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Chibcha
(Encyclopedia) ChibchaChibchachĭbˈchə [key], indigenous people of the eastern cordillera of the Andes of Colombia. Although trade with neighboring tribes was common, the Chibcha seem to have evolved…Leavis, F. R.
(Encyclopedia) Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond Leavis)Leavis, F. R.lēˈvĭs [key], 1895–1978, English critic and teacher. Leavis was one of the most influential literary critics of the 20th cent. A…Mississippi, University of
(Encyclopedia) Mississippi, University of, main campus at Oxford; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1844, opened 1848. The university medical center, which includes the schools of medicine,…Kampot
(Encyclopedia) KampotKampotkämpôtˈ [key], town, capital of Kampot prov., S Cambodia, on the Gulf of Thailand. It is a seaport on the Phnom Penh–Sihanoukville RR and the center of the Cambodian pepper…Tokyo, University of
(Encyclopedia) Tokyo, University of, at Tokyo, Japan; founded in 1877. In the 1920s it became one of the first Imperial universities and remains one of the most prestigious in Japan. It offers…Harrison, Ross Granville
(Encyclopedia) Harrison, Ross Granville, 1870–1959, American biologist and anatomist, b. Germantown, Pa., Ph.D. Johns Hopkins, 1894. He went to Yale as professor of comparative anatomy in 1907 and…Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said
(Encyclopedia) Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said, 1954–, sultan of Oman (2020–). A member of the ruling family of Oman, he held various positions in the Omani foreign ministry (1986–2002) and served as…prehistory
(Encyclopedia) prehistory, period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which…Hohokam
(Encyclopedia) HohokamHohokamhōˈhōkămˌ, hōhōˈkəm [key], term denoting the culture of the ancient agricultural populations inhabiting the Salt and Gila river valleys of S Arizona (a.d. 300–1200). They…Yoruba
(Encyclopedia) YorubaYorubayōˈr&oomacr;bä [key], people of SW Nigeria and Benin, numbering about 20 million. Today many of the large cities in Nigeria (including Lagos, Ibadan, and Abeokuta) are…Trending
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