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(Encyclopedia) Kenai Fjords National Park, 669,983 acres (271,248 hectares), S Alaska. The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent s...

(Encyclopedia) Cox, Kenyon, 1856–1919, American painter, draftsman, and art critic, b. Warren, Ohio. He studied in Cincinnati, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and with Carolus-Duran and Gérôme in P...

(Encyclopedia) Eilshemius, Louis Michel īlshēˈmēəs [key], 1864–1941, American painter, b. near Newark, N.J. The son of a wealthy Dutch importer, he spent much of his youth abroad. After two years at Cornell h...

(Encyclopedia) National Recovery Administration (NRA), in U.S. history, administrative bureau established under the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933. In response to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cong...

(Encyclopedia) Zion National Park, 146,592 acres (59,349 hectares), SW Utah. First proclaimed a national monument in 1909, it was enlarged several times and established as a national park in 1919. The park is noted ...

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

(Encyclopedia) Navajo National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Petersburg National Battlefield: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Petroglyph National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Pipestone National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...