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United States Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; for training young men and women to be officers of the U.S. navy or marine corps. George Bancroft , Secretary of the Navy, founded and opened (1845) it as the Naval School at Annapolis. In 1850-51 the school was reorganized under the present title. Du...
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United States Military Academy
United States Military Academy at West Point , N.Y.; for training young men and women to be officers in the U.S. army; founded and opened in 1802. The original act provided that the Corps of Engineers stationed at West Point should constitute a military academy, but the growing threat of war with ...
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United States Naval Observatory
United States Naval Observatory a federal astronomical observatory , located in Washington, D. C. It evolved from the Navy's oldest scientific institution, the Depot of Charts and Instruments, founded in 1830; the observatory was completed in 1844 and moved to its present site in 1893. It was form...
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United States Coast Guard Academy
United States Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn.; for training young men and women to be officers of the U.S. Coast Guard; established 1876, opened 1877 as United States Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction, took its present name in 1915. The academy, differing from the other federal ...
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United States War Department
United States War Department federal executive department organized (1789) to administer the military establishment. It was reconstituted (1947) as the Dept. of the Army when the military administration was reorganized (see Defense, United States Department of ). During the American Revolution, mi...
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United States
United States officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district. The conterminous (excluding ...
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naval stores
naval stores term initially applied to the cordage, mask, resin, tar, and timber used in building wooden sailing ships; it now designates the products obtained from the pine tree, e.g., pine oil, pitch, rosin, tar, and turpentine. These products fall into two classes, those obtained from living pin...
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United States Marine Corps
United States Marine Corps military corps that forms a separate service within the U.S. Dept. of the Navy. The commandant of the Marine Corps is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . During conflicts, the Corps is charged with conducting all land operations essential to the successful prosecutio...
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself ser...
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, established in 1805, incorporated in 1806. It is supported by private endowment. The academy grew out of a proposal by Charles Willson Peale for an art institution; this led to the founding of the Columbianum, which in 1795 mounted the first art...
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