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George Washington Birthplace National Monument

(Encyclopedia)George Washington Birthplace National Monument: see Wakefield. ...

George Washington Carver National Monument

(Encyclopedia)George Washington Carver National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Booker T. Washington National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Booker T. Washington National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Hart, H. L. A.

(Encyclopedia)Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart), 1907–92, British legal philosopher. A lawyer and trained philosopher—he was a legal positivist—Hart subjected legal concepts to scrutiny in such wo...

Jönköping

(Encyclopedia)Jönköping yönˈchöˌpĭng [key], city (1990 pop. 76,280), capital of Jönköping co. (1995 pop. 312,490), S Sweden, at the southern end of Lake Vättern. It is a commercial and industrial center. ...

Fürth

(Encyclopedia)Fürth fürt [key], city, Bavaria, S Germany, at the confluence of the Rednitz and Pegnitz ri...

Ryerson, Egerton

(Encyclopedia)Ryerson, Egerton (Adolphus Egerton Ryerson), 1803–82, Canadian clergyman and educator, b. Ontario. He was a founder (1829) and the first editor of the Christian Guardian, a Methodist periodical that...

Breitenfeld

(Encyclopedia)Breitenfeld brīˈtənfĕltˌ [key], village, Saxony, S central E Germany. It gave its name to two battles of the Thirty Years War. Gustavus Adolphus (Gustavus II) of Sweden there defeated the imperia...

Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Washington Island, former name of Teraina, Kiribati

(Encyclopedia)Washington Island: see Teraina.