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  • Camp Memorial Trophy in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ... the league in rushing, was voted the Rookie of the Year and was an All-Pro ...
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  • ) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... subcultural divisions among themselves; two of the largest are White Hmong ...
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  • France (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, ISBN ... France. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN ...
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  • American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from United ... Football League in 1922. The NFL is one of the most popular sports leagues ...
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  • was an American poet, writer, Librarian of Congress, and three-time winner ... *Smith, Grover. Archibald MacLeish. University Of Minnesota Press ...
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  • who most recently served as President of Basketball Operations for the ... second, the Celtics selected University of Minnesota power forward Kevin ...
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  • (also known as Ste Si Tȟáŋka. The son of Lone Horn, he was cousin to ... Though skilled in war, he was known as a great man of peace, adept ...
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  • unstructured stimuli would elicit disclosure of innermost feelings. Rorschach ... other personality measure with the exception of the MMPI. However, it has not ...
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  • Much of Dylan's most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when ... Zimmerman enrolled at the University of Minnesota in September 1959 ...
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  • American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic ... As chairman of the Committee on Territories, Douglas dominated the ...
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  • Canning is a method of preserving food by first sealing it in air ... html Home Canning Tomatoes], University of Minnesota Extension.Retrieved ...
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  • for the Wounded Knee Creek, a tributary of the White River, which runs ... Wounded Knee Creek rises in the southeastern corner of the Pine Ridge ...
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  • part for his major victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn against Custer’s ... retaliation for the Santee Rebellion in Minnesota, in which the Lakota had ...
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  • Agency (EPA) considers the bog one of the four general categories ... plant and animal species. They are a source of peat, which can be dried and ...
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  • organization dedicated to the public purpose of furthering access to the world ... eContent provider, in 2002 and owns 100% of the shares of OCLC PICA, a ...
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  • In zoology, locust is the common name for any member of several species ... For example, the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) of Africa and ...
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  • age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the ... More colloquially, when speaking of the last few million years, "the ...
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  • American Craftsman movement, a descendent of the British Arts and Crafts ... Stickley was the most well-known name of the American Arts and Crafts ...
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  • A large part of the Chavin population was based on an agricultural ... The site with its complex of striking terraces and squares surrounded ...
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  • who wrote on the political behavior of intellectual elites. He was ... Trans. Alfred De Grazia. University of Minnesota Press. ...
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  • landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made ...
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  • [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...
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  • 1750-1970. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 1975. ISBN ... since 1500. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. ISBN ...
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  • a comedian. During his years at Harvard University, Johnson interrupted his ... In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA ...
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  • Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...
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  • [[Image:Aatsista-Mahkan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Chief of the Blackfoot]] who lived on the plains and rolling hills of the Great Plains of North America ...
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  • of Discovery. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1962). ... Age of Discovery. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1962 ...
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  • South Korea or Republic of Korea, is located in East Asia at approximately ... Surrounded on its other three sides by water, South Korea has 2,413 ...
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  • and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984. ISBN ... 1982-1985. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993. ISBN ...
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  • , marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the ... of Colorado, University of Kansas, University of Minnesota, University of Vermont ...
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  • horticulturist, botanist, and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural ... He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism ...
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  • and Insight, 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. ... Theory: An Introduction, 2nd ed. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. ISBN ...
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  • Walter gained a reputation for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German ... As a renowned conductor, Bruno Walter understood the actions of giving ...
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  • Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America, located ... Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan ...
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  • novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best ... Ethnography. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. ISBN ...
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  • 16, 1885) was a Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba, and ... Canadian government, the Red River Rebellion of 1869–1870 and the North-West ...
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  • Although he received no formal education of any sort, Carter became one ... a new trend in archaeological practices of preservation, which together ...
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  • An articulate and outspoken proponent of equal rights, she became ... and they had two boys and two girls. One of her greatest accomplishments ...
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  • June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... Buchanan and Elizabeth Spear as the second of ten children. The Buchanan ...
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  • 29, 2001) was a Scottish writer and university educator. He was a pioneer ... reached a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular ...
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  • |American Civil Rights Movement]] is one of the most famous social movements ... 1999. How Social Movements Matter. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816629145 ...
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  • participants disrobe and sit in temperatures of over 176°F/80°C . This induces ... wood smoke aroma still lingered and was part of the cleansing ritual. This ...
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  • Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... (Concepts in Social Thought). University of Minnesota Press, 1990. ISBN ...
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  • In The Museum of Maya Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 1996, ISBN ... of Maya Culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 0816626731 ...
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  • American circus. In addition, he was mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, a ... Popular Culture. Minneapolis. MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ISBN ...
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  • computer scientist, who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Parts ... edu/ Charles Babbage Institute], University of Minnesota, United States. ...
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  • Regarded as one of the greatest managers in baseball history, Alston ... in baseball and basketball at Miami University in Oxford. A journeyman ...
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  • Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he served on ... American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature ...
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  • a school, in 1904, that later became part of Bethune-Cookman College in ... little scholarly attention in the histories of the period. As a stateswoman ...
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  • KaihsuTai.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford ... Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816645531 ...
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  • significant popularity. The strength of his approach is the importance ... National Youth Leadership Council, University of Minnesota. ...
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  • and settling overseas colonies. From the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Sweden ... As a modern day supporter of the peace keeping activities of the United ...
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  • {{Infobox University-Jen |name = Ohio State University |image = [[Image:OhioStateUniversityHall ...
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  • was an American industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company. He built ... The Getty family serves as a good example of the old saying that ...
