…relating to or characteristic of a nation; common to a whole nation…
…a city in southwestern California, south of San Diego, site of numerous naval facilities; population 58,680 (est. 2008)…
…the total amount of money which a country’s government has borrowed…
…the network of high-voltage power lines between major power stations…
…the body controlling steeplechasing and hurdle racing in Great Britain…
…an area of countryside, or occasionally sea or fresh water, protected by the state for the enjoyment of the general public or the preservation of wildlife…
…a historic highway that in the early 19th century led from Maryland through the Appalachian Mountains to St. Louis in Missouri. It was once the major route for western expansion…
…an annual horse race established in 1839, a steeplechase run over a course of 4 miles 856 yards (about 7,200 metres) with thirty jumps, at Aintree, Liverpool, in late March or early April…
…a large expanse of forest that is owned, maintained, and preserved by the federal government…
…a right-wing UK political party, formed in 1967, with extreme reactionary views on immigration…
…(in the US) the primary reserve military force partly maintained by the states but also available for federal use…
…one of the two major leagues in American professional baseball…
…an Australian political party established in 1914 (as the Country Party) to represent agricultural and rural interests…
…a political party that held power in South Africa from 1948 until the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. Formed in 1914 as an Afrikaner party, it favoured racial segregation and instituted apartheid…
…a trust for the preservation of places of historic interest or natural beauty in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription. The National Trust for Scotland was founded in 1931…
…a person who is not a naturalized citizen of the country in which they are living…
…an art gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, holding one of the chief national collections of pictures. The collection began in 1824, and the present main building was opened in 1838…
…(in the UK) the system of compulsory payments by employees and employers to provide state assistance for people who are sick, unemployed, or retired…
…a minority group within a country felt to be distinct from the majority because of historical differences of language, religion, culture, etc.…
…a historic site or geographical area set aside by a national government and maintained for public use…
…an expanse of sea coast protected and maintained by the federal government for the study of wildlife and for recreational use by the public…
…a period of compulsory service in the armed forces during peacetime (phased out in the UK by 1963)…
…an artefact, institution, or public figure regarded as being emblematic of a nation’s cultural heritage or identity…
…welfare payment made to people on low incomes in Britain between 1948 and 1965…
…a convention of a major political party, especially one that nominates a candidate for the presidency…
…a common programme of study in schools that is designed to ensure nationwide uniformity of content and standards in education…
…a coalition government, especially one subordinating party differences to the national interest in a time of crisis, as in Britain under Ramsay MacDonald in 1931-5…
…a national preserve in southwestern Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula, noted for its volcanic activity and wildlife…
…a national park in western Cameroon, on the border with Nigeria. It was established in 1961 to protect a large area of tropical rainforest…
…a national park in eastern South Africa, on the Mozambique border. It was originally a game reserve established in 1898 by President Kruger…
…the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year, after depreciation of capital goods has been allowed for…
…a national park in the Sierra Nevada of California, east of Fresno. It was established in 1890 to protect groves of giant sequoia trees, of which the largest, the General Sherman Tree, is thought to be between 3,000 and 4,000 years old…
…an extensive national park in SE Kenya, established in 1948…
…an extreme right-wing political party in Britain supporting racial discrimination and strongly opposing immigration. The party arose in the 1980s as a breakaway group from the National Front…
…the total value of goods produced and services provided by a country during one year, equal to the gross domestic product plus the net income from foreign investments…
…a broad-based political party in India. Founded in 1885, it dominated the independence movement in the 1930s under Mahatma Gandhi, and has been the principal party in government since 1947. Following splits in the party the Indian National Congress (I), formed by Indira Gandhi as a breakaway group (the I standing for Indira), was confirmed in 1981 as the official Congress party…
…the major professional football league in the US, consisting of the National and American football conferences and totaling thirty-one teams…
…(in the UK) a system of national medical care paid for mainly by taxation and started by the Labour government in 1948…
…(in the US) a secret body established after the Second World War to gather intelligence, deal with coded communications from around the world, and safeguard US transmissions…
…a political party formed in 1934, which seeks autonomous government for Scotland. It won its first parliamentary seat in 1945, and has since maintained a small group of MPs…
…a national park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Virginia, situated to the south-east of the Shenandoah River. It was established in 1935…
…a preserve in southeastern Alaska, the largest US national forest, in the panhandle and on islands in the Alexander Archipelago, the focus of 1990s disputes over logging…
