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Cape Lookout National Seashore

(Encyclopedia)Cape Lookout National Seashore: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Capitol Reef National Park

(Encyclopedia)Capitol Reef National Park: 241,904 acres (97,971 hectares), S Utah. The park features a dome-shaped white rock, said to resemble the U.S. Capitol, and a maze of deep canyons, arches, and monoliths cu...

Capulin Volcano National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Capulin Volcano National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

(Encyclopedia)Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 46,766 acres (18,940 hectares), SE N.Mex., in the Guadalupe Mts.; designated a national park in 1930. These connecting limestone caves, with remarkable stalactite and s...

Vermilion Cliffs National Monument

(Encyclopedia)Vermilion Cliffs National Monument: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Bluestone National Scenic River

(Encyclopedia)Bluestone National Scenic River: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

United States National Museum

(Encyclopedia)United States National Museum: see Smithsonian Institution. ...

Waterton Lakes National Park

(Encyclopedia)Waterton Lakes National Park, 203 sq mi (525 sq km), SW Alta., Canada, SW of Lethbridge and at the U.S. border, adjoining Glacier National Park, Mont.; est. 1895. It is the Canadian section of Waterto...

moment

(Encyclopedia)moment, in physics and engineering, term designating the product of a quantity and a distance (or some power of the distance) to some point associated with that quantity. The most theoretically useful...

multiplication

(Encyclopedia)multiplication, fundamental operation in arithmetic and algebra. Multiplication by a whole number can be interpreted as successive addition. For example, a number N multiplied by 3 is N + N + N. In ge...