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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

(Encyclopedia)Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal: see Chicago, river. ...

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(Encyclopedia)Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: see food adulteration. ...

Suffolk, dukes and earls of

(Encyclopedia)Suffolk, dukes and earls of: see Pole, family. ...

Huntington Library and Art Gallery

(Encyclopedia)Huntington Library and Art Gallery: see Huntington, Henry Edwards. ...

Museum of Television and Radio

(Encyclopedia)Museum of Television and Radio: see Paley Center for Media. ...

gill, in weights and measures

(Encyclopedia)gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. ...

grain, in weights and measures

(Encyclopedia)grain, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. ...

Romanian language

(Encyclopedia)CEE Romanian language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). It is spoken by about 22 million people in Romania, wher...

closed shop and open shop

(Encyclopedia)closed shop and open shop. The term “closed shop” is used to signify an establishment employing only members of a labor union. The union shop, a closely allied term, indicates a company where empl...

Schism of East and West

(Encyclopedia)Schism of East and West, division between the Orthodox Eastern Church and the Roman Catholic Church. See Christianity; Ferrara-Florence, Council of; Leo IX, Saint; Lyons, Second Council of; papacy; Ph...