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Fort Clatsop National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Fort Clatsop National Memorial, now part of Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. See National Parks and Monuments (table) ...

Paine, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Paine, Thomas, 1737–1809, Anglo-American political theorist and writer, b. Thetford, Norfolk, England. The son of a working-class Quaker, he became an excise officer and was dismissed from the servi...

Mortensen, Dale Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Mortensen, Dale Thomas, 1939–2014, American economist, b. Enterprise, Oreg., Ph.D. Carnegie-Mellon Univ., 1967. Mortensen a professor at Northwestern Univ. for his entire academic career. His work f...

Schelling, Thomas Crombie

(Encyclopedia)Schelling, Thomas Crombie, 1921–2016, American economist and political scientist, b. Oakland, Calif., Ph.D. Harvard, 1951. He worked in the federal government before teaching at Yale (1953–58), Ha...

Korean War Veterans Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Korean War Veterans Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Roger Williams National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Roger Williams National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

General Grant National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)General Grant National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

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