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Encyclopedia > Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities. Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest and the Pemigewasset Wilderness, its vista toward Mount Washington and most of the rest of the Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog Railway and the Mount Washington Hotel. Carroll is a town located in Coos County, New Hampshire. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 110 km 305 km 3. ... Map of White Mountains National Forest. ... Mount Washington (formerly Agiocochook) is, at 6,288 ft. ... This article concerns the best-known Presidential Range; for the range of the same name in the Green Mountains of Vermont, see Presidential Range. ... The Mount Washington Cog Railway The Mount Washington Cog Railway was the worlds first cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). ... The Mount Washington hotel is situated near Mount Washington, in the town of Carroll. ...


Bretton Woods was the site of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1946. (The system eventually collapsed in 1971.) The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, commonly known as Bretton Woods conference, was a gathering of 730 delegates from all 45 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in the resort town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Logo of the World Bank The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, in Romance languages: BIRD), better known as the World Bank, is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by WWII. Now, its mission has expanded to fight poverty by means... The logo of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the international organization entrusted with overseeing the global financial system by monitoring exchange rates and balance of payments, as well as offering technical and financial assistance when asked. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...


US Route 302 runs 28 miles (45 km) between the business areas of one through-road intersection and that of the next, with only a town of fewer than 3000, and areas like Bretton Woods or smaller, as concentrations of development between those intersections. U.S. Highway 302 is a spur of U.S. Highway 2. ... Bartlett is a town located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. ...


Points of Interest

Mount Washington Hotel, 1905.
Mount Washington Hotel, 1905.

The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one in the last surviving handful of New Hampshire grand hotels, and includes a golf course in its facilities. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (936x309, 47 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (936x309, 47 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Bretton Woods, New Hampshire ... The Mount Washington hotel is situated near Mount Washington, in the town of Carroll. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 46th 24,239 km² 110 km 305 km 3. ... This article is about the sport of golf. ...


The Bretton Woods Mountain Resort ski area serves both downhill and cross-country skiing, primarily in the Rosebrook Mountains. A ski area is a place where one goes to participate in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. ... Alpine skiing (or downhill skiing) is a recreational activity and sport involving sliding down snow-covered hills with long, thin skis attached to each foot. ... Cross-country skiing (also known as XC skiing) is a winter sport popular in many countries with large snowfields, primarily Northern Europe and Canada. ...


The tracks of the "Cog", and its associated buildings, lie up the slope of Mount Washington. The "Base Road" from Bretton Woods is the preferred route to the low-altitude end of those tracks (the Base Station of the Cog), except in those winters when Mt. Clinton Road is instead the only plowed road to their intersection. (The closing of the lower end of the Base Road had been traditional into 2004.) The Cog was operated during the winter season of 2004-2005 to take wilderness skiers partway up the mountain. A small sidewalk clearing plow in Ottawa, Canada A snowplow (or snow plow) is a vehicle or device used for removing snow from roadways, driveways, runways, and other surfaces. ...


The scenic Crawford Notch area begins a few miles to the south. Crawford Notch is the steep and narrow gorge of the Saco River in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, located almost entirely within the town of Harts Location. ...


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Bretton Woods system: Information from Answers.com (9767 words)
The chief features of the Bretton Woods system were an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value—plus or minus one percent—in terms of gold; and the ability of the IMF to bridge temporary imbalances of payments.
The political bases for the Bretton Woods system are in the confluence of several key conditions: the shared experiences of the Great Depression, the concentration of power in a small number of states, and the presence of a dominant power willing and able to assume a leadership role in global monetary affairs.
The big question at the Bretton Woods conference with respect to the institution that would emerge as the IMF was the issue of future access to international liquidity and whether that source should be akin to a world central bank able to create new reserves at will or a more limited borrowing mechanism.
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (362 words)
Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, USA, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities.
Bretton Woods was the site of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in 1944 which has given its name to the Bretton Woods system and led to the establishment of both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1946.
The Mount Washington Hotel and Resort is one in the last surviving handful of New Hampshire grand hotels, and includes two golf courses in its facilities.
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