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Tonton Macoutes
(Encyclopedia) Tonton MacoutesTonton Macoutestŏntŏnˈ mäk&oomacr;tˈ [key] [Haitian Creole,=bogeymen], personal police force of dictator Francois Duvalier (Papa Doc) of Haiti. Unpaid volunteers who…Guantánamo
(Encyclopedia) GuantánamoGuantánamogwäntäˈnämō [key], city (1994 est. pop. 200,000), capital of Guantánamo prov., SE Cuba, on the Guaso River. It is the processing center for a rich sugar- and coffee…Herskovits, Melville Jean
(Encyclopedia) Herskovits, Melville JeanHerskovits, Melville Jeanhûrsˈkəvĭts [key], 1895–1963, American anthropologist, b. Bellefontaine, Ohio; educated at the Univ. of Chicago (Ph.B., 1920) and…Caribbean Community and Common Market
(Encyclopedia) Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), organization founded by the Treaty of Chaguaramas (Trinidad; 1973, revised 2001) and including Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados,…creole language
(Encyclopedia) creole languagecreole languagekrēōlˈ [key], any language that began as a pidgin but was later adopted as the mother tongue by a people in place of the original mother tongue or tongues…Kim, Jim Yong
(Encyclopedia) Kim, Jim Yong, 1959–, Korean-American physician, university administrator, and global health specialist, b. Seoul, grad. Brown (A.B., 1982), Harvard (M.D., 1991, Ph.D., 1993). He moved…Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre
(Encyclopedia) Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre or AlexandreDumas, Thomas-Alexandre or Alexandretōmäˈ-sälĕksäNˈdrə [key]Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre or Alexandre dümäˈ, älĕksäNˈ– [key] 1762–1806, French…Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidas
(Encyclopedia) Trujillo Molina, Rafael LeonidasTrujillo Molina, Rafael Leonidasräfäĕlˈ lāōnēˈᵺäs tr&oomacr;hēˈyō mōlēˈnä [key], 1891–1961, president of the Dominican Republic (1930–38, 1942–52).…emperor
(Encyclopedia) emperor [Lat. imperator=one holding supreme power, especially applied to generals], the sovereign head of an empire. In the Roman republic the term imperator referred to the chief…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…Trending
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