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Tariff Commission, United States

(Encyclopedia)Tariff Commission, United States: see International Trade Commission, United States. ...

Space Force, United States

(Encyclopedia)Space Force, United States (USSF), military force that forms a separate service within the U.S. Dept. of the Air Force, est. Dec. 20, 2019, by act of Congress. The head of the Space Force is the Chief...

Organization of American States

(Encyclopedia)Organization of American States (OAS), international organization, created Apr. 30, 1948, at Bogotá, Colombia, by agreement of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican R...

Secret Service, United States

(Encyclopedia)Secret Service, United States, a law enforcement division (since 2003) of the Dept. of Homeland Security. It was established in 1865 in the the Dept. of the Treasury to investigate and prevent counter...

Confederate States of America

(Encyclopedia)Confederate States of America: see Confederacy. ...

League of Arab States

(Encyclopedia)League of Arab States: see Arab League. ...

United States National Museum

(Encyclopedia)United States National Museum: see Smithsonian Institution. ...

West Indies Associated States

(Encyclopedia)West Indies Associated States: see under West Indies Federation. ...

Balts

(Encyclopedia)Balts bôlts [key], peoples of the east coast of the Baltic Sea. They include the Latvians, the Lithuanians, and the now extinct Old Prussians. Their original home was farther east, but from the 6th c...

United States Government Printing Office

(Encyclopedia)United States Government Printing Office and United States Government Publishing Office: see Government Publishing Office, United States. ...