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Appalachia Appalachia
Appalachia EARLY POPULATION CIVIL WAR ERA AND INDUSTRIALIZATION POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT BIBLIOGRAPHY The Appalachian Mountains range southwestward from Quebec and Newfoundland in Canada to Alabama in the southeastern United States. The central and southern highlands of this ancient mountain... Read more
feud feud
feud formalized private warfare, especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta ) is characteristic of those societies in which a strong central government either has not arisen or has decayed. In modern times the feud, outlawed in most countries, has persisted where public justice... Read more
Moonshine Moonshine
MOONSHINE MOONSHINE, an old English term for smuggled liquor, indicating its customary transportation by night, evolved into "moonshiners" in the nineteenth century to describe illicit distillers in southern Appalachia. Because moonshiners' stills were located among thickets or rocks, their... Read more
Berea College Berea College
Berea College at Berea, Ky.; coeducational; founded 1855 by John G. Fee as a one-room school, chartered 1866, a college since 1869. Fostered by abolitionists including Cassius M. Clay , it aimed to educate both black and white, male and female residents of Appalachia. Students (whose families must... Read more
dulcimer dulcimer
dulcimer , stringed musical instrument. It is a wooden box with strings stretched over it that are struck with small mallets. The number of strings may vary. The dulcimer is related to the psaltery and modern zither . It originated in the Middle East and was adopted in Europe in the Middle Ages.... Read more
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Najd Najd
NAJD the central plateau region of saudi arabia. A geographically isolated region of the Arabian peninsula, Najd (the Arabic word for plateau or highland) is bounded in the south by the great sand desert, the Rub al-Khali, and on the east by a long, narrow strip of sand desert known as... Read more
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Snake Handling Snake Handling
Snake Handling Snakes played a prominent part in pagan mythologies and religious ceremonies long before the Judeo-Christian story of the Garden of Eden. The snake has often been regarded as a fertility symbol. In the Mayan scripture Popul Vuh, the plumed serpent assists in the creation of life, as... Read more

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Book Award Finalists Announced
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