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Peculiar People
Peculiar People an alternate rendering for the biblical phrase "chosen people" (of Israel), applied to numerous Protestant dissenting sects such as the Plumstead peculiars. This group, founded in London in 1838 by John Banyard, refused medical treatment as an article of faith. ... Read more
boat people
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 after China's invasion of Vietnam in 1979. More than one million people became refugees. Many perished, and others, u... Read more
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The association was formed as the direct result of the lynching (1908) of two blacks... Read more
Aenon
Aenon , in the New Testament, unidentified place, where John the Baptist baptized people. ... Read more
Gomer
Gomer , in the Bible. 1 Wife of the prophet Hosea . 2 Son of Japheth and eponym of a people, probably the Cimmerians. ... Read more
Harpy
Harpy in Greek mythology, winged women with sharp claws who snatched food, objects, or people. ... Read more
Hyperboreans
Hyperboreans , in Greek mythology, people dwelling in a state of perfect bliss in the Far North who were Apollo worshipers. ... Read more
Lud
Lud in the Bible, eponym of an Asian people, probably the Lydians. There is probably textual confusion at some points with the Lubim . ... Read more
Magog
Magog , in the Bible. 1 Son of Japheth. 2 The land from which Gog , the eschatological enemy of the people of God, comes to wreak havoc on Israel. ... Read more
Avars
Avars , mounted nomad people who in the 4th and 5th cent. dominated the steppes of central Asia. Dislodged by stronger tribes, the Avars pushed west, increasing their formidable army by incorporating conquered peoples into it. Reaching their greatest power in the late 6th cent., they plundered all o... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "people"

wagon train
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition wagon train in U.S. history, a group of covered wagons used to convey people and supplies to the West before the coming of the railroad. The wagon replaced the pack, or horse, train in land commerce as...
wax figures
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the 18th cent. In the 19th cent., wax dolls came into fashion, and exhibits of wax figures, often portraits of notorious people, were popular. Among such collections Mme Tussaud's, London, and the Musée Grévin, Paris, are...
will
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...others only by inference from their behavior. There is no generally accepted explanation in psychology for the apparent freedom people enjoy to do what they will, i.e., to originate the stimuli necessary to initiate a course of action. Until recently the...
AIDS
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and cancers. Signs and Symptoms Some people develop flulike symptoms shortly after...AIDS, and an estimated 4 to 5 million people who have tuberculosis are coinfected with...estimated that as many as 33.2 million people were infected with HIV worldwide, the...
Morocco
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Western Sahara although sovereignty remains unresolved. Rabat is the capital and Casablanca the most populous city. Land and People Central Morocco consists largely of the Atlas Mts., which rise to 13,671 ft (4,167 m) in Jebel Toubkal in the southwest...
Calcutta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Dum, Kamarhati, Garden Reach, Panihati, Baranagar, Hugli-Chinsura, and Serampore—have well over 100,000 people each. The area of the Calcutta metropolitan area is 228.5 sq mi (591 sq km), extending more than 40 miles along the Hugli...
Serbia and Montenegro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Serbia and Montenegro are Belgrade, Novi Sad , Niš , Kragujevac , Priština , Subotica , and Podgorica . People In Serbia and Montenegro, Serbs are predominant, but ethnic Albanians form a large minority (largely in Kosovo) and there...
Southeast Asian languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Southeast Asian languages family of languages, sometimes also called Austroasiatic, spoken in SE Asia by about 80 million people. According to one school of thought, it has three subfamilies: the Mon-Khmer languages, the Munda languages, and the...
Hugo Stinnes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...helped to expand his enterprises; after the war, Stinnes took advantage of the German currency inflation to buy up businesses with worthless money. A founder of the German People's party, he was (1920-24) a member of the Reichstag.
Sumerian and Babylonian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...strongly modeled head of stone (c.2500 BC) portrays a Sumerian man, clearly representing the structural type of these ancient people. Its large and widely spaced features set on a heavy round skull are revealed in bas-relief and inlay work of the period...

Dictionary entries related to "people"

Akaler Sandhane
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...was fired, not a bomb burst. And yet in a year five million people starved to death. They just starved and dropped dead." The...to assimilate or even understand. An estimated five million people died through starvation (official figures in 1945 put the figure...
Alsino y el Condor
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Nicaragua, is an allegory of the Nicaraguan people rising up to meet their oppressor. The film...fact that the helicopter is fighting the very people who want to liberate his own people is lost on him. Alsino's dreams are the dreams...
L'America
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...liberated from the iron hand of the hammer and sickle. The Albanian people are hungry and desperate; thousands of them are determined...statelessness and develops an affinity for the plight of the Albanian people, as well as sympathy for Spiro's hopeless quest. Gino eventually...
Balada O Soldate
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Special Jury Prize, 1960; honored at All-Union Film Festival of Russia and at the Czechoslovak Film Festival for Working People, 1960; Lenin Prize to Grigori Chukhrai, 1961. Publications Script: Chukhrai, Grigori, and Valentin Yoshov, Balada o...
Bharat Mata
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...oriented to exposing social malaise. His better-known films emphasized a kind of populism about the "people's" travails. The "people" are presented as the true, the genuine India, remaining faithful to their traditions even as they accept...
C'Est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...horror film. It's the reverse of our film—you're with the good guy rather than the bad guy—but now people want it to get stronger. The camera crew are wearing bulletproof jackets and going on more criminal things with more killing...
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...McConnell, Storytelling and Mythmaking: Images from Film Literature, New York, 1979. Monaco, James, American Film Now: The People, the Power, the Money, the Movies, Oxford, 1979. Pye, Michael, and Lynda Myles, The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation...
Dawandeh
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...he's fascinated by a light plane he sees at a local aerodrome and is overjoyed to see it take off, seemingly able to whisk people away from his reality of grinding poverty to a new world. To overcome the difficulties of his life, Amiro learns to outrun...
Fargo
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...fiction, in the classic definition, is a lie that tells the truth) but it makes an apt introduction to a film where the only people who win out are those who make no pretense to being anything other than they are. Fargo marks a significant tonal shift in...
Gregory's Girl
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...touch, his sense of character and detail, his quirky protagonists, and his ability to find the surreal in the most everyday people and situations. His work—and Gregory's Girl is no exception—can also be seen as typical of a particular...

Thesaurus entries related to "people"

civilization
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus civilization • noun   1. a higher stage of civilization synonyms : human development, advancement, progress, enlightenment, culture, refinement, sophistication.   2. ancient civilizations synonyms : culture, society, nation, people.
band
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...played on synonyms : (musical) group, pop group, ensemble, orchestra; informal combo. • verb  local people banded together synonyms : join (up), team up, join forces, pool resources, get together; amalgamate, unite, form an...
drain
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...stream, run, rush, gush, flood, surge; leak, ooze, seep, dribble, issue, filter, bleed, leach.   4. more people would just drain our resources synonyms : use up, exhaust, deplete, consume, expend, get through, sap, strain, tax...
company
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...camaraderie; society, association.   3. I'm expecting company synonyms : guests, house guests, visitors, callers, people; someone.   4. a company of poets synonyms : group, crowd, party, band, assembly, cluster, flock, herd, troupe...
contain
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...incorporate, involve, encompass, embrace; consist of, be made up of, be composed of.   2. the boat contained four people synonyms : hold, carry, accommodate, seat.   3. he must contain his anger synonyms : restrain, curb, rein in...
communist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus communist • noun & adjective  McCarthy had people suspecting that communists were lurking around every corner | communist countries synonyms : collectivist, leftist, (radical...
big
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...humongous, monster, astronomical, ginormous; formal commodious. antonyms: small, little.   2. clothing for big people synonyms : well-built, sturdy, brawny, burly, broad-shouldered, muscular, muscly, rugged, Herculean, bulky, hulking...
aggravate
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...insult to injury, rub salt in the wound. antonyms: alleviate, improve.   2. informal you don't have to aggravate people to get what you want synonyms : annoy, irritate, exasperate, bother, put out, nettle, provoke, antagonize, get on someone...
ain't
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...ain't is used by cultivated speakers, but almost always for either of two reasons: (1) to be tongue-in-cheek, or (2) to flaunt their reverse snobbery. For most people, it remains a shibboleth of poor usage. — BG
black
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...anthropological and cultural contexts. Colored people , common earlier in the twentieth century, is now...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An inversion, people of color , has gained some favor, but is also used...

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Terrorism Cases To Bring Scrutiny To New York Court
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...order to uncover particular biases that people may have, some of which they may not...some indirect questions about do you know people who were affected? Do you have, in your...connections that might be a factor in people's attitudes that they may not have at...
Catholic Bishops' Lobby A Force On The Hill
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...And he isn't a registered lobbyist. But like a lot of other people who aren't registered lobbyists, he lobbies. The Conference...University of America): Probably no more than a handful of people associated with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are...
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Analysis: Afghan Strategy, Greg Craig And Detainees
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...subject to the most exacting demands of justice. The American people will insist on it and my administration will insist on it...disturbing that we haven't figured out what 9/11 was. A lot of people think 9/11 was a national security issue and the trial about...
Ohio Changes Executions After Botched Attempt
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Transcript from: CBS Morning News; 11/13/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...bomber hit a military convoy. At least six people were wounded including NATO service members...intelligence service in Peshawar. At least ten people were killed and more than fifty-five...Later, another suicide bomber killed six people at a police station near the Afghan border...