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United Nations General Assembly

(Encyclopedia)United Nations General Assembly: see United Nations. ...

United Nations Security Council

(Encyclopedia)United Nations Security Council: see United Nations. ...

United Brethren in Christ

(Encyclopedia)United Brethren in Christ: see Evangelical United Brethren Church. ...

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. ...

Erie, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Erie, city (2020 pop. 94,831), seat of Erie co., NW Pa., on Lake Erie; inc. as a city 1851. Pennsylvania's only port on the Great Lakes, Erie is a busy ...

Griffin, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Griffin, city (2020 pop. 23,478), seat of Spalding co., W central Ga., in a farm and cotton area increasingly integrated into metropolitan Atlanta's eco...

Weicker, Lowell Palmer, Jr.

(Encyclopedia) Weicker, Lowell Palmer, Jr., , 1931–2023 , American politician, b. Paris, France, Yale Univ. (B.A., 1953), Univ. of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 195...

United Church of Christ

(Encyclopedia)United Church of Christ, American Protestant denomination formed in 1957 by a merger of the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches (see Congregationalism) and the Evangelical and Reforme...

Bagley, William Chandler

(Encyclopedia)Bagley, William Chandler, 1874–1946, American educator and editor, b. Detroit, grad. Michigan State College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1895, M.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1898, Ph.D. Cornell, 1900. He t...