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Afrikaners
Afrikaners PRONUNCIATION:ahf-rih-KAHN-ers ALTERNATE NAMES:Boers LOCATION:Republic of South Africa POPULATION:About 3.3 million LANGUAGE:Afrikaans RELIGION:Protestantism 1 • INTRODUCTION South Africa is located at the southern point of Africa. During the ... Read more |
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Heshbon
Heshbon , ancient city, E of the Jordan. It was an Amorite capital, located at the crossroads of the east-west road to Jericho and the north-south road paralleling the Jordan. In the Bible it was first allotted to Reuben, later to Gad.... Read more |
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Vietnamese
Vietnamese PRONUNCIATION:vee-et-nuh-MEEZ LOCATION:Vietnam POPULATION:70–80 million LANGUAGE:Vietnamese RELIGION:Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhism, Roman Catholicism; Cao Daism 1 • INTRODUCTION The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, commonly known as Vietnam, is ... Read more |
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Miami Indians
Miami ETHNONYMS: Miamiouek, Maumee, Oumami, Twightwees Orientation Identification. The Miami are an Algonkian people, closely related to the Illinois. They inhabited the area to the south and west of Lake Michigan in mid-continental North America when Europeans first entered the region... Read more |
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Lake Eyre
Lake Eyre shallow salt lake, 3,430 sq mi (8,884 sq km), central South Australia state, Australia; largest lake in Australia. The lake, 39 ft (12 m) below sea level, is the continent's lowest point. Located in the arid interior of Australia, the lake is frequently dry. During the winter rainy... Read more |
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Lao
Lao PRONUNCIATION:LAH-OO LOCATION:Laos; Thailand POPULATION:About 23 million LANGUAGE:Lao RELIGION:Theravada Buddhism; animism 1 • INTRODUCTION The Lao originated in southern China and moved southward into present-day Laos, forming a kingdom in the Mekong River... Read more |
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Barbadians
Barbadians ETHNONYM: Bajans Orientation Identification. Barbadians are people born on the island of Barbados and people born elsewhere who have at least one Barbadian parent who maintains cultural ties to this island nation. Barbadian communities in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United... Read more |
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Sing Sing
SING SING SING SING is the familiar name of New York State's notorious prison, located at Ossining on the Hudson River north of New York City. The description of imprisonment as being "sent up the river" originated there. Sing Sing was constructed in the 1820s by inmate labor under the direction... Read more |
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Newburgh
Newburgh , city (1990 pop. 26,454), Orange co., SE N.Y., on the west bank of the Hudson River, opposite Beacon; settled 1709 by Palatine Germans, inc. 1800. The city has become an area wholesale and trucking center that ships fruit and dairy products. Manufactures include transportation equipment,... Read more |
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