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Senate, United States

(Encyclopedia)Senate, United States: see Congress of the United States. ...

Oxford Group

(Encyclopedia)Oxford Group: see Buchman, Frank Nathan Daniel. ...

Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st earl of

(Encyclopedia)Oxford, Robert Harley, 1st earl of: see Harley, Robert, 1st earl of Oxford. ...

United States Supreme Court

(Encyclopedia)United States Supreme Court: see Supreme Court, United States. ...

Tariff Commission, United States

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

Provisions of Oxford

(Encyclopedia)Provisions of Oxford, 1258, a scheme of governmental reform forced upon Henry III of England by his barons. In 1258 a group of barons, angered by the king's Sicilian adventure and the expenditures it ...

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...

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...

United States National Museum

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

United States Government Printing Office

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