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government ownership

(Encyclopedia)government ownership: see public ownership. ...

municipal government

(Encyclopedia)municipal government: see city government. ...

military government

(Encyclopedia)military government, rule of enemy territory under military occupation. It is distinguished from martial law, which is the temporary rule by domestic armed forces over disturbed areas. The practices o...

local government

(Encyclopedia)local government, political administration of the smallest subdivisions of a country's territory and population. The British system of local government, which has been the model for most of that cou...

Geingob, Hage

(Encyclopedia)Geingob, Hage, 1941–, Namibian political leader. Geingob joined the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in the early 1960s. In exile from 1962, he became a member of SWAPO's central comm...

land-grant colleges and universities

(Encyclopedia)land-grant colleges and universities, U.S. institutions benefiting from the provisions of the Morrill Act (1862), which gave to the states federal lands for the establishment of colleges offering prog...

fallow land

(Encyclopedia)fallow land, cropland that is not seeded for a season; it may or may not be plowed. The land may be cultivated or chemically treated for control of weeds and other pests or may be left unaltered. Allo...

Holy Land

(Encyclopedia)Holy Land: see Palestine.

Graham Land

(Encyclopedia)Graham Land, part of the Antarctic Peninsula, W Antarctica. This ice-covered, mountainous area was thought to be a group of islands but further exploration (1934) showed it to be peninsular. Claimed b...

Northern Land

(Encyclopedia)Northern Land: see Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. ...