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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Agate Fossil Beds National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Buck Island Reef National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Buck Island Reef National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

César E. Chávez National Monument

(Encyclopedia)César E. Chávez National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

African Burial Ground National Monument

(Encyclopedia)African Burial Ground National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Canyon de Chelly National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Canyon de Chelly National Monument də shāˈ [key] [De Chelly, Sp. corruption of Navajo Tsegi = rock canyon], 83,840 acres (33,955 hectares), NE Ariz.; est. 1931. The area contains the ruins of sever...

Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, 330,780 acres (133,860 hectares), N Calif., est. 2015. Jointly managed by Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, the monument extends from near sea le...

Hevelius, Johannes

(Encyclopedia)Hevelius, Johannes yōhänˈəs hāvāˈlēo͝os [key], 1611–87, Polish astronomer, b. Danzig. From a finely equipped observatory in his house at Danzig, assisted by his wife Elizabeth, he made valu...

National Museum of the American Indian

(Encyclopedia)National Museum of the American Indian, institution devoted to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the culture of the indigenous populations of the Western Hemisphere, a division of the ...

National Museum of the United States

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