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  • Alden Partridge originated this novel system of education which combined civilian ... *Duane G. Carey, Astronaut, Lt. Col., USAF--University of Minnesota ...
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  • Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among brothers ... among brothers and sisters for the attention of their parents. Children are ...
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  • Baseball, elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in Lucas ... play-by-play announcer on the "Game of the Week," a televised ...
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  • oval sausage. The haggis was the subject of the Robert Burns' poem ... The haggis is an example of human ingenuity in using every part of ...
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  • Engineering is the discipline of applying technical and scientific ... engineer. Those licensed in specific areas of engineering may have formal ...
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  • ) is a major subarctic, geographic region of the earth's surface ... The Taiga is an important ecosystem for the health and stability of ...
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  • Saxon herdsman attached to the monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy ... B. Ruud. 232–239. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ...
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  • empires over several hundred years, and one of the last remaining areas open ... Century. Minneapolis, MI: University of Minnesota. ISBN 9780816607624 ...
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  • to return his paper to a higher quality of objectivity in reporting. However, the era of yellow journalism was influential both in galvanizing ...
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  • meteorology, geography, jurisprudence, study of the Bible, mathematics, anatomy ... alike, he was burnt at the stake by order of the Geneva governing council ...
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  • race, and country. His novels echo the ideas of isolation, spiritual dissociation ... He remains one of the forerunners in shedding a positive light on ...
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  • shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque ... In the strict sense satire is a literary genre, but the larger notion ...
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  • Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts ... Holberg contributed to the common literature of Denmark-Norway. With the advent ...
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  • a focus on others' needs, suppression of their own emotions, and attempts ... Codependency carries three potential levels of meaning. First, it ...
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  • The Arapaho tribe of Native Americans historically lived on the eastern ... and Southern Arapaho. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely ...
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  • A History of Swedish Literature. (University of Minnesota Press, 1961) (Chapter 1) ... A History of Swedish Literature. University of Minnesota Press, 1961. OCLC 296330. ...
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  • from a source (Latin fons), fills a basin of some kind, and is drained away ... One of the most common features of a fountain, if there is enough ...
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  • , also called Haakon the Old, was king of Norway from 1217 to 1263. Under ... and Iceland. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1979. ISBN ...
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  • high governmental posts including Minister of Trade. He made several key ... denounced Stalin's "cult of personality." He helped ...
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  • from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North-Western Africa and the ... and culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816606887 ...
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  • Maple syrup is a sweet syrup (thick, sticky solution of sugar and ... Maple syrup is one of innumerable products that people obtain from ...
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  • Mary Baker Eddy (July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was the pioneer ... Mary Baker Eddy overcame years of ill health and great personal struggle ...
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  • and control behavior as a function of environmental histories of ... until 1936. He then taught at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, ...
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  • Semiotics, semiotic studies, or semiology, is the study of signs and ... Frank H Collins). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN ...
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  • American aviatrix, considered to be one of the most gifted race pilots ... Flying Cross and the French Legion of Honor, and she still holds ...
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  • (January 23, 1947 - ), was President of Indonesia from July 2001 to ... Queens of Islam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993, ISBN ...
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  • National Youth Leadership Council, University of Minnesota, 1989).. An example ... National Youth Leadership Council, University of Minnesota, 1989. ...
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  • is the paraphilia, or sexual deviation, of being sexually attracted, primarily ... *Levine, J. 2002. Harmful to Minors. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota ...
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  • Never the largest newspaper in terms of circulation, The New York ... In 1896, Adolph Ochs, publisher of The Chattanooga Times, acquired ...
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  • The San Juan Archipelago is a group of islands in the Pacific Northwest ... Part of a submerged mountain chain, the archipelago has more than ...
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  • and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (À ... trans., 2004. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816632588 ...
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  • of Literature, Volume 23.) (University of Minnesota Press, 1989. ISBN ... History of Literature, Volume 23.) University of Minnesota Press, 1989. ISBN ...
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  • was considered by many to be the grandfather of cognitive-behavioral therapies ... those that promoted religion as supportive of psychological health. For Ellis ...
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  • Manitoba is one of Canada's 10 provinces; it is the easternmost ... or Ojibwe languages and means "strait of the Manitou (spirit)." ...
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  • [[Image:Los Angeles skyline.JPG|thumb|right|200 px|The city of Los ... Urbanization is the increase over time in the population of cities ...
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  • are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans who historically ... the plains where they adopted the lifestyle of Plains Indians, hunting bison ...
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  • century. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816608201 ... century. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816608201 ...
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  • the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Since the ... The region encompasses some of the Louisiana Purchase, most of the ...
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  • who became the leading exponent of ragtime music. Ragtime combined ... American instrumental music was derivative of European classicism, Joplin ...
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  • from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars ... Crosby's recording of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas ...
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  • a Major League club when he became manager of the Chicago White Sox in 1978. us/Culture062003.html Larry Doby, part of history, “courage, dignity ...
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  • |image_name = Portrait of Milton Friedman.jpg ... joined George Stigler at the University of Minnesota, from which he had ...
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  • Bobcat is the common name for a medium-sized wild cat of North America ... swampland environments. It persists in much of its original range and populations ...
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  • Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick ( ... held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick ( ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... to the public based on classification of information as sensitive, classified ...
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  • schizoanalysis. He also developed a concept of three interacting and interdependent ... Capitalism and Schizophrenia (University of Minnesota Press, 1983, ISBN ...
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