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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
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Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park 28,295 acres (11,459 hectares), in the Black Hills, SW S.Dak.; est. 1903. Wind Cave, discovered in 1881, was named for the strong air currents that blow alternately in and out of it depending on whether the atmospheric pressure is higher or lower than the air pressure inside... Read more |
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Sudanese park-steppe floral region
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Kern
Kern river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. Kern River is the southern terminus of the Friant-Kern Canal,... Read more |
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Kenai Fjords National Park
Kenai Fjords National Park 669,983 acres (271,248 hectares), S Alaska. The park features the great Harding Icefield and its radiating glaciers, many of which descend to tidewater, and a magnificent series of fjords along the coast of Kenai Peninsula, with rain forest, sea lions, sea otters, seals,... Read more |
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Parkes
Parkes, New South Wales/Australia Bushman's Founded in 1862 and renamed in 1883 after Sir Henry Parkes (1815–96), who served five terms as premier of New South Wales (1872–91).... Read more |
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Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe Mountains National Park , 86,416 acres (34,998 hectares), W Tex. Located in the Guadalupe Mts., the park contains parts of the world's largest and most significant Permian limestone fossil reef. In the park are McKittrich Canyon; Guadalupe Peak, 8,751 ft (2,667 m), the highest point in... Read more |
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park 615 acres (249 hectares) in Westminster borough, London, England. Once the manor of Hyde, a part of the old Westminster Abbey property, it became a deer park under Henry VIII. Races were held there in the 17th cent. In 1730, Queen Caroline had an artificial lake, the Serpentine,... Read more |
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United States. National Park Service
National Park Service The U.S. Congress created the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916 as a bureau of the Department of the Interior. Its purpose was to coordinate the administration for an increasing number of national parks. NPS objectives have evolved to include (1)... Read more |
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER Bletchley Park was the headquarters of the British Military Intelligence Government Code and Cipher School during World War II. Located fifty miles north of London, on the grounds of the sprawling Victorian mansion for which it was... Read more |
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