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Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

(Encyclopedia)Santo Domingo Tehuantepec: see Tehuantepec, Mexico. ...

Ciudad Porfirio Díaz

(Encyclopedia)Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, Mexico: see Piedras Negras. ...

Lorde, Audrey Geraldine

(Encyclopedia)Lorde, Audre, 1934–1992, African-American poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (M.L.S. 1961). Lorde was born to...

Echeverría Álvarez, Luis

(Encyclopedia)Echeverría Álvarez, Luis lo͞oēsˈ āchāvār-rēˈä älˈvärās [key], 1922–, president of Mexico (1970–76). A lawyer, he was formerly a law professor. As a member of the ruling Institutiona...

Juárez

(Encyclopedia)Juárez, officially Heroica Ciudad Juárez, city (1990 pop. 789,522) Chihuahua state, N Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso, Tex. Connected with the United States by three international bridges...

Ixtacíhuatl

(Encyclopedia)Ixtacíhuatl or Ixtaccíhuatl: see Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico. ...

Victoria de Durango

(Encyclopedia)Victoria de Durango: see Durango, city, Mexico. ...

Santiago, Río Grande de

(Encyclopedia)Santiago, Río Grande de, river, Mexico: see Lerma. ...

Jalapa

(Encyclopedia)Jalapa or Jalapa Enriquez: see Xalapa, Mexico. ...

skunk

(Encyclopedia)skunk, name for several related New World mammals of the weasel family, characterized by their conspicuous black and white markings and use of a strong, highly offensive odor for defense. The scent gl...