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something , half / haf/ • n. (pl. halves / havz/ ) either of two equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided: the northern half of the… hemi- , hemi-. Greek word meaning ‘half’. It prefixes other words in architectural terminology. Examples include:hemi-cycle: semicircular room, part of a roo… Half-life , The half-life of a diminishing substance is the time it takes for the amount of substance present to go halfway from some initial value to zero. It i… Shawnee Prophet , Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet (1775?-1836)
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The Old Northwest. By the end of the eighteenth century the Old Northwest, def… Atargatis , Atargatis in Assyrian mythology, a fertility goddess, resembling Astarte, and shown as half-fish, half-woman. Dawes Commission , Sources
The Indian Problem. Richard Henry Pratt, an army officer on the southern Plains, made an interesting observation in the late nineteenth centu…
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