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	Geronimo Geronimo , c.1829-1909, leader of a Chiricahua group of the Apaches , b. Arizona. As a youth he participated in the forays of Cochise , Victorio , and other Apache leaders. When the Chiricahua Reservation was abolished (1876) and the Apaches removed to the arid San Carlos Agency in New Mexico,... Read more
	Jamnia Jamnia , biblical Jabneel and Jabneh [Heb.,=God causes to build], ancient city, central Israel. Its modern name is Yavne. A central city of Philistia, the Bible refers to its walls being destroyed by Uzziah. It was pillaged by Judas Maccabaeus and later rebuilt. In the last years before the sack... Read more
	William Trost Richards William Trost Richards 1833-1905, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied in Florence, Rome, and Paris, and settled in Germantown, Pa. Early in his career he painted landscapes and still lifes, but a year after buying a house in Newport, R.I. (1866), he turned to marine paintings. His... Read more
	Black Hawk War Black Hawk War conflict between the Sac and Fox and the United States in 1832. After the War of 1812, whites settling the Illinois country exerted pressure on the Native Americans. A treaty of 1804, which had no real claim to validity, provided for removal of the Sac and Fox W of the Mississippi. A... Read more
	ephedrine ephedrine , drug derived from plants of the genus Ephedra (see Pinophyta ), most commonly used to prevent mild or moderate attacks of bronchial asthma. Unlike epinephrine , to which it is chemically similar, ephedrine is slow to take effect and of mild potency and long duration. A bronchodilator... Read more
	Chun Doo Hwan Chun Doo Hwan Chun Doo Hwan (born 1931), an army general turned politician, was elected to a seven-year term in 1981 as president of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Chun Doo Hwan was born on January 18, 1931, in a remote mountainous farm village in Hapch'ongun, South Kyongsang Province.... Read more
	Betty Parsons Parsons, Betty (née Pierson) (1900–1982). American art dealer, collector, painter, and sculptor, born in New York into a wealthy family. In 1919 she married Schuyler Parsons, a socialite, but divorced him in 1922. From then until 1933 she lived in Paris. After returning to the USA she... Read more
	Bear Flag Revolt BEAR FLAG REVOLT BEAR FLAG REVOLT. In the last four years of Mexican rule in California, hundreds of Americans settled in the Sacramento Valley. Tensions rose between the United States and Mexico, and by the winter of 1845–1846 war... Read more
	E. McKnight Kauffer Kauffer, E. McKnight (1890–1954). American designer and painter, active mainly in England. After studying in San Francisco, Chicago, and Paris, he settled in London in 1914. He was a member of Group X and of the Cumberland Market Group, but he virtually abandoned easel painting in 1921 and is... Read more