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(Encyclopedia) mask, cover or partial cover for the face or head used as a disguise or protection. Masks have been worn from time immemorial throughout the world. They are used by primitive peoples…Brewer's: Cross
The cross is said to have been made of four sorts of wood (palm, cedar, olive, and cypress), to signify the four quarters of the globe. “Ligna crucis palma, cedrus, cupressus,oliva.” We…Kiowa
(Encyclopedia) KiowaKiowakīˈəwə [key], Native North Americans whose language is thought to form a branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). The Kiowa, a nomadic…Neolithic period
(Encyclopedia) Neolithic period or New Stone Age. The term neolithic is used, especially in archaeology and anthropology, to designate a stage of cultural evolution or technological development…The Congress of Women: The Feast of Columbia, 1493-1893
by Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton Woman as an InvestorThe Woman's National Indian AssociationThe Feast of Columbia, 1493-1893. Mrs. Alice Williams Brotherton is a native of Cambridge, Ind…Major Pre-Columbian Culture Groups in the United States
Archaeological studies of pre-Columbian America have uncovered societies dating back over ten thousand years, roughly contemporaneous with the rise of civilization elsewhere in the world. These are…Mexican art and architecture
(Encyclopedia) Mexican art and architecture, works of art and structures produced in the area that is now the country of Mexico. Such arts were already highly developed in the ancient civilizations…New Mexico
New Mexico State Information Official Name: The State of New Mexico; Nuevo México (Spanish); Yootó Hahoodzo (Navajo) Capital: Santa Fe Organized as a territory: September 9, 1850 Entered Union (…National Monuments
Name and location Total acreageAfrican Burial Ground (N.Y.)n.a.Agate Fossil Beds (Neb.) 3,055.22Alibates Flint Quarries (Tex.) 1,370.97Aniakchak (Alaska) 137,176.00Aztec Ruins (N.M.) 317.…Epidemics of the Past: Smallpox
Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Epidemics of the Past Smallpox: 12,000 Years of Terror Bubonic Plague Influenza: A Twentieth-Century Epidemic Smallpox is one of greatest scourges in human…Trending
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