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Clackmannanshire

(Encyclopedia) ClackmannanshireClackmannanshireklăkmănˈənshər, –shĭrˌ [key], council area (1993 est. pop. 48,660), 60 sq mi (157 sq km), and former county, central Scotland. Under the Local…

Tocantins , state, Brazil

(Encyclopedia) TocantinsTocantinst&oobreve;kəntēnsˈ [key], state (1996 pop. 1,048,514), 110,700 sq mi (286,787 sq km), N central Brazil. Palmas is the capital. Created in 1988 from the northern…

Rutskoi, Aleksandr Vladimirovich

(Encyclopedia) Rutskoi or Rutskoy, Aleksandr VladimirovichRutskoi or Rutskoy, Aleksandr Vladimirovichŭlˌyĭksänˈdər vlŭdˌyĭmĭrˈəvyĭchˌ r&oomacr;tskoiˈ [key], 1947–, Russian politician, b. Ukraine…

Stickley, Gustav

(Encyclopedia) Stickley, Gustav, 1858–1942, American furniture designer, b. Osceola, Wis. Probably the best-known American associated with the arts and crafts movement, Stickley ran a Binghamton, N.Y…

Préval, René Garcia

(Encyclopedia) Préval, René GarciaPréval, René Garciarənāˈ gärsēäˈ prāvälˈ [key] 1943–2017, Haitian political leader, president (1996–2001; 2006–11) of Haiti. Préval's family went into exile (1963)…

Levi, Primo

(Encyclopedia) Levi, PrimoLevi, Primoprēˈmō lāˈvē [key], 1919–87, Italian writer. A chemist of Jewish descent, Levi was sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War II. His first…

Jackson, Jesse Louis

(Encyclopedia) Jackson, Jesse Louis, 1941–, African-American political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist, b. Greenville, S.C. Raised in poverty, he attended the Chicago Theological…

Aznar López, José María

(Encyclopedia) Aznar López, José MaríaAznar López, José Maríahōzāˈ märēˈə äsˈnär lōˈpās [key], 1953–, Spanish politician, prime minister of Spain (1996–2004), b. Madrid. Originally a lawyer and tax…

Todorov, Tzvetan

(Encyclopedia) Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939–2017, Bulgarian-French literary theorist, historian of ideas, and sociologist, b. Sofia, Bulgaria, Ph.D. Univ. of Paris, 1966. He joined (1968) the National…

Overall Club Rankings

Combined AFC and NFC rankings by yards gained on offense and yards given up on defense. Teams listed in alphabetical order with AFC teams in italics.…