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

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

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

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

(Encyclopedia) Buffalo National River, Ark.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Besant, Annie bĕzˈant [key], 1847–1933, English social reformer and theosophist, b. Annie Wood. She steadily grew away from Christianity and in 1873 separated from her husband, a Protestant clergy...

(Encyclopedia) Royal National Theatre a government-funded repertory company based in London. Although the idea for such a company originated in the 19th cent., the National Theatre was not finally established until ...

(Encyclopedia) Auyuittuq National Park ouyo͞oˈətək, –ətŭkˌ [key], c.8,290 sq mi (21,470 sq km), E Baffin Island near Pangnirtung, Nunavut Territory, Canada; est. 1972. Located on the Cumberland Peninsula, i...

(Encyclopedia) Burns, John, 1858–1943, British union leader and politician. A factory worker as a child, he was largely self-educated and was led by his reading to radical socialism. Burns became an outstanding or...

(Encyclopedia) Yoho National Park yōˈhō [key], 507 sq mi (1,313 sq km), SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Rocky Mts. at the Alta. border; est. 1886. It lies W of the Continental Divide, adjoining Banff and Koot...