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Fiordland National Park
(Encyclopedia) Fiordland National Park, 4,868 sq mi (12,601 sq km), on the Tasman Sea, SW South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand's largest national park, it was established as a reserve in 1904 and…Rosa Parks Biography
Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley ParksactivistBorn: 1913 Rosa Parks, an activist with the Montgomery, Alabama, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), made history…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…Brewer's: Phoenix Park
(Dublin). A corruption of the Gaelic Fion-uise (fair water), so called from a spring at one time resorted to as a chalybeate spa. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…National Historical Parks
Name and location Total acreageAdams (Mass.)23.82Appomattox Court House (Va.) 1,772.36Boston (Mass.) 43.32Cane River Creole (La.)207.38Cedar Creek and Belle Grove (Va.)3,566.61Chaco Culture (…National Military Parks
Name and location Total acreageChickamauga and Chattanooga (Ga.-Tenn.) 8,266.34Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania (Va.) 8,361.92Gettysburg (Pa.) 5,990.31Guilford Courthouse (N.C.) 228.…National Battlefield Parks
Name and location Total acreageKennesaw Mountain (Ga.) 2,884.14Manassas (Va.) 5,067.92Richmond (Va.) 2,151.94National BattlefieldsThe National Park SystemNational Battlefield SiteOrigin of the Parking Meter
The Question: Who invented the parking meter? The Answer: Carl C. Magee, of Oklahoma City, Okla., is generally credited with originating the idea. As head of the city's chamber of commerce,…Brewer's: Regent's Park
(London). This park was originally attached to a palace of Queen Elizabeth, but at the beginning of the seventeenth century much of the land was let on long leases, which fell in early in…Trending
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