Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Research Triangle Park

(Encyclopedia)Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. N...

Congaree National Park

(Encyclopedia)Congaree National Park, 21,888 acres (8,862 hectares), central S.C., est. as Congaree Swamp National Monument 1976, designated a national park and renamed 2003. Located along the north bank of the mea...

Redwood National Park

(Encyclopedia)Redwood National Park, 112,430 acres (45,518 hectares), along the Pacific coast, NW Calif.; est. 1968. Backed by coastal bluffs, 40 mi (64 km) of beach, lagoon, and rocky coast are preserved in their ...

Arches National Park

(Encyclopedia)Arches National Park, 76,519 acres (30,979 hectares), E Utah; est. as a national monument 1929, designated a national park 1971. Located in red-rock country and overlooking the gorge of the Colorado R...

Phoenix Park murders

(Encyclopedia)Phoenix Park murders, name given to the assassination on May 6, 1882, of Lord Frederick Cavendish, British secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, his undersecretary, in Phoenix Park, Dublin. T...

New Forest National Park

(Encyclopedia)New Forest National Park, c.220 sq mi (570 sq km), Hampshire and Wiltshire, S England. Lying mainly in the New Forest dist., SW Hampshire, between the cities of Bournemouth and Southampton, it is roug...

Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park

(Encyclopedia)Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, c.13,500 sq mi (35,000 sq km; roughly the size of Belgium), the largest multinational park in S Africa and one of the largest parks in the world, in NE South Africa, ...

Kings Canyon National Park

(Encyclopedia)Kings Canyon National Park, 461,901 acres (187,070 hectares), E central California. Largely wilderness, the park features summits of the High Sierra and two enormous canyons on the Kings River. Genera...

Pleasure Ridge Park

(Encyclopedia)Pleasure Ridge Park, uninc. town (1990 pop. 25,131), Jefferson co., N Ky. It is a residential suburb of Louisville.

La Grange Park

(Encyclopedia)La Grange Park, village (1990 pop. 12,861), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1892. Pens are manufactured there.