12) soccer. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...where American football, a descendant primarily of rugby, dominates. Since the 1970s, American soccer has grown at many levels, from childrens' to collegiate; professional...

13) New Jersey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and Brendan Byrne Arena (1981), which hosts professional hockey, basketball, and special events. New Jersey was hard hit by recession in the early 1990s and the state...

14) New York. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
...in the Frick mansion), the Whitney Mus. of Amer. Art, the Mus. of the City of N.Y., the Amer. Mus. of Natural History (with the Hayden Planetarium), the Pierpont...

15) Finland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...ended the Northern War, Peter I of Russia acquired the province of Vyborg (Viipuri), and additional areas were lost to Russia in 1743. During the Napoleonic Wars,...

16) periodical. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...modest formats; hence they were dubbed the little magazines. Many were short-lived; others survived because contributions of readers or philanthropists met their...

17) New York, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of a rival paper, was an important precedent for the principle of a free press. The city's first institution of higher learning, Kings College (now Columbia Univ.),...

18) National Parks and Monuments (table). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Wis.197069,372 (28,096)Apostle Islands and a strip of the Bayfield Peninsula, on the south shore of Lake Superior.Assateague IslandSSMd., Va.196539,723 (16,082)37-mi...