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Kings Canyon National Park

(Encyclopedia) Kings Canyon National Park, 461,901 acres (187,070 hectares), E central California. Largely wilderness, the park features summits of the High Sierra and two enormous canyons on the…

Kruger National Park

(Encyclopedia) Kruger National Park, game reserve, c.8,000 sq mi (20,720 sq km), Limpopo and Mpumalanga, NE South Africa. One of the world's largest wildlife sanctuaries, it has almost every species…

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…

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 Site

Origin 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: 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…