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national parks and monuments

(Encyclopedia)CE5 national parks and monuments. The National Park Service, a bureau of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, was established in 1916 to oversee the administration of 40 national parks and monuments und...

Hyde Park, park, London, England

(Encyclopedia)Hyde Park, 615 acres (249 hectares) in Westminster borough, London, England. Once the manor of Hyde, a part of the old Westminster Abbey property, it became a deer park under Henry VIII. Races were he...

Crittenden, Thomas Theodore

(Encyclopedia)Crittenden, Thomas Theodore, 1832–1909, governor of Missouri (1881–85), b. Shelby co., Ky.; nephew of John J. Crittenden. In the Civil War he served (1862–65) as lieutenant colonel of a Missouri...

Dwight, Theodore William

(Encyclopedia)Dwight, Theodore William, 1822–92, American lawyer, b. Catskill, N.Y., grad. Hamilton College, 1840. He studied at Yale law school and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He was professor of law and la...

Hazel Park

(Encyclopedia)Hazel Park, city (2020 pop. 16,155), Oakland co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit; inc. 1942. Hazel Park has varied light manufacturing industries and a r...

Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d'

(Encyclopedia)Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d' tāōdôrˈ əgrĭpˈəˈ dōbĭnŏyāˈ [key], 1552–1630, French poet and Huguenot soldier. A devoted follower of Henry of Navarre (Henry IV) from 1568, he was later ...

Buena Park

(Encyclopedia)Buena Park bwāˈnə [key], city (2020 pop. 84,034), Orange co., S Calif.; inc. 1953. Food pr...

theme park

(Encyclopedia)theme park: see amusement park.

Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore

(Encyclopedia)Sonneck, Oscar George Theodore sŭnˈĕk [key], 1873–1928, American musicologist, b. Jersey City, N.J., educated in Germany. As chief (1902–17) of the music division of the Library of Congress, he...

Palisades Park

(Encyclopedia)Palisades Park, residential borough (1990 pop. 14,536), Bergen co., NE N.J.; inc. 1899. Palisades Park is notable for its proportionally high Korean-American population. ...