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(Encyclopedia) HaidaHaidahīˈdə [key], Native North Americans living primarily on the Queen Charlotte Islands, off British Columbia, and on the southern end of the Prince of Wales Island, off Alaska.…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Posthumous Fragments of Margar...DespairFragment: Supposed to be an Epithalamium of Francis Ravaillac and Charlotte Corday 'Tis midnight now—athwart the murky air…Marat, Jean Paul
(Encyclopedia) Marat, Jean PaulMarat, Jean PaulzhäN pōl märäˈ [key], 1743–93, French revolutionary, b. Switzerland. He studied medicine in England, acquired some repute as a doctor in London and…NASCAR
(Encyclopedia) NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla., in 1948 and…Jordan, Michael Jeffrey
(Encyclopedia) Jordan, Michael Jeffrey, 1963–, American basketball player, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. As a freshman at the Univ. of North Carolina, he made the shot that won the 1982 National Collegiate…Caen
(Encyclopedia) Caen Caen käN [key], city, capital of Calvados dept., N France, in Normandy, on the Orne…2012 Presidential Nominating Convention Cities by the Numbers
From the U.S. Census Bureau Source: U.S. Census Bureau Related Links Campaign 2012 Where Conventions Have Been Held History of Party…Lusignan
(Encyclopedia) LusignanLusignanlüzēnyäNˈ [key], French noble family. The name is derived from a castle in Poitou, built, according to legend, by Mélusine. The family was powerful in the Middle Ages…Fluxus
(Encyclopedia) Fluxus , an international art movement of the late 1950s-‘60s that emphasized process over finished product and interdisciplinary work…Vancouver Island
(Encyclopedia) Vancouver Island (1991 pop. 579,921), 12,408 sq mi (32,137 sq km), SW British Columbia, Canada, in the Pacific Ocean; largest island off W North America. It is c.285 mi (460 km) long…Trending
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