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Battery, the

(Encyclopedia)Battery, the, park, 21 acres (8.5 hectares), southern tip of Manhattan island, New York City; site of former Dutch and English fortifications. Castle Clinton, a fort built in 1808 for the defense of N...

Shakespeare's Plays (table)

(Encyclopedia)Shakespeare's Plays(arranged by approximate date of composition) ...

Prefixes for Basic Metric Units (table)

(Encyclopedia)Prefixes for Basic Metric Units Multiples Fractions ...

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

(Encyclopedia)Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, S central Idaho; est. 1924. The monument (53,438 acres/21,625 hectares) lies at the north end of the much larger preserve (698,940 acres/282,851 hec...

United Nations Secretaries-General (table)

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Federation of the Emirates of the South

(Encyclopedia)Federation of the Emirates of the South: see South Arabia, Federation of. ...

Emirates of the South, Federation of the

(Encyclopedia)Emirates of the South, Federation of the: see South Arabia, Federation of. ...

Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve

(Encyclopedia)Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, N Alaska. Located N of the Arctic Circle, the park (7,523,898 acres/3,046,113 hectares) and adjacent preserve (948,629 acres/384,060 hectares) make up t...

Linguistic Relationships among Romance Languages (table)

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Supreme Court Justices (table)

(Encyclopedia)Supreme Court Justices(including dates on bench) Chief Justices Associate Justices ...