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Mattei, Enrico
(Encyclopedia) Mattei, EnricoMattei, Enricoānrēˈkō mät-tāˈ [key], 1906–62, Italian public administrator. After World War II he was given the task of dismantling the Italian Petroleum Agency, a…Mission Indians
(Encyclopedia) Mission Indians, Native Americans of S and central California; so called because they were under the jurisdiction of some 21 Spanish missions that were established between 1769 and…Lamentations
(Encyclopedia) Lamentations, book of the Bible, placed immediately after Jeremiah, to whose author it has been ascribed since ancient times. It was probably composed by several authors. It is a…Hebrews: 13
Hebrews Chapter 13 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds…Liu Chih-chi
(Encyclopedia) Liu Chih-chiLiu Chih-chily&oomacr; jûr-jē [key], 661–721, Chinese T'ang dynasty historian. Drawing on experience gained while working on histories of the preceding dynasties, he…Red Guards
(Encyclopedia) Red Guards, in Chinese history, politically active students of the Cultural Revolution (1966–69), who organized units to carry out Mao Zedong's aim of rerevolutionizing Chinese society…Collected Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents: William Henry Harrison
Martin Van Buren James Knox Polk William Henry Harrison Inaugural Address Thursday, March 4, 1841 CALLED from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my…Liu Xiaobo
(Encyclopedia) Liu XiaoboLiu Xiaoboly&oomacr; shoubō [key], 1955–2017, Chinese literary critic, poet, and political and human-rights activist, b. Changchun, grad. Jilin Univ. (B.A., 1982),…Sino-Tibetan languages
(Encyclopedia) Sino-Tibetan languages, family of languages spoken by over a billion people in central and SE Asia. This linguistic family is second only to the Indo-European stock in the number of…Holidays in America
The major federal, religious, traditional, and informal holidays celebrated in the United States Choose a Holiday: New Year's DayEpiphanyMartin Luther King's BirthdayMawild al-NabiGroundhog…Trending
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