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Kickapoo

(Encyclopedia) KickapooKickapookĭkˈəp&oomacr; [key], Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American…

Kaukauna

(Encyclopedia) KaukaunaKaukaunakôkôˈnə [key], city (1990 pop. 11,982), Outagamie co., E Wis., on the Fox River; settled 1793, inc. 1885. The city is a processing center for cheese and other dairy…

Hunter, William

(Encyclopedia) Hunter, William, 1718–83, Scottish physician. He was famous as a lecturer, as London's leading obstetrician, as professor of anatomy and later president of the Royal Academy of Arts,…

Mason, James

(Encyclopedia) Mason, James, 1909–84, British stage and film actor. Mason, trained at Cambridge as an architect, became a leading man in British films in the 1940s and thereafter an international…

Vicente Fox Quesada, 2000 News

Mexican politician, was elected president in July, ending 71 years of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Fox, a candidate of the conservative National Action Party, is a former…

Michael J. Fox, 2000 News

actor, announced in Jan. that he planned to leave his hit show, Spin City, after the 1999–2000 season to help find a cure for Parkinson's disease, with which he was diagnosed in 1991. Just…

Aesop's Fables: The Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape

by Aesop The Lion and the BullThe Eagle and the CocksThe Wolf, the Fox, and the Ape A Wolf charged a Fox with theft, which he denied, and the case was brought before an Ape to be tried.…

Aesop's Fables: The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion

by Aesop Mercury and the WoodmanThe Lion and the MouseThe Ass, the Fox, and the Lion An Ass and a Fox went into partnership and sallied out to forage for food together. They hadn't gone…