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National Education Association

(Encyclopedia)National Education Association (NEA), organization of professional educators in the United States, with almost 2.5 million members. The NEA was founded (1850) as the National Teachers Association, cha...

Antietam National Battlefield

(Encyclopedia)Antietam National Battlefield: see Antietam campaign. ...

National Security Agency

(Encyclopedia)National Security Agency (NSA), an independent agency within the U.S. Dept. of Defense. Founded by presidential order in 1952, its primary functions are to collect and analyze communications intellige...

National Petroleum Reserve

(Encyclopedia)National Petroleum Reserve, area, c.23 million acres (9.32 million hectares), Alaska North Slope, situated W of Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The reserve, which is the largest r...

Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages (table)

(Encyclopedia)Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages ...

Custer Battlefield National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Custer Battlefield National Monument: see Little Bighorn, river; Little Bighorn National Battlefield under the National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Los Alamos

(Encyclopedia)Los Alamos lôs ălˈəmōsˌ, lŏs [key], uninc. town (1990 pop. 11,455), seat of Los Alamos co., N central N.Mex. It is on a long mesa extending from the Jemez Mts. The U.S. government chose the sit...

Newberry National Volcanic Monument

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

Nicodemus National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Nicodemus National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...