclopedia)Buffalo National River, Ark.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Canaveral National Seashore

(Encyclopedia)Canaveral National Seashore: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Urban League, National

(Encyclopedia)Urban League, National, voluntary nonpartisan community service agency, founded in 1910, whose goal is to help end racial segregation and discrimination in the United States, especially toward African...

Tupelo National Battlefield

(Encyclopedia)Tupelo National Battlefield: see Tupelo, Miss.; National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...