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State Department Notes on Chile

U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: Geography People History Government and Political Conditions Defense Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Chilean Relations GEOGRAPHY The…

American-Indian Biographies—A to Z

Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka A-G | H-M | O-R | S-W   Charles Curtis Sherman Alexie, writer Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist,…

Norse Mythology Dictionary

This glossary of Norse Mythology gives brief descriptions of the many characters involved in the stories and legends of Norse mythology. Aesir: Chief gods of Asgard.Andvari: Dwarf; robbed of…

Notable Actors

Isabella Rossellini See also Filmmakers and Directors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and Theater…

monsters and imaginary beasts

(Encyclopedia) monsters and imaginary beasts. The mythologies and legends of ancient and modern cultures teem with an enormous variety of monsters and imaginary beasts. A great number of these are…

spider

(Encyclopedia) spider, organism, mostly terrestrial, of the class Arachnida, order Araneae, with four pairs of legs and a two-part body consisting of a cephalothorax, or prosoma, and an unsegmented…

Women and Work

You can be most anything you want to be. Here is a sampling of just some of the careers you might consider, and women who have succeeded in them. Ambassador Eugenie Anderson (1910-1997), the first…

DK History: History Of Canada

CANADA’S PROVINCES AND TERRITORIESFIND OUT MOREThe first people in Canada came from Asia 70,000 to 12,000 years ago, via a land bridge now covered by the Bering Sea. The “First Nations” spread across…