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(Encyclopedia)Lewis, Cecil Day: see Day Lewis, Cecil. ...eight-hour day
(Encyclopedia)eight-hour day: see labor law.Atonement, Day of
(Encyclopedia)Atonement, Day of: see Yom Kippur. ...Ben Day process
(Encyclopedia)Ben Day, or Benday, process: see printing. ...Seventh-day Adventists
(Encyclopedia)Seventh-day Adventists: see Adventists. ...Six-Day War
(Encyclopedia)Six-Day War: see Arab-Israeli Wars. ...Saint Valentine's Day
(Encyclopedia)Saint Valentine's Day, Western European Christian holiday, originally the Roman feast of Lupercalia. It was christianized in memory of the martyrdom of St. Valentine in a.d. 270, who, in medieval time...Steele, Mount
(Encyclopedia)Steele, Mount, 16,624 ft (5,067 m) high, in the St. Elias Mts., SW Yukon, Canada, in Kluane National Park near the Alaska line; one of Canada's tallest peaks. ...Morrisburg
(Encyclopedia)Morrisburg, village (1991 pop. 2,429), SE Ont., Canada, on the St. Lawrence River. Just east of the village is the Upper Canada Village, a model of a typical 19th-century community. ...Innis, Harold Adams
(Encyclopedia)Innis, Harold Adams, 1894–1952, Canadian political economist, b. Otterville, Ontario. One of Canada's leading economic historians, Innis wrote about various facets of Canadian culture and economy. I...Browse by Subject
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