Search results for "United States Board on Geographic Names" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States with almanac-style ... Factbook. * * * Included among the 271 geographic entries is one for the ...
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  • Association had chaired many discussions on setting up an international ... 1909, Argentina and Chile in 1912, and the United States in 1913. ...
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  • Metacomet Range of southern New England, United States, is a narrow and steep ... Until January 2008, the United States Board on Geographic Names (USBGN) ...
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  • established as Mount McKinley National Park on February 26, 1917 as a wildlife ... December 2, 1980. At that time the Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed ...
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  • Atlantic County, southeastern New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk ... resort. Atlantic City was incorporated on May 1, 1854 by an act of the ...
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  • of making representations of the Earth on a flat surface. The discipline ... use of symbols and lines to illustrate geographic phenomena. This can aid ...
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  • sports like weight lifting, wrestling, and so on. A stadium-length ... (primarily outdoors), with meets being held on the local, state, and regional ...
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  • prominent, contrasting pattern of white fur on their backs, faces, or tails; ... family. Skunks have two glands, one on either side of the anus, that ...
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  • ethical questions and moral dilemmas brought on by the emergence of digital ... In particular, many cyberethicists carry on their discourses within multi ...
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  • The mutiny on the Bounty was a mutiny aboard a British Royal Navy ... were larger and better organized. The mutiny on the Bounty, involving no demands ...
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  • of people who simultaneously converge on Mecca for the high holy week ... sense of sacred time among its participants. On the hajj, Muslims take part ...
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  • located in the southern region of the United States of America. Arkansas ... are part of the interior highlands of the United States, the only major mountainous ...
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  • metropolitian area in North America. Located on the northwestern shore of Lake ... 2006-12-08 from Alan Rayburn, Canadian Geographic (September/October 1994 ...
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  • Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. In 1796 ... The State joined the Confederate States of America during the American ...
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  • believed by historians to have discouraged United States expansion into the ... (1880–1928). Saskatchewan is bounded on the west by Alberta, on the ...
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  • Council and a Program Implementation Board, both of which include top ... Industry, Government and Academia, based on Continuous Improvement and ...
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  • The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...
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  • Amelia Mary Earhart, born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897 (missing ... Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 at her grandparents ...
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  • after Mumbai. Located in northern India on the banks of the River Yamuna ... in ancient India, Delhi was a major city on the old trade routes from northwest ...
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  • metropolitan area today sits in both states; the border barely more than ... Kansas City lies near the geographic center of the contiguous United ...
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