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Akhetaton

(Encyclopedia)Akhetaton: see Tell el Amarna.

Cheremiss

(Encyclopedia)Cheremiss: see Mari El, Russia.

Amarna

(Encyclopedia)Amarna: see Tell el Amarna.

Mazagan

(Encyclopedia)Mazagan: see El Jadida, Morocco. ...

Romero, Saint Óscar

(Encyclopedia)Romero, Saint Óscar (Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez), 1917–80, Salvadoran bishop and human rights advocate. He studied at the Gregorian Univ. in Rome and was ordained in 1942. Returning to El Sa...

Sábato, Ernesto

(Encyclopedia)Sábato, Ernesto ārnāsˈtō säˈbätō [key], 1911–2011, Argentinean novelist and literary critic, b. Rojas. He received his doctorate in physics (1937) and taught until removed for anti-Peronist...

Central American Common Market

(Encyclopedia)Central American Common Market (CACM), trade organization envisioned by a 1960 treaty between Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. The treaty established (1961) a secretariat for Central A...

Al-Jadida

(Encyclopedia)Al-Jadida: see El Jadida, Morocco. ...

Alcazarquivir

(Encyclopedia)Alcazarquivir: see Ksar el Kebir, Morocco. ...

Alamayn, Al

(Encyclopedia)Alamayn, Al, Egypt: see Alamein, El. ...

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