Similar Designations Outside The United States
- Canada - National Historic Sites of Canada
- France - Monument historique
- Germany - Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz and National Heritage Sites (Kulturdenkmal)
- Hong Kong - Historic building, see List of Grade I historic buildings in Hong Kong, List of Grade II historic buildings in Hong Kong and List of Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong
- Italy - Monumento nazionale
- Netherlands - Rijksmonument
- Chile - National Monuments of Chile
- New Zealand - New Zealand Historic Places Trust
- Singapore - National Monuments of Singapore
- United Kingdom - Listed building or scheduled monument
- Portugal - IGESPAR
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Famous quotes containing the words united states, similar, united and/or states:
“We can beat all Europe with United States soldiers. Give me a thousand Tennesseans, and I’ll whip any other thousand men on the globe!”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.
A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.
“In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, introduction (1991)
“Today’s difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)