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National Preserves

Name and location Total acreageAniakchak (Alaska) 465,603.00Bering Land Bridge (Alaska) 2,697,393.11Big Cypress (Fla.) 720,565.67Big Thicket (Tex.) 97,168.03Craters of the Moon (Idaho)410,000…

1959 Tony Awards

PlayJ. B.MusicalRedheadActor—PlayJason Robards, Jr., The DisenchantedActress—PlayGertrude Berg, A Majority of OneSupporting or Featured Actor—PlayCharlie Ruggles, The Pleasure of His…

2001 National Medal of Science Recipients

Andreas Acrivos, Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Engineering, City College of the City University of New York, for his pioneering research in fluid mechanics and leadership in the…

Brewer's: Carmelites

(3 syl.). An order of mendicant friars of Mount Carmel, the monastery of which is named Elias, from Elijah the prophet, who on Mount Carmel told Ahab that rain was at hand. Also called…

Brewer's: Ashmolean Museum

Presented to the University of Oxford in 1682 by Elias Ashmole. Sometimes called the Tradescant, because it belonged to the Tradescant family. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

U.S. National Parks

Visit an American treasure by Elissa Haney The National Park Service maintains hundreds of outdoor parks... . . . as well as historic areas in places as far-flung as Hawaii–where tourists can…