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Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
(Encyclopedia)Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial
(Encyclopedia)Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial shānˈbrən, –bro͝on [key], E Ohio, S of New Philadelphia; site of the first town in Ohio, est. 1772 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his Native Ameri...Lincoln, city and district, England
(Encyclopedia)Lincoln, city and district (1991 pop. 79,980), county seat of Lincolnshire, E England, in the Parts of Kesteven, on the Witham River. Located at the junction of the Roman Fosse Way and Ermine Street, ...Lincoln Home National Historic Site
(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Home National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Barnard, George Grey
(Encyclopedia)Barnard, George Grey, 1863–1938, American sculptor, b. Bellefonte, Pa. He studied engraving, then sculpture, first at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A strong...Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States
(Encyclopedia)Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States, in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, ...Frederick Douglass Home National Memorial
(Encyclopedia)Frederick Douglass Home National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
(Encyclopedia)Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in central Manhattan, New York City, between 62d and 66th streets W of Broadway. Lincoln Center is both a complex of buildings and the arts organizations that r...Washington, D.C.
(Encyclopedia)Washington, D.C., capital of the United States, coextensive (since 1878, when Georgetown became a part of Washington) with the District of ...Browse by Subject
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