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(Encyclopedia)Wilkes Land: see Antarctica.Rupert's Land
(Encyclopedia)Rupert's Land, Canadian territory held (1670–1869) by the Hudson's Bay Company, named for Prince Rupert, first governor of the company. Under the charter granted (1670) to the company by Charles II,...public land
(Encyclopedia)public land, in U.S. history, land owned by the federal government but not reserved for any special purpose, e.g., for a park or a military reservation. Public land is also called land in the public d...Basel-Land
(Encyclopedia)Basel-Land and Basel-Stadt: see Basel, Switzerland. ...Hebrews, people
(Encyclopedia)Hebrews. For history, see Jews; for religion, see Judaism. ...Peculiar People
(Encyclopedia)Peculiar People, an alternate rendering for the biblical phrase “chosen people” (of Israel), applied to numerous Protestant dissenting sects such as the Plumstead peculiars. This group, founded in...People's Charter
(Encyclopedia)People's Charter: see Chartism.People's party
(Encyclopedia)People's party: see Populist party. ...People's Temple
(Encyclopedia)People's Temple: see Jones, Jim.boat people
(Encyclopedia)boat people, term used to describe the Indochinese refugees who fled Communist rule after the Vietnam War (1975) in small boats and the many ethnic Chinese who left Vietnam similarly after China's inv...Browse by Subject
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