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Ivory-billed woodpecker
ivory-billed woodpecker common name for the largest of the North American woodpeckers, Campephilus principalis. Once plentiful in Southern hardwood forests, it was believed to be extinct or nearing extinction after 1952. The last known members of this species had been reported from the deepest... Read more |
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Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America Also called the Confederacy. the eleven southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) that seceded from the United States in 1860 and 1861, thus precipitating the Civil War.... Read more |
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Misprision
MISPRISION The failure to perform a public duty. Misprision is a versatile word that can denote a number of offenses. It can refer to the improper performance of an official duty. In Arkansas, for example, rule 60 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure provides that a judgment, decree, or order... Read more |
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Orval Faubus
Orval Faubus , 1910-94, governor of Arkansas (1955-67), b. Combs, Ark. A schoolteacher, he served in World War II and after the war became Arkansas's state highway commissioner. Elected to the governorship after a runoff, Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office but to combat his... Read more |
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University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas mainly at Fayetteville; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1871, opened 1872; called Arkansas Industrial Univ. until 1899. The Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is at Little Rock. Additional campuses are located at Monticello and Pine Bluff.... Read more |
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Little Rock
Little Rock city (1990 pop. 175,795), state capital and seat of Pulaski co., central Ark., on the Arkansas River; inc. 1831. It is a river port and the administrative, commercial, transportation, and cultural center of the state. The city's industries process agricultural products, fish, beef,... Read more |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), a comedy by Anita Loos and John Emerson. [Times Square Theatre, 199 perf.] Lorelei Lee ( June Walker), a gold‐digging blonde from Little Rock, Arkansas, has all her expenses paid by a rich button manufacturer, Gus Eisman ( Arthur S. Ross). He even sends... Read more |
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Caddo
CADDO CADDO. The Caddo cultural pattern developed among groups occupying conjoining parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas from a.d. 700 to 1000. These groups practiced agriculture, hunting, and trading and lived in dispersed family farmsteads associated with regional temple mound... Read more |
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John Little McClellan
John Little McClellan John Little McClellan (1896-1977) served for 35 years as a U.S. senator from Arkansas. He was one of the old-time Southern senators, born at the turn of the century, who opposed all civil rights legislation and rose to power because of seniority. John Little McClellan... Read more |
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Robbie Robertson
The Band Rock band For the Record… Arrived as Things Got Electric Friends Just Called Them “the Band” Piano and Organ Created Unique Sound Dylan Remained Catalyst to Greatness Selected discography Sources The five musicians who would become known collectively as the... Read more |
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