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(Encyclopedia) Crane, Walter, 1845–1915, English designer, illustrator, and painter. As a painter he is grouped with the later Pre-Raphaelites, but he is better known for his illustrations of the works of Spenser ...

(Encyclopedia) Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, 30,300 acres (12,272 hectares), W central Colorado, in the Rocky Mts. The park embraces the most spectacular stretch of the 53-mi (85-km) long Black Canyon,...

(Encyclopedia) nationalism, political or social philosophy in which the welfare of the nation-state as an entity is considered paramount. Nationalism is basically a collective state of mind or consciousness in which...

(Encyclopedia) Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), federal observatory for radio astronomy, founded in 1956 and operated under contract with the National Science Foundation by Associated Universities, Inc.,...

(Encyclopedia) Labour party, British political party, one of the two dominant parties in Great Britain since World War I. Harold Wilson, who became leader on Gaitskell's death in 1963, was able to lead the party t...