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(Encyclopedia) City of Rocks National Reserve: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Federal Constitutional Convention: see Constitutional Convention. ...

(Encyclopedia) Federal Art Project: see Work Projects Administration. ...

(Encyclopedia) Federal Capital Territory: see Australian Capital Territory. ...

(Encyclopedia) Federal Writers' Project: see Work Projects Administration. ...

(Encyclopedia) Federal National Mortgage Association (FMNA), commonly known as Fannie Mae, government-sponsored enterprise that is the largest purchaser and guarantor of home mortgages in the country. Headquartered ...

(Encyclopedia) interest, charge for the use of credit or money, usually figured as a percentage of the principal and computed annually. Simple interest is computed annually on the principal. Compound interest, paid ...

(Encyclopedia) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, at Zürich, founded 1855 as the Federal Polytechnic Institute, given its current name 1911. It is a science and technology research university with a solid reput...

(Encyclopedia) subtreasury. After President Andrew Jackson vetoed (July 10, 1832) the bill to recharter the Second Bank of the United States, the deposits were removed and placed in state banks that came to be calle...

(Encyclopedia) Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), type of international monetary reserve currency established (1968) by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Created in response to worries concerning the limitations of...