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Cahokia Mounds
(Encyclopedia) Cahokia Mounds, approximately 85 surviving Native American earthworks, most in Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, SW Ill., near East St. Louis; largest group of mounds N of Mexico.…Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations
(Encyclopedia) Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations (YMHA, YWHA), organizations that promote health, social activities, recreation, acculturation of new Jewish Americans, and Jewish…Bell, Daniel
(Encyclopedia) Bell, Daniel, 1919–2011, American sociologist, b. New York City as Daniel Bolotsky, grad. City College (1939), Columbia (Ph.D., 1960). His immigrant parents changed their surname when…Vaillant, George Clapp
(Encyclopedia) Vaillant, George ClappVaillant, George Clappvălˈyănt [key], 1901–45, American archaeologist, b. Boston; grad. Harvard (B.A., 1922; Ph.D., 1927). At the American Museum of Natural…Becher, Johannes Robert
(Encyclopedia) Becher, Johannes RobertBecher, Johannes Robertyōhänˈəs rōˈbĕrt bĕkhˈər [key], 1891–1958, German poet and essayist. After an early association with the Expressionist movement, Becher…Salish
(Encyclopedia) Salish, indigenous people of North America, also known as the Flathead, who in the early 19th cent. inhabited the Bitterroot River valley of W Montana. Their language belongs to the…Beaubourg
(Encyclopedia) BeaubourgBeaubourgbōb&oobreve;rˈ [key], popular name for the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and CultureGeorges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culturezhôrzh pôNpēd…Murakami, Haruki
(Encyclopedia) Murakami, HarukiMurakami, Harukihär&oomacr;ˈkē m&oobreve;rˌäkäˈmē [key], 1949–, Japanese novelist. He lived in Europe and the United States from 1986 to 1995. Widely considered…folktale
(Encyclopedia) folktale, general term for any of numerous varieties of traditional narrative. The telling of stories appears to be a cultural universal, common to pre-industrial, ancient, and more…Quapaw
(Encyclopedia) QuapawQuapawkwôˈpô [key], Native North Americans, also called the Arkansas, whose language belongs to the Siouan branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American…Trending
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