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(Encyclopedia) Communist party, in the United States, political party that espoused the Marxist-Leninist principles of communism.
In 1945, Browder's policy was attacked as being one of the “right deviationism,�...
(Encyclopedia) United States Air Force Academy, at Colorado Springs, Colo.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. air force; authorized in 1954 by Congress. Temporary quarters were opened at th...
(Encyclopedia) National Museum of the United States: see Smithsonian Institution.
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(Encyclopedia) Energy, United States Department of, executive department of the federal government responsible for coordinating national activities relating to the production, regulation, marketing, and conservation...
(Encyclopedia) San Luis Potosí sän lo͞oēsˈ pōtōsēˈ [key], state (1990 pop. 2,003,187), 24,417 sq mi (63,240 sq km), central Mexico. San Luis Potosí is the capital. Most of the state lies on the eastern tab...
(Encyclopedia) Bangor
băngˈgôr, bănˈ–,
băngˈgər
[key], city (2020 pop. 31,753), seat of Pe...
(Encyclopedia) Reformed Church in the United States: see Evangelical and Reformed Church.
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(Encyclopedia) Boone, Daniel, 1734–1820, American frontiersman, b. Oley (now Exeter) township, near Reading, Pa.
The Boones, English Quakers, left Pennsylvania in 1750 and settled (1751 or 1752) in the Yadkin vall...
(Encyclopedia) Frankfort, city (2020 pop. 28,602),
state capital and seat of Franklin co., N central Ky., on both sides of the
Kentucky River, in the heart of the blue...
(Encyclopedia) gay-rights movement, organized efforts to end the criminalization of homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there was some organized activity on behalf of the rights of homos